Crystal Lake
Whole Eggs

Whole Eggs

Egg Yolk

Egg Yolk

Egg Whites

Egg Whites

Hard Cooked Eggs

Hard-Cooked Eggs

Pre-cooked Eggs

Pre-Cooked Eggs

Egg Blends

Egg Mixes & Blends

Ready-to-use eggs. No Mess.

Crystal Lake produces top-quality egg products for the food service and food manufacturing industries. We provide frozen, liquid and hard-cooked eggs, as well as offering dried products and specialty pre-cooked items. Our product line includes whole eggs, egg whites, egg yolks, egg mixes and blends, as well as hard-cooked and pre-cooked eggs. All of this comes ready to use with no mess.

Pre-Cooked Eggs

Pre-Cooked Eggs

Crystal Lake pre-cooked eggs are made from USDA-inspected pasteurized eggs, fully cooked and made into patties, omelettes, or scrambled eggs that are individually quick-frozen. These are packaged in a variety of sizes by count or by pound and are ready to heat and serve. Great for industrial catering, institutional feedings, or as quick service “on-the-go” sandwich, our pre-cooked eggs are as convenient as they are tasty.

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Whole Eggs

Whole Eggs

Crystal Lake produces whole eggs that come in liquid, frozen, or dried, plain or pH-adjusted, in 5 lb. cartons up to 48,000 lb. tankers. These are ready-to-use eggs with no mess from broken shells or waste from unusable eggs. They require less storage space than a comparable amount of shell eggs, and can be used in all dishes calling for whole eggs, such as sweet pastries and omelettes.

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Egg Whites

Egg Whites

Crystal Lake liquid, frozen, or dried egg whites come plain or with whipping aid, in 2 lb. cartons up to 48,000 lb. tankers. They are ready-to-use eggs with no mess from broken shells or waste from unusable eggs. They require less storage space than a comparable quantity of shell eggs, and can be used in all dishes calling for egg whites, such as meatballs and meringue.

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Egg Mixes & Blends

Egg Mixes & Blends

Crystal Lake provides high quality egg mixes and blends in refrigerated or frozen liquid, any blend with added egg and non-egg ingredients, and in 2 lb. cartons up to 48,000 lb. tankers. With all, these are ready-to-use eggs with no mess of breaking eggs or waste of unusable eggs. They require less storage space than a comparable amount of shell eggs and are pre-blended with ingredients and homogenized to make products such as scrambled egg mix with milk and fortified egg.

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Hard-Cooked Eggs

Hard-Cooked Eggs

Crystal Lake hard-cooked eggs are clean, graded shell eggs that come fully cooked and peeled, packaged in either pails with brine solution or in a modified atmosphere pack, and are sold by the count or by the pound for foodservice and food manufacturers. Eliminate the hassle of peeling and concern with the dark ring around the yolk from overcooking. They are ready to eat with no further preparation. Great in diced form for salad bars, these can also be included in traditional egg salad or simply sliced for Cobb salads.

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Egg Yolk

Egg Yolk

Crystal Lake provides egg yolks in liquid, frozen, or dried, plain or with salt/sugar added forms, and are available in 1 lb. cartons up to 48,000 lb. tankers. These are ready-to-use eggs with no mess from broken shells or waste from unusable eggs. They require less storage space than a comparable quantity of shell eggs, and can be used in all recipes calling for egg yolk, such as those for custard and noodles.

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Learn About Our Company

Since 1968, Crystal Lake has been serving the food service and food manufacturing industries with the highest-quality egg products. We focus our unwavering attention on the best care for hens, on being responsible stewards of the land, and by always providing superior standards for product quality and food safety.

Food Safety

We have continuous oversight by our resident USDA/FSIS inspector. Meticulous testing of all egg products and processing equipment takes place in our own lab, with select tests validated by a third party prior to your product shipment.

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Environment

Crystal Lake operates a state-of-the-art waste water lagoon system. A three-stage filtering system featuring a man-made wet land, provides pristine water for local farm ground irrigation saving on natural water usage.

Animal Husbandry

Eggs

We believe a healthy, well cared for flock is of utmost importance in selecting the best eggs for our product preparation. The majority of the eggs processed are from United Egg Producer Certified flocks and used in the products by customer request.

