curing eggs

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2008/03/24 09:57:35 (permalink)

curing eggs

How do you cure your eggs? Im looking at some recipes online here but was wondering what everyone else uses to cure their eggs. any help would be greatly appreciated

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    Bughawk
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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/24 10:39:25 (permalink)
    If you are talking about the steelie eggs that are still in the skein, one of the easiest and least expensive ways to firm up the eggs is to take the skein and rinse off the blood and other slime.  Coat the eggs in Borax.  Be sure to get it into all the little spaces and then completely cover the eggs for about 24 hours.  Remove the eggs from the Borax and rinse.  They will be much firmer and ready to use.  Some people cut the skein up into bait size pieces first and the coat with the Borax.  Either way works well.  The cured skein can be frozen and used later or kept for a few weeks in the refrig. 
     
    One word of warning, DO NOT leave this stuff in your vehicle in the spring when the temperatures are likely to go up.  A buddy of mine left some skein under the front seat of his wife's car by mistake and, well it was a warm day when his wife decided to use the car....  To make a long story short, she won't let me give him any more skein after that incident....
     
    Anther quick method is to use the Egg Cures that are on the market.  Mix them as instructed and soak the skein in the cure.  This works pretty well.
     
    I have even heard guys say they cure their skein with jello.  I believe they simply coat the eggs with the powder.  The sugar helps to cure the eggs and the food coloring gives them a nice color.
     
    Good luck

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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/24 10:54:44 (permalink)
    they are single steelie eggs and chinook, i wanna tie some egg sacks up with them, but those methods should work

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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/24 11:09:42 (permalink)
    I have used the Egg Cure I got at Poor Richards for the single salmon eggs.  I found it to work fine for making eggs to be used in egg sacks.  The one thing I noticed about steelie eggs is that they don't seem to take the cure as well as the salmon eggs and tend to get a little mushy.  They still work OK, but they did not seem to stay as firm as the salmon eggs.
     
    Good Luck.

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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/24 12:04:44 (permalink)
    Troutwiz,
     Follow these directions to the letter. They turn out awsome.
     
    http://www.thefishingoddess.com/AngieEggCure_page.htm
     
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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/24 13:54:49 (permalink)
    good read..
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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/24 16:13:14 (permalink)
    ORIGINAL: Bughawk

    I have used the Egg Cure I got at Poor Richards for the single salmon eggs.  I found it to work fine for making eggs to be used in egg sacks.  The one thing I noticed about steelie eggs is that they don't seem to take the cure as well as the salmon eggs and tend to get a little mushy.  They still work OK, but they did not seem to stay as firm as the salmon eggs.

    Good Luck.


    Only used distilled water to rinse eggs, tap water will harm the eggs scent. Put the loose steel eggs in bowl and add distilled water and let soak for 1 minute. Drain the distilled water and the eggs will be firm. Then add your cure to the eggs and they will not be mushy.
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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/24 21:27:33 (permalink)
    bughawk, have u used this on loose brown trout eggs? if so, how does it work compared to the other 2 types of eggs? (steel&salmon)
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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/24 22:10:51 (permalink)
    I used the commercial cure on brown eggs and they seemed to work OK.  I used tap water and wonder now if distilled might be better.  The eggs worked fine for sacks, but like the steelie eggs did not seem to remain as tight at the salmon eggs.

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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/25 08:50:28 (permalink)
    ORIGINAL: Bughawk

    I used the commercial cure on brown eggs and they seemed to work OK.  I used tap water and wonder now if distilled might be better.  The eggs worked fine for sacks, but like the steelie eggs did not seem to remain as tight at the salmon eggs.

     
    Distilled will solve your problem
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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/25 09:05:21 (permalink)
    Thanks Deathroe.  I will try that next time.

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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/25 09:11:47 (permalink)
    the way i cure egges i wash them real good . drain them real good to;put them in a bowl with salt and few drops of vingar and eat them there good
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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/25 10:24:01 (permalink)
    in general salmon eggs do seem to remain the tightest of all.
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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/25 10:28:38 (permalink)
    Gallon water, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup pickling salt soak for about a day, they will get real bouncy like little balls. The center will stay liquid and they will last in the fridge for several years. I have in a pinch used regular table salt, and it worked also.
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    RE: curing eggs 2008/03/25 13:28:55 (permalink)
    I recently found Boric Acid in a Dollar Tree store.  I have not had much luck finding it otherwise.  I've not tried Borax in the past.  I usual air dry them till they look wrinkled then give them a 20 second bath in dilluted Muric acid and a good rinse after.  If you don't rinse well they continue to cook and get very sticky.  They are fine for egg sacs, but I've yet to find a good recipe for single eggs.
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