Post here if you DON'T wash clean-looking eggs

[luvinmychickens]

I don't wash mine at all. If they have crap on it, well yeah, I'm gonna wash it. I don't wash them before I eat them either. But my Mom washes them before she eats them. She says it's gross....

 

[Chicken_Girl75495]

Even if there is a little poo on them, I would rather brush that off than wash the egg. The shell is porous, and when you wash it, you remove a chemical barrier left there by the chicken, which is protective, but you also set those eggs up to have not-so-clean water get inside the egg.

My daughter always washes eggs.

My best friend, who got me started on this egg thing, always washes eggs "because of where they come from." But she also suggested that eggs come out of the chicken soft and have to harden in the air, so I don't know....

 

[luvinmychickens]

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No.. They don't come out soft. I have watched my hens lay eggs a million times before (not a million, but a lot). And when she leaves I grab the egg. Perfactly hard.

 

[farmdude]

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Amen!

 

[ILoveJoe]

I did not wash eggs when my girls first started laying but over the past three years I am home less often to gather eggs as frequently and my girls always seem to find dirt and mud and track that onto the eggs. I rinse and will wash dirty ones and clean ones as well. I store my unwashed eggs in the egg basket until I get a couple dozen. If they are too ugly they get scrambled and the girls get them.
At Tractor Supply they even sell an egg wash product.

 

[CamsCluckinChicks]

I use a stiff brush to 'clean' my eggs. Very, very rarely do I rinse them & when I do, only water. My duck eggs get rinsed more often than my chicken eggs though! LoL!!

 

[lb]

We only wash the ones that look dirty. The rest are used right out of the nest.

 

[Winisk]

It's reassuring to read all this. I never did wash them except for the occasional soiled one which gets a wipe of a moist cloth and then into the refrigerator. My mother-in-law, who is a neat freak and my most loyal customer, washes them immediately upon delivery. I overheard her one day telling a friend who received a dozen that they are unwashed with the insinuation that I'm neglecting to do this neccessary procedure. Then I read a pamphlet about the strict standards Canadian egg producers put their eggs through which includes washing. Another close friend raided my coop because she needed an egg for a recipe and commented that she felt weird grabbing a warm freshly laid egg. I needed to research this to make sure I was not being negligent in some way. When I explain to people about the bloom, and how the eggs don't go bad while in the nest box for an afternoon, or being sat on for twenty days for that matter, it makes sense but the conditioning remains that they must be washed and refrigerated to be safe.

 

[cravenchx]

I Just Want An Egg!!!!!

 

[Stephanie739]

I've only washed a few dirty ones. I never thought otherwise...I'm not going to eat the shell (the chickens do though lol maybe I should wash it for them)