Q&A for How to Blow Out Eggs

After poking the holes in the egg, stick the toothpick in and move it around. Then it will be much easier to get the membrane out.

It is optional, baking the egg will dry it out. It will help with getting the remaining insides out, the egg won't crack or expand.

Using a pair of cuticle scissors, make a small hole in the side of the egg with the tip, then you can start cutting out the opening. I normally start by cutting in a circular direction and increase the area until I am satisfied with the size of the opening.

Clear fingernail polish works wonderfully and doesn't yellow with age. I coat one half of the egg with the clear lacquer then set it on a small glass to dry for a bit, then I can turn it over to paint the other half.

For most decorative applications, it is not necessary to seal the hole. If you are doing a wax process like pysanky, and you want to seal the egg so the dye doesn't get inside and take too long to dry out, you can use the kiska tool to apply wax to the hole. You might have to build the wax up around the edge of the hole until it is covered.

You can decorate your egg with all kinds of materials, like paint, stickers, etc. You can use sandpaper to thin the shells and then place a lighting decoration inside as well. If you want your egg to stand up on display, consider using some salt inside to balance it.

No, because the tape holds the egg together. If you handle the egg with care, it will not crack.

Typically not. The shell is made from calcium, and will therefore dry out when you bake it.

You can, but getting the material out without cracking the egg would be impossible. I would fill the egg with glue. Use a hot glue gun or liquid glue with a nozzle, then let the egg dry for a few hours to let the glue harden inside.

They are called Hollow eggs.

If you put a small amount of vinegar in the water, it will kill any bacteria.

Yes, as long as you are careful.

It will depend on where and how they are stored. They are fragile, but if you store them carefully in a dry place, the decorations and the eggshell should stay intact.

Yes, and you can also just use your mouth, pressed to the eggshell. A normal straw will do fine, but the smaller the better so less egg leaks out the top. It just has to cover the hole.

As long as the inside doesn’t look spoiled, you can make some great scrambled eggs with the leftovers.

You can, but there is a higher risk of being infected by salmonella or other bacteria that would normally be killed during cooking.

As long as the egg isn't sitting out for more than two hours, it would be fine to eat it.

You don't suck it out. You have to blow it out through the straw. All of the insides will come out.

It reduces the point of pressure. Because if you were to have no tape, your fingers would also be pushing. The tape also holds the egg together, so it is much less likely to crack.

A common experiment is bouncy eggs. You put an egg in vinegar and it turns bouncy. That's because the vinegar eats the calcium in the eggs shell. Yes, the vinegar eats the shell away.

Consider filling it with hot glue. Make sure to cover the egg with acrylic or Mod Podge so it won't crack and leave you a hot glue egg.

Perhaps you could put Modge Podge on the outside of it, which would render it unpaintable with traditional paints, or you could make it into a papier-mâché preject instead.

Just unbend the metal pieces to flatten them out, then unwind to make a straight line. Typically, paperclips won't be very hard to untangle.

Egg color depends on the breed of the chicken. For example, White Leghorn chickens lay white-shelled eggs, while Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds lay brown-shelled eggs.

It depends on the substance. If it is a liquid, it might spill out unless you wax the top or bottom.

No, I do not think that it would be easy because it is still the same egg shell, so I think that might be more difficult.

You can use acrylic paint. Add any design you like. You can also use stickers, or dye your egg.

Yes, but you have to place a plate or smaller pot lid on top then boil again, then let cool and drain completely before unwrapping.

The air you blow in will take the shape of the container (the eggshell), thus forcing out the liquid contents of the egg using pressure.

Your egg will be harder to break, since it will be hollow. When the yolk is inside, it creates pressure inside; with the egg being blown out, there will be no pressure inside the egg.