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Forget the compote pile. Eggshells are excellent for scouring the garbage disposal.
Depends on your disposal age and HP. You could also be the judge of how long your garbage disposal has served you. The longer the service, the greater chances of rust and worn-out drainage pipes.
However, one of the worst myths is that eggshells can sharpen the blades in the garbage disposal. Garbage disposals don't have blades...
I gotta wonder how some of us survived, without the mandated " expiration dates" stamped on everything..
Truth be told, I thought the OP was going to ask about her "own" eggs, for purposes of reproduction...(btw, those have an "expiration date" too...) lol
Crack them to use for bake and see. You can't miss a spoiled egg. If they are good - use them for baking, if they aren't - no boiling time would change anything.
Expiration dates are what the above respondent said. I wish people would stop obsessing about it...
The best way to determine if your egg is spoiled is by cracking it open into a bowl. If the egg white is pink or iridescent this is an indication of spoilage due to Pseudomonas bacteria. Some of these bacteria can make us sick when eaten and they will produce a greenish, fluorescent, water-soluble color.
This is very true. Had eggs left in the fridge. Went for vacation, came back few months later and they still made tasty scrambled eggs.
Visual and smell test are the best indicators.
Yes, so glad that someone besides me has realized that. I always crack them open carefully and sniff, but they're always fine.
Eggs are some of the few things that if they are spoiled, you would definitely KNOW it...
It have been years, if not decades - (I really don't remember last time) I came across a spoiled egg.
On an individual basis, and for someone with a fully functional immune system, you are correct about a certain type of spoilage.
However, when salmonella is the "spoiling" agent, the egg will look and smell fine. That is well known in food service. One of the worst cases of food poisoning I have had was from a restaurant where I ordered Eggs Florentine. Rather than making individual servings, the cook had made a huge batch of scrambled eggs, which had to sit for a while before it all got used.
In a questionable restaurant, it is much safer to order only egg dishes that require use of one or two whole eggs where you can see the yolk, cooked well. The dish will be fresher, and the odds of food poisoning go way down. One bad egg mixed in with three dozen for a scrambled egg mess will contaminate the entire batch.
Eggs are fine a couple of weeks passed their expiration date. . . .
Also, if you completely coat the eggs with mineral oil, they will last several months in the frig.
Washed eggs have porous shells no longer protected from anything like germs & virus getting in them . . . including mineral oil . . . which is a preventer of good digestion, so I would AVOID doing this! (Plus, the natural protective membrane that washing removes allows air to get into the egg . . . mineral oil will not. Not sure what -if any- neg. effect that might have.)
I find this hard to believe. . . . I seriously doubt grocery stores do float tests on dozens and dozens of eggs.
Maybe not float-tests, but they might remove uncracked & still clean eggs from cartons with cracked eggs in them, & put them into clean cartons. (IDK if any do this, or not. They might just throw out the entire dozen w/ only 1 cracked egg in it. IDK)
Maybe not float-tests, but they might remove uncracked & still clean eggs from cartons with cracked eggs in them, & put them into clean cartons. (IDK if any do this, or not. They might just throw out the entire dozen w/ only 1 cracked egg in it. IDK)
When I get eggs at Trader Joe's, I always check them, and if there is a cracked one, I replace it with a good one. There is usually a carton there with five or six cracked eggs already from people who have done the same thing. And I'm pretty sure that the employees in the back do the same thing, to "fix" the egg cartons that have a damaged egg or two.
It seems really silly to throw out eleven good eggs because one is cracked.
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