How do you store/rotate eggs for eating?

[St_Gall]

What does your egg storage system look like? We have lots of little helpers and I want something easy and consistent so that we don't have an egg go bad because it got lost in the middle of a carton.

We're getting 15 eggs a day right now, with a very flexible amount of egg eaters (4-10, depending on season)

 

[NatJ]

Possible ideas:

Write the date on each egg as it is collected.

Always use eggs from the bottom carton of a stack, and always put new eggs in the top carton. (That way the kids add to the one that is easiest to grab, and the only people trying to get the bottom carton in & out of the stack are people who are old enough to cook eggs.)

Have one carton the kids can put eggs in, and every day or so the adult moves them to another carton to be used. Mark the cartons, or use different colored ones, or always keep them in different parts of the fridge. You could combine several of those points if you want, to get something like a pink carton that says "new" on the top shelf of the fridge, and a yellow carton that says "use these first" on the middle shelf of the fridge.

You could decide not to think about it on a day-to-day basis, but every month or so serve something with lots of eggs to use them ALL up at that time. Or whatever time interval works for you. That way no egg would ever be old enough to be a real problem.

I've never had really little kids collecting eggs, so I've mostly worked with dating the eggs if I really care (any kid who can write can do that), or some version of carton shuffling. I find it's easier to train children than to train other adults

 

[St_Gall]

Possible ideas:

Write the date on each egg as it is collected.

Always use eggs from the bottom carton of a stack, and always put new eggs in the top carton. (That way the kids add to the one that is easiest to grab, and the only people trying to get the bottom carton in & out of the stack are people who are old enough to cook eggs.)

Have one carton the kids can put eggs in, and every day or so the adult moves them to another carton to be used. Mark the cartons, or use different colored ones, or always keep them in different parts of the fridge. You could combine several of those points if you want, to get something like a pink carton that says "new" on the top shelf of the fridge, and a yellow carton that says "use these first" on the middle shelf of the fridge.

You could decide not to think about it on a day-to-day basis, but every month or so serve something with lots of eggs to use them ALL up at that time. Or whatever time interval works for you. That way no egg would ever be old enough to be a real problem.

I've never had really little kids collecting eggs, so I've mostly worked with dating the eggs if I really care (any kid who can write can do that), or some version of carton shuffling. I find it's easier to train children than to train other adults

Oh, these are helpful, especially the specific carton for kids. Thank you!