To all the "Ely Regulars"....

Are there any farmers near Ely that sell farm fresh eggs?

WindLaker

id say ur best bet is to boil them first, then u don't have to worry about them breaking. plus a egg is a egg right? it'll be good no matter how u eat it. after those first few days

We have taken fresh eggs for many years with no problems, except for occasional breakage.  We buy medium eggs in a styrofoam carton (the last thing we buy just before our departure), double wrap the carton in two brown paper grocery bags and duct tape it underneath the stern seat of the canoe.  It stays in place while portaging.

In camp we always are careful to set the egg bag in a shady spot, and we plan to use the eggs within 2-3 days if the temperatures are in the 80's or above during the day.  During cool weeks they last longer, planning two or three per day.  There are just two of us, so we only take one dozen and then use BackPackers Pantry Denver Omelette for our remaining breakfasts.

On the rare occasion when breakage occurs we have an omelette that evening!

My daughter in Chicago can get pasteurized eggs and I am sure they would be safer, but I haven't seen these in the grocery stores at Grand Marais or Ely.

We have used fresh eggs every year for our boundary waters trips and could not imagine what breakfeast would be like without them.  We use medium store bought in a cardbourd container wraped in duct tape.  I tried using a hard plastic egg container this last year but only had more breakage then with the cardboard containers.

Just got back from a week trip to Quetico & used fresh eggs almost every day.  Besides fried & scrambled, we used them in the hush puppies & cooking.  They are also really good (and easy) when hard boiled.  We've boiled them the night before we're going to break camp and then all you have to do is shell them & you've got a quick, protein rich breakfast to start you off.  We just pack them in the plastic egg carriers, tape them shut with duct tape, put them in zip-lock bags and make sure everyone knows which pack the eggs are in (for that little extra TLC).  First morning in we checked for any cracked ones and those are used that morning.  Out of 4 dozen, I think we only had 3 or 4 cracked ones!

Just got back from a week and used a one quart wide mouthed Nalgene bottle for egg storage.  On Friday before our trip I cracked 22 large eggs and put them in the bottle without breaking the yolks.  Sunday morning I poured out 10 eggs for breakfast for 5.  Tuesday and Wednesday, 2 eggs each for pancakes.  Thursday, the last 10 were scrambled.  Worked fine.

My food pack has a section of frozen food at the bottom, with 2 quart bottles of ice (my half gallon bottle disappeared.)  It is always in the shade during the day and covered with a double sided reflective insulator.  The frozen stuff is thawed within a few days, but the whole pack stays cool most of the week.  Temps in the low to mid 70's helped.

one final reply on the eggs - i personally haven't tried this, but have been "assured" by a friend that it will preserve eggs (no promise on the diease issue, but i presume that if you are fully cooking your eggs it would be no problem)....

Rub the eggs with vaseline.

apparently the reason that eggs go bad is that they lose mosture through pourous holes in the shell.  by rubbing with vaseline these holes are plugged, and eggs stay good.  if using this method the eggs should be rotated once a week (to keep the yolks suspended) and can theoretically be kept for up to 6 months if they are in relatively cool surroundings.

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I thought gold only came from geese! What a great idea!
I have dried eggs in the past (some danger there), but
will definitely give some fresh eggs the flash treatment on
my next trip.

-aj

i put fresh eggs in the plastic egg holders and then put that within a one gallon ziplock - we had eggs break once, and as others have mentioned, that is not fun in july

as far as them keeping, i have used eggs as much as 5 days into a trip - i give them a flash boil (10 seconds) before we go - it doesn't cook them, but based on discussions with my uncles (a doc) he says that can help them keep longer, and potentially kill off diseases

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Hey CanoeJack.... How do you know this?  I've heard this before but am curious as to how you (or anyone else) would know except by personal experience and/or reading it someplace.

I'd like to take eggs on our canoe trips but would probably want to use them early in the trip.