Ad on cl claiming some stores "warehouse eggs for up to 18 months"

[chooniecat]

Has anyone heard of this? I worry when my eggs have been coldstored for more than 3 weeks(I don't really care but am concerned egg buyers will want "fresh" eggs).

 

[conny63malies]

Storing eggs for that long would mean a lot of overhead costs. Why store eggs longer than what the hen that lays them lives. You can get a dozen for a Dollar sometimes, why bother wasting energy on such a cheap product

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Even back in the day when storing eggs for months was the commercial norm no one would have stored them for a year and a half. That was decades ago.

Nowadays the producers/grocery stores have thirty days to sell their product as carton eggs (as in what you buy in the grocery store). There is a lot of legend about stores redating eggs to sell them over a longer period, but it doesn't happen nearly so often as folklore would have us believe.

I personally don't sell eggs over a week old.

 

[chooniecat]

I thought maybe the person advertising their eggs just mistyped 18 weeks as 18 months. This ad has come up 2x in recent weeks and they haven't corrected it if it WAS a mistake. I occassionally do have 3 week old eggs and thats about the time they will start to try to stand up in water(told that the older the egg the more air in them so they may float) I simply use masking tape and ink the date of lay on that. I keep the older eggs for our consumption as I can't tell the difference and am not afraid of them.

 

[oldrooster]

they are not keeping them at the store level or in their own warehouses that long. I worked too many years in retail to even think that was true for a quarter second......