How to color eggs for Easter natural and artificial dyes
Educational Program Food / / December 19, 2019
How to paint the eggs in onion skins
Onion peel - a simple, cheap, and most importantly, a natural remedy for coloring Easter eggs.
With it can receive Krashenki from light brown to rich chocolate color. Hue depends on the number and varieties of onion skin. So, red onion husks gives a violet tinge.
The onion skins stain well even eggs with brown shell.
What you'll need
- Onion peel. At least a dozen eggs - a tightly packed half-liter pot. The more, the more saturated the color will be.
- Water.
- 1 tablespoon of salt.
- Paper towels.
- Gauze and a little vegetable oil.
How to paint eggs
Remove the eggs from the refrigerator and wash thoroughly. They should be at room temperature, so give them a little stand.
At this time, pour into a saucepan onion peel. Better to take a small bowl and dye batches of eggs, onion to a saturated solution. Pour boiling water over the husk. The water should completely cover the eggs.
Place over high heat and boil for 40 minutes. It is also possible first to fill the shells with cold water and leave for a couple of hours, and then boil for 10-20 minutes.
When will warm the eggs gently place them in a pot along with the salt. Salt is added to the egg during cooking and painting are not cracked.
Sometimes pre-filtered solution. Ostensibly in order to avoid divorce. In fact, the presence or absence of peel in a saucepan on are not affected.
Boil eggs in onion skins for 10-20 minutes. The longer, the more saturated the color will be. Some housewives Bates fire and leave the eggs in the solution for an hour or more. It is believed that during the long cooking easter eggs are stored for longer and taste are obtained as a red-hot.
Painted eggs lay on a paper towel, and when cool, rub each gauze soaked in vegetable oil. This will give Krashenki shine.
What other options are there
When painting onion peel eggs can be made even more elegant. To get the strips, wrap the egg white thread or rubber band. If you moisten the eggs in water, roll in rice and wrap tightly with gauze or polyamide get speck. Also, as a stencil can take a sprig of parsley and dill, lace, patch.
It can be made of marble eggs With onion peel. Due to such a method for staining shell appears curlicue with different shades of brown.
Before you send the eggs in a pan with a salt solution, they need to roll in onion skins and wrap with gauze or polyamide.
Husk is sometimes mixed with finely chopped paper to get the white blotches on the shell. Also in the staining solution can be added Zelenka to get emerald specks.
How to dye eggs with natural dyes other
Furthermore onion skin, possible to use other natural dyes. Better to paint them white eggs.
What you'll need
- Turmeric, Cranberry, hibiscus, beetroot, spinach or red cabbage. Below is shown what colors can be achieved using these products.
- Water.
- 1 tablespoon vinegar 9%.
- Gauze and a little vegetable oil.
How to paint eggs
Grind foods, fill them with water and boil about 10-15 minutes. Broth can strain or leave as is. In the latter case, the eggs are obtained divorces. Add the broth of vinegar.
Put boiled eggs and leave for a few minutes or until cool liquid. How long will infuse the eggs, the richer the color will turn out. You can even get them in the refrigerator overnight.
To colored eggs glistened, you can wipe them with a gauze moistened with vegetable oil.
In this video Layfhaker showed how to paint eggs using turmeric, cranberry and hibiscus tea.
Beets give the eggs a pink hue, spinach - green and red cabbage - blue. By the way, even the two colors can be obtained from red cabbage. If you do not add vinegar to it, the eggs will turn purple and crimson.
How to paint eggs shops soluble dyes
On the eve of Easter, the shops are full of kits for coloring eggs. With their help it is better to paint eggs with white shell.
What you'll need
- Food colorings. They are available as tablets or powders of basic colors: red, yellow, green, blue.
- Water.
- 1 tablespoon vinegar 9%.
How to paint eggs
Included with the dye goes detailed instructions for use. As a rule, it is necessary to dissolve the dye in 200-250 ml of hot water and add vinegar.
The resulting solution was successively immerse hard-boiled eggs for 5-7 minutes. This should be done immediately after cooking, as food coloring dye hot eggs.
Shift the colored eggs on stand. If they just put down on paper, the shell may be left bruises.
The stand can be made of sponges for washing dishes and safety pins or Styrofoam and matches.
What other options are there
Using food coloring can be done not only plain but colorful and Krashenki.
To make the iridescent coloring, eggs need to lower alternately into solutions of different colors or stain them through a napkin. Here are detailed instructions.
By varying the solution concentration or the time of dyeing, effect can be obtained Ombre. This is when the same color goes into more and more light tone.
These are the eggs are obtained, if to put them in with colored rice package.
Multicolored patterns easy to make eggs stick on the tape at the time of staining.
You can make "space" eggs, drawing stars toothbrush.
How to paint eggs shops pearl pigments
In addition to the soluble, very popular vtirki artificial colorants, pearlescent.
What you'll need
- White paper or paper towels.
- Medical gloves.
- Nacreous pigments.
How to paint eggs
Cover the table with paper or paper towels. In order not to dirty your hands, wear gloves. Going from color to color, gloves should be washed, and it is better - to change the new.
Boil hard boiled eggs and let them cool down a bit so that you can hold in their hands. Sprinkle each egg on a few drops of dye and carefully spread it over the entire surface. Put on a rack and allow to dry for 1-2 minutes.
procedure can be repeated if desired: the color will be more complete. With the same aim the eggs are sometimes pre-dyed soluble dye.
How to paint the eggs with a cloth
Simply stunning and unique pattern will, if translated into eggs pictures with natural silk fabrics.
What you'll need
- Bright, natural silk fabric.
- Scissors and a ruler.
- Rubber band or string.
- White fabric.
- Water.
- 3 tablespoons vinegar.
How to paint eggs
Cut the fabric to shreds with sides about 18 cm, put raw eggs on the front side of the fabric and tie tightly. Then tie the eggs plain white cloth.
Place the eggs in a pot of cold water. It should fully cover them. Add the vinegar and cook for 15 minutes after boiling. Remove the eggs cool completely and remove them from the fabric.
How to decorate eggs iron-on transfers
With the help of iron-on transfers can be decorated as a colored and non-colored hard-boiled eggs.
What you'll need
- Scissors.
- Iron-on transfers.
- A spoon.
- Water.
How to decorate eggs
Cut labels and pick up their egg size. It is important. After all, if the sticker is too large, it will stick tightly to the shell, and it will be ugly ridge top or bottom.
Wearing the label carefully on the spoon dip the egg in boiling water for a few seconds. The label quickly girth egg.
How else to decorate Easter eggs
Painted eggs can be further decorate. For example, it is possible to create a pattern using the decorative paper tape.
More Krashenki can wrap tape for nail design. It is sold in beauty shops, on AliExpress.
Always looks original decoupage Easter. To make it to or not colored boiled egg, you need the top layer of tissue divided into small pieces and pasted them shell with a brush dipped in egg white.
And finally, a few simple ideas for decorating Easter eggs. For their implementation you will need supporting materials: satin ribbon, glue, paint, felt, confetti and so on.
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