Ostrich Egg...

I was with hubby at carrefour today and I still have that the feeling of amazement looking at the ostrich egg, it's big and shiny, I, actually, seen the egg long back but I havnt got the chance to take a picture of it,  the funny thing is that, while my hubby is busy taking a picture of me holding the egg,

there were two arab couple who also get the interest to look at the egg and imitate my pose for  snap, they been asking us so many question about the egg (of course, we cant answer them since, we never tried to cook one before...)  but  we all end up laughing and getting our imagination wandered on how to cook and what sort of dishes can be made out of the big egg!!

Ostrich egg is available at the avenues mall, carrefour egg section price: KD 2/-

here's few fact about the ostrich egg:

An ostrich egg, at 3.3 pounds is the largest single cell that exists today on our planet. It's also the largest egg, and it looks about the size of a medium cantaloupe.
 

You could put 4700 bee hummingbird eggs inside one ostrich egg. The bee hummingbird egg is the size of a small pea and weighs .02 ounces.

 

Carving an ostrich egg is difficult and wears out the drills rapidly. An ostrich egg shell has to be tough enough for a 300 pound bird to sit on it.

 

I've seen pictures of an adult in South Africa standing on an unhatched egg.

The ostrich hen will typically lay 10 eggs, but some productive hens will lay more.

 

The hens will often lay their eggs in the same nest as other hens, with the result that you can find as many as 50 eggs in single a nest.

 

Ostriches are native to South Africa, but you can find them everywhere from Texas to Beijing. Farmers grow them for their hides, feathers, meat, eggs, and other byproducts. They're the world's largest living bird