#black eggs

[digitalfossils]

[merpmonde]

What to do at Ôwakudani

... or what to do on the summit of an active volcano. As inauspicious as that sounds, as long as Mount Hakone's activity can be described as moderate (localised fumaroles and hot springs) and a full-blown eruption doesn't happen, and that hasn't happened in thousands of years, it's possible to settle some permanent attractions. The Ropeway is undoubtedly one of them, and the Geomuseum, housing explanations about the mountain's history and geological peculiarities, was a very pertinent addition 10 years ago.

However, the summit's biggest draw has to be its black eggs. No, black eggs aren't what you get when you raise chickens at the top of an active volcano, but it's what you get when you boil eggs in the natural volcanic spring water on Mount Hakone.

So a few restaurants have popped up in Ôwakudani to serve these curious delicacies. To be clear, it's just the shells that turn black due to the minerals in the hot spring water; they still protect the inside from those minerals, and the egg cooks perfectly normally, and the edible parts are still white and yellow. Apparently, I don't eat hard-boiled eggs.

The eggs are cooked in the steaming plant next to this fumarole further up the hill. It can be visited via a trail through some less stable ground. If I remember correctly, this trail is only open at certain times for a limited number of people at a time. Although it's only 300 metres from the main part of Ôwakudani, half a dozen shelters have been installed in case of emergency (one such concrete structure can be seen behind the steaming plant).

But how do the eggs get up there if the trail isn't always open? With their own lovely little ropeway! White eggs go up, black eggs come down, ready to be served in the restaurants!

[f00t-fic]

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

My eldest wanted to dye some eggs black for Ostara this year and they looked so cool. They’re harder to find and offer a fun contrast. 

Next year we’re gonna have some black and white ones present for ritual to better balance the spectrum and enhance the energy of our spring ritual. 

[elleleh]

@lbwings said: I feel like dropping this here because a 'certain character' might make use of it: recently popular net-news- A BLACK chicken that lays black eggs and meat is black. (This concludes our random might-be-character useful news thought.)

Meet Jet’s kinda-pet chicken, Morticia (He’s an Addam’s family fan and general fan of the occult, dread and spooky), an Ayam Cemani chicken that is all black, produces black eggs, and is hella expensive. He discovered them during his travels through Remnant during his 2-year huntsman period of his life and knew he’d be back to purchase one.

Using the money from his hunting jobs, he bought land in Vacuo and built himself a decent sized cottage for himself, his gardens and any livestock if he so chose to keep some. Then he recalls the Ayam Cemani and purchases one for himself along with some Buff Orpington’s and Sussex’s.

Jet builds a little chicken coup on his secluded and vast property for his small brood of hens so that he has fresh, high quality eggs any day of the week.

He’s thinking of getting a rooster here soon, but until then he loves petting and holding her from time to time.

[hermetictardigrade]

[gloogy]

holy shit

[angelbugpuppy]

one of my new little cayuga girls, sister's, vent prolapsed this morning, and i freaked out and put her in her own pen bc i thought she might've been attacked. i took a shower and went back to check, and it was back in. but i didn't let her out for a couple more hours because i wanted to be sure. let her out, took a nap, and found her EGG when going to the post!

flower's (1 yr pekin) egg for reference!