Comments on: Refrigerating Eggs

By: verbosity

verbosity — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:13:49 +0000

From cooking shows on TV, also remember not to crack on the edge of a bowl (which pushes potentially contaminated bits of shell into the egg that are so much fun to fish out of the whites) but on a flat surface. They are just as easy to pull apart either way.

By: Lotty

Lotty — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:03:45 +0000

I am Dutch and I never put eggs in the fridge, but I don’t use them after their past on date. My friend in France however uses eggs, even if they are a bit after the date, to bake cakes. So I think it is just where you come from and what you are used to do.

By: Grainne

Grainne — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:56:29 +0000

I live in the UK and always buy unrefrigerated eggs and keep them in a sweet little wicker basket in my kitchen, I often times eat them well after their best before dates and have never gotten sick from them. My whole family does the same and friends who are keen bakers say unrefrigerated eggs are better for baking too.

Don’t know if it would make any difference, I doubt it would, but the eggs that tend to be sold here in Northern Ireland are brown eggs (because some consumer poll from the 70s stated people preferred them cos they thought they were healthier – there’s no difference though).

Hope that’s helpful, Kyerin above could be right though that it’s to do with environmental temperature, we have a really mild climate.

Grainne

By: chris

chris — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:11:43 +0000

Bread actually goes stale in the fridge so if you do that …you should stop. Freeze it if you bought too much. (I used to do that with fancy breads that I could only get once a month at the market) But you can only defrost bread once.

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:41:26 +0000

On baking days, I remove the eggs from the fridge in the morning and set on counter so that they come to room temperature. A dear woman told me that was the secret to her baking…she said, “Eggs, like Christians, work better when they are warm.” She also told me to always, no exceptions, break each egg into a separate bowl and not directly into the mix…saves yourself heartache if you get a bad egg, store-bought or farm fresh; it can happen either way.

By: Paige Tyler

Paige Tyler — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:56:02 +0000

I live in Germany and I just bought some eggs last week off the shelf as opposed to the refrigerated section and when I got home and opened them I laughed at loud at the feathers that were inside my container. I loved it!!!

When I inquired as to why there weren’t refrigerated- I was told they don’t come out of the chicken cold- therefore they can stay at room temperature for quite sometime with no issues. And the yolks are the brightest orange color that I have ever seen. They are beautiful!!!

By: Ranee @ Arabian Knits

Ranee @ Arabian Knits — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:32:39 +0000

We raise chickens for eggs, and the rule of thumb is that if they have been refrigerated already, they need refrigeration, but if they haven’t, they don’t. There is a protective coating on the egg that gets removed by the condensation that forms in the fridge. We only refrigerated the eggs in the hottest days of summer and when we have too many on the counter.

However, eggs from the store (unless you are buying them farm fresh, from a flock with a rooster) are not fertilized. Technically, they don’t rot in the shell. They just dry out and get stale. If there is a break in the shell, or if the egg is out of the shell, it can rot, but not otherwise. Fertilized eggs, however, will definitely rot, if kept in a hot place. We’ve never had it happen with any of our eggs that were in the fridge.

By: Rachel @ Busy Mommy Media

Rachel @ Busy Mommy Media — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:40:01 +0000

My mom is british and most of her siblings don’t refrigerate eggs. I’ve always kept mine in the fridge but I don’t always refrigerate my butter because that’s what I grew up with.

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By: KristinaD

KristinaD — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:41:56 +0000

I saw this post today and couldn’t help commenting!

We are allergic to corn, and can not buy any egg from a grocery store. The eggs in sold in the store (in the US) are washed, then coated with corn oil, with permeates the membrane and gets into the egg. We only get ‘farm’ raised eggs (generally from someone who has some chickens and ends up with too many eggs!). That is possibly what some people are noticing in the taste difference between store US eggs and non-US eggs. Most other countries do not use nearly as much corn in their food as we do. As a result their food is much healthier!