Shouldn't "Europeans" in the title be renamed to "Brits"?
In Poland we keep eggs in the fridge, be it home or market.
Why Europeans Don't Refrigerate Their Eggs
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#52Britain ≠ Europe. In Denmark most supermarkets refrigerate eggs and some don't.
Where have you seen non-refrigerated eggs in Denmark? I have never seen that.
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#54I think some supermarkets fridge their eggs, some don't here in The Netherlands. However, I have never seen anyone not fridge their eggs at home. In fact, it seems crazy gross to me to keep eggs outside of the fridge at room temperature. I wouldn't want to eat an egg that wasn't stored "properly" (i.e., our definition of properly). This is probably entirely irrational, but there it is. Interestingly, the 'official' D…
I am English. It never even occured to me that people would put eggs in the fridge.
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#55As for the eggs, I don't remember ever seeing unrefrigerated eggs in Slovenia, Italy, Bosnia, Croatia, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Germany and France, but I haven't been in the UK yet. And markets in Slovenia must have eggs refrigerated. Translated from http://www.uradni-list.si/1/content?id=45033 "Eggs must be cooled under 5C, except during transportation when they can be at more than 5C, but no more than 24 hours."
I have not seen refrigerated eggs in any supermarket here in Spain
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#56I think some supermarkets fridge their eggs, some don't here in The Netherlands. However, I have never seen anyone not fridge their eggs at home. In fact, it seems crazy gross to me to keep eggs outside of the fridge at room temperature. I wouldn't want to eat an egg that wasn't stored "properly" (i.e., our definition of properly). This is probably entirely irrational, but there it is. Interestingly, the 'official' D…
However, I have never seen anyone not fridge their eggs at home
That is just a cultural/educational thing. For a first-timer you could visit me, or my entire family for that matter, in Belgium. That's not too far away. Eggs never go in the fridge here. But I know people that put them in the fridge as well.
Even if we get them in a store where they are cooled, we don't put them in the fridge afterwards. And if we get them fresh from our chicken we just mark the date on them and put them in an egg-box in a normal room. Without washing nor removing the occasional small amounts of dried up faeces on them. We also have a tendency to try to figure out how long an egg stays well. Record is something like 6 weeks :P
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#57The outside temperature in India is roughly double that of any European country.
India - the fifth largest producer of eggs in the world doesnt use refrigeration because... well, there is none.
And inspite of all that, there is very little spoilage - nature designed them well.
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#58(Northern) China here.
Eggs sold unrefrigerated and unwashed. Almost exclusively refrigerated at home. Eggs are invariably cooked thoroughly; the suggestion of a runny or even moist yolk is traditionally met with confused looks and fears of food poisoning.
Brooding of poultry is not permitted in most cities/towns/areas with apartments, but considered normal in rural areas (places with gardens).
I understand the freshness / verifiability of freshness of a chicken egg is easily determined by how easy it is to peel after being hard-boiled: thin, hard to peel (i.e. without indenting the white) shell is a sign of a fresh egg, thick and easy to peel shell indicates an older egg.
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#59Croatia 100% refrigerated. From what I've seen in Austria and Slovakia also are refrigerated ...
We refrigerate them in Belgium as well. What a shit article.
It is amazing how many comments in this thread say "we do x in y" based on solely personal experience - HN crowd should now better than that, no? (please check my comment in response to thomholwerda https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8030089 - Belgians do both)
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#60The headline obscures the real point of the article. In the UK we don't need to refrigerate our eggs at the point of production (or spray them with chemicals) because our chickens and eggs are much healthier due to superior and more sanitory production methods than those prevalent in the USA. And so eggs are almost always sold at room temperature and usually refrigerated at home. And, as others have noted, the UK is not synonymous with Europe.