Posted: 8/6/2006 10:11:15 PM EDT
I have two eggs left in a carton in the frig. They have been there for over a month. Edible or not?
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When I was on the sub, we kept cases of eggs in the engineroom (the parts that were mostly aroound 70 degrees) for weeks at a time with no ill (haha, get it?  ) effects.Eggs simply do not need to be refrigerated. I've also heard that smearing them with vaseline to prevent air from seeping inside also makes them keep longer... |
Had a customer that kept them on her counter... she said that is how they store it on the farm where she was raised... interesting. i was never that brave to try it. |
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Ever hear of Balut? It's a fertilized duck egg that is allowed to gestate for a while and then is boiled. When it is ready, you eat essentially what is a hard boiled egg with a partially developed embryo inside. It's also know as "The egg with legs". Popular in SE Asia. I've had it in the Phillipines. Yummy! 
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Cool. I've always wondered if there was same way to tell if they were good short of cracking them open. 
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Thanks. That helped alot. 
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my friends a chef and she says eggs stay good long after the experation date that the date is for selling pourposes and liability...2-3 weeks after date still good as long as refrigerated.... or look here |
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You are getting some SERIOUS mileage of that one!!!
What does spamming all these threads with your "directions" comments have to do with anything? |
Directions are important. |
Would this be a good time to click the "Report" button? |
I'm almost afraid to admit this, even though it's been right at 30 years ago-- I worked at a grocery store in HS. Restocking the milk and eggs had to be done at least a couple times per shift. Obviously rotating the stock was important, as new stuff came in twice per week for milk and once for eggs. The store manager--"Joe"--was a gruff old fart who was very demanding. He was no doubt a good manager, but as HS kids we all were terrified of him and thought he was the ultimate asshole. Well, this one time, not at band camp, we found a carton of eggs that were outdated by a year. A year! Proper procedure is to put them in the back room. The problem with that was "Old Joe" checked the stuff there every day. We all would have payed for that one for a week or more, so after a brief discussion we decided the best course of action was to put that particular carton "front and center" in order to get it out of the store. If we put it in the back he would know exactly who screwed up, but if we sold it, we could then claim innocence as it no doubt "came in with the new stuff"--we had no obligation to check the cartons when they came in, only after they were put on the shelf. We never heard a word about them, which means they were consumed without incident. A year! Whoa! 
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+1 I always end up with eggs that are months old just give them a small crack and sniff before dumping them in whatever you're cooking only thing I've noticed is that the egg shrinks inside the shell after a while and when I look at the empty shell there will be a larger than normal airspace covered by a "skin" in what was the top of the egg when it was sitting in the carton older the egg, larger the airspace |
I never throw stuff out based solely on use by dates. I'd have to double my food budget I've had yogurt over 1yr past sell by with no issues. granted I ate it then saw the sell by date, but I would have still eaten it based on the sniff taste if I had seen the date first |