Eggs

[Sister Sledge]

So I bought half a dozen eggs from Asda the other day and looked at the packaging: Refrigerate after purchase.
Asda keeps eggs in a warm non-cooled section until their sell by date so why does the purchaser need to keep them cool?
Anyone?
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[Triton Thrasher]

They’ll keep longer past the date if you chill them.

They don’t refrigerate them in the shop because some customers don’t believe in refrigerating eggs.

I made some of that up.
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[hedgehugger]

Maybe it's because Asda keep them at an ambient temperature in a shop they know isn't t going to go above X temperature?
Once you get the eggs home, they can't guarantee your kitchen isn't a furnace. It doesn't harm the eggs being cooled. Getting too hot on the other hand isn't great.
I usually don't refrigerate eggs these days, but have in the past.

A simple way to see if the egg is ok is to sink or float it. Fill a jug, bowl, whatever with cold water, plop the egg in. If it floats, bin it, if it sinks it's fine. Only do this to eggs you want to use at the time, egg shells are porous.

[doggone]

About July a neighbour supplied a dozen eggs she had found from her semi-wild bantams.
I tried one and it was OK-ish, the second one was definitely past it's best but the dog ate it.
The rest are still there.

What to do with them?
I'm sure this is the best place to ask.

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[hedgehugger]

[Freddyfruitba...]

I read somewhere that eggs will keep for months providing you occasionally invert them, which prevents the membranes inside the shell from drying out
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

The Septics refrigerate their eggs because they wash the bloom off. If you want eggs to last, coat them in vaseline. Or bury them in salt.
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[Polarbear]

[stinkwheel]

Get an egg roller. Keeps them moving and means you are always using the least fresh one first (fill at the top, empty at the bottom).

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[ThunderGuts]

I like the egg roller.

We keep ours in the 'fridge, but for no particular reason. I have to re-calibrate my runny-yolk timing if using non-refrigerated eggs, or else my breakfast is ruined.
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[hedgehugger]

I have something called a Skelter, same concept. Very useful if you have laying chickens. New eggs at the back, oldest at the front.

[Ste]

[pepperami]

Don’t store them, just fecking eat them !

Sage advice from Dr Pepperami again
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[Howling Terror]

Egg ok checker; Take 1 egg and drop it into a glass of water.

Don't eat the floaters.
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[Sister Sledge]

Ketchup goes on chips..
Nah goes in the fridge but only because I like the sensation/taste/whatever of red hot home made chips dipped into cold ketchup.

Still baffled about fridges and eggs but as folk say I'll eat them - they'll be gone before Wednesday.
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[Howling Terror]

Tell the toddlers it's lemon flavoured.
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[yen_powell]

[MCN]

Eggs are the unborn fetuses of birds.
How thoughtless and cruel.

Anyway... Eggs are porous and 'sweat' moisture from within.

Fridges are cold and therefore less humid than 'open' atmospheric conditions in your hoose or in a supermarket.

I don't keep eggs long maybe 1 week but if I do they'd be kept in the fridge.

Eggs tips:

To help determine a fresh egg from an 'older' egg.
Put the eggs in water. The fresh eggs should sink. Older eggs will float.
Due to porous nature of eggs they loose water from inside. They float on the air trapped inside.

To determine raw eggs from boiled:

Spin the egg on a counter.
A boiled egg will spin like a top.
A raw egg will not spin. The liquid egg absorbs the momentum/energy of the imparted spin so refuse to spin.

Maybe it is possible if you were to use a egg drive adaptor on the end on a dremmel or something and let the liquid spin too. (I have not tried this at home.)

Microwaved scramble egg is nice on fresh bread lightly toasted and spread with tuns of Lurpak.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

[andyscooter]

don't wash eggs til they are going to be used

they last a lot longer
we used to get a dozen a week off our mate when he had chickens as he culsnt use them all himself

had a load on his gate for sale as well

supermarket eggs are crap
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[RhynoCZ]

Also, washing eggs ruins their protective layer which makes them more prone to salmonella contamination. For this very reason it is against the law to sell washed eggs in the EU. US of A does not regulate this, washed eggs are more appealing to the customers, and the salmonella infection rates are there rather elevated.

IF you do wash your eggs before storage, keep them refrigerated to prevent/slow down the bacterial growth.
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