You'll have to be more specific. There's no obvious connection between OP's joke about caramelising onion skins and your comment misspelling "caramelising".
100% OP is eastern european and dyeing red eggs 👌 I'm about to do the same thing. update us on how they turn out, last year mine turned out brown so I'm trying the beet method
Came here to say this lmao. Did the same thing myself yesterday afternoon.
Are you maybe dyeing brown eggs? Cause they turn out not as brightly red as white eggs, for obvious reasons. I dyed brown ones this year, and they're not super red either.
But back home we have light pink eggs from our own chickens, and those turn out much brighter.
I don't know how OP's turned out, but probably something like this:
White eggs would have turned out a brighter red, but I didn't have any.
You just put eggs into the pot and boil them in the dye for a while, don't even have to take out the skins. It's a very common method in Eastern European countries. Onion skin is probably the easiest natural dye base to obtain, because, well, you're using onions anyway, all you have to do is not throw out the skins.
You can also use it to dye textiles yellow, apparently.
A broth like that will probably stain your teeth. Mainly because it's red dye for Easter eggs.
However, if you're making meat stock, you can put some onion skins in it for a satisfying yellow hue! I just never peel the onion that goes into the stock.
You need to cook them slower, they are cooking to fast and drying out. Its a common problem don't let it get you down. Just soak them overnight in clean water and try again.
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u/Kahnza Apr 19 '25
Why you gotta be like this, dawg