In some places, people make colorful painted eggs called "Easter eggs" and hide them in the yard for the children to find! With the motto of "easy, petit-price, and cute," we took on the challenge using goods from Celia, which is by far the most fashionable of the many 100-yen stores in Japan!
Celebrate Easter with Easter Eggs
Easy, petit, and cute" Easter egg making
The best eggs to use for Easter eggs are hard-boiled. Draw pictures on the eggs to make them into Easter eggs. The eggs are usually dyed with food coloring and decorated with beads, but to achieve one of the themes of this project, "petit-price," I drew pictures on the eggs with crayons I bought at Celia.
Let's make a hard-boiled egg with "Egg Timer"!
To make hard-boiled eggs, prepare raw eggs and "Egg Timer". The "Egg Timer" is an item that you put in the pot when you boil an egg, and it tells you how well the egg is boiled by changing the color of the egg.
Egg Timer" shows yolk firmness at a glance
The "Egg Timer" is an egg-sized yellow ball with a picture of a chick on it. The color of the ball gradually turns white from the outside according to the boiling condition of the egg: "half-cooked," "half-ripe," or "hard-boiled. If you have this, you should be able to make the perfect hard-boiled eggs for Easter eggs...for sure!
Almost the same size as a medium-sized egg
To use the "Egg Timer," all you have to do is put it in a pot and boil the eggs with it. The color of the "Egg Timer" will change according to the boiling time, so keep staring at it until the desired degree of boiling is reached.
Do not measure time, but start on high heat as appropriate.
When the color of the "Egg Timer" turns white, it is a sign that the hard-boiled egg is ready.
The entire "Egg Timer" is now white.
Cut the egg in half and check the degree of boiling...it was a great success! The yolk is well cooked and hard-boiled. The center of the yolk was a little moist, so you may want to boil the egg a little longer after the "Egg Timer" turns white to be sure.
Hard-boiled egg made with "Egg Timer
Draw a picture on the egg and make it into an Easter egg!
Make Easter eggs with the hard-boiled eggs. The items prepared this time are crayons, a wooden box, paper packing, and artificial flower decorations. All items are from Celia.
Making Easter eggs with items from Celia
Draw illustrations on the eggs with crayons. If you want to eat the Easter eggs that you have finished decorating or using for the egg hunt, we recommend using edible crayons.
Since the color of egg color is difficult to develop, use high writing pressure.
The finished Easter eggs are decorated in a wooden box lined with paper packing and placed with artificial flowers. This completes the process!
Mushy "paper packing" is spread over the wooden box,
Place artificial flower decorations and Easter eggs on top, and you are done!
■Boiling eggs separately with "Egg Tim er"
I was able to successfully boil a hard-boiled egg for an Easter egg with "Egg Timer. But it could have been a coincidence. If you boil an egg for a long time, it will naturally become hard-boiled. Then, what about "half-cooked" or "half-boiled" eggs, for which the timing is more limited? We tried to verify if it is possible to accurately separate them!
◆To make a half-boiled egg perfect for tamago-kake gohan
To make a half-boiled egg with the "Egg Timer," boil an egg until the chick's periphery turns white.
The "half-life" is when the chick's circumference turns white.
When I broke the boiled egg into rice, I found that the white of the egg was soft and the yolk was thick and perfectly half-boiled. It is difficult to adjust the boiling time for half-boiled eggs, but it turns out that it can be made quite accurately!
Rice with half-eaten egg and tamago
◆Smaller noodles are perfect for ramen, try boiling a half-boiled egg
For a half-boiled egg, boil it until the chick on the "Egg Timer" turns white.
Chicks are "half-ripe" when they turn white.
Half-boiled egg is also a great success. It is the perfect half-boiled condition for ramen.
Speaking of half-boiled eggs, ramen noodles
◆Can "Egg Timer" be used?
In this experiment, both half-boiled, half-cooked and hard-boiled eggs turned out exactly as the "Egg Timer" announced. The "Egg Timer" is an ideal item for boiling eggs, as it tells you the exact boiling condition without having to measure the time! The downside is that you have to keep an eye on the chickens to see if they change, and it is difficult to tell the color of the chickens in a boiling pot, so you have to turn off the heat once the pot is boiling. It would be perfect if it could notify you with an audible sound.
Piyo...
Easter eggs can be easily made with 100-yen items, including the "Egg Timer. The "easy, petit-price, and cute" concept has been successfully achieved. The process of making them is also fun, so you may want to get together with friends and make them in a lively atmosphere. Make Easter eggs and eat rice with egg or ramen noodles with half-boiled egg. Why not celebrate spring with such an Easter party?
