I recently got the smallest fairy egg I've ever seen from my new pullets. It was so tiny! I kept the shell to make a tiny felt chicken to place inside of it for my shelf of miniatures. 😊😊
We have around 24 hens and have gotten 5 fairy eggs over the last year. (All from full grown hens. Just flukes.) Ours were all quite a bit smaller than Emmy's. I read online that since most fairy eggs have little to no yolk, you can let them dry out in the open air and they won't go rotten. That's what I've done and so far none of them have gotten smelly. They're light and hollow now. I put them in a tiny little basket. Since my girls are Easter eggers I have a variety of colors too. Very cute!
I once heard a recommendation of using pullet eggs (which I believe is the same thing as Emmy's fairy eggs) for poached eggs is ideal because the yolks are a higher proportion.
I know that what I'm mentioning isn't food, in fact, it's poisonous once made, but the Ukrainian Easter Eggs or Pysanky, would be so finely done with fairy eggs. I'd love to tell you more about Pysanky, and find you examples and supplies. If you're interested. I've made Pysanky since my teens....and I'm 59 years old now.
@@Inamichanidk where the person found it, but, it's in at least one of our local Japanese markets. If your region doesn't have one, maybe you can get some online?
We called them pee wees and sold them on our farm 🚜 we had flats full of them. They go pee wee, small, medium, large, Xtra large and Jumbo. I grew up on a chicken farm. 🐣
Your enthusiasm made me smile. Back when the kids were little and had hens, goats,dogs, cats and situational attention deficit , had enough mishaps of pans boiling dry either before eggs put in or after and forgotten. Quickly found that starting boil while got eggs together to put in smallest pan for eggs to have water around, then cover it and when lid bumps from steam turn off burner and leave it. Depended what species was eloping, fighting how quickly I got back to eggs to put them in cold water. Honestly never noticed a difference in yolk dryness with longer hot water time... now that life is much more sane without kids will try your way and see.
The boiling water method is the very best for easy peeling boiled eggs. I start with room temperature eggs as there’s less chance of the shells cracking when added to the boiling water. The tiny eggs are very cute. We have hens too and my Granddaughter loves collecting eggs. I’ll tell her the tiny pullet’s eggs are called fairy eggs. She will love that! ❤🧚🏻♂️🧚🏼♀️🧚🏽
I always top off my devilled eggs with just a pinch of paprika or sometimes I use cayenne pepper if I want to add a bit of heat, but it’s more for the colour that I add it.
I love Deviled Eggs, me and my sister on the holidays would go to my grandma’s house and sit and eat a dozen of them. After our grandma passed away,my sister took over the tradition of making the Deviled Eggs for every holiday, soooo, her and I could eat them all ❤. Thank you chickens for making one of the best foods ever in the world… EGGS 🥚 ❤
How i boild eggs. It works everytime. I put the egg in cold water. Bring it to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes. Then put a lid on it and leave them to sit in the hot water till it cools. Thats it. Its cooked all the way through. I dont like jammy eggs.
I love that you show everything. Anyone who really cooks even the best Chef's know you learn new things and techniques as you go along and accommodate. You always make everything look great in the end ❤
When I make deviled eggs, I add a splash of rice vinegar to my egg yolks, along with mayo, dijon and salt & pepper. Sometimes I sprinkle Old Bay seasoning on top instead of paprika, which gives it the prettiness as well as a great spicy flavor. I do the same thing with egg salad, which is basically just chopped up deviled eggs. The fairy egg was so delightful, and you honored your chicken by cooking it beautifully and eating it!
I've done deviled eggs with quail eggs before - tasty, adorable, a big hit at the party. But I'll not do it again except under the most extraordinary circumstances. It took forever to peel all those tiny little eggs!!
I tried Quail eggs once, but cracking them open, for fried eggs not boiled, resulted in a bunch of tiny shell shards in the liquid egg. Basically useless, to hard to process.
There are special scissors that are made to make opening easier, you snip off the bigger end with the air sack and they dump right out. Quail eggs make fantastic over easy eggs!
Such a great video! I start my eggs in cold water with white vinegar. As soon as it comes to a boil. Place a lid on the pot & remove from the heat. Set a timer for 15 minutes. Upon completion immediately shock in cold water. The yolks are cooked perfect with no grey around the outside. This has worked all my life. That's how my mom taught me.
@@angiec.9716 Sooo good... Also, a nice (& easy) alternative for those who don't like the pickle-y or paprika'ed ones. Last time I made them, I used parsley from my garden :) Actually...a devilled egg "bar" might be cool. Oooo, idea for New Year's
Devilled eggs with a little smoked salmon on top are SO good!! Aussie kids have 'fairy bread' at parties - buttered white bread with multicolored sprinkles on top. Ah the joys of childhood!
