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Old Fashioned On Purpose

S17: E9: Too Many Eggs and Not Enough Ideas? We’ve Got You Covered

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Education, Farm, Gardening, Leisure, Farming, Chickens, Hobbies, How To, Homestead, Home & Garden, Canning, Cows, Homesteading, Cooking

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I chat with Mimi Smith-Dvorak, author of Too Many Eggs, a cookbook packed with over 800 ways to use eggs. We dive into the history of eggs, the current egg drama, creative ways to use up a surplus (including flavoring them in the shell!), storage tricks, and even some unexpected non-culinary uses. If you’ve ever found yourself with more eggs than you know what to do with, this episode is for you! Podcast Episode Highlights A closer look at Mimi's cookbookFeeding the chi...

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0:00.0

So there is a lot of egg drama on the internet right now.

0:14.4

You've likely seen the reels and videos of people treating eggs like drug deals in parking lots,

0:20.6

which I think are hilarious.

0:22.4

But if you go to the grocery store and buy eggs, you will be shocked.

0:25.1

I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here.

0:27.3

We're all talking about eggs.

0:28.9

They're high-priced, their shortages, there's the bird flu drama.

0:33.4

It's a hot topic of conversation, even among people who've never really thought about eggs before.

0:39.6

And I know that many of you listening might feel slightly, maybe a little smug, a little immune to the drama because we all have chickens and we generally don't have to worry much about egg shortages, especially this time of year rolling into spring.

0:53.2

Sometimes we have the opposite problem.

0:54.9

It's what do we do with all the eggs?

0:57.2

So today, just to celebrate all of the national egg drama, we're going to talk about eggs.

1:02.0

And I have a incredible author who penned a book and knows all about this.

1:07.0

In fact, the title of her book is too many Eggs, which I can't think of a better title.

1:11.5

And she knows her stuff from egg history to egg uses to recipes. We're going to just cover

1:17.3

the whole gamut of egg topics. So Mimi Smith-Divorak, welcome to the show. I am so excited for

1:23.0

this conversation. I think it's going to be a good one. I'm glad to be here and eggs.

1:29.6

Eggs.

1:30.8

What else do we need to say?

1:33.8

You know, I did cook every recipe in the book except for two.

1:37.7

And so when I got done with the book, I'm kind of off eggs.

1:41.6

I would imagine.

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