How Does Water Glassing Eggs Work?

This method is known as “water glassing” eggs. Preserving eggs in this fashion allows farm-fresh eggs to be preserved whole in their rawest form, shell and all. Water glassing eggs allows the eggs to be consumed as if they were collected that same day.

How does hydrated lime preserve eggs?

So what does work? Storing eggs in a food-safe lime solution made with pickling lime (calcium hydroxide). The calcium solution seals the eggshells and effectively preserves the eggs for a year or more. Though it's called “pickling lime” it doesn't make pickled eggs.

Does water glassing eggs change the taste?

Each year I let my water glassed eggs sit longer and longer to see just how long they'll last. Each year I'm just more impressed at how long my eggs are still good, and taste just as fresh as the day we brought them in from the hen house.