Dyeing Easter Eggs With Natural Ingredients
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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Dyeing eggs with natural colors. Made with just water, vinegar, salt, spices, tea, berries, vegetables and onion skins! Works best with white eggs, and also works with both raw and cooked eggs - just make sure there are no cracks in the shells.
I didn’t measure any ingredients for most of these but simply added hot water to the spices in a jar, a splash of vinegar and a pinch of salt. The cabbage and onion skins I boiled for about 10 minutes, then added vinegar and a pinch of salt, then let it cool and strain before putting in the eggs. To get the marbled effect I wrapped the eggs in yellow and red onion skins, wrapped them tightly in fabric with some blueberries inside and then placed in a dye bath with onion skins. Most of them dyed for about 2-3 hours, some of them overnight.
The dark grey ones you see here are colored with blueberry powder (from freeze dried blueberries). Blueberry powder makes colors from light grey to a dark grey or purple grey color, depending on how long you leave them in for and what kind of powder you use. I used two different kinds. You can of course use frozen or fresh blueberries instead if you don't have blueberry powder! Red cabbage makes a light blue or teal (with baking soda added) to deep blues. You can also use coffee or tea, and I’ve seen some use spinach, parsley and even red wine!
How to dye eggs with red cabbage
2 cups (500 ml) chopped red cabbage
4 cups (1 litre) of water
2 tbsp vinegar
Pinch of salt
1-2 tsp baking soda
Combine chopped cabbage and water in a large pot. Let it come to a boil and simmer for about 10 minutes. Add the vinegar and salt and let cool, then strain. Divide between two jars. If you wish to make the eggs more of a teal color, add about 1-2 tsp baking soda to one of the jars, and an extra splash of vinegar. Place the eggs in the jars and leave them for 20 minutes up to overnight. The longer you leave them in the more color they will get. The darkest and most colorful ones here were left to dye overnight. If you want to make the eggs marbled, you can pick them up from the dye bath every now and rub them gently with your fingers. When you are happy with the color, gently pat the eggs dry with a paper towel. Leave to dry completely.
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i prefer these color schemes over the pastels tbh, these are gorgeous
Thank you! I agree with you, the dark grey ones are actually my favorites!
@@LindaLomelino mine too ! i like the dar grey, the matcha one and the purplish blue ones
An alternative universe where Easter takes place in Autumn 🐇🍂🍁
Amazing and meditating as always. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for your kind words! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
If you didn't add vinegar to the red cabbage juice, would you instead get a red- violet? I take it the addition of vinegar changes the color to a blue hue? Is it necessary to add vinegar or can we get that red-violet hue of the cabbage to stick. Would've loved to see a beet red color as well.
The liquid was actually blue before adding anything (I'm guessing because cabbage isn't so acidic) but turned red when I added the vinegar and it turned acidic (and the egg still turned out very blue!)- and then blue again when I added the baking soda and it turned alkaline (and the egg turned out teal). I'm not sure what color it would be without adding anything to it, but what I've read is that the vinegar helps the color stick to the egg. Let me know how it goes if you decide to try it! I wanted to try beet as well, but they only had them in a huge bag and it felt like such a waste to buy that many!
@@LindaLomelino it's fascinating how these pigments work! I may give it a go.
@@PrettyH8Mach1n3 Very fascinating. I definitely want to learn more about it!
Such beautiful colors. ☺ I might try these tomorrow. May I ask, should it be always white vinegar? Can't I use yellow/brownish (cane) vinegar?
Absolutely striking, just from soaking it in. These are gorgeous thank you so much for making this video.
Thank you for your kind words, Adrian!
Thank you so much for sharing this tutorial!! I love it
Thanks Jacqueline! I'm so glad you like it!!
Absolutely gorgeous. Your videos are a treat for the eyes
Thank you, that is so kind of you to say!
You are amazing as always ♥️♥️
Aww thanks Deltima! 🙏🏻♥️
Really beautiful! Are hard boiled eggs?
Thank you so much! I used raw eggs just because I don't eat eggs (only in baked goods ;-) ) and didn't want to waste them. But yes, you can totally use hard boiled eggs for this! Most people I see doing this used boiled eggs.
@@LindaLomelino Thank you so much for your answer! 🤗
So beautiful
Thank you so much!