@Zud, this is probably much more than you wanted, but this is what I give new "customers." I don't know else they could possibly want to know -- because I tend to overexplain EVERYTHING. Hope you find this useful!
These aren't grocery store eggs
The eggs you are receiving are produced by a...
My sister and brother-in-law own a grocery store, and I have benefitted greatly over the years from being given an array of foodstuffs that have passed the printed expiration date but are still perfectly safe to eat. Maybe that's why I'm a bit fearless about eating "old" eggs.
However, if they...
I don't know the "official" right answer. I sell or giveaway excess eggs, so I doubt any of mine last long enough to go bad during the summer. But in the "off seasons," I have no concerns about eating eggs that have been unwashed, in plastic cartons, sitting out on the counter for two or three...
I generally don't wash eggs. I store them -- depending on size -- in lidded, hard-plastic egg cartons, meant for fridge use, on the counter or, for the super-sized chicken and duck eggs, on an egg skelter, like affacat's.
Sometimes, the duck eggs are just too dirty, and if I have to wash...