woodmort
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- Jul 6, 2010
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First of all we have 3 full-sized refrigerators--one in the kitchen and two in the cellar. The second one was replaced by a built-in when remodeled the kitchen 15 yrs ago and the third I removed from my mother's house after she died. This last one sits way back in the cellar and is used primarily to store produce--it is full of apples, pears and eggs right now. The second, which is at the bottom of the stairs, is my "beer" refrigerator where I store my cold adult beverages--there is a few bottles of wine chilling down there too--but it is also the auxiliary kitchen refrig. (You won't believe how much food my DDs bring when they come to support their various diets.) Since the kids are coming for a week at Christmas I figured today would be a good time to rearrange stuff in this refrigerator--it is either that or my beers gets set aside and gets warm. As will be soon apparent, it has been a while since an extensive rearrangement had been done. While in the process of digging around in the back I found an Eggland's Best carton that was turned on its side with 6 eggs in it--white eggs.
Now we use old cartons to store eggs but given I've never kept chickens that lay white eggs--only brown and green/blue--these were obviously eggs we purchased at some point when I was raising up pullets and had no hens laying. Now my current flock as been laying since last fall but they replaced a flock that was 3 years old which meant the eggs either were purchased last summer or three years before that. Given the "Use Before" date was July '07 I guess the latter was the case. Figuring these eggs were well passed the point of being useful I figured to toss them to the birds but before I could my DW had to check them--she never throws out anything that is useful. She cracked one into a bowl. While it smelled ok, there was no discernible white/yolk, just a gelatinous mass. It and the other 5 eggs went into the chicken yard where they were eaten with relish. Just goes to show--eggs can be store, refrigerated for a long time but the results may not be eatable.
(Oh yeah, I also found a box of Pillsbury pie crust that expired in Jan. '09--that did not go to the chickens. We really should look behind stuff more often. The beer BTW is fresh--I might miss eggs but beer? never!)
Now we use old cartons to store eggs but given I've never kept chickens that lay white eggs--only brown and green/blue--these were obviously eggs we purchased at some point when I was raising up pullets and had no hens laying. Now my current flock as been laying since last fall but they replaced a flock that was 3 years old which meant the eggs either were purchased last summer or three years before that. Given the "Use Before" date was July '07 I guess the latter was the case. Figuring these eggs were well passed the point of being useful I figured to toss them to the birds but before I could my DW had to check them--she never throws out anything that is useful. She cracked one into a bowl. While it smelled ok, there was no discernible white/yolk, just a gelatinous mass. It and the other 5 eggs went into the chicken yard where they were eaten with relish. Just goes to show--eggs can be store, refrigerated for a long time but the results may not be eatable.
(Oh yeah, I also found a box of Pillsbury pie crust that expired in Jan. '09--that did not go to the chickens. We really should look behind stuff more often. The beer BTW is fresh--I might miss eggs but beer? never!)
