T-Bone _ Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Why do we refrigerate them? The spend almost a month (21 days) underneath a chicken, if things a left to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddington Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 So the fridge racket can charge extra for egg holders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 (edited) So they won't rot. Yes, urefrigerated eggs go bad. The eggs you buy in a store are unfertilized. Fertilized eggs are incubated by a chicken because there's a chick iside them. Edited January 4, 2009 by Saint Therese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaeology cat Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 [quote name='Saint Therese' post='1742691' date='Jan 4 2009, 07:09 PM']So they won't rot. Yes, urefrigerated eggs go bad. The eggs you buy in a store are unfertilized. Fertilized eggs are incubated by a chicken because there's a chick iside them.[/quote] It's quite common that the eggs I get from the store are, in fact, fertilised. Some are free range, most are not. I've actually heard from a chef that the best way of storing eggs isn't in a fridge, but in a cool cupboard in the kitchen. But I keep mine in the fridge anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 That's some wierd wild rogue egss ya got there in the Uk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 actually, in the old days they didn't refrigerate their eggs and they were fine. when i went to costa rica over the summer, a huge truck came once a week or so to sell fresh eggs....people would buy a couple of dozen and leave them out during the week. no fridge needed, and they would stay fresh. [url="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070408151637AAEqXQb"]http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...08151637AAEqXQb[/url] [url="http://www.mofga.org/mofga/other/mofgd04t.html"]http://www.mofga.org/mofga/other/mofgd04t.html[/url] [url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031031063803.htm"]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/...31031063803.htm[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaeology cat Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 [quote name='rachael' post='1742731' date='Jan 4 2009, 08:30 PM']actually, in the old days they didn't refrigerate their eggs and they were fine. when i went to costa rica over the summer, a huge truck came once a week or so to sell fresh eggs....people would buy a couple of dozen and leave them out during the week. no fridge needed, and they would stay fresh. [url="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070408151637AAEqXQb"]http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...08151637AAEqXQb[/url] [url="http://www.mofga.org/mofga/other/mofgd04t.html"]http://www.mofga.org/mofga/other/mofgd04t.html[/url] [url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031031063803.htm"]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/...31031063803.htm[/url][/quote] I'd be more inclined to leave mine out if I didn't buy so many at a time. This is what happens when you don't buy groceries every week. Maybe I should get a chicken. But then the cats might present a problem. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 You can leave fresh eggs out for a week. The problem is the fresh eggs we get at the store have already been out from under the chicken for awhile by the time we get them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Nothing smells worse than a rotten egg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icelandic_iceskater Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 [quote name='CatherineM' post='1742875' date='Jan 4 2009, 08:09 PM']You can leave fresh eggs out for a week. The problem is the fresh eggs we get at the store have already been out from under the chicken for awhile by the time we get them.[/quote] are they better off left out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 not if in the united states. they've taken so long to get to us, that you might as well leave them in the fridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Bone _ Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 [quote name='icelandic_iceskater' post='1742909' date='Jan 4 2009, 05:30 PM']are they better off left out?[/quote] They are way easier to separate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 We used to have a dog that would steal eggs from the chicken house. He was so sneaky! I would watch him go in and when he came out i could tell that he was holding an egg in his mouth. I would go and pick up his lips and look in his mouth and see the egg. Hounds are too smart for their own good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionseeker Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 [quote name='T-Bone _' post='1742667' date='Jan 4 2009, 02:17 PM']Why do we refrigerate them? The spend almost a month (21 days) underneath a chicken, if things a left to be.[/quote] I live on a farm, we don't refrigerate them always. [quote name='Archaeology cat' post='1742697' date='Jan 4 2009, 03:30 PM']It's quite common that the eggs I get from the store are, in fact, fertilised. Some are free range, most are not. I've actually heard from a chef that the best way of storing eggs isn't in a fridge, but in a cool cupboard in the kitchen. But I keep mine in the fridge anyway.[/quote] [quote name='Saint Therese' post='1742699' date='Jan 4 2009, 03:32 PM']That's some wierd wild rogue egss ya got there in the Uk.[/quote] I'm in the US Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Bone _ Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 [quote name='Saint Therese' post='1742926' date='Jan 4 2009, 05:48 PM']We used to have a dog that would steal eggs from the chicken house. He was so sneaky! I would watch him go in and when he came out i could tell that he was holding an egg in his mouth. I would go and pick up his lips and look in his mouth and see the egg. Hounds are too smart for their own good.[/quote] Most people kill egg-sucking dogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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