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In the summer we would have BLT's for dinner and leave the bacon grease in a heavy skillet over the pilot light on the range to keep it warm. We would drizzle warm bacon grease over white bread as a snack later in the evening.
GrampaTom, our 'lard' was always a mixture of whatever had been fried in the pan during the days prior. We always ate it cold though, and spread like butter. Ugh! I didn't know that people even had arteries in those days, LOL!
What the heck would 'washing' them have to do with whether or not you put them in the fridge?
Doesn't make any sense to me.
And who the heck 'washes' their eggs anyway? Never heard of anyone doing that before.
Well, I'm pretty sure any egg you buy from the store has been washed before you bought it. Have you ever seen an egg right after it's been laid? Apparently not. It can have blood/dried slime on it and you would WANT to wash it before you cracked it.
When an egg is laid, there is a covering on the egg so the "pores" are closed. Once you wash it, that protective covering is gone and they have to be refrigerated.
It's true. Washing the eggs gets rid of a protective coating that makes the eggs non-porous and impervious to bacteria. The flaw in the other poster's post, however, is that most eggs purchased in the US have already been washed before they even hit the store shelves.
Of course they have been washed before they get to the store. Where did I say otherwise? I guess maybe my saying if you "buy" fresh eggs they don't have to be washed. I didn't mean buying eggs from the store , I meant if you buy eggs from a farmer (or have your own chickens). I was only referring to fresh eggs, not store bought eggs.
Of course they have been washed before they get to the store. Where did I say otherwise? I guess maybe my saying if you "buy" fresh eggs they don't have to be washed. I didn't mean buying eggs from the store , I meant if you buy eggs from a farmer (or have your own chickens). I was only referring to fresh eggs, not store bought eggs.
We had no way to know that from what you posted. My comment was related to what you said, not what you meant.
My in laws will leave butter out at room temperature all day long, sometimes overnight. I am always paranoid about using it or giving it to my kids. Of course Google says you should always keep it refrigerated, but nobody has ever gotten sick from my in laws' room temperature butter.....their creamy, soft, never rips your toast to shreds room temperature butter.
Does anyone else leave their butter out too?
"Google" also tells you to keep it out - depends where you look on Google.
I leave it out unless its real warm.
Since butter was invented and eaten for hundreds of years before refrigeration was invented.....
What I said is if you buy FRESH eggs, you do not have to refrigerate them. Store bought eggs are not FRESH eggs.
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Originally Posted by Niugnep
Store bought eggs may not be AS fresh as "farm-fresh," but they can still be fresh. I've never heard the term "fresh" used to mean NOT store bought.
But this is all beside the point since the thread is about butter.
Well, it is off the point, but I agree with Niugnep. Fresh eggs are raw eggs still in the shell. They are not dried, not frozen, and not cooked. But "fresh" doesn't necessarily mean they're straight from the chicken with no intermediate steps at all, such as washing or refrigeration or packing in cartons.
Well, it is off the point, but I agree with Niugnep. Fresh eggs are raw eggs still in the shell. They are not dried, not frozen, and not cooked. But "fresh" doesn't necessarily mean they're straight from the chicken with no intermediate steps at all, such as washing or refrigeration or packing in cartons.
Having been raised on a farm, fresh eggs are straight from the chicken. Some say farm fresh, but just fresh means the same thing.
Having been raised on a farm, fresh eggs are straight from the chicken. Some say farm fresh, but just fresh means the same thing.
Well, NOT having been raised on a farm, I wouldn't assume that "farm fresh" eggs had not been washed. Just my ignorance I suppose. After all, I call conventional milk in a carton at the supermarket "fresh." It's not dried, not canned, not frozen, so it's fresh. But maybe when people on farms say "fresh milk" they mean "raw milk."
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