Not just the kids. I always have to make extra because the adults are always sneaking it too 🇦🇺 p.s; use the straw sprinkles not the little dots for best results 💜
Fairy bread just doesn't taste the same though!! I think it's a combination of changing tastebuds and changing formulations that have taken the joy out of such treasured dishes, but I'm putting 70% on the formulations. A little snip here due to 'streamlining' manufacturing, stricter regulations, marketing looking to justify their existence (hello new Coke), cost cutting - and you have Grandpa's axe. We've replaced the axe head and had to put on a new handle but hey, it's still Grandpa's axe!! I know directly FIRST HAND how this works with a treasured product, over 100 years old, it took 3 months to produce the original product, brand and production/factory was bought by a multinational, fashion shifted against one of the ingredients, minor consumer shift against that one ingredient was a good enough excuse for the multinational to 'reformulate' to a far quicker production method and VOILA we have 'the same' product, under the same packaging, same classic shape/appearance, same brand BUT actually a completely different product - and noticeably so if you can compare the old and new side by side, which I can, as I still have both. Sorry for the long response, but I hope it gives you some insight!! Cheers from Oz!!
I once put a bit of kimchi on top of a deviled egg out of curiousity and let me tell you it changed my life! I'll make regular ones for family and friends who aren't into kimchi but for myself I always add chopped kimchi and a bit of the juice into my filling (which is just yolks, mayo, black pepper and chopped dill pickle with a splash of the juice for a regular batch, no pickle for the kimchi batch).
I love making "deviled egg poppers" with my bantams' tiny eggs. I steam them, air pocket side up, so when you crack them, there is only the tiniest film of white over the yolk, which I wipe off , scoop out the yolk, leaving sort of an ice cream cone of white. I put my yolks and chopped broken whites in a ziploc bag with my other filling ingredients, squish it to mix, then cut off the tip to pipe into the eggs. If you're travelling with the eggs, don't fill til you arrive so they stay pretty. These one bite deviled eggs are always snatched right up!
Fairy eggs, so cute 😊 Growing up you could by medium, large and extra large eggs. In school (1970s) we were taught to use medium eggs if a recipe called for eggs. I think they since changed medium to large & so on. I always add a splash of vinegar to my deviled eggs. Next time i will try substituting Dijon mustard for the yellow. Deviled eggs are one of my favorite Hors D'oeuvres 🥰
They can, but sadly, unless someone assists the hatch the twins likely won't survive due to kicking the sh*t out of each other. Or, you wind up with a Siamese twin situation...
What a great question! I don't KNOW but I would think that it IS possible BUT when a chick hatches it's fully filled/outgrown the shell - the shell doesn't expand like a womb so I think twin chicks wouldn't fully develop. Just my thoughts - would LOVE to hear from a chicken expert though!!
@@melhawk6284 I wonder if you'd be more likely to end up with a conjoined twin situation if you pick the eggs up and shake them gently at the beginning of the incubation period because it would makes the yokes mix together.
@@melhawk6284 I didn't think an incubator got hot enough for that to happen. I wonder if that ever happens in the coop when the mother is actually sitting on them. I imagine if it did, she'd probably just eat it. Chickens can be pretty gross.
We used to buy pullet eggs from a local chicken farm when I was younger. They were the cutest small eggs and they were much cheaper than regular eggs. We bought them by the dozens. They were not that small, lol, but they were delicious.
I look your videos! I've been watching since you were in Japan, and you have managed to stay positive, fun, interesting, and to maintain a wonderful community. ❤❤❤ Fairy dust!
So cute! As a youngster, we had regular sized chickens, and a small cluster of Banty chickens. They had smaller eggs than the bigger hens, but not that tiny. I think their eggs were considered “Small”.
We have Banty hens as well as Rhode Island Reds, so we often have eggs that small haha. They’re as cute as can be! I’ll have to keep an eye out for any smaller ones or ones colored more like the ones from the Rhode Island Reds
When I make deviled eggs for a potluck, I keep them separate with the filling in a zip lock bag. When I get there, I cut a corner from the bag and fill the whites.
I grew up on a farm with (“Banty”) Bantam Chickens. I got an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas when I was 9 or 10 years old. I ran out of mixes, which weren’t easy to find in the 1960’s. I asked my mom what went into making a cake from scratch. I experimented, creating a chocolate cake batter using one Banty egg! Banty’s are so adorable! The chicks are itty-bitty…. PRECIOUS! They will always be my favorite!
Chiiiiilllddd….I don’t know how I got to be this ancient and still firmly believing that you should never eat a fairy egg. I was told not to touch them, and that they were poisonous! I was like “Emmy!! Nooooooo!!!”
