Oil And Food Coloring Marbled Eggs

Here s a fun easter egg technique you can do with the kiddos this year marbled and speckled eggs.

Oil and food coloring marbled eggs. While the dyed eggs dry prepare the oil mixture that will give your eggs a marbled look. You will first want to dye the hard boiled eggs a solid lighter color. Next rinse and let dry. Mix 1 4 cup boiling water 1 teaspoon vinegar 1 8 teaspoon oil and 4 to 8 drops food color in shallow bowl.

Repeat if second color is desired. Then place one egg in the dye and leave submerged until it turns the desired shade. With an egg blower pierce the top and bottom of each egg puncturing the yolk and then carefully expel the contents. I first made marbled easter eggs this way about 30 years ago.

Because oil and water don t mix the olive oil will float on the surface. Pour the solution along the inside of the glass until a quarter of the egg is submerged and allow it to sit for 5 minutes. Add one tablespoon of vegetable oil and use a spoon to gently mix. But it turns out that you can create beautiful marbled eggs using just plain old liquid food coloring and a bit of vegetable oil.

The process is really easy. You just dip your eggs in food colouring and water to dye them and then dip them again in an oil and coloured water solution to marble them. Oil marbled eggs turn to your pantry to create these. Your good old food coloring from the grocery is an acid base dye and the vinegar traditionally used to dye eggs helps the food coloring to bond to the eggshell.

In a new bowl mix approximately 20 drops of food coloring with one cup of warm water. In a small mixing bowl combine three cups of warm water two tablespoons of vinegar and a few drops of food coloring. The simple science of oil and vinegar dyed eggs. Hard boiled eggs or blow them out food coloring.

I ve seen some gorgeous marbled easter eggs that use nail polish these are my favorite but nail polish marbling can be very messy and isn t food safe. First up marbled easter eggs using food coloring. Note that we started with rice shake eggs to get the speckled look. The science behind these colorful marbled oil and vinegar eggs is in the dyeing process.

Since the oil mixture adds a second color to the dyed egg it will need to be quite a bit more saturated. Make easter egg dye with food coloring by adding 1 teaspoon white vinegar and 40 drops food coloring to 1 2 cup boiling water. Make sure to agitate mixture with fork or small whisk so oil droplets are small. All you need are eggs olive oil vinegar and food colouring.

To each mug add 1 teaspoon white vinegar 1 tablespoon olive oil and at least 20 drops of food coloring.