Carey of Petite Kitchenesse calls it an “egg in the basket”, but here in the South we refer to this dish as a “toad-in-a-hole”. They’re easy to make, and Carey’s variation makes them a great Valentine’s Day breakfast.

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This clever recipe makes use of the hole left by the pit of an avocado. You’ll probably need to bore the hole a bit with a cookie cutter. Then fry the avocado in a skillet, add the egg, cook for two minutes, and serve.

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Not the dance, that’s merengue, which has plenty of chemistry, too. This concerns that delicious sweet fluff that tops your lemon meringue pie or the lightweight candy sold at bake sales. It’s made by beating egg whites into a foam, which can then be cooked. But getting it right is tricky. It may help to know the scientific reasons it might not turn out they way you expected. Smithsonian’s Food and Think blog tells you all about the meringue that went wrong. Link

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You’ve seen mermaid’s purses on the beach, in places where skates and rays are common. They are the animals’ egg sacs. Not something you’d think of having for breakfast, but that’s okay, because this dish only looks like a mermaid’s purse! This is made from crepes and eggs, and you’ll find complete instructions for making on at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Link

(Image credit: Flickr user Windell Oskay)

According to the British Egg Information Service, one in every thousand eggs on average is a double-yolker. They’re not sure how they’ve come to this figure but you would like to think that the British Egg Information Service was able to supply useful information about British Eggs, so let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.

So, if the probability of finding an egg with two yolks is 1/1000 – then to find the likelihood of discovering four in a row you simply multiply the probabilities together four times. One thousand to the power of four brings us to the grand total of one trillion – that’s the new-school US-style trillion with 12 zeroes.

If true that would mean the event that occurred in Jen’s kitchen was a trillion-to-one event. But is it true? No is the short answer.

Many factors can affect these odds, like the possibility that a certain chicken or flock laying several eggs that ended up in one carton, or the sorting of eggs by size. There are other factors as well, explained in this BBC article. Link -via Metafilter

Sarah of the food blog Snippets of Thyme stayed at a bed & breakfast in Dingle, Ireland. Breakfast included soft boiled eggs kept warm in adorable little sweaters. The duck feet on the cups only added to the cuteness.

Link -via Tasteologie | Bed & Breakfast Website

What happens when you crack open a raw egg 31 meters down? These divers from an Australian firm show how water pressure maintains the egg’s form.

So…uh, you gonna eat that?

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I had no idea, but now I must try it! Jessica Segarra made a croque madame, which is a grilled ham and Swiss cheese sandwich with a fried egg on top. She cooked it with the waffle iron open so that the yolk wouldn’t break. After three attempts, she was successful.

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This video shows Charlotte Matthews, a cake decorator, cracking open a long series of eggs, all but one of which contains a double yolk. She says that after thirteen double yolks, she asked her husband to begin recording this amazing coincidence. The Rochdale Observer reports:

According to the the British Egg Information Service the chance of getting a double yolk is one in 1,000.

So the odds of opening 29 on the trot are one in 1,000 to the power of 29 – or one followed by 87 zeros.

Charlotte, who lives in College Bank, Rochdale, with her husband Gavin and daughter Kacey, bought the £2.39 tray of Smartprice eggs from Asda in Rochdale

She added: “They did feel a little bit bigger and heavier than normal eggs.

Do you think that this is real?

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Craft introduced me to a great Flickr pool called Geekigami, which is filled with well-made pieces of original origami. This piece by Flickr user -sbel- isn’t geeky, but it is neat.

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Francesco Capponi turned eggs into single-use pinhole cameras. The resulting images (if I understand him correctly), were imprinted on the inside of the eggs when they were cracked open. He provides step-by-step instructions on how you can do the same.

Photos (warning: some nudes) and Instructions via Make

Painted Eggs is a memory game appropriate for the Easter season. You’ll be shown a colored egg. All you have to do is remember what color(s) it was painted and then reproduce them. But it gets harder as you go along! Link -via Look At This

Kelly Lee Barrett, Kaycee Krieg, Jeff Wysaski, and Car Nazzal collaborated to recreate famous movie scenes using Easter eggs! This one is, of course, from the movie Say Anything. Check out Jaws, Kill Bill, and others at Pleated Jeans. Link

Instructables user bbstudio doesn’t reveal how he does it, but the results of his egg carving are amazing! He’s participating in a competition using the Egg-bot, so presumably that factors into the process.

Link via Make | Previously: Nutritional Labels for Eggs

Scott Bedford upcycled a fork into an egg cup. At the link, he provides humorously-illustrated instructions for doing the same. You’ll need a claw hammer or a vise. He writes:

The most important thing is the shape of the base, you don’t want an egg holder prone to tipping over – if you follow the plan I have provided you should be all right.

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This is great, but it also needs a proof of purchase tab that can be cut off and mailed in for special offers. Thingiverse user dnewman used the Eggbot egg-decorating machine to draw a nutritional label on an egg.

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I hope that Google Translate is mangling this Chinese news story so much that its actual meaning is completely different that what it appears to be. Or that some reporter is playing a joke akin to April Fools’ Day news articles in the United States.

That caveat (and wishful thinking) aside: it appears to be traditional in Donyang, China to take the urine left in buckets by schoolboys and boil eggs with it. “hawkers to sell the boy down the street selling eggs, street an odor, Dongyang people say that this is a taste of spring.”

