We always take a dozen fresh eggs on every trip.  We take them in the original carton, put that inside a jumbo zip-lock bag, put it in a paper grocery bag, fold that down and duct-tape it under the stern seat of the canoe.  Keeps it out of the sun and keeps it from being bumped around.  Nothing larger than a "large" egg, mediums would be stronger if you can find them.  Get ones with the freshest possible date.  We just buy them from the grocery store once we are in Ely or Grand Marais.

If the Davidson's Pasteurized eggs were available in our area (our daughter can get them in the Chicago area) we would definitely take those, as I think they would be much safer, but we cannot find them in Michigan or in Minnesota so far.

In camp we are careful to keep the egg bag out of the sun.  If the temperatures run very hot for several days, we will use up the egg supply by the fifth day or so.  We don't go in July or August, so extreme heat usually isn't a problem.  And there are just two of us, so a dozen is enough, but you could easily use this method with two dozen also.

Like others, I have tried the plastic containers made for camping with eggs, and had broken eggs all over everything!  Never again!!

A method I used, successfully, for many years, before lightening the load with powder, was to use two foam cartons per dozen eggs. On the outer carton cut the lid off, and rubberband the whole works with two rubberbands. Put that into a 2 gal zip bag. As others have said, keep it out of sun. Very minimal breakage, and if you should crack one, fry it, or use it in fish mix.

solotripper wrote on Mar 21^st, 2007 at 10:08pm:


Admittedly I have only used the egg carrier twice, but I never had an issue.

Dried/Dehydrated eggs are terrible.  They are best served with lots of flavorful additions until you can no longer taste the eggs or discern their texture.  And yeah, this includes the Egg Store product.  Fresh eggs are bulky and heavy. 

I don't carry fresh much anymore, just because the 'opportunity cost' of the space they consume in my food pack is too high.  There are too many other things I'd rather use that space for.  So I carry dehydrated.  I wouldn't bring them at all, but my trip partners seem unwilling to go eggless on a trip.  If it were just me, I'd just eat pancakes or oatmeal for that extra breakfast or two.  I'll eat a giant omelet at Perkins the day after I get out anyway.

I have used dried whole egg powder from several sources and freeze-dried egg entrees from Mountain House (I think that was it, anyway).  I only tried the freeze-dried long ago, and didn't like them.  The whole egg powder seems the same from every source I've tried, despite the fact than some of them were touted as clearly superior to others.  I couldn't tell any real difference.

I use the whole egg powder in cooking, it works just fine for that.

Mixed with hashbrowns, bacon bits, onions, peppers, cheese, and rehydrated salsa, it makes a pretty passable meal.

Cooked by itself?  No thanks.