Not sure where to ask....

[j71]

so hear is it...my question for you...

I collect our eggs once a day...usually when I get home between say 630-7pm.

Every once in awhile, I will forget to bring the eggs inside the house to be lightly rinsed and then into the fridge they would go.

Sometimes I leave them in my barn and it gets HOT inside when doors are closed.

sometimes Ill leave them on my lawn tractor (I just put them down for a moment instead of rushing back inside the house).....

Whats happening is I am wasting at least a dozen eggs per week. Ill forget theyare thereand not even realize until the next day.

My wife will not let me bring them in the house if they have been left out overnight.

So, my question, do eggs go bad if not in the fridge within a certain amount of time? I mean, if my hen lays an egg at 8am and I do not collect until 7PM...we are already talking 11-12+ hours before ANY refridgeration.

Should we be wasting these eggs by throwing away if they are not in the fridge same day??


TY!
j71

 

[Break an Egg]

I don't even refrigerate my eggs until after a month. Eggs from your own hen don't go bad so easily because they are very fresh and because the hen puts a bloom on the egg when she lays it.

The eggs we get from stores have the bloom washed off.

 

[mdbokc]

Put it in water. Floats = bad; sinks = good. Or just take these dozen and cook them up and feed them back to the girls with a little yogurt mixed in with them. You'll have friends forever...or at least as long as you do it.

And eggs are fine w/o refrigeration up to about 10 days. Float test when in doubt.

 

[j71]

Thanks ya'll !!!

I forgot about the egg floating test!

 

[ranchhand]

The U.S. is pretty much the only country the DOES refrigerate eggs, most of the world keeps them in a basket/bowl on the counter.

Would I worry about them going bad, when they are from your own chickens? Nope! Not a bit.

I give mine a rinse before using, if needed, and break them in a separate bowl before adding to anything baked or cooked. Why? So they cook at the same rate.

 

[teach1rusl]

Lordy...you sound just like me. I'll go outside the next day, and lo and behold there are eggs lined up on the John Deer, or the hood of my car, or the "chicken bench," where I set them down when I got distracted by some other chore and forgot about bringing them in. They are absolutely fine. Now, I'll admit that if they'd set there for several days, I'd probably cook them up for the chickens or my dogs. But a night or two?? No big deal. WEEKS fresher than anything you'd get at the grocery store...

 

[EricH]

Way back when eggs were never refrigerated in the stores, that was reserved for the milk... thats what my grandpa told me anywho. but wow, a month... thats awesome to know.