Cooking corner: Eggs preservation. Old fashioned way. Water glassing. Do not use on store bought eggs in USA.

Eggs come at the farm-homestead uneven, when roosters have spring hens lay and a lot.
I have winter layers, and orloffs start picking up the pace about February and really go in March.
Means more eggs in Spring and way less in late summer-autumn (when they molt) and winter. I have hens lay through the winter, just less, say 2-3 eggs from 10 is my winter normal.

So, where there is more eggs what do we do? Regurgitate for 3 month is possible, also freeze in ice cubes.
Water glassing was used and still used in UK and USA by farm folk.
Now, I do see see videos some times on internet when folk try to water glass store bough bleached eggs in USA and have them go clearly bad in water glass solution or lime solution. Here is where these folk go wrong to begin with: you can not water glass bleached USA store bought eggs. You can water glass _only_ nice clean (from the nest!) farm fresh eggs, unwashed, no cracks, no debris, no mess. For that for example see UK eggs from Waitrose store below. In USA in the store or at farmers market all eggs are refrigerated.
For the homesteader or backyard chicken farmer it means if your hens have a habit of sleeping in the nest and make eggs dirty - use it, refrigerate it or freeze it, do not try to water glass those.
Teach your hens to roost and do not sleep in nests, will take some management and putting those on the  roost so no one sleeps in the nests and the nests are nice and clean and the coop and the run are not muddy and well managed and cleaned up regularly or well managed if you are into deep litter method. Messy chicken feed make messy eggs. Clean nests means clean eggs good for water glassing (or roll-off nests... whatever fits better your system).

Here is water glass video done right

Here is after 8 month

more explanation: one thing that is mentioned no dirty with poop eggs, that does not work, nests have to be nice and clean.

This is Waitrose in UK, eggs are not washed not refrigerated in UK, In USA store bought eggs are already washed and bleached.
UK eggs with close ups

browns

 and blue from legbars

Here is water glassing done wrong below and what does happen.
So do not do that with the store bought eggs in USA. This is where USA prepers go wrong when they watch modern UK videos. Here is a USA based prepper using store bought in USA eggs. They go bad as it is shown in 10 month.

With the store bough eggs here is what is going to happen, one month.

and in 10 month this is what's going to happen, they are all bad.

So, UK eggs in UK, or farm fresh eggs from the USA farmer or your own that are not washed can be water glassed. USA based farmer can not sell you legally unwashed unregistered eggs, that's usda thing and cottage act thing. What you do is ask for unwashed fresh hatching eggs for storage and water glassing. You'll need to get to know your eggs and your farmer in USA and how those eggs were stored, once refrigerated can not be water glassed. Use eggs that were collected warm, those in winter-spring when they were collected, did they get way too cold etc. Summer eggs are your best bet, early supped spring (when there is no snow in May and hard freeze :) which we have).
Or do water glassing with your own eggs from your own hens. And from the farmer... well in USA may as well buy eggs in winter anyways if you do not have your own chickens.
For the folk who prep in USA... I'd say dehydrate or freeze if you get eggs in bulk...
Water glassing in USA is good for the homesteaders that have more eggs in spring-summeer to store for winter.