Recipes for a Rhea egg

[Allanv]

A friend gave me a rhea egg today and I have no idea what to do with the thing.

picture of the egg, well a google one.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.l...

Any ideas?

[Simpo Two]

If an ordinary egg takes 4 minutes to boil there's an interesting exercise to be had in calculating 4/3 pi x r3 etc... well that's the formula for volume of a sphere; they never taught me volume of an egg...

[Allanv]

well as long as the blooding thing does not hatch into a Velociraptor I will be ok, or better off than trying to cook the ruddy thing.

[grumbledoak]

That's basically an omelette, isn't it?

Or, you could go all Keith Floyd, and go cook a Rhea omelette in a field full of them. It was ostriches, in fact, and he couldn't do it. But it was bloody funny.

[calibrax]

Wouldn't risk boiling it, as it's likely to be overcooked on the outside and undercooked on the inside.

I'd make a massive omelette. Although you'll need a big frying pan...

EDIT: just read that it's equivalent to 24 chicken eggs...

Edited by calibrax on Sunday 1st August 20:42

[Matt Black]

calibrax said:

Wouldn't risk boiling it, as it's likely to be overcooked on the outside and undercooked on the inside.

I'd make a massive omelette. Although you'll need a big frying pan...

Use a Wok

[Allanv]

Omelette it is then.

Thank you.

But are you sure it wont hatch before the night is over? Do i feed it after midnight?

[Allanv]

calibrax said:

Wouldn't risk boiling it, as it's likely to be overcooked on the outside and undercooked on the inside.

I'd make a massive omelette. Although you'll need a big frying pan...

EDIT: just read that it's equivalent to 24 chicken eggs...

Edited by calibrax on Sunday 1st August 20:40

24 chix eggs jesus feck me.

[calibrax]

Allanv said:

But are you sure it wont hatch before the night is over?

If it hatches, then make sure you have plenty of Paxo, as you can do a roast instead of an omelette

[Boshly]

Can't be many people who have actually eaten one, but I have. My friends family owned Birdworld and the freshly laid egg was cracked so could not be incubated. We fried it in a big pan.

Oh, and if you want to know it was disgusting!!! Tasted very very strongly of egg (surprisingly enough) and quite gamey. Most went in the bin.

[Simpo Two]

Boshly said:

My friends family owned Birdworld and the freshly laid egg was cracked so could not be incubated. We fried it in a big pan.

Fertilised? Yech.

[Wadeski]

Simpo Two said:

Boshly said:

My friends family owned Birdworld and the freshly laid egg was cracked so could not be incubated. We fried it in a big pan.

Fertilised? Yech.

most likely.

why not make pasta? make a big pile of 00 flour, then crack the dinosaur egg into the middle, knead and roll out.

then you can freeze the leftover fresh pasta.