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Why Do Americans Refrigerate Their Eggs?
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#242I think part of the article that's getting glossed over is: " A refrigerated egg, no matter the source, will be good for four or five weeks. Unrefrigerated eggs are best used within a week, though they may be fine for two. " So, one would want to refrigerate eggs (washed or unwashed) anyway if they're not all going to be used immediately.
Eggs keep perfectly well at room temperature for weeks in northern Europe. I never refrigerate eggs, they just sit in a tray of twenty on the counter.
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
OK, here's another sample. The eggs I bought yesterday (I'm in the UK) have a "best before" date printed on them of 4 March, i.e. 2 weeks.
That is due to EU regulations. We used to have 4 weeks on eggs in Norway, but was forced to limit it to 2 weeks. Apparently it was all about salmonella risk, even though that is very rare in our eggs.
I've learnt something today. I don't think I have ever looked at the expiry date on eggs here in Norway and I've been here over thirty years! I definitely keep eggs for longer than two weeks unrefrigerated.
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#244I (Europe/Germany) put them in the fridge because the fridge came with an egg tray. Simple as that, never thought about leaving them outside. Maybe that's a simple answer to why many people put them in the fridge, independent of 'how long they will stay good'.
My fridge came with a removable egg tray which I immediately removed so as to have more space for stuff that actually needs to be cold. Also I have never seen a fridge with an egg tray big enough for a weeks worth of eggs for a family of five so what's the point in having it.
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's opposite in Europe, eggs are typically brown, while the white ones are considered more 'natural'.
Here (Norway) they are usually white. Brown eggs are a little more expensive.
Not here (in this part of Norway). The eggs I bought most recently from our local Kiwi (Svelvik, Vestfold) are brown and they were the cheapest eggs I could buy, FirstPrice.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody in the cities or suburbs. Raising one's own chickens for eggs or getting eggs from friends with chickens is popular in rural areas.
Many cities are launching urban chicken programs to allow people to keep their own coops. I figure if you're going to allow dogs in all their kid-biting, sidewalk-pooping, late-night barking glory, why not allow chickens in the city?
Dogs are trainable. Roosters not.
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
I live in Ireland, in the EU, and I'm fairly sure all the eggs in supermarkets here are washed. There's never a spot of dirt on them. And we always refrigerate, as does everyone I know
> and I'm fairly sure all the eggs in supermarkets here are washed No, they're not washed. Lack of gunk is due to technique (or just cleaning mechanically) https://www.fsai.ie/faq/egg_washing.html
ok, I learned something today!
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eggs fresh out of a chicken will last for ages. Months even. The only reason people keep eggs in the fridge is because of how long they've already been out. Also, egg quality is very poor, you can't eat raw eggs in the US for example.
Exactly, I don't get why people are downvoting you. Egg quality in the US is terrible, instead of culling salmonella infected flocks, we wash away the protective coating of the egg and potentially spread the salmonella into the egg itself. In Europe and many other countries, their version of the USDA have teams that regularly test flocks droppings for salmonella, and where it is found, the whole flock is culled and t…
To be honest, I think that all the "external protective cuticle" part is faked. Eggs have a porous shell. You can't rubb anything from the surface of a still warm and clean fresh egg.
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San Francisco is quite walkable by American standards but certain areas are very lacking. For example the southeast portion of the city has a dearth of hospitals and the Tenderloin and Bayview neighborhoods have a startling lack of grocery stores.
The southeast could definitely have a dearth of hospitals (I think everyone should live near a hospital within a few minutes of them, esp. with San Francisco traffic), but Tenderloin has a grocery store (with fresh veggies, eggs, milk, etc) on nearly every block, with many having TWO. I get that quite a few people refuse to shop anywhere that isn't 70+k sqft, like Costco or Whole Paycheck, but these areas are not foo…
No, The Tenderloin does not have grocery stores on every block. They have liquor stores (corner stores, bodegas, whatever you wanna call them) that typically have a mediocre selection of fresh produce (if any at all).
It's not about having a large floor plan, it's about access to fresh food. The Bayview sees the same thing, although as SFGate points out Fresh and Easy did try. They failed too.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tenderloin-struggles-t...
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eggs fresh out of a chicken will last for ages. Months even. The only reason people keep eggs in the fridge is because of how long they've already been out. Also, egg quality is very poor, you can't eat raw eggs in the US for example.
Who knows. As I said those who grew up in a rural setting know that things like raw milk are incredibly delicious and good for you. The absolute diluted sweetened garbage they label as "milk" in the store is vomit inducing. Same thing with the lies the federal government spews about eggs. Which when you have your own chickens you realize that one, eggs are not white, ever wonder how they get white? You should, and th…
> eggs are not white, ever wonder how they get white?
Eggs are white of course. Not all of them, but some are white. There is a small trick. Look at the hen. If the nude round skin patch covering the ears is white; their eggs will be naturally white also. There are a lot of chicken races with this characteristic, Leghorns for example. Marans instead lay dark chocolate eggs
Yolk can be naturally yellow, orange or even green. It depends on the diet of the mother. More diverse the foods, more carothenes and more orange in the yolk. If you feed your chicken fishes the yolk will be greenish (and also fish flavoured with a poor taste, so you shouldn't do this)
> The farm raised salmon is pale and sick looking.
Salmon diet contains carothenes since decades. They just have more (whitish) fat content.