To soft boil a hen’s egg for breakfast would take four minutes. An ostrich’s egg, the biggest bird’s egg of all, would take at least 40 minutes to boil.
It takes about 90 minutes or 1 ½ hour to hard boil an ostrich egg. All you gotta do is to boil water in a big saucepan. Once the water starts boiling add ostrich egg in it and let it boil for 90 minutes. After 90 minutes you will get your hands on a nutritious and gigantic hard-boiled egg that is more rubbery as compared to the hen’s egg.
Ostrich egg is highly nutritious and is a rich source of vitamin A, vitamin E, zinc, manganese, and selenium. Moreover, an ostrich egg weighs around three pounds and is six inches in diameter.
Ostriches lay their eggs in communal nests that hold as many as 60 at a time. Male and female ostrich both have the duty of incubation.
From the Safari Ostrich Farm, Oudtshoorn, South Africa, we learn that “An ostrich egg contains approximately 2,000 calories, 47 percent protein, and 45 percent fat.”
They are 15 cm long which means approximately 5.9 inches long, 13 cm wide which means approximately 5.1 inches wide, and weighs around 1.4 kilograms approximately which means 3.1 lb, which is 20 times more than the weight of a chicken’s egg, and simply 1% to 4% the size of the female.
To break the shell there will be no cracking it on the lip of a pan; you are going to need a chisel and hammer.
Thus, if you eat an ostrich egg you will be eating a whopping 2000 calories and that is not what a person can consume in one sitting. Thus, the ostrich egg is really energy and calories dense.
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