The region where I live is a gold mine of summer concerts and plays in the park. Most of them allow you to bring in your own food. For my partner and me, it always ends up being a concert or a play and a picnic in the park.
I never pack a fancy picnic. Usually, it’s dependent upon what I have in the house. One thing I almost always have on hand is eggs, so deviled eggs are a constant at our picnics. Until this past weekend, smooshed deviled eggs were also a constant by the time we got to the concert. They taste just as good smooshed together, but I wanted to find a way to keep them from becoming one large, deviled egg mess.
I even bought a container that was designed specifically for transporting deviled eggs. But the indentations for the eggs weren’t deep enough to keep the eggs from sliding, no matter how flat I attempted to keep the container. So I did some research.
The Best Way to Transport Deviled Eggs
Some of the ideas I found online to keep the eggs from sliding around included using extra filling as a “glue” under the deviled egg. I didn’t see that working for a long haul from the car to the seating area when we’re also carrying fold-up chairs and a folding table. Putting them in mini muffin tins is another solution. I don’t have a mini muffin tin.
Another solution is slicing the hard-boiled eggs in half as they stand up instead of as they lay down. Then you make the deviled eggs as usual and transport them in an egg carton. I might try that some day.
A third method instructed me to make little boats out of aluminum foil, put the deviled eggs in there, and then put them in my deviled egg carrier. That sounded doable but also wasteful (and expensive). That’s when it dawned on me—I could use cupcake liners.
Using Cupcake Liners to Transport Deviled Eggs
I couldn’t wait to try out this new method at our next park outing. I still used my deviled egg carrier to transport the picnic staple, but rather than put the eggs directly into the indentations, I put the eggs in a cupcake liner first. It worked! We arrived at the park with 12 deviled eggs completely intact, and not one had touched any of the others.
Robin Shreeves
It’s certainly not a fancy way to carry deviled eggs. A home magazine won’t be including this trick in a perfect picnic photo spread anytime soon. In fact, it looks a little silly. But we didn’t care. It was just the trick we needed to not look at each other in dismay when we removed the container lid.
I used holiday cupcake liners that have been in my cabinet for a long time, but I’m going to buy some dye-free, all-natural, compostable liners to use for all my future picnic-in-the-park deviled egg needs.
