how can you tell if an egg is frozen?

[missourichickenmama]

just wondering how you can tell, and IF you can tell.

 

[Mahonri]

When you crack the shell, everything inside looks like an oval egg ice cube?

 

[morelcabin]

It doesn't really matter if it is frozen, as long as it isn't cracked

 

[dbcooper02]

I bet you could check it the same way you can tell if an egg is boiled. Set it on the counter and give it a spin. Lightly touch the top to stop it. A fresh (unfrozen) egg will start to turn again due to the momentum of the contents. A frozen egg will remain still like a boiled egg.
db

 

[pips&peeps]

A truely fozen egg will crack the shell because liquid expands when frozen.

 

[silkiechicken]

pips&peeps :

A truely fozen egg will crack the shell because liquid expands when frozen.

yep​

 

[jvls1942]

Quote:
yep

not always.

spin it, if it spins freely it is frozen
If it is sluggish unfrozen. spin an egg that you know is raw and unfrozen to see what I mean..

 

[JennsPeeps]

I agree w/ the poster above me: an unfrozen egg will not spin well. This is also the test for a hardboiled vs. uncooked egg: will it spin? A hardboiled one spins freely.

If the shell isn't broken, I'd put it in w/ the others and call it good. I've found 1 questionable egg since our recent cold snap. It was frozen to the ground after our pullet escaped from the run somehow. I put it into the fridge to warm up. :LOL

 

[nailjack]

I got one frozen cracked egg this mourning. Through it out, but the others I just put in the fridge with the others.

 

[mksenoj]

pips&peeps :

A truely fozen egg will crack the shell because liquid expands when frozen.

So true!​