Homemade lead-free preserved eggs

Homemade lead-free preserved eggs

Overview

Preserved eggs are delicious, but making them is a mystery. Even if you watch the maker wrap the duck eggs in mortar, you still can't tell the secret in the mortar. Later, I got a pack of caustic soda for German-style soda bread; and later, I saw a recipe for using caustic soda to make preserved eggs. A feeling of enlightenment. It is known that the important factor in the denaturation and coagulation of duck eggs is alkali. So, what is the role of lead oxide in the recipe? Although there are repeated food safety warnings about lead poisoning in preserved eggs, why are preserved eggs inseparable from lead? It is bold to speculate that the existence of lead oxide is only for the beauty of pine flowers. Well, if the pine flowers can be discarded, the lead need not exist. Then, let’s try out a lead-free preserved egg without pine flowers. Duck eggs, salt, black tea powder, caustic soda, water. Time, two months. It was finally time to test the inference. After washing off the lead and peeling off the eggshell, it turned out that it was indeed a solidified preserved egg, but the tip was a little softer and trembling, not solid. As expected, there are no pine flowers, and the alkali smell is slightly strong. You should take them out, wash them with the alkali water, and leave them for a while. The alkali smell will probably dissipate. Taste. . . It's okay, there's a faint scent of tea. . . .

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Ingredients: 10 duck eggs, 35 grams of food-grade sodium hydroxide, 20 grams of black tea powder, 40 grams of salt, 1000 grams of water

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 1

  2. Wash the duck eggs and dry the surface moisture.

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 2

  3. Pour salt, black tea powder and water into the container,

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 3

  4. Mix well.

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 4

  5. Put the sodium hydroxide into another container,

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 5

  6. Slowly pour in the salt tea solution,

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 6

  7. Stir gently until the sodium hydroxide is completely dissolved.

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 7

  8. Put the duck eggs into the container,

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 8

  9. Slowly pour in the prepared solution.

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 9

  10. Put the lid on and seal.

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 10

  11. Attach the production date.

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 11

  12. After 55 days, the lid is removed.

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 12

  13. Take out the prepared duck eggs,

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 13

  14. Soak in clean water and wash off the surface solution,

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 14

  15. Remove the shell,

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 15

  16. Cut. Add ginger vinegar sauce to taste.

    Homemade lead-free preserved eggs step 16