Easter Eggs and Egg Safety
About Easter Eggs
Decorated eggs are a major symbol of the Easter holiday season. When we think about using eggs made with real eggs, we must also think about Easter egg safety. We want you to enjoy Easter and be safe. Those bright, colorful Easter Eggs for decorating or eating are a big part of the holiday fun. Make it safe and fun. If you use real eggs for decorating, then, do not eat them.
On the day before Easter, Easter egg hunts are held around the world.
Easter Egg Traditions
Since early times, the egg has been a symbol of rebirth. Many cultures decorated and exchanged eggs during early springtime.
Poland: There is a Polish tradition to crack Easter eggs for good luck. Take a hard-boiled and decorated egg. Challenge someone to crack them. Have the person hold the egg with one end up. Then, take your egg and crack it on their egg. The one whose egg does not crack is the winner and will get good luck, while the loser must eat the broken egg. The winner can then take on all challengers. The most pointed end of the egg is usually the best end to use.
Painting Easter Eggs began in the Ukraine. The Ukrainians are known for beautiful and elaborately painted eggs. In America, adults and children enjoy coloring and painting hard-boiled eggs for Christmas. It’s a tradition similar to carving or decorating pumpkins.
Eggy Facts
There are 15,000 to 17,000 pores on an egg’s surface.
Egg yolk contains a natural source of Vitamin D. Few other foods do.
Fresh, uncooked eggs store for up to a month or more in a refrigerator.
Did you know? You can tell if an egg is fresh or cooked by spinning it on its side. A hard-boiled egg will spin smoothly, while a raw egg will wobble.
Easter Egg Safety
Eggs last a long time in your refrigerator. But, they only last a short time, if your decorated eggs are placed out on display. If you are going to eat your Easter eggs, you need to follow safety precautions as eggs can carry deadly food poisons, including Salmonella
- Boil eggs well. Place eggs in cold water. Let the water come to a boil, then lower it to a slow boil for ten minutes.
- After cooking, put the eggs in the refrigerator until ready to use. Boiling eggs removes the protective coating applied by producers, making them more susceptible to bacteria.
- When decorating, take a few out of the refrigerator at a time.
- Decorate and put them back into the refrigerator as soon as possible.
- If you are using the decorated eggs for display for any length of time, use our simple, safe rule….. don’t eat them.
More Easter Holiday Pages
Enjoy all of our Easter Pages:
Dyngus Day – This fun holiday is on Monday after Easter Sunday (Pascha).
Easter Lily – How to grow and care for them.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ – This is what the holiday is all about.
The Polish Blessed Easter Breakfast – This is a joyful Pascha tradition that anyone may want to start.
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