After reading Andy's love for pickled eggs, I decided I wanted to try them. Not knowing what I was doing, I tried this:

I bought a gallon of good dill pickles. We ate all the pickles and saved the jar and liquid. We added boiled eggs with the shells removed, sliced onions, and sliced beets. Put the lid back on and stuck it in the back of the refrigerator.

It's been about a month, so it was time for a test taste. I pulled out an egg today, never having eaten a pickled egg before. The first bite was good, but after adding salt and pepper, it was great. I liked it a lot. But I decided more time would make them better. So back in the jar they went, I'll visit them next month. I also decided that some hot peppers would make them even better, so peppers were added.

All in all this approach is simple, easy, and works. Since I like all things pickled (peppers, okra, etc.) I thought I'd like pickled eggs. I was right, those bad boys are good. Looking forward to next month.

Tuck

Tuck, Don't wait that long they will go bad!

Will they really go bad? I had thought they would last a very long time in the pickle juice and in thr refrigerator. Whoa! Talk to me please. Tuck

My stomach typically does not acknowledge rancid food, but boiling the brine & blanching the garlic/onions will add longevity, and the hot liquid will jumpo start the pickling (physics- fluid moves from hot to cold).

I'd still say you should eat them before next month.

Althooooouuuuuuugh:

There are bars in the Midwest that have had jars of pickled eggs sitting on the counter for a VERY long time.

Also -

Since I love a dish my wife makes an calls Cucumber Salad (cucumbers and onions in vinegar with sugar), I am thinking about adding cucumbers to the jar too.

I went ahead and ate three more eggs (ok, I'm weak). They are very good with salt & pepper. What surprised me was that the onions were fantastic, crunchy and tasty. I'm going to add much more onions with the cucumbers.

That's what I thought. I've know some places keep a big jar of pickled eggs on the counter for months.

Those pickles have preservatives added.

vinegar is a remarkable preservative.

YES....the onions are delicious!

I typically toss a beet slice and an onion on top of the egg, salt it and shove the whole assembly in my pie-hole.

They start out bad and get better with time.

They get slimey

Hey JC,

I've been soliciting 1000 year old rotten duck eggs in buckets of dirt...........you think I'm gonna worry about a little slime?

LOL

salt is the main preservative in pickles, and when you re-use the pickle juice from a jar, you should add a few tbsp of salt and dissolve it as the pickles that were in there absorbed a lot of it.

just my 2 cents

Andy, If those eggs hatch how old are those Ducks? Imu Adu Modu.