Popovers? Dutch pancakes? Quiche?

Soufflés! You can freeze the batter, perhaps taking up less pig room.

Baked egg skillet takes one egg per inch diameter, but you need people to feed it to.

Pickled eggs? They'd be shelf stable. The usual way is with Spring veg, like asparagus, but I'm sure you could come up with something in season.

Egg shampoo?

Fritatas / Spanish tortas / rolled French omelettes / stuffed omelettes

Bread pudding / French toast

Scotch eggs

Custard / flan / pots de creme / pudding / mousse

Cream puffs / eclairs / croquembouche / profiteroles

Sponge and Angel Food cakes!

And meringues - &/or Schaum Torte

We made Pickled Eggs back in our "Egg & I" days when overrun with eggs.

Dehydrate and make egg powder. With the world going crazy, having lots of protein powder may be useful.

dcarch

Are they washed? I'm assuming they are since you have them in the fridge. But with the new ones you get, don't wash them and you can waterglass them. It will let them keep so you don't keep piling fresh eggs into the fridge.

If I had oodles on hand. all the dehydrators would be running full on. Eggs in baking and sweets of course. Pickled, boiled, deviled. Sauna eggs and jammy eggs. Eggs bake-poached in spicy curry, chorizo and potatoes sauced, on taters and hash. Scrambled with whatever in it baked up- and if you feeling it... you can slice a pan of it up to roll up with some cheese in tortillas for breakfast burrios in the freezer. Fried rice, egg soups of a few kinds.

Share with neighbors.

Maybe some 100 year eggs?

Find a local artist who uses egg tempera paint which is an old technique. My mom used egg tempera a lot. Not so much lately.

I always intend to take up making meringue based desserts to use up her egg whites. I have made chocolate pavlova a few times - pretty fabulous. Straight meringue is too sweet for me. https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-raspberry-pavlova

A local farmer had a similar problem for several weeks a few months ago and donated them to a local food pantry. Our church issued a fast and furious request for egg cartons and the ultimate recipients were overjoyed.

Easter decos?

Quiche, eggs Benedict, hollandaise sauce, Portuguese egg tarts, friands with the egg whites (also gluten free if you use GF flour for the flour potion), huevos rancheros, shaksuka, Scotch eggs, bacon and egg pie, Caesar salad, bread and butter pudding

Wow, I struggle to think what I’d do with over 400 eggs.

I like dcarch’s idea, although I might use only the whites.

I guess there’s no “soup kitchens“ (archaic term, but you know what I mean) to donate them too?

We have a couple of local food pantries but only one has access to refrigeration. Since the eggs were meant for sale, I've washed them and refrigerated them, so they must remain refrigerated. We also have a homeless shelter, which I didn't think of until now, so I'll check with them tomorrow. I asked if any of the food pantries would take home baked items, but they do not, and I don't really blame them.

Terrible time for Elery to be on a diet, LOL, so I'm trying not to bake too many "treats", although I've put bread and buns in the freezer. None of the family likes pickled eggs except me, I like the ones pickled in pickled beet brine and I hadn't thought of those, so that'll use up a dozen or so, Grandma used to make them for Easter every year so maybe it's the memory I like..

I do have a dehydrator but have never dehydrated eggs, I'll have to look into that! I have instructions for salt cured egg yolks that I'm going to try, that'll leave whites, so maybe I'll try to dehydrate the whites first.

I have a small refrigerator on the porch just for egg storage, the neighbors can help themselves and leave the money there, but right now it looks like this:

One neighbor has 5 kids, so they'll take some, I think, but we mostly have older/elderly neighbors and they'll use maybe a dozen in a month, sometimes two. And, of course, many of the neighbors have their own chickens out here.

Tomorrow is a baking day, I think.

Thanks for the ideas!

Annie

"--- I do have a dehydrator but have never dehydrated eggs ------"

If you set the dehydrator at very low temperature, you can also hatch the eggs. LOL

dcarch

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/2430729/cookalong-11-eggs

the egg cook along thread

Soufflés (sweet or savory), chocolate mousse (or whatever flavor, but I like chocolate), frittata, macarons, bread pudding (sweet or savory), french toast, gougères (or a sweet choux pastry), meringues ...

o m g, that's a lot of eggs! I wish I could take some. My ideas are the same as above -- egg salads, deviled eggs, omelettes, frittatas, etc., and all the usual egg-heavy recipes for cream puffs, puddings, cakes, etc., and give lots away. Otherwise, I usually cook up extra eggs into omelettes/fritattas, cool, cut into portion sizes, and freeze for a quick microwave breakfast or snack. I know it uses freezer space but at least they store flat and will be ready to go. :)

Wow. I feel egg rich when i have 3 dozen.

My parents love mini egg bites. Maybe the grands and family would like a big bag of them for their freezers. Just a quick heat in the microwave. A perfectly good mini morning protein on a diet without the toast/carb. Or a dozen egg whites with two whole eggs for the muffin tin bites.

The problem, i see, is using them for various 'bakes', then having many more just behind trying to use them up.

