I agree with you on old eggs needing to be cooked! I would only eat them raw if they were extremely fresh and clean from the nest.
I'm running an experiment in my fridge with eggs from June that I coated in palm shortening and refrigerated the day they were laid. In January I will crack them...
Did you know that is is illegal in Europe to wash or refrigerate eggs?
I don't believe it is necessary to wash even dirty eggs (I just wash my hands after cracking them) and I always leave my eggs out at room temperature. As I said in the original post, I had left unwashed eggs out at room...
I don't wash my eggs except right before I use them if they are really dirty. So far no issues with eggs going bad at two months, unwashed at room temp. A lot of them floated in the pot when I boiled them from having a large air cell but were perfectly edible.
Surely there are other people with...
I store my chicken eggs at room temp and have some that have been sitting out for 8+ weeks that I'm going to confidently boil today. I like to give away eggs to my family but my parents are really paranoid about getting "boiling age" eggs (2+ weeks) thinking surely they will be rotten! But this...