Cute it is!! I remember when Elmira was cuddling a cat saying, "I'm gonna love you, and squeeze you, and use you for laboratory experiments!" I died!! 😂 😂 Keep up the positivity!! cheers
I do mine in the instant pot, using the 5.5.5. method. I don't know the science of it, but it obviously has to do with the pressure, they peel SOOOO easy!🤯😋
...and sometimes you get an egg without a shell. You're kind of on target about the odd eggs. They do beat them all together and use them to make baked goods, protein shakes for bodybuilders, etc. Have you ever seen quail eggs? Now, those are tiny. And just as your fairy egg is smaller than a regular chicken egg, a duck egg is larger. Since you called it a fairy egg, when you started boiling it, and especially when you sliced into it, my brain went, "Aauugh! Tinkerbell's baby!" In fact, with that thought in mind, I kind of halfway expected to see fairy wings stick out of the egg when you started to cut into it. 🧚♀️
Pretty sure the easy peeling is due to the ice cold bath immediately after cooking and not to the actual cooking method itself. I use the instant pot with the 2 minute pressure cook then 14 minute natural release then Ice bath for a few minutes.
Shelling the egg was always a problem in the last 15 years because someone had me convinced they should be slow boiled, cold to hot, but doing it the way you describe, like we used to do all the time, they peel just fine when dunked in cold water, not even ice water, Just cooling them down with cold water, then drying them and putting them in the fridge, um after, I enjoyed a nice hot one. hehe
Ive always plunged my steamed eggs (to avoid "hot spots" in the eggs where they contact the pan during boiling) into a bowel of ice water and let them sit for 5 min or so...they peel perfectly every time😊
One of my my Black Australorp hens lays nothing but fairy eggs. I keep waiting for her to lay a normal size egg but it never happens. Been making pickled eggs out of her eggs for gifts. Too stinking cute.
I did that one Thanksgiving as a gag along with a plate of regular sized deviled eggs. I brought the tiny ones out first. Haha. Peeling them was a chore but they were very tasty! And so cute!
The best way to make hard boiled eggs is to put the eggs into cold water. You bring the water to a boil and then you set your timer to 9 minutes. You pour out the water from the pot and then you pour in cold water. You rinse out the pot with the eggs in it until the inside of the pot is cool and then you fill the pot with cool water and let it sit for 2 minutes. Then you crack the egg on both sides and roll up between your hands. You can remove the shell very easily without any problems and it's easy to dunk it under the water as you are peeling it. The eggs will peel perfectly every time time.
In the U.K. and here in Portugal they sell quails eggs! They really ARE tiny.. and look so pretty hard boiled and added to salads etc etc! They aren’t much bigger than a thumbnail!
They used to call those witche's egg. They called them this because it was thought to be a curse if your chickens would stop laying eggs and the tiny egg is usually the last egg a hen will lay.
Our chickens started laying "normal" eggs right away. Sometimes their first egg can turn out wonky, but not necessarily. We thought the first egg we got was oddly small, but it turns out that's just that hen's normal size!
In Australia, we call those ‘fart’ eggs. Fairy eggs is sweeter, I’ll call them that from now on, and they don’t have yolks. Can’t wait to see if yours does!
Tip: If you like a little bite, I have switched to using Kashmiri red chili powder EVERYWHERE I used to use paprika. From deviled egg garnish to hungarian beef goulash. Give it a try, it does the same thing but better in my opinion.
Also, deviled duck eggs. You're welcome. Everything's better with duck eggs. I made an eggplant parmigiana the other day and only had duck eggs on hand and now my eggplant recipe costs more thank it used to.
When I was little we had a couple of these miniature hens and a rooster, just as tiny. They were about the size of pidgeons and with very colorful feathers and the eggs they laid were somewhat smaller than the fairy egg. So cute☺️
@@gr33ngirlsea I think they’re called Bantam chickens, my father bought them from a breeder iirc, they had leg rings, they’re more like pets, at least the rooster was a pet for me, I named him Nero, cutest thing ever but quite aggro☺️ We had to give them back to the breeder eventually because Nero insisted on breaking free and challenging the regular size roosters (we had a flock of regular chickens).
@@minime7375 omg, that's hilarious! For his sake, I'm glad he got away from the big flock. I'll have to look into those, I'd love to see one in person sometime. Thanks!
@@gr33ngirlsea Sorry I can’t give many details on the breed I was about 6-7 yo at the time, I just remember them being the size of doves (we kept few doves as pets too) and with very bright feathers. I had regular size chickens too as pets later on and contrary to popular belief they are very smart and make great pets. Tiny dinosaurs☺️
My grandparents used to have an egg chicken farm, my favourite time was breakfast time because if we were lucky, we’d get “double yolkers” as soft boiled eggs with “toast soldiers”!!!- yummmmm!
