Eggs date

[can't get enough chicken]

How long do eggs last once they are laid and refrigerated?

 

[FireTigeris]

a very long time.

not sure, why?

Eggs do not rot under a hen at 100*F for 21 days...

so in a fridge longer than that, even on a counter longer than that

 

[can't get enough chicken]

I have had my hens eggs in the fridge for a couple months. So I can still eat the eggs?

 

[FireTigeris]

I'd crack them in a bowl one at a time (one egg in a little bowl- then mix it in the rest of the stuff, then use the now empty bowl for the next egg) if you are mixing them into something,

Also there is also the float test, really fresh eggs sink, really bad eggs float really high in the water I think- you might want to look up 'float test'

they should be fine.

 

[can't get enough chicken]

I did the float test and a couple of the oldest ones were bobbing up and down. Thanks for the help!

 

[FireTigeris]

sure

 

[A.T. Hagan]

If they've been refrigerated the entire time the "float test" will tell you which eggs have lost the most moisture, but it won't necessarily tell you if the egg is unsafe to eat.

The longest I've ever personally kept eggs in a refrigerator was four months. The yolks were mighty thin and the whites very watery, but they were not spoiled. That last month or so they'd have floated for sure they'd lost so much moisture. These were eggs that were clean out of the nest, never washed, and promptly refrigerated. Not the sort of thing I'd ordinarily do but I was going to be without birds for a time so we saved every egg we could to forestall having to buy eggs.

The Mother Earth News Magazine did some research on egg preservation. Of all the methods they tested (the traditional ways) they found that nothing worked so well as simple refrigeration. I seem to recall they got them to keep something like five or six months. Quality was pretty bad, but they were still safe to eat.

 

[FireTigeris]

As I recall that article also had shelf eggs at 'room temp' at 90+ days...
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1977-11-01/Fresh-Eggs.aspx

here

 

[groydollar]

45 days refrigerated at 45 degrees