I was furious years ago trying to drop off extra produce at the local senior center. Their free meals were/are packages of fruit cups, mostly processed foods. Many of them followed me outside and put the produce in their cars.

NYC has loosened all the drop off food laws. Thankfully. Way too much food waste before. The internet heps. A group will pick-up from bakeries and restaurants all end-of-day extras and deliver to those in need.

Maybe a local school could use some fresh eggs. I'd imagine they have plenty of fridge space to store them until needed.

We have a local ’buy nothing’ facebook group. People there could benefit from your bounty and/or know of others in need.

It is so unfortunate that you are unable to provide them to those people and organizations in need.

Mentioned above, but I found Spanish tortillas are an easy way to use 10 to 12 eggs, freeze well, and don't give everyone "egg overload", especially if there are nontraditional addins like some grated machego.

I see Elery occasionally on FB. Maybe he could search for a local Buy Nothing group.

Send them our way! The bird flu has hit Petaluma, the egg capitol of the world, crazy! They are having to euthanize 100s of thousands of chickens! It's very sad!

I've dehydrated eggs. I pasteurized them in sous vide and dried them at a pretty high temp. They were great...just like what Dr Doom bought for y2K, lol.

The kids just got chickens. I do wish I had a freeze dryer sometimes.

Thanks, everyone!

The homeless shelter says they will take 6 dozen, they have a "communal kitchen" for families to prepare meals so they will put them there but don't want to fill the refrigerator as multiple families use it. The food pantry says since they have no refrigerated storage, only freezers, they would take them but would have to discard any that had not been taken within the 2 hour safety window. My Township has a "over 55" Tuesday afternoon thing, sometimes it's bingo, sometimes it's crafts or puzzles and card games. It's directed at helping the "elderly" socialize. I gave some away there.

Fortunately the B&B will have clients for the weekend, so they'll be over tomorrow to buy eggs!

Amanda tried the "2 ingredient brownies" and she liked them. They were better than most gluten free flour mixtures, I guess. I thought they were dry and cakey. She thought they were better than most gluten free brownies, so I sent them all home with her.

Annie

any local restaraunts that could use them ... great barter stuff.

do you have a freeze dryer?

or break them and freeze them? yeah, i know space. but freeze them individually in ice cube trays, and then storethem in a gallon pickle jar in the freezer after they are flash frozen (oh that's only a dozen dozen)

does your legion or vets groups have breakfasts? we go thru about 3 cases of eggs for our breakfasts

Bragu, here in Michigan no restaurants, school kitchens, motels, any commercial kitchen cannot use the farm eggs, eggs must be inspected and approved by the appropriate "authority". That includes groups that have group breakfasts or anything public like the Eagles or American Legion.

I have some in the freezer, I freeze them in muffin cups, 2 per cup, and use them for baking, it's very convenient when I need them.

I do not have a freeze dryer and don't plan to buy one, they are a bit out of my price range.

Annie

I don’t know why I didn’t think earlier of one of my favourites, spaghetti carbonara! There’s also a delicious variation called Pasta Zozzona, which DH and I think is to die for.

I haven’t made carbonara in ages but I did think of it recently! I use bacon and mushrooms in mine and love it. Never heard of Zozzona….. off to search…

@party_music50

We like this one:

Pasta alla zozzona

Annie, i just watched, last weekend, a mother with ten children, used 6 dozen eggs. 6 DOZEN eggs every Sunday.

(I cook for our families twice a year and plan a month ahead!.)

This mother is a super-mom. Feeding a family of 12. Three teen boys and three under 5. And the others in-between.

Every meal is planned 18 servings. Teens eat more, other much less.

Costco every friday morning. That is her easy day with 4 rotis chickens. Stock and 'Saturday' soup. DH said his mother made Saturday soup using late week leftovers and beans and pasta, chicken and dumplings.

Back to the eggs.

3 dozen eggs layered with a base of boiled then cubed potatoes in a big turkey roaster. Into the oven, prep two packages of frozen spinach in the potato water...mushrooms...drain...one dozen eggs cracked on top...(poke yokes, lol. They do not like runny eggs). Then cheeses...feta, parm, a dozen scrambled eggs...cherry tomatoes. Another layer of a dozen whole eggs and more cheese, chopped breakfast sausage, mozzarella, cubed bread, more cheese, lol.

An egg lasagna! 3 dozen eggs. Crazy.

I call it delicious. Like a Greek omlet. Extras went into flour tortillas for breakfast borittoes.

2 sheet pans of 18 eggs each with ham, eggs and cheese and another with sausage, egg and cheese on wheat toast and english muffins...for the freezer.

Short cuts with frozen shoe string fries and the frozen home fries no issue when needed.

Mondays, overnight oats, tuesdays, ...egg-sausage-cheese-english muffin. Hump day, junk cereal, Thursday ...whole wheat, ham and egg and swiss...yada-yada.

Good grief, i have made a two dozen egg dish similar but only once/twice a year or with weekend house guests.

*My Biscotti recipe uses 7 eggs.....time consuming but biscotti keep very well once made. In my town there is a FB geroup called "county in need" and I'll bet they would go quickly there!!

Good luck!!