I've definitely seen medium eggs here in the UK and one supermarket was selling small eggs as well this summer. They were very cute, even though the packaging was the low cost own brand (they were labelled as free range though with bird flu around I don't know if they would have been outside). Perhaps not great for baking but they were fine for the egg fried rice I was making
The best way Ive found to do hard cooked eggs is in the steamer basket in my rice cooker. Rice and eggs in one sitting. Plunge the eggs into ice water. Perfect
@@danielclaeys7598 before or after the wedding and reception? Because, depending on the alcohol consumption, the waffle irons coming out at 5 am after the wedding were more like first aid!
@@melhawk6284 The reception didn't break up until the sun came out. The wedding itself was at 5pm, reception and informal dinner afterwards, then the real reception began. Everything was at my sister's home and breakfast/first aid was to sober up those that had to drive. Intentionally, no hard liquor was served, just wine and beer.
In Europe, you'll find plenty of medium eggs. I tend to buy large because they're more convenient for omelettes and translating US recipes, but that's about it.
Have you ever found a soft translucent egg? It’s so weird but it’s just like result of calcium deficiency. I used to have one hen predisposed to the condition.
I'm a professional chef, and I've never had success putting cold eggs into boiling water, they always crack. My method is to barely cover cold eggs with cold water, bring to a boil and then remove from the burner and allow to sit for 14 minutes. Perfect for deviled eggs
There is something so great about watching Emmy while sitting in my hotel in Japan after eating all the things she's taught me about over the years.
Many years have passed and many videos of your channel I have learned from. Thank you Emmy and family!
I recently got the smallest fairy egg I've ever seen from my new pullets. It was so tiny! I kept the shell to make a tiny felt chicken to place inside of it for my shelf of miniatures. 😊😊
We have around 24 hens and have gotten 5 fairy eggs over the last year. (All from full grown hens. Just flukes.) Ours were all quite a bit smaller than Emmy's. I read online that since most fairy eggs have little to no yolk, you can let them dry out in the open air and they won't go rotten. That's what I've done and so far none of them have gotten smelly. They're light and hollow now. I put them in a tiny little basket. Since my girls are Easter eggers I have a variety of colors too. Very cute!
I have a small hen and she lays eggs the size of a quarter at their largest, and they are mostly yolks and are so delicious!
I once heard a recommendation of using pullet eggs (which I believe is the same thing as Emmy's fairy eggs) for poached eggs is ideal because the yolks are a higher proportion.
I know that what I'm mentioning isn't food, in fact, it's poisonous once made, but the Ukrainian Easter Eggs or Pysanky, would be so finely done with fairy eggs. I'd love to tell you more about Pysanky, and find you examples and supplies. If you're interested. I've made Pysanky since my teens....and I'm 59 years old now.
that would be an awesome show
They are a part of my childhood memories, too! I think they would be wonderful made from fairy eggs!
Yessss! Not a part of my childhood but they are absolutely beautiful and would love to see this done as well
I just googled Pyansky eggs! Wow, what beautiful designs and colours ❤
And a long, amazing history about them, too!!!@@annieclaire2348
Because of you I tried Kewpie Mayo, absolutely love it! Thank you!
Where did you find it?
@@Inamichanidk where the person found it, but, it's in at least one of our local Japanese markets. If your region doesn't have one, maybe you can get some online?
@@Inamichanive seen it in big name supermarkets in the international section!!
@@Inamichan I found it at my local Walmart.
We called them pee wees and sold them on our farm 🚜 we had flats full of them. They go pee wee, small, medium, large, Xtra large and Jumbo. I grew up on a chicken farm. 🐣
My daughter has many chickens and they get numerous different sizes and colors. Her Bantem chickens lay little eggs as they are tiny too.
Your enthusiasm made me smile. Back when the kids were little and had hens, goats,dogs, cats and situational attention deficit , had enough mishaps of pans boiling dry either before eggs put in or after and forgotten. Quickly found that starting boil while got eggs together to put in smallest pan for eggs to have water around, then cover it and when lid bumps from steam turn off burner and leave it. Depended what species was eloping, fighting how quickly I got back to eggs to put them in cold water. Honestly never noticed a difference in yolk dryness with longer hot water time... now that life is much more sane without kids will try your way and see.
Grocery stores in my area sell mediums also.
The boiling water method is the very best for easy peeling boiled eggs. I start with room temperature eggs as there’s less chance of the shells cracking when added to the boiling water.
The tiny eggs are very cute. We have hens too and my Granddaughter loves collecting eggs. I’ll tell her the tiny pullet’s eggs are called fairy eggs. She will love that! ❤🧚🏻♂️🧚🏼♀️🧚🏽
If you start with cold eggs just put them in a strainer and run them under hot tap for a couple seconds and then place them in the pot
@@karmenrosebush - yes, I have done that when I have forgotten to get them out of the fridge in time to “warm” up 😂🤣😂
Awww! That little egg is so cute!
I always top off my devilled eggs with just a pinch of paprika or sometimes I use cayenne pepper if I want to add a bit of heat, but it’s more for the colour that I add it.
