Do you personally wash your eggs?

[gale65]

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Store bought eggs that come from commercial farms are washed.

 

[JodyJo]

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Store bought eggs that come from commercial farms are washed.

they are washed, and I would bet bleached as well....NOT what I want to be eating at all! By the time they get to the stores they are a couple weeks old as well...not fresh like your own will be!

 

[Kaitie09]

If there is something on it, I wash it. I don't use soap, just warm water and a soft sponge. The clean eggs get run under warm water for a second, just from habit. I don't sell my eggs, and they are all eaten within the week, so I really don't worry too much about it.

 

[ChickenAl]

Nope, just brush off any pine shaving that got stuck and put them in a carton in the fridge.

 

[HLAC]

I am required by law to wash the eggs I sell with an FDA approved wash. (Because the government knows best! )

I will say that I disagree a bit with those saying that the commercial eggs arrive at the store weeks old already. It would depend on the store and the supplier I guess. I know some eggs delivered to the bigger grocery stores around here are less than 24 hours old.
Of course, the eggs from my pastured chickens are better... but not necessarily fresher.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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How do you know that? Technically the date on the package is the date they were processed and packed, not the date they were laid. For those producers with in-line plants the eggs may go straight from the nest to the carton within hours. Those with off-line plants or contracts with other plants may stockpile nest run eggs for a few days or even a week or more before shipping to a processing plant.

Egg producers have supply and demand issues to deal with. Barns with tens of thousands of layers are moved in and out of production to clean out and replace flocks. Retail orders are up and down with slow sales in the summer and peak sales over the winter holidays. Excess nest run (unprocessed, ungraded) eggs are held in cold storage and are sold as commodities. If a regional producer is short on eggs to fill orders he may call up another producer and ask if they have extra production. They make a deal for a truckload or two, the truckload is sent to the buyer's plant where the eggs are processed and packaged in the buyer's cartons. Any given egg sold under a producer's label was not necessarily produced by that producer...

The USDA requires them to be processed within 30 days of lay and the date they are processed is what shows on the carton and the sell by date is calculated from there.

 

[duckinnut]

Personally I scrape the big stuff off,poop,hay,shavings and what have you. Only wash them before use and tell my customers the same. The shell is pourous and worry washing ,bleaching and who knows what will contaminate the egg. Commercial eggs are washed then coated with a thin layer of mineral oil to inhibit bacteria and other contaminates. Rather eat my eggs any day.

 

[HLAC]

Yes, Mac... thanks for assuming that I'm an idiot.

I do know about packing, grading, sell by dates and julian dates. I have a egg producer/dealer license and have to abide by the same rules as the big producers. (including inspections)

I also had a detailed conversation with the state egg inspector about this very subject (age of eggs delivered to stores). Of course, what does he know?

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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Why would you think I assumed you are an idiot? I was curious as to how you knew...

A point to ponder... I can guarantee you that my eggs are sold in one of your local stores and they do not make it there in 24 hours as our eggs go to a central Wisconsin processing plant once a week.