Link via Boing Boing | Photo: China Daily

Cadbury’s advertising for this year’s Creme Eggs brings us a game in which you use a catapult to toss eggs at Google Maps locations. After flailing about somewhat (fun in itself), I finally managed to “egg” my own house! Link -via the Presurfer

Etsy seller Ann Parri made this scarf out of tasty bacon and eggs. Or yarn. One of the those two options. The bacon parts are curled to make them more realistic.

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Scrambling an egg inside its shell is nothing new, but Windell at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories wanted to go the extra step of making a complete omelette without fully opening an egg. Here’s how he planned to do it:

1. Puncture the egg with a small hole (1-5 mm)
2. Scramble the egg inside the shell, through that hole
3. Plug the hole (maybe with egg) so that the egg won’t leak
4. Boil the egg for a few minutes to cook the outside part alone
5. Use a syringe to extract the (still-liquid) center
6. Fill the center with some appropriate filling
7. Plug the hole again, so that the egg won’t leak
8. Return the egg to boil, to cook the raw part that is contacting our filling
9. Retrieve the egg and serve it

That turned out to be much easier said than done, and Windell had to ultimately resort to cooking the eggs in vacuum-sealed bags. At the end of the post, he proposed a number of advanced recipes, such as inverse Scotch eggs — that’s sausage injected into an egg.

Link via Nerdcore

Andrea Newberry made deviled eggs that look like the eye of Sauron from The Lord of the Rings movies. The pupils are made with olives. You can read her recipe at the link.

Link via Nerdcore | Images: New Line Cinema, Forkable

Previously: Eye of Sauron, Made with Tesla Coils

Hens’ eggs typically have a circumference of 5.5 inches and are 2.3 inches long.

Mr Barbouti, a 64-year-old taxi driver from Eastwood, near Southend in Essex, said yesterday: ‘My hens have laid big eggs before but when I saw this one I was gobsmacked.

‘Harriet is only a young hen, she’s about six months old, and has only just started laying eggs.

‘She was limping a bit but she was all right. I’m really proud of her. She doesn’t seem to have been putting off laying as she’s still producing eggs.’

Link via Ace of Spades HQ | Photo: Peter Lawson/Eastnews Press Agency

I found this funny photo while digging for blogfodder in deviantART. User nocturnalMoTH created “Enjoy Your Breakfast.” Posted with the permission of the photographer.

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Nancy Sims (Flickr user PugnoM) created this cute Egg Dalek and posted the process so you can make one, too! Your results may not be as professional as this but you might have a lot of fun trying.  The rest of your family may scratch their heads worriedly, but at least you might enjoy yourself.  Eggsterminate! (Sorry, coudn’t resist that).

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by taliesyn30.

Since Easter is at our doorstep, why not use the occasion to "geek out" and paint your favorite sci-fi characters on egg shells?

I considered Firefly, Star Wars, and potentially even Deadwood. But then I settled on some of the cast of Battlestar Galactica for a few reasons, but mostly because of the show’s themes of death, resurrection, and rebirth. I mean, that’s what Spring is about, right? We can at least agree on that.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Geeksaresexy.

The picture on the left is not photoshopped. That’s really what the chicks look like. Their eggs were injected with dye, leaving the little ones colored upon hatching. Once their new feathers grow out, they’ll be normal-colored again, but for now, they’re mighty festive.

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Jojo Krang used hard-boiled eggs to make a chicken family, with a mother hen and  five baby chicks! Great for a party, but could you bring yourself to actually eat them? Instructions are included. Link -via J-Walk Blog

While I’ve noticed the Peeling Problem most distinctly with superfresh farm eggs, the eggs you buy at the supermarket could be getting fresher too. Most American eggs are produced and distributed by agribusiness concerns like Cal-Maine and Rose Acre, which each have more than 20 million hens cranking out eggs just for you.

Statistics on the time it takes for an egg to go from hen to supermarket have not been calculated, a USDA representative told Wired.com, but there’s some reason to believe that new production techniques could be delivering eggs to markets faster.

A 1998 report by the agency found that big consolidated chicken egg facilities, which wash and package the eggs on-site instead of sending them to a separate processing location, could reduce the time from farm to store from 100 hours to 53 hours. And, according to Cal-Maine’s SEC filings, the industry continues to centralize, squeezing out the old facilities in favor of the new ones.

So if you are going to use hard-boiled eggs in your Thanksgiving dishes, you might want to purchase your eggs soon. Link -via Unique Daily

They do not look as if they belong in this solar system, let alone on planet Earth. This collection of photos reveal the strange beauty of insect eggs (though that may well be a matter of taste). Close up they are quite out of this world:

Where is John Hurt when you need him? If he could perhaps just lean over these eggs he might get a nasty surprise but we would perhaps have a chance of identifying these eggs. Although the species is unknown this is a good starting point on our journey through insect eggs. At once a little scary but fascinating, it is difficult to believe that these will hatch in to something probably harmless to us. Fortunately, the eggs measure millimeters rather than meters so don’t have nightmares!

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by taliesyn30.

This egg shell art is truly stunning. InventorSpot has more pictures of these lovely, detailed art pieces by artist Ron Cheruka.

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