I love Deviled Eggs, me and my sister on the holidays would go to my grandma’s house and sit and eat a dozen of them. After our grandma passed away,my sister took over the tradition of making the Deviled Eggs for every holiday, soooo, her and I could eat them all ❤. Thank you chickens for making one of the best foods ever in the world… EGGS 🥚 ❤
“The incredible, eatable egg”!! 💖
We have an egg company near us that sells Medium, Large, and Extra Large eggs, and gives the small eggs to local food pantries.
How i boild eggs. It works everytime.
I put the egg in cold water. Bring it to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes. Then put a lid on it and leave them to sit in the hot water till it cools.
Thats it. Its cooked all the way through. I dont like jammy eggs.
We got an egg the size of a Robin egg one time. It literally didn't have a yolk! My daughter fried it anyways, but said it didn't have much flavor.
@CarrieK998 that's cool! I mean this egg was small. Not like the one in the video. This was smaller than a quarter. Was your egg that small too??
I love that you show everything. Anyone who really cooks even the best Chef's know you learn new things and techniques as you go along and accommodate. You always make everything look great in the end ❤
When I make deviled eggs, I add a splash of rice vinegar to my egg yolks, along with mayo, dijon and salt & pepper. Sometimes I sprinkle Old Bay seasoning on top instead of paprika, which gives it the prettiness as well as a great spicy flavor. I do the same thing with egg salad, which is basically just chopped up deviled eggs. The fairy egg was so delightful, and you honored your chicken by cooking it beautifully and eating it!
I've done deviled eggs with quail eggs before - tasty, adorable, a big hit at the party. But I'll not do it again except under the most extraordinary circumstances. It took forever to peel all those tiny little eggs!!
I absolutely love that you took an egg to get paint matched. 😂 I can only imagine the confusion.
Love this!! My hens have been laying for about a month and I’ve had a few eggs with THREE yolks! Lots of double yolks. Love my Barred Rock girls.
Have you ever used quail eggs? Living in Japan I buy them already boiled and in salt water. I have never been brave enough to try boiling them!
Can I ask why? Aren't they the same as any other egg just smaller?
They are great! Richer yolks
I tried Quail eggs once, but cracking them open, for fried eggs not boiled, resulted in a bunch of tiny shell shards in the liquid egg. Basically useless, to hard to process.
There are special scissors that are made to make opening easier, you snip off the bigger end with the air sack and they dump right out. Quail eggs make fantastic over easy eggs!
I brought and hard boiled quail eggs to make Japanese cream stew! It was delicious
Fairy populations are on a decline. But honestly their eggs are deeeeelicious!
Such a great video! I start my eggs in cold water with white vinegar. As soon as it comes to a boil. Place a lid on the pot & remove from the heat. Set a timer for 15 minutes. Upon completion immediately shock in cold water. The yolks are cooked perfect with no grey around the outside. This has worked all my life. That's how my mom taught me.
“my hands are too FAT” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 relatableeeeeeeee siss that cracked me upppp gorlll
ha, cracked.. egg puns!
So CUTE! How fun was that! Thank you for this happy video.🥰
Nothing has ever warmed my heart more than hearing Emmy say "devil's egg".
Eggs are still a bit pricey here, but now I'm craving BLT devilled eggs!
Yolk, mayo, extra parsley, bacon pieces, bit of tomato, yum.
BLT DEVILED EGGS?! Omg I have never heard of that before and it sounds absolutely delicious.
@@angiec.9716 Sooo good... Also, a nice (& easy) alternative for those who don't like the pickle-y or paprika'ed ones. Last time I made them, I used parsley from my garden :)
Actually...a devilled egg "bar" might be cool. Oooo, idea for New Year's
Wow, we have the same technique for boiling eggs. I didn't know why but it was the way it worked for me and now I know why. Thank you so much, Emmy
Pullet egg. They are so cute.
One of our chickens laid a micro fairy egg that was round. It only had the white of the egg. We've had an egg inside of an egg too.
Devilled eggs with a little smoked salmon on top are SO good!! Aussie kids have 'fairy bread' at parties - buttered white bread with multicolored sprinkles on top. Ah the joys of childhood!
Not just the kids. I always have to make extra because the adults are always sneaking it too 🇦🇺
p.s; use the straw sprinkles not the little dots for best results 💜
Fairy bread just doesn't taste the same though!! I think it's a combination of changing tastebuds and changing formulations that have taken the joy out of such treasured dishes, but I'm putting 70% on the formulations. A little snip here due to 'streamlining' manufacturing, stricter regulations, marketing looking to justify their existence (hello new Coke), cost cutting - and you have Grandpa's axe. We've replaced the axe head and had to put on a new handle but hey, it's still Grandpa's axe!! I know directly FIRST HAND how this works with a treasured product, over 100 years old, it took 3 months to produce the original product, brand and production/factory was bought by a multinational, fashion shifted against one of the ingredients, minor consumer shift against that one ingredient was a good enough excuse for the multinational to 'reformulate' to a far quicker production method and VOILA we have 'the same' product, under the same packaging, same classic shape/appearance, same brand BUT actually a completely different product - and noticeably so if you can compare the old and new side by side, which I can, as I still have both. Sorry for the long response, but I hope it gives you some insight!! Cheers from Oz!!
