POLL: When you just HAVE TO Wash Your Eggs

[Smuvers Farm]

@hlhutchinson and I are discussing this. When you have mud, poop, other stuff, on your egg, and you just HAVE TO wash it, what do you do? Cold water? Warm water? Room temp?!?

 

[Chicken_Guru]

Hot, because hot water rubs bacteria off way easier then room temp and cold.

 

[AlleysChicks]

Warm water is what I use when I wash them. I should say IF lol I usually have a 4 legged begger waiting at the nest box so any dirty eggs go to him.

 

[RodNTN]

When we get an extremely dirty egg, we just put it in the egg cabinet with the other eggs. And when we go to eat them we wash them in warm water. We do this so bacteria doesn't have time to seep through the shell if we eat them immediately.

 

[Spartan22]

Dirty eggs(very rare) in our household get a quick wash with warm running water then refrigerated or cooked immediately. The clean unwashed eggs get in the counter baskets or egg cartons to be distributed to our friends and family within 2-3 days. Keeping all our eggs fresh and clean, we scoop out nightly droppings in the morning for less than 10 min tops.

 

[hlhutchinson]

I have not yet had a dirty egg, yet I'm sure it will happen
so I have just placed them on the counter and before we use them I wash them in warm water

 

[BYCforlife]

I wash mine with soap in warm water, and put them in the fridge right away. They always get cooked, baked, scrambled or fried so I am not terribly worried.

 

[LilJoe]

I was mine with cold water just to get the poop or anything else off.

 

[Priscilla's mom]

Just a thought. The "bloom" , that protective layer, is protein, mucusy substance. It comes off easier with cold water. I wonder if that is protected some if you would use warm water. One of those geeky science facts I had forever cemented into my brain cells in nursing school

 

[Kusanar]

You are supposed to use warm water, I believe the guide is at least 10 degrees warmer than the egg. The reason is that the shell is porous, if you wash with water cooler than the egg, the egg will contract inside the shell and pull the water and bacteria into the shell, if you use warm water, the egg will expand and push the bacteria back out of the shell.