Pickled Eggs

We have a customer who makes pickled eggs, using malt vinegar and eggs.

Recently the jars have started to go cloudy, with a heavy white sediment settling on the bottom.

He buys a strong vinegar from us and waters it down to the right acidity, before adding the hard boiled eggs. After a couple of days, the sediment starts to appear, so he leaves them for a week or so, then pours the vinegar away, washes the eggs again, and then puts them back in the jars with fresh vinegar. A small amount of sediment then appears, but not as much as previously.

The water supply to the unit is very hard, so we have suggested trying a few using boiled water, or water from a descaler unit.

This might help, but he also pickles other products, such as onions, mushrooms and beetroot with no problems.

Anybody got any ideas?

Nadine

Sam,

I used to do a bit of duck egg pickling myself.......that was in my bachelor days.

Think the problem with the cloudy sedimention come from the "added water". Try not to add water to dilute
vinegar and see if result improves.

Interesting!

Charles Chew

I'm going to have a go at making my own this afternoon, so I'll let you know how it goes!

Nadine.

I'm going to have a go at making my own this afternoon, so I'll let you know how it goes!
Nadine.

Maybe egg-proteins are coagulating.
What about the pH of the final water-vinegar mixture ?
Has it been changed recently ?

Apparently nothing has changed. He even bought a competitors vinegar that didn't need watering down, and the same thing happened!

V. Confusing.

Sam,

He must have washed his eggs with water to clean them up but could have put them in for pickling immediately or when egs are not sufficiently dried.

If so, try drying the eggs thoroughly before immersion.

My recipe

Charles Chew

Going to make my own pickled eggs tomorrow, so will let you know how it goes.

If drying the egs works, I'll tell him you want a commission!!

Thanks for the help

nadine.

I'll tell him you want a commission!!

Sounds like a great idea but lets just hope it works first.

Charles Chew

I've been watching this intereggsting topic very closely; I have nothing to offer, but would like to hear the outcome.

BTW what do pickled eggs taste like?

P.S. Sorry about the yolk.

Simon

Taste "heavenly"

If you have NOT tried this "golden eggs" before.......you simply have no idea what you are missing! My preference is duck eggs

Charles Chew

I tried my first pickled egg when I went to visit this customer last week.

They were surprisingly good!!

He also introduced me to pickled mushrooms, they were simply button mushrooms, cooked and put in Malt vinegar, very much the same as the eggs. These were really good!!

I have now made my pickled eggs, and am just waiting to see if anything happens. I'll keep you informed!!

Nadine

Did you get yourself a pickled egg, Simon?

I'm starting to get a bit sick of the sight of them now, although the ones I made have not gone cloudy yet!!

I have taste tested that many eggs I now look like this <--- !!

Nadine.

Did you get yourself a pickled egg, Simon?

No not yet Nadine; I will and I'll let you know. BTW love the avatar.

Simon