@@andersonomo597I've never had salmon with deviled eggs but it sounds tasty.
No, birthday cake? Just buttered bread with sprinkles?
Cake is a must and if you're really lucky there's mini meat pies and sausage rolls too! Ah the joys of childhood! @@alicerafferty9595
I once put a bit of kimchi on top of a deviled egg out of curiousity and let me tell you it changed my life! I'll make regular ones for family and friends who aren't into kimchi but for myself I always add chopped kimchi and a bit of the juice into my filling (which is just yolks, mayo, black pepper and chopped dill pickle with a splash of the juice for a regular batch, no pickle for the kimchi batch).
I love making "deviled egg poppers" with my bantams' tiny eggs. I steam them, air pocket side up, so when you crack them, there is only the tiniest film of white over the yolk, which I wipe off , scoop out the yolk, leaving sort of an ice cream cone of white. I put my yolks and chopped broken whites in a ziploc bag with my other filling ingredients, squish it to mix, then cut off the tip to pipe into the eggs. If you're travelling with the eggs, don't fill til you arrive so they stay pretty. These one bite deviled eggs are always snatched right up!
So stinkin' cute. Literally.
As for my preference I'll boil my eggs about 11 minutes because I don't care for a runny egg.
Emmy you always put a smile on my face :)
i like the yolk creamy for regular eating but drier for deviled eggs so it absorbs the mayo and seasonings better.
I always plan to make deviled eggs more often, but I never do.
Have had a deviled egg tray for years that doesn't get used lol
Our family’s version of devilled eggs was actually closer to curried eggs - mum would add a bit of Keen’s curry powder into the yolk mixture.
Aussie?
@@TheMimiSardlol yep
You MUST be an Aussie?
@@villainouslipsIt's the Keen's. McCormick seems to be an Aussie brand of herbs and spices, and according to Google, they own Keen's.
I love curried deviled eggs and egg salad. There's so many spices and herbs that can make them taste divine!
Fairy eggs, so cute 😊 Growing up you could by medium, large and extra large eggs. In school (1970s) we were taught to use medium eggs if a recipe called for eggs. I think they since changed medium to large & so on. I always add a splash of vinegar to my deviled eggs. Next time i will try substituting Dijon mustard for the yellow. Deviled eggs are one of my favorite Hors D'oeuvres 🥰
It looks luxurious!
Of course Emmy gets paint to match food! 🤦♀️ I never would have thought of it, but this is genius! Kudos, Emmy! (Pretty color, too. 😊)
I wonder if the double yoke ones can be fertilized and become twins. Does that ever happen?
They can, but sadly, unless someone assists the hatch the twins likely won't survive due to kicking the sh*t out of each other. Or, you wind up with a Siamese twin situation...
What a great question! I don't KNOW but I would think that it IS possible BUT when a chick hatches it's fully filled/outgrown the shell - the shell doesn't expand like a womb so I think twin chicks wouldn't fully develop. Just my thoughts - would LOVE to hear from a chicken expert though!!
@@melhawk6284 I wonder if you'd be more likely to end up with a conjoined twin situation if you pick the eggs up and shake them gently at the beginning of the incubation period because it would makes the yokes mix together.
@@Melissa0774 if you break the yolks, you get a rotten egg that explodes in your incubator and ruins your house for a day or so...
@@melhawk6284 I didn't think an incubator got hot enough for that to happen. I wonder if that ever happens in the coop when the mother is actually sitting on them. I imagine if it did, she'd probably just eat it. Chickens can be pretty gross.
We used to buy pullet eggs from a local chicken farm when I was younger. They were the cutest small eggs and they were much cheaper than regular eggs. We bought them by the dozens. They were not that small, lol, but they were delicious.
Also good with a wee bit of creamed horseradish or wasabi, sprinkle with the paprika and then top with a caper or two.
I look your videos! I've been watching since you were in Japan, and you have managed to stay positive, fun, interesting, and to maintain a wonderful community. ❤❤❤ Fairy dust!
So cute! As a youngster, we had regular sized chickens, and a small cluster of Banty chickens. They had smaller eggs than the bigger hens, but not that tiny. I think their eggs were considered “Small”.
Medium eggs are very popular in the foodervice industry. School, hospitals, nursing homes, etc, often purchase and serve medium sized eggs.
I would think that the cooking time would be a variable dependent on the radius of the egg….not the volume.
