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Man Vs Pin Egg Edition
So I was making some Easter eggs and decided to use some of the suggestions you were leaving in the comments
Goblingwim suggested this pin, dying Easter eggs with natural dyes like coffee and onion skins
Chochii and Megan asked if the shaving cream egg dying technique actually works
And Luisa is curious how these fabric silk dyed eggs will come out
Me too.
First up, I hard boiled some eggs
Then started with the shaving cream dying pin.
In a glass pie dish I'm throwing down a one to two inch layer of cream
Now I'm using Cool Whip for this because I don't want crazy shaving cream chemical *BLEEP* getting on my eggs
It's supposedly works just the same
Then I grabbed some food coloring, which probably has some crazy chemical *Bleep* In it anyways
and applied small drops of each color randomly on top of the cream
Alright, ready for some awesomeness?
I took out a chop stick and just started playing around making cool swirls of color
And..cool designs..and really just having a little too good of a time
I honestly don't even give a *Bleep* how the eggs turn out at this point
'Cause this was worth it all by itself
Once finished I added a couple of eggs and began rolling them around in the cream
Now I thought this part was gonna be a little more exciting..but..
It was really just messy, kinda uneventful
Once I got the eggs all covered I set those aside and began to work on my silk tie fabric eggs
I acquired a couple of ties, took them apart carefully, I cut off a piece large enough to wrap around an egg
Then placed the fabric print side up and placed a raw egg directly in the middle
Wrapping it up like so
I twisted a twist-tie around it and then took a piece of cheese cloth and wrapped it up a second time
And again, twisted it together
You put the second bit of fabric around it I guess to hold the color in
Or something like that, so just be sure to do that
I repeated that process to a second egg then added them both an enameled pot
Along with some water and vinegar and proceeded to hard boil them for roughly
about 30 minutes
Next up, the natural egg dying pin
Alright let's get through this
Coffee: I brewed one strong cup, added a tablespoon of white Vinegar, and added my egg
Tumeric: Took one tablespoon of tumeric, added it to one cup of hot, boiling water, stirred, added some white vinegar
Added my egg
Then I started to prepare my vegetables for the rest which requires some cooking
I diced up some beets, which are already dying everything in their path
I shredded half a head of red cabbage and lastly peeled the skins off from two yellow onions
I put them all in separate pots, added two cups of water to each one, brought them all to a boil
Then let simmer for about 20-30 minutes
Once finished I poured everything into mason jars, and then added 2 tablespoons of white vinegar
to each
Followed by my egg
And then I just let them sit there, doing their thing for about an hour or so before
I pulled them back out
Alright, let's check out the final products here
Whipped Cream Eggs:
I took them outta there, washed them off, and after all that they looked pretty cool
Kinda like a marbled tye-dye-ish kinda color
Not as dark as I thought they would be but still pretty decent
I took the eggs wrapped with the silk ties out of the water, let em cool off and unwrapped them
And I had to admit that these are pretty *BLEEPING* sweet
The cheese cloth caused this crazy Matrix pattern on the eggs which I thought was pretty cool
Now it doesn't look the fanciest around where you kinda twist-tied everything together,
But then that just becomes the back of the egg, so don't even worry about it
Alright, lastly, the natural Dyes
Coffee: Alright, it's brown, as expected
Tumeric: This came out a nice solid yellow, nothing to complain about
The Beets: Now, they tuned this egg red, obviously, however the color was almost like a film
Covering the egg so the more that you kinda touched it the *BLEEPIER* it looked
Same goes for the red cabbage
It turned the egg this cool blue color, but get's messed up once you start to touch it
The yellow onion actually took this egg as far as orange, which was kinda unexpected
Thought it was gonna be yellow...no film, no nothing
All in All, pretty good looking set of eggs
Better than not having colored Easter eggs
That's for Damn sure
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We'll see you next week