How do you tell your egg cartons apart?

[racuda]

I mean how do you keep it straight where the newest and oldest eggs are? Ours are always getting mixed up.

 

[b.hromada]

Yeah, how do you? Thats a good question.

 

[lurky]

My plan was to put the newest on the bottom shelf and move eggs up the shelves as new eggs take over the bottom shelves. So i planned to take eggs from the top shelf to use.
It looks good on paper, but i end up in a hurry and just put them where they fit. Then i forget what was what

I end up cooking a ton of eggs for the chickens and start over. Even the oldest eggs in my fridge are fresher than the stores eggs. But i like to re-group

 

[Kim_NC]

We put a sticker with a date on the end of the cartons. Ours say 'best by __________'. We date them 30 days from the day they were laid. We sell at farmers markets so 'best by' works for us....but you could just put the date of lay.

 

[schmije]

I'm with lurky. We put the new ones on the bottom shelf, then use them off the top. Works like a charm.

In addition we put eggs that are for sale (i.e the good looking, big ones) in styrofoam cartons. Anything that's really dirty or cracked or too small gets put into a paperboard carton. Eggs in the paper carton get eaten by the people or the animals in our family.

 

[cmom]

I mark the bottom of the carton with the date of lay. I always put the older eggs on top as I sell my eggs and usually the customers will grab the top cartons.

 

[Akane]

I date anything I'm selling otherwise I don't pay attention. Every few months I clean out the fridge by feeding out the known oldest eggs to the pets and giving away all others but the latest carton.