Dining on an emu egg

[ppfuf]

At the Mountain View farmer's market on Sunday, my favorite steak vendor had a box of emu eggs. With a little encouragement from my practically perfect apprentice, I bought one. The shells are very pretty.

Tonight, practically perfect apprentice drilled holes both ends and blew it out. Our egg had 21 ounces (2.5 cups) of meat in it. Too much for my souffle pan, so we made an enormous quiche for dinner. It was good, but not noticeably different from chicken eggs. I'm hoping someone will want the shell for an art project, it would make a really cool salt cellar.
 

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[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

As soon as I saw the first picture, I thought how fun it would be to make an art project of it.
Is it the blue color originally, or were those dyed?

Did you open it on one end to conserve the shell? How thick is it?

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

It's pretty thick (*way* thicker than my fingernails, for example), I'll try to measure it this evening. The pictures do show the variety of natual emu eggs, Mine looks like this one, http://foodrepublik.com/emu-egg-quiche/.
Gormflaith drilled holes in both ends, but they are fairly small holes, I think she used a 1/4 inch drill bit.

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

Gee, if there's no one else ahead of me, I'd really love to try my hand at it. It looks like a person could do something like cameo etching with one of them.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I'll need to check with Gormflaith, but I'm pretty sure it can be yours. Will you be at March Crown or Mists Coronet?

If I had time in the project que...

[gormflaith.livejournal.com]

I might want it, but I don't and if the time frees up, I know where to get another one ;-)
Besides, I'm thinking this would be better suited to a steampunk project rather than a medieval one.
One end has a smaller hole than the other one, and it's really reqularly oval rather than chicken egg shaped, so cut long ways it could easily make two salt cellars of enormous size or cut in half the other way a pair of matched goblets of reasonable size, holding a little over a cup of liquid each.

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd manage to go to March crown. It's in Woodland, right? Not such an awful drive for me as some others.

It seems like a really interesting project to try. I've thought about hunting down an ostrich egg before, but this emu egg has more possibilities because of the lovely natural color, don't you think?