Step Slowly Away from the Eggs, and Nobody Gets Hurt

[kevin_standlee]

During the early-spring cleaning this past weekend, I stopped to make some lunch, and while looking in the refrigerator, I noticed an egg carton in the back of the refrigerator. I looked closer. There was one egg left in the half-dozen container. The sell-by date was sometime last November.

I gingerly removed this carton and did not put it in the garbage can in the kitchen. No, I walked it out to the dumpster directly. No sense taking any chances with such things.

Comments

[jbriggs.livejournal.com]

Eggs have an amazingly long shelf life if kept cold; up to 10 months if kept around freezing. However after 5 months, I'd have probably tossed them too.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

Yes -- to both of those. One way to tell is to shake the egg...if it feels like there's something solid in there, it means that you probably don't want to let it out. :-)

Oh, and one added note: If you hide Easter eggs for kids, and you come up one short when they've found them all, and you find that last one in, say, August...send it directly to the circular file. (We actually had one year when we found 25 Easter eggs...but my parents only dyed 24. My mother very carefully searched through the eggs and figured out which one was the bomb based on the decorations.)

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Huh? It would have almost certainly been fine; eggs last indefinitely in the fridge. Their texture slightly deteriorates, which interestingly makes them better for some things. In the days when people always kept eggs at room temperature there were specific dishes you'd always use older eggs for rather than fresh ones.

The major problem with old eggs is that they tend to pick up other flavours from your fridge.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

You mean you didn't call for the hazmat crew? :)

[ericlarson.livejournal.com]

Yes, you do want to be careful with unexploded hen grenades.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

*ouch* *laughter*