hey guys retired at 40 today I'm gonna freeze dry some eggs and you might
be saying to yourself well you've already done that! "today we're gonna dry 60 scrambled eggs"
ibut thanks to your comments and concerns on my previous egg video I
realized that a lot of you want to see what a raw egg will do in the freeze dryer
so today we're gonna find out
now I want to do two different kinds of
freeze-dried raw eggs I want to do whole raw eggs with the yolk and the white
together just like you would fry an egg and then I want to do scrambled but raw
now I've heard that raw eggs when they're not scrambled do not freeze dry it well
but I want to see what happens the possibilities of a freeze dried egg are
pretty unlimited you use two eggs and so many things and it's really it'd be
really great if you can use them for cooking obviously without having to
store them so I'm just gonna put these whole in here just like this and I'm
gonna fill it up as tall as I can get it and I'm gonna hope that it doesn't
actually expand when it freeze dries some things do some things don't but I guess
we're gonna find out
all right so I got 25 raw eggs with the yolks into one tray so that's pretty
impressive I think if I go any higher I'm not gonna be able to carry into the
freeze dryer without it spilling I am accounting for a little bit of expanding
if it comes to that
sidenote if you are a gardener save these eggs and I'm sure you already know
the benefits of putting this in your garden they're an awesome fertilizer if
you crush them up into you know just kind of pulverize them into almost a
dust okay next thing I'm going to take 25 of these throw them in here and I'm
gonna scramble them all together just to give us a little bit of variation
okay we got our 25 eggs scrambled raw and just a little retired at 40 bonus
tip for you if you have never put cottage cheese in with your scrambled
eggs before you cook them you are missing out and just a little suggestion
put the eggs in very close to your freeze dryer because if this is not an
easy task without spilling everywhere like I just did ah Murphy come here boy
oh good boy get your eggs
okay this is now me taking the
machine apart because I spilled eggs everywhere so lesson learned on that one
maybe cut it down to 15 to 20 eggs per tray because the Machine tilts back for
drainage of water
all right like usual we're at zero kilowatts I want to see how much power
this is gonna take all right I'm gonna do 12 hours of freeze time and ten hours
of final dry and see where that gets us and as usual make sure you check out the
suggested dry time video and I always welcome comments and questions all right
looks like we're done just under 43 hours let's see what they look like
looks like we ended up with twenty six point five seven kilowatt hours
give you a close-up and show you how light and fluffy these are
20 eggs in a 1 quart Ball jar the whole eggs are really interesting this stuff is
almost like styrofoam
really light and fluffy
ended up with 16 whole eggs in the ball jar if you're gonna use these for
cooking I would probably try and figure out how much freeze-dried egg it would
take to equal a regular not freeze-dried egg so what we really want to know is
how a whole egg is gonna reconstitute and it's gonna be really hard to get to
that consistency where you can just kind of drop it into a frying pan so I think
the best thing to do is take out some of the egg white and separate it from the
yolk and maybe put them in water by themselves and then once we're ready to
cook them add them back together okay so I have two yolks and I have about the
amount I think it's about two egg whites and I'm just gonna add some water very
slowly to the whites and then I think on the yolks I think I'm actually just
gonna let those chill for a little bit in a little bit of water because I think
it's probably gonna be really easy to water them down too much all right so
the whites are not really doing real great in my opinion they're kind of a
little bit there's chunks of whites and I'm not sure if you can maybe throw them
in a mixer or something that might be able to get rid of them but I'm just
gonna I'm gonna try them this way I might have put too much water in but
it's it's really hard to tell because it it just kind of looks like a watery
substance anyway alright the yolks are not looking like
they're gonna do what I wanted to do so I think I'm gonna drain this water off
and I'm gonna smash the yolks down and make almost a paste out of it and just
maybe cook them that way and pour them on top of the egg whites well it sort of
worked I made more of a paste than anything we're gonna give this a shot
other than getting the yoke to hold its form it actually tastes really good
tastes normal no funky tastes no weird textures or anything so actually I
wasn't expecting it to turn out that good but it's it's doable for
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time a new video comes out you'll be notified well overall I would say this
turned out pretty eggscellent and they're also not eggspensive this is retired at 40
signing off remember to live life simple we'll catch you next time