Eggs, Screenshots

[thistlechaser]

Anyone know if eggs have to be used by the date printed on the carton? Or is that the date they need to sell them by? I never eat eggs fast enough, now I have a half-dozen of them with today's date printed on it...

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Comments

[kaiz.livejournal.com]

Re. eggs -- I try to eat them no more than 7 days after the date on the package. Dunno if that's healthy, but I haven't gotten salmonella or a rotten one yet!

[triplem.livejournal.com]

Yup. It helps if you break them into a seperate container before using them, so you can check them out and make sure they're not all yucky. Give them a sniff -- if they look and smell normal, they should be fine. We've had milk, eggs, and other stuff last a couple weeks past their due date, and had things go rotten a couple weeks before.

And I think salmonella is killed if you cook the eggs all the way through (yuck!), but I'm not for sure. Don't quote me on it.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a good idea! Thanks, I'll do that!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Huh! Okay, thanks!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Eggs are remarkably long-lived and if refrigerated will stay fresh for MONTHS past the sell-by date. Seriously. When I lived on the boat we kept eggs for as long as two months past the printed date and only had ONE go bad, out of many many dozens. (When you crack it, you will smell it, if it's bad.)

In every Caribbean and South American country we visited, eggs are not kept refrigerated in the stores - they're just on the shelves. And I'm talking about HOT tropical places. Eggshells are an amazing storage device. They do a darn good job of keeping eggs fresh.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Wow, so I guess I won't die if I eat them a day or two past the date! Thanks!

[kaiz.livejournal.com]

Wow! This is so good to know! Had no idea they lasted so long.

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

I'll have to agree with the above...Eggs take a while to go bad in most cases, and trust me, you'll know if it's bad when you crack it. The main thing as far as freshness goes is that in older eggs, the yolks tend to spread, which can be undesirable in certain situations. But if you're just scrambling or using them in something, it really shouldn't matter.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was just going to use them to make waffles. I wasn't sure if they had different stages of going bad, and the really smelly kind was just the final one or something.

Thanks!

[gmth.livejournal.com]

Eggs have dates printed on the cartons? ;-)

Which is to say, I've had eggs sit in my refrigerator for many, many moons and have never had a problem with them. I wouldn't worry if I were you.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks! That's good to know!

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

Information learned by watching many cooking shows: Eggs often last longer than the suggested sell-by date, but if you want to find out if they're good without cracking them, put them (one by one, I guess) in a big glass or bowl filled with water. If they sink they're fine, if they start to float up a little they're borderline, and if they float throw 'em out.

I forget exactly why this works, but it's what every cooking show says.

I've had eggs sit in the fridge for two months that never floated, though.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! I think I'll go try that just for the fun of seeing if they'll float or not! Hee. Well, that's good to know! Thanks!