Health & Nutrition

What’s in an Egg?

For only 70 calories each, eggs are rich in nutrients. They contain, in varying amounts, almost every essential vitamin and mineral needed by humans as well as several other beneficial food components. Egg protein is the standard by which other protein sources are measured. A large egg contains over six grams of protein. A large egg has 4.5 grams of fat, only 7% of the daily value. Only one-third (1.5) grams is saturated fat and 2 grams are mono-unsaturated fat.

The American Heart Association has amended its guidelines on eggs! There is “no longer a specific recommendation on the number of egg yolks a person may consume in a week.”

Want to learn more about eggs and nutrition? The Egg Nutrition Center monitors scientific research regarding eggs and offers a wide variety of information.

Egg Yolks

Go to www.eggnutritioncenter.org/

Egg Nutritional Facts

Certifications

All Crystal Lake products are processed and pasteurized under continuous supervision of USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service, and produced under a routine quality inspection in accordance with good manufacturing practices.

  • SQF Level 3 (safe quality food)

  • C-TPAT (customs – trade partnership against terrorism)

  • AMS security (agricultural marketing service)

  • Kosher Kosher Certified products are available by request

In addition to several private customer obtained audits.

Food Service
Recipe Ideas

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Recipes for food service applications are provided by the American Egg Board at the “Click Here” link above. This helpful site offers everything from sandwiches to entrees to salads and sides to school recipes. Crystal Lake is a proud member of the American Egg Board, and is glad to make this available to our customers.

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Employee News

College Gift Program

For any employee with Crystal Lake who has been employed at least 5 years with a dependent child wishing to take some form of post high school training or college, we have $500 per school year to help with your expenses!  Inquire with Mindy or Mary for details.

Group Medical Insurance

OPEN ENROLLMENT will be taking place the month of December to take effect January 1st.  Anyone eligible can drop or take coverage at this time.

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Evening Sanitation Crew

Overall cleaning of all processing areas at the end of every production day Monday through Friday, occasionally Saturday. Normally completed using water hose and some brushes as permitted on equipment. It requires each person to self-inspect to assure all egg material is removed from equipment surfaces. Other areas are cleaned or cleared of trash to keep the plant suitable for food processing operations.

General Processing

This would includes the "egg breaking" production as well as the hard-cooking area. In the "egg breaking" area people are needed to transfer stacks of plastic flats from cooler skids onto the beginning of the conveyor that takes eggs to first be washed. Once cleaned, inspectors will watch for any eggs with dirt still adhered to the shells or any leaking eggs to be removed. After the eggs are broken, another set of inspectors are watching for any unacceptable eggs. Another area of production is the Mixer. This person will follow specific instructions for each different product blend to add ingredients such as dried milk, sugar, salt and others to create our different egg products. After these steps and pasteurizing, product will then transfer through stainless steel piping to different packaging lines for cartons, bags, totes, pails and tanker trailers. In the Crystal Lake Hard-Cooked area, someone is responsible for loading eggs from skids of paper flats to the machine conveyor. The process then steam cooks the eggs and automatically peels the eggs where the next person inspects the eggs for anything less than perfectly peeled eggs. The eggs then go through a citric bath to help preserve freshness and are then packaged in pails where lids need attached or counted into bags, sealed and boxes.

Cooler/Freezer Dock

People in this area handled cases or pails of product that are placed into a blast freezer for quick, solid freezing. Once frozen cases are restacked for shipping pallets. Other products stay in the cooler stage (not frozen) before being pulled for order fulfillment. People in this area will be trained to use a riding forklift to transfer skids of product between freezers, cooler areas, pallet wrapping and truck loading.

Pasteurizer Operator

Quality Assurance Lab

Coordinates and directs quality control procedures and policies to assure production standards are maintained and product integrity is preserved. Anyone working in the lab is trained and monitored by the QA Lab manager. The lab is responsible for start-up testing of equipment for cleanliness, product sampling for testing as well as performance and taste evaluation.

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Company Philosophy

We work closely with our customers to meet their individual needs by providing flexible blends and packaging. Our commitment to consistent quality is reflected in the superior standards we have set for product excellence and food safety. Since 1968, this focus has been the cornerstone of our food business.

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