They probably think they grow out of the ground rather than come from an animal.
wait, they don’t come from egg plants?
Yeah, there are no farms or individuals with chicken coops in the US, how could we possibly know where eggs come from?
/s (In case it wasn’t obvious)
I want my eggs washed because I deal with enough shit, literal and metaphorical, in my every day life, that I dont want to start my day off with it during breakfast.
Eggs are shelf stable? How long do they last on the counter?
In the old ages there were a number of ways of preserving eggs for long periods of time. Lard was one of them, where they would put many eggs in a pot and fill it with lard. There was also a way with mixing lime with water and keeping eggs in that. They could have been kept edible for years, although I don’t wish to hazard the guess on how the produce tasted. Townsends has a great video on the subject.
Interesting. But I don’t think this is what the guy was asking. XD
Unwashed eggs are shelf stable, they last for a few weeks at room temp. Washed eggs, like you’d get at an American grocery store, absolutely need to be refrigerated.
What if you do the bad/good test with water in a bowl? Do you have to refrigerate them after? Or is that not “washing”?
By washing they mean chemically. Usually involving bleach
Two hundred and fifty years, give or take
Call crap on this as all eggs look to be same size.
Am american and this:
is what I have in my fridge right now. Rural living win.Wait, why fridge? I thought they last at room temp if they still have the chicken butt juice. Do they last longer cold?
I still put farm fresh eggs in my fridge because it’s just a lot more convenient to store eggs in the fridge than on my counter where I have more limited space
I don’t get this at all. Isn’t your fridge much smaller than your counter space?
My fridge is designed to store food and has multiple shelves and drawers. My counters are a flat surface area and I’d rather keep them clear for active uses like cutting, prepping, etc.
There are also appliances competing for space on the counter like coffee machines
I guess there’s the pantry but it’s also just that I’m used to keeping them in the fridge and it’s not like it hurts them to go in the fridge.
Anyway, point is it’s really not that weird to keep them in the fridge
Yeah I suppose I could store them at room temp, but I figure they last longer in the fridge and I’m not really hurting for space.
OP, that’s what it would’ve looked like. Your eggs been industrially washed. What a moron is that OP.
Would definitely lick those clean, 10/10
Are you my dog?
I can be if you want me to.
Down boy, or you’ll get locked in the basement again
Heads up, OP: these eggs have been industrially washed, sterilized, then someone took a feather and glued it on them. Look it up.
You ever wondered why you’d find at most one of them per box?
Basically, you’re as big of an idiot as your portrait of an American grocery shopper, but you’re also a naive hypocrite.
How do you know this? It’s actually illegal to wash eggs in many countries, for the reasons outlined in the post.
because if you’d ever seen unwashed eggs, you would immediately know.
Don’t be silly. Those are not real eggs. Birds are not real and so aren’t eggs.
big farma has been lying to us all these years
ew!
No, EU
*yum!
Left there so long it’s growing into a chicken
Seems a bit dated - when was the last time you touched base with your Yank pals? Even in the cities now chicken cooping is extremely popular. Very common to have your own hens or have a work friend or neighbor hook you up with eggs from theirs these days. I think most people are now familiar with eggs that look like these.
Very common in more rural areas, I do this with my chickens’ eggs too
Or local coops. I get them like this (though with more shit) from friends’ backyard chickens
But my fridge has a little spot just for the eggs. They look so cozy there. I actually don’t know where I’d keep something as fragile as eggs outside my fridge in the kitchen. Genuine question where do you keep your eggs safe? Do they often break?
In a cupboard in their container? They don’t spontaneously combust, as long as they’re in the cardboard it’s pretty hard to accidentally break them.
I drop so much out of my cupboards resching for something else. I’ve dropped eggs before, and i would rather clean up a full sack of flour than half a dozen eggs.
Sounds like you might need to go through your things and ask if each brings you joy and get rid of whatever doesn’t.
Does this egg bring me joy? Throws egg on floor, giggles yes it does. Makes note to replace egg
In the cardboard carton they come in.
We don’t need an eggs safe, fuck me they’re not that valuable
Well no. I’m Canada we keep the anlpha egg of the dozen in the egg safe. It’s not large enough for a full carton of eggs.
C’mon, you’re making Canada sound backwards like that. We have banks and they have safety deposit boxes large enough for several cartons of eggs.
I also keep eggs hidden around the house in case I get a midnight craving for an omelette and don’t feel like doing a midnight heist on my own eggs. Though I do regret the ones I hid under the couch cushions.
It’s not that those are valuable, it’s that those are dangerous. Have you ever tried throwing one after getting it out of an egg safe where it was safely tucked away for the last decade?
The biggest reason eggs are refrigerated in the US is because they’re not vaccinated for salmonella, so refrigeration is needed to inhibit growth. The US was able to do that since they have the infrastructure for end to end refrigeration. It’s not necessarily wrong, it’s just another way to do it. Since salmonella can also be on the outside of the egg they need to be washed, and since they’re refrigerated the loss of the protective layer doesn’t matter. I guess in Europe with the vaccination it also lowers the chance of salmonella on the outside of the egg allowing the outside to remain unwashed and protective of the inside making refrigeration unnecessary. There’s just not enough of a reason to change things in the us now since the refrigeration method is already in place and switching would cost more up front. The main downside is that you can’t eat raw eggs in the US which means some dishes can’t be made, but the vast majority of the US isn’t interested in raw egg dishes anyways.
There’s just not enough of a reason to change things in the us now since the refrigeration method is already in place and switching would cost more up front.
Cutting on electricity and washing costs?
People in the US eat raw eggs all the time. Salmonella outbreaks from eggs are almost unheard of.
Also, washed or unwashed, eggs will keep longer in the fridge. And it makes for a less cluttered pantry. There’s really zero reason for Europeans to be smug about this.
By that reasoning, washed or unwashed everything keeps longer in the freezer. And it makes for a less cluttered pantry AND fridge.
The main downside is that you can’t eat raw eggs in the US
You can buy pasteurized eggs, though they can be hard to find. You can also DIY them with a sous vide cooker.
No matter how hard you try.
Bits of that unwashed shell are getting in your food.
You say that like crispy shites are a bad thing
That’s ok. Our chickens aren’t half-dead, disease-ridden skeletons rotting in battery cages.
omg. NSFW this image…
What’s wrong with You?
Plenty of Americans have chickens in their backyard. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
