As far as egg carriers go—I often take a few fresh eggs to use in baking or some special meal. I save used cardboard mailing tubes including the plastic cap ends. Place a bit of paper towel wadding in the tube, slide in an egg, another wad of toweling, another egg etc., etc. You need to coordinate the size of your mailing tube to the eggs you are transporting of course so you don't get excess rattling around. The tubes are easily cut to length with a sharp knife or a bandsaw if you have one in the workshop. When the eggs are used up, burn the tube and bring the plastic caps home for the next trip.

Canoefly

On this years trip I tried something a little different for transporting eggs. On our put-in day I stop at Zup's and bought a 1/2 dozen eggs packaged in a cardboard container. Before leaving I took 3 small paper, I crumpled two of the bags, placing one in the bottom of the third bag, then the eggs and then the second crumpled bag on top. The eggs were placed in the top of the food pack, this configuration worked like a charm, considering the last of the eggs were consumed on the third day and the food pack was not treated very gently.

flp

On Spring and Fall trips, I have cracked a dozen or more eggs into a Nalgene bottle before hitting the trail. Once I reach camp, I place the eggs and other refrigerated items (like cheese) in a mesh bag and sink it down a ways in the lake. Nothing beats real eggs for the first mornings breakfast.

I learned this trick before going out to hike the AT:
If you take fresh eggs and dip them in boiling water for 10 seconds, this will increase their life while outdoors.

On my first couple of trips ( a long time ago) we solved this issue by bringing a live chicken with us. Fresh eggs every morning!

The downside was the hen waking us up early every morning. Like crack of dawn early.

She was good in the canoe and even learned to wet-foot all the landings.

Alas, we lost her on Have A Smoke Portage...some disagreement in our camp if she just wandered off or was a tasty meal for an opportunistic brush wolf.

The Beaver

if yer fine with scrambled eggs and can eat 'em on the first or second day of your trip, just crack a dozen eggs in a nalgene right before you go in and screw on the top..... we've never had any issues with this-- just don't be whipping it out on the 10th day of the trip and expecting freshness..... they will keep longer if you pack them around frozen stuff, obviously.....

I just purchased some dry whole egg powder at the local camp foods store.  I've had NO LUCK in the past with cooking this stuff and making it palatable...so I did some experimenting and will report on what I learned:
Just mixing as per directions with water (1 Tbl egg + 3 Tbl water) and cooking yeilded the same sad results.  Icky eggs and water still in the pan.
Next I made the same mix but added a teaspoon of white flour also.  This yeilded better tasting egg and no water and they scrambled up looking more like the "real thing".
I also tried the same mix adding 1/2 tsp. cornstarch instead of the flour.  This yeilded a good tasting product, no water, and they were very fluffy.
Once they come to a boil and begin to harden, the heat cooks the flour or cornstarch and you do not notice their addition.   

I have had super luck wrapping each egg in a paper towel, then layering eggs and towels in box with towels folded in three between each layer.  I use an egg, have a towel to use for cleanup and never have had one broken.  Bacon wrapped can be used to layer between one group of eggs also. . 

lotalota wrote on Mar 28^th, 2007 at 4:10pm:


lotalota, I agree they are pretty good.  If I remember twisttiecollector was the one who recomended the Egg Store to me.  I also think if you need to add a bit of oil to the eggs they are better yet.  I like my eggs and these were easy and good.

Spartan2 wrote on Mar 28^th, 2007 at 12:56pm:


Yup. We took them on our group trip last year and there were no complaints (amazing in itself). Of course each of us adds spices and such, but we all do that at the restaurant, too. I never eat plain eggs in any form...

-aj