Make a gorgeous Dragon's Egg

Step 2 Blow the egg

Now it's time to put your lips where for along while the sun did not shine (in the chicken world that is) and blow. The trick is to blow hard (depending on the size of the hole) while holding the egg gently, this can be tricky. It might also help to poke a cocktail stick into the egg first and wiggle it about a bit so as to break the yolk sack, because that is one tough thing to blow out of a small hole.

The whole blowing part is a good job to get the kids to do (a bit of at least), anything from about 8 -9 years old or onwards should be fine.

Collect the white and yolk in a suitable bowl or jug, and save for later conversion into scramble or an omelet (probably best if you do this the same day and once you have blown all over the egg yolk and white, I'm not sure how long it will keep). Also (not to be gross, but) all that blow / spittle that you might have got into the mix as a byproduct of all that blowing, might preclude the serving of said scramble to guests outside the immediate family!

Once all the egg white and yolk is (rather cathartically) evacuated, run the egg under the cold tap to clean out the inside as much as possible. If you can, it might be worth filling your mouth with water and blowing that through the egg. You don't want it getting smelly. I have to say that I have never had an egg prepared like this go bad.

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It goes easier if you take a long pin and wiggle it in the egg to break the yoke or if you have steady hands a drill bit or dremle with a pin type tool works even better to make the blowing easier, in addition it prevents the yoke from making the pressure build and cracking the egg.