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Eggs store pretty poorly in the fridge because liquids transpire through the shell. Within a month your egg will be 20% air.
This is disturbing and not what I found with eggs at all - Are eggs somehow different in the US compared to the rest of the world?
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#153Fake/Vegetarian eggs are priced the same here, so I made the switch and am only using fake eggs now for most of my cooking.
arent eggs already vegetarian
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#154Fake/Vegetarian eggs are priced the same here, so I made the switch and am only using fake eggs now for most of my cooking.
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This is also a great defense against something like bird flu. When you centralize operations a disease can spread through a population like wildfire. When it's a number of smaller, separate operations the impact is lessened.
Really raises the question - should vital infrastructure, like food production, be built in an attempt to maximize profit or resiliency? Have things swung too far in one direction?
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eggs store pretty poorly in the fridge because liquids transpire through the shell. Within a month your egg will be 20% air.
This is disturbing and not what I found with eggs at all - Are eggs somehow different in the US compared to the rest of the world?
Both methods work, but the washing process removes a protective layer from the eggs, causing them to require refrigeration and generally last not as long
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#157Fake/Vegetarian eggs are priced the same here, so I made the switch and am only using fake eggs now for most of my cooking.
arent eggs already vegetarian
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is disturbing and not what I found with eggs at all - Are eggs somehow different in the US compared to the rest of the world?
Yep. In the U.S. the eggs are all machine washed which removes a natural protective outer coating (as well as dirt). This means that they don't store as well or as long, and really should be refrigerated. It _might_ reduce salmonella.
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#159What's going on with eggs in the US? The whole world had high inflation after Covid, so that's not US-specific, but eggs tripling in price? That is extreme. I don't think my (Dutch, free-range organic) eggs went up more than 25%.
In just the last 3 months over 30 million chickens were killed, which is about 10% of the total US egg laying chicken population. Overall the US has lost so far something like 40% of its egg laying chickens.
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#160What's going on with eggs in the US? The whole world had high inflation after Covid, so that's not US-specific, but eggs tripling in price? That is extreme. I don't think my (Dutch, free-range organic) eggs went up more than 25%.