We have Banty hens as well as Rhode Island Reds, so we often have eggs that small haha. They’re as cute as can be! I’ll have to keep an eye out for any smaller ones or ones colored more like the ones from the Rhode Island Reds
When I make deviled eggs for a potluck, I keep them separate with the filling in a zip lock bag. When I get there, I cut a corner from the bag and fill the whites.
I miss having fresh eggs. Devilled Eggs are one of my most favouritest things to eat.
I use a pinch of baking soda and it works great! everytime!
I grew up on a farm with (“Banty”) Bantam Chickens.
I got an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas when I was 9 or 10 years old.
I ran out of mixes, which weren’t easy to find in the 1960’s.
I asked my mom what went into making a cake from scratch. I experimented, creating a chocolate cake batter using one Banty egg!
Banty’s are so adorable! The chicks are itty-bitty….
PRECIOUS! They will always be my favorite!
my granddaughter raises domesticated quail and they lay those little eggs.
Chiiiiilllddd….I don’t know how I got to be this ancient and still firmly believing that you should never eat a fairy egg. I was told not to touch them, and that they were poisonous! I was like “Emmy!! Nooooooo!!!”
Cute it is!! I remember when Elmira was cuddling a cat saying, "I'm gonna love you, and squeeze you, and use you for laboratory experiments!" I died!! 😂 😂 Keep up the positivity!! cheers
I do mine in the instant pot, using the 5.5.5. method. I don't know the science of it, but it obviously has to do with the pressure, they peel SOOOO easy!🤯😋
...and sometimes you get an egg without a shell.
You're kind of on target about the odd eggs. They do beat them all together and use them to make baked goods, protein shakes for bodybuilders, etc.
Have you ever seen quail eggs? Now, those are tiny. And just as your fairy egg is smaller than a regular chicken egg, a duck egg is larger.
Since you called it a fairy egg, when you started boiling it, and especially when you sliced into it, my brain went, "Aauugh! Tinkerbell's baby!"
In fact, with that thought in mind, I kind of halfway expected to see fairy wings stick out of the egg when you started to cut into it. 🧚♀️
Pretty sure the easy peeling is due to the ice cold bath immediately after cooking and not to the actual cooking method itself. I use the instant pot with the 2 minute pressure cook then 14 minute natural release then Ice bath for a few minutes.
Shelling the egg was always a problem in the last 15 years because someone had me convinced they should be slow boiled, cold to hot, but doing it the way you describe, like we used to do all the time, they peel just fine when dunked in cold water, not even ice water, Just cooling them down with cold water, then drying them and putting them in the fridge, um after, I enjoyed a nice hot one. hehe
Ive always plunged my steamed eggs (to avoid "hot spots" in the eggs where they contact the pan during boiling) into a bowel of ice water and let them sit for 5 min or so...they peel perfectly every time😊
I was watching your videos a lot a couple years ago, and I guess you fell out of my algorithm, then I saw you on IG today, so I thought I'd check in
One of my my Black Australorp hens lays nothing but fairy eggs. I keep waiting for her to lay a normal size egg but it never happens. Been making pickled eggs out of her eggs for gifts. Too stinking cute.
This reminds me of the time my friends and I made deviled eggs with quail eggs. They were pretty tasty!
I did that one Thanksgiving as a gag along with a plate of regular sized deviled eggs. I brought the tiny ones out first. Haha. Peeling them was a chore but they were very tasty! And so cute!
The best way to make hard boiled eggs is to put the eggs into cold water. You bring the water to a boil and then you set your timer to 9 minutes. You pour out the water from the pot and then you pour in cold water. You rinse out the pot with the eggs in it until the inside of the pot is cool and then you fill the pot with cool water and let it sit for 2 minutes. Then you crack the egg on both sides and roll up between your hands. You can remove the shell very easily without any problems and it's easy to dunk it under the water as you are peeling it. The eggs will peel perfectly every time time.
In the U.K. and here in Portugal they sell quails eggs! They really ARE tiny.. and look so pretty hard boiled and added to salads etc etc! They aren’t much bigger than a thumbnail!
They used to call those witche's egg. They called them this because it was thought to be a curse if your chickens would stop laying eggs and the tiny egg is usually the last egg a hen will lay.
So do the young immature chicken's eggs taste different than the older mature chicken's eggs?
No, taste the same, delicious!
Our chickens started laying "normal" eggs right away. Sometimes their first egg can turn out wonky, but not necessarily. We thought the first egg we got was oddly small, but it turns out that's just that hen's normal size!
Yummy! Very fun. Thanks Emmy!
In Australia, we call those ‘fart’ eggs. Fairy eggs is sweeter, I’ll call them that from now on, and they don’t have yolks. Can’t wait to see if yours does!
