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Can I add hard boiled eggs to compost?
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prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (
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Sat, Aug 11, 12 at 8:08
| We ruined 3 dozen hard boiled eggs by leaving them on the counter all night and trying to think what to do with them. Can I add them to the compost or is that going to attract creatures? |
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RE: Can I add hard boiled eggs to compost?
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If those eggs were still in the shells leaving them out overnight probably did not harm them, just as leaving uncooked eggs in the shells out of refrigeration does not cause much harm.
However, you can compost them, if that is what you want to do, since they are edible and anything that you could eat can be composted. |
RE: Can I add hard boiled eggs to compost?
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| OK. You know we're going to ask.....why did you hard boil them BEFORE knowing what they were going to used for? Did you not want to use raw eggs in anything? I am simply curious......not the least bit critical. I know you're kicking yourself for leaving them on the counter. Let's see...what would I use three dozen hard boiled eggs for.....? Egg salad, tuna or salmon salad, sliced into a mixed green salad, a bunch of recipes for deviled eggs. Our favorite at the moment includes raw smoked salmon (lox), sprigs of dill, a bit if caviar or capers. |
RE: Can I add hard boiled eggs to compost?
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- Posted by jolj 7b/8a-S.C.,USA (My Page) on
Sat, Aug 11, 12 at 12:15
| Yes & yes, I would mix with grass clippings & bury in the garden til spring. |
RE: Can I add hard boiled eggs to compost?
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- Posted by mytime 3/4 Alaska (My Page) on
Sat, Aug 11, 12 at 12:36
I'm sure Prairiemoon will be back to answer, "OK. You know we're going to ask.....why did you hard boil them BEFORE knowing what they were going to used for?", but let me take a stab...
There was an original use, but after they were accidentally left out, OP is looking for something else to do with them. Insert 'are now' as in "... and ARE NOW trying to think" Although I realize that eggs left out overnight are okay (after all, they were left out all night for our Easter Egg hunts when we were children), I have to admit I wouldn't want to eat them. Lots of things I used to eat as a kid are on my "don't eat" list now...raw cookie dough, mud pies... |
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- Posted by mytime 3/4 Alaska (My Page) on
Sat, Aug 11, 12 at 12:45
| I know there is a scientific reason behind eating some of the things I won't eat, but others, it's just emotional. |
RE: Can I add hard boiled eggs to compost?
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| Sliced egg sandwiches! Lots of mayo, on white bread. I might have to go boil some eggs. |
RE: Can I add hard boiled eggs to compost?
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- Posted by claire z6b Coastal MA (My Page) on
Sat, Aug 11, 12 at 15:10
| I think prairemoon2 knows that the eggs can be composted but she's mostly worried whether the eggs will attract unwanted critters to the compost pile. I'm not sure myself, I live in a rural area and the pile is across the street. Unwanted critters can come and go here and it wouldn't bother me or my neighbors. Claire |
RE: Can I add hard boiled eggs to compost?
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| If unwanted critters are visiting your compost pile then you have built it improperly. In some 40 plus years of making compost the only time I had problems with unwanted critters was early on before I learned how to compost poperly or if someone added something to the compost pile without properly covering that addition. If one were to simply dump those eggs on the compost pile they would attract all kinds of vermin. Common sense says they need to be buried, deep, in the pile, or covered with some compostable material. |
RE: Can I add hard boiled eggs to compost?
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| Animal material is generally not a good idea in a compost pile - it attracts insects and varmints. That being said, if I had a bunch of hard boiled eggs I couldn't eat, I'd break them up and bury them at the bottom of my pile. There's a guy on YouTube who composts horse and cattle carcasses in farm-sized compost piles. Six months later, they're all gone but the hooves and horns. |
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