Bleaching eggs?

[flower]

Seriously you can wash eggs in hot water with bleach. Poop is poop and e-choli is e-choli.
Seriously as a nurse washing hands and anything else that goes near the mouth is rule number one ! Just ask Florence Nightingale

 

[Nonny]

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I'm thinking I might bypass the middle man and just make the chooks sit on a bidet each morning before they lay.

 

[themenagerie]

I don't worry about eating my eggs myself, if they have a smudge or two, I just rinse them off in warm water. BUT...I do worry about the people I give them to.... my elderly in-laws, small nieces and nephews... people that may not have the most robust immune systems, so could be less resistant to germs. IS there a good practice to eliminate most of the possibility of germs, just in case?

 

[Hens_And_Chicks]

I do not wash my eggs. If they have a little smudge or even (gasp) a little poop from the poop chute, I clean them with warm water. Nothing else. Perhaps we need to bleach the chicken butts

I don't even waste my time to try to argue with anyone that wants to refute the quality of my free range happy hen eggs. Geez... go to the store and buy those tasteless, colorless who knows where they came from generic white eggs. Please. Hurry.... get going...

 

[Tikkijane]

"Should you wash eggs?
No. It's not necessary or recommended for consumers to wash eggs and may actually increase the risk of contamination because the wash water can be "sucked" into the egg through the pores in the shell When the chicken lays the egg, a protective coating is put on the outside by the hen. Government regulations require that USDA-graded eggs be carefully washed and sanitized using only compounds meeting FDA regulations for processing foods."

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/factsheets/focus_on_shell_eggs/#20

My emphasis in bold. Fwiw; ymmv.

 

[Pele]

Heehee, the next time they insult your girls, mess with their heads by telling them that plants come from the GROUND. *gasp!*

 

[ll]

This makes me lol
and all the funny replies are great too.

They don't eat the shell!

Tell them to wash it themselves before cracking?
Like they wash fruit and veggies?

-nods- more eggs for you

 

[CheekyMare]

I have a restaurant and my cooks never complain about the eggs. Most of them are country girls and are willing to pluck and gut a chicken for me too though.

The customers never complain about the taste.

 

[johnsons-r-us]

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[sunnyvera]

I have a lady friend who will not eat my farm fresh eggs because they came from a chicken's butt. She only eats grocery-store eggs (because they are not fresh). Where does she think they come from? People can be soooooo ignorant.