I bet devilled quail eggs are awesome
To have boiled egg shells come off easily, put hot eggs into cold water. The shock causes membrane to release. They'll peel effortlessly.
Tip: If you like a little bite, I have switched to using Kashmiri red chili powder EVERYWHERE I used to use paprika. From deviled egg garnish to hungarian beef goulash. Give it a try, it does the same thing but better in my opinion.
Also, deviled duck eggs. You're welcome. Everything's better with duck eggs. I made an eggplant parmigiana the other day and only had duck eggs on hand and now my eggplant recipe costs more thank it used to.
Your eggs are so pretty!! 💜 Is it a lot of work to take care of hens?
When I was little we had a couple of these miniature hens and a rooster, just as tiny. They were about the size of pidgeons and with very colorful feathers and the eggs they laid were somewhat smaller than the fairy egg. So cute☺️
Woah, I didn't know chickens could be that small!
@@gr33ngirlsea I think they’re called Bantam chickens, my father bought them from a breeder iirc, they had leg rings, they’re more like pets, at least the rooster was a pet for me, I named him Nero, cutest thing ever but quite aggro☺️ We had to give them back to the breeder eventually because Nero insisted on breaking free and challenging the regular size roosters (we had a flock of regular chickens).
@@minime7375 omg, that's hilarious! For his sake, I'm glad he got away from the big flock. I'll have to look into those, I'd love to see one in person sometime. Thanks!
@@gr33ngirlsea Sorry I can’t give many details on the breed I was about 6-7 yo at the time, I just remember them being the size of doves (we kept few doves as pets too) and with very bright feathers. I had regular size chickens too as pets later on and contrary to popular belief they are very smart and make great pets. Tiny dinosaurs☺️
My grandparents used to have an egg chicken farm, my favourite time was breakfast time because if we were lucky, we’d get “double yolkers” as soft boiled eggs with “toast soldiers”!!!- yummmmm!
Jacques Pépin says to gently boil, not have a rolling boil, as it makes the whites tougher and more rubbery, which it didn't know.
You're excitement made me lol. I love you ❤😂
I've definitely seen medium eggs here in the UK and one supermarket was selling small eggs as well this summer. They were very cute, even though the packaging was the low cost own brand (they were labelled as free range though with bird flu around I don't know if they would have been outside). Perhaps not great for baking but they were fine for the egg fried rice I was making
You can get medium eggs as well in the US
The best way Ive found to do hard cooked eggs is in the steamer basket in my rice cooker. Rice and eggs in one sitting. Plunge the eggs into ice water. Perfect
Yeah, one deviled egg is never enough.🥚😋
It is, on the other hand, un oeuf.
If it take 8 minutes to boil one egg, it also takes 8 minutes to boil a dozen or 100 eggs. You don't divide the time by the number of eggs.
Yes but she didn’t reduce the time for the number of eggs it is because it was smaller so it would cook faster 😊
I add a bit of pickle relish to deviled eggs
For my niece's wedding I used quail eggs to devil. Dijon, bacon on a Triscut and six dozen eggs later, 144 deviled eggs weren't enough.
Bet those little beauties were DANGEROUS due to being even MORE bite sized than a regular deviled egg...
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At 5am, we broke out the waffle irons and another party started. It damn near killed me.
@@danielclaeys7598 before or after the wedding and reception? Because, depending on the alcohol consumption, the waffle irons coming out at 5 am after the wedding were more like first aid!
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The reception didn't break up until the sun came out. The wedding itself was at 5pm, reception and informal dinner afterwards, then the real reception began. Everything was at my sister's home and breakfast/first aid was to sober up those that had to drive. Intentionally, no hard liquor was served, just wine and beer.
As someone who has made mayo from scratch, kewpie mayo definitely tastes the closest to homemade!
That looks like the perfect bite!
I make egg salad with deviled egg flavoring and it’s delightful! The Dijon is really key
You should look into variety of deviled egg recipes-
In Europe, you'll find plenty of medium eggs. I tend to buy large because they're more convenient for omelettes and translating US recipes, but that's about it.
Emmy you need to get a duck or two. They make great pets eat your weeds are intelligent and lay bigger eggs everywhere!
Save the bag and piping tip, use a sandwich bag with a small piece of a bottom corner cut out. Save on clean up time
I just watched a 14 minute video about a egg I know I rock with emmy 😭
You can buy quail eggs in France which are about the same size; maybe a little smaller.
Have you ever found a soft translucent egg? It’s so weird but it’s just like result of calcium deficiency. I used to have one hen predisposed to the condition.
I learn in food network to boil water for 9 minutes and later cook the eggs for 9 minutes!! Perfect eggs every time!!
I'm a professional chef, and I've never had success putting cold eggs into boiling water, they always crack.
My method is to barely cover cold eggs with cold water, bring to a boil and then remove from the burner and allow to sit for 14 minutes. Perfect for deviled eggs