How to wash eating eggs before selling?

[gritsar]

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Yep and it's correct that an egg should never be submerged. The water may look clean, but the minute you put a dirty egg in it you've introduced additional bacteria to it; which is then sucked into the egg(s).

 

[A.T. Hagan]

I sell eggs and always wash them.

Use warm water, at least twenty degrees warmer than the eggs, and I use soap. Pour the warm/hot soapy water over the eggs then work them clean in my hand under warm running water. Into a drainer basket after that then dried with a paper towel before putting them into the cartons. I recycle styrofoam cartons and sanitize them in a bleach water solution.

.....Alan.

 

[newchickens2009]

A.T. Hagan :

I sell eggs and always wash them.

Use warm water, at least twenty degrees warmer than the eggs, and I use soap. Pour the warm/hot soapy water over the eggs then work them clean in my hand under warm running water. Into a drainer basket after that then dried with a paper towel before putting them into the cartons.

.....Alan.

This is kinda what I was thinking. Dosen't the comercial egg farmers wash them in some type of soap?​

 

[NonnasBabies]

I only wash them if there dirty!!

Missi

 

[gritsar]

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This is kinda what I was thinking. Dosen't the comercial egg farmers wash them in some type of soap?

The commercial operations wash them in an egg wash solution, then they are coated with a substance to replace the bloom lost from washing. Still, eggs with the bloom intact last much longer than grocery store eggs (the ones that are washed, then coated). Mother Nature always does it better than man can.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1977-11-01/Fresh-Eggs.aspx

 

[Sissy]

I never soak my eggs and just rub them
with a damp paper towel slightly, if they are soiled.
How can one do better then
nature, Save the Bloom.

 

[PunkinPeep]

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This is kinda what I was thinking. Dosen't the comercial egg farmers wash them in some type of soap?

The commercial operations wash them in an egg wash solution, then they are coated with a substance to replace the bloom lost from washing. Still, eggs with the bloom intact last much longer than grocery store eggs (the ones that are washed, then coated). Mother Nature always does it better than man can.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1977-11-01/Fresh-Eggs.aspx

Great article!

 

[halo]

I rinse mine in warm water and let them drip dry. I dont worry about washing the bloom off; my eggs dont sit around long enough to worry about it.

 

[gritsar]

For those that don't want to read the whole article, here is the #1 result of a 7 month long study on storing eggs conducted by Mother Earth News, using a variety of storage methods and groups of both unwashed and washed, fertile and non-fertile, supermarket and farm fresh eggs:

[1] Unwashed, fertile homestead eggs seem to store much better than washed, unfertile agribiz eggs. Why? Probably for the simple reason that they're unwashed ... and not because they're fertile. Hen fruit, as it comes from the chicken, is coated with a light layer of a natural sealing agent called "bloom". And, while a good wash may make a batch of eggs look more attractive, it also removes this natural protective coating ... leaving the eggs more subject to aging and attack by the air and bacteria in the air.

 

[MommyToThree]

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Thanks, I am new to this whole chicken thing and was just getting ready to ask what the bloom was. Very helpful to get everyone ideas thanks so much for sharing!!!!!
(sorry, I had to fix my typo)