Can "Poopy" eggs be saved?

[dancingbear]

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I keep hearing that from time to time. How on earth would sandpaper not take off the bloom even more than a soft cloth, sponge, or plain water? It would not only take off the bloom, but part of the shell.

Like you, I just wash mine.

If the water is warmer than the egg, it does not suck in bacteria. As the temp of the egg rises, it expands, pushing air or anything else out of the shell. That's why when you put cold eggs in warm water, you can sometimes observe a stream of tiny bubbles escaping from some of the eggs. If the water is cooler than the egg, the opposite will happen, the egg contracts as it cools, creating a vacuum, and that will suck in bacteria. When you rinse your eggs, make sure the water is clean, and dry eggs completely before returning them to the fridge.

If you feel your eggs need something to replace the bloom, you can always wipe them with a paper towel with a few drops of vegetable oil. That will seal the shell again.

Ours get used fast enough that it's not an issue, and I never had any complaints from customers.

 

[NancyDz]

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I would tend to think a stream of tiny bubbles is because of a crack or hole in the egg and if I see that, I don't use them. It rarely happens but thats what I would think it was.. air escaping.


Nancy

 

[jvls1942]

we wash them and use them. My refrigerator is not for the preservation of poop..

the proper way to crack an eg is to hit it on a flat surface, not on the edge of the frying pan. you will not drive particles of shell into the egg this way..

 

[skeeter]

if it wasnt safe to wash eggs we would all be dead ,the egg farms wash the eggs in hot water,some at 150 degrees

 

[Beekissed]

I only wash off the poop smears themselves and only with lukewarm water and a gentle rub... and dry immediately. I would never wash the eggs that don't have visible soiling.

I don't usually get excited over germs in my house, as we live healthy and close to the earth. No illnesses here or in my flock.

One can get too germaphobic about these things.

 

[cmom]

I wash the poopy eggs then refrigerate them. I don't get too many. When my girls were younger and just starting to lay they would try to sleep in the nest boxes and I would get poopy eggs. As soon as I discovered it I put milk crates in the nest boxes at night and took them out in the morning. They preferred to sleep in the top boxes. I wanted to break this behavior before it became a habit. It took a few nights but now they roost.

 

[chicksgalore]

I never realized this was such a debate. We have always washed our eggs. I never knew any different until I read some posts on this site and for a while I tried not washing them but how do you not get messy/poopy/muddy eggs especially on rainy days when the girls are tramping through mud before they go into the nest boxes and step all over the other eggs??

 

[dancingbear]

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I would tend to think a stream of tiny bubbles is because of a crack or hole in the egg and if I see that, I don't use them. It rarely happens but thats what I would think it was.. air escaping.


Nancy

I thought so at first, too, but I checked with a magnifying glass. Some eggs have a few pores large enough for air to escape. That's all it was, usually. As long as the air's being pushed out, nothing's going in, so I eat them. Have for years. I ain't dead.

 

[debakadeb]

My dogs typically get the really poopy eggs but it happens very seldom anymore. Our nesting boxes are on the opposite side of the hen house from the roost. I think it happens more when it's been raining than other times. On the ones that simply look slightly muddy, I wash and dry them. So far, the few people that get my eggs and my family have not gotten sick.

 

[Oceanseve]

We put them in the carton no matter how poopy to preserve the coating on them and just wash them thoroughly before using them. The farmer we used to buy ours from does the same thing. Course I grew up in a family that always washed their eggs before using them, no matter what they looked like.