Does anyone know of away to check to see if eggs are good or bad? Thanks

Eat them and see..... LOL!!

Here is an article I found for what it's worth.

5 Easy Ways To Tell If Your Eggs Are Still Good

We go through at least 2-3 dozen eggs a week in my house so they never get old. My wife and I love omelets & scrambled eggs & bacon for breakfast about 4-5 days a week. Eggs are also used in baking, cooking, etc so we are constantly buying eggs! We never have eggs around for very long and we buy only free range brown and blue eggs. Yes, blue eggs! They both have more orangish yokes than normal large production pen raised chicken's eggs. From what I understand, free range chickens are much healthier and produce better quality eggs. They also are supposed to contain more protein as they eat bugs, worms, etc rather than just meal.

My general rule with perishable foods is not to buy more than we use in any amount of time they could spoil. My other rule is that if the product is at all questionable, toss it! We like to err on the safe side and getting sick from spoiled food is not fun - been there/done that!

Two to three dozen a week, for two, is a prodigious amount!

We like eggs a lot, too, and our standard breakfast, my wife and me, includes one, hard boiled, each. Plus yogurt with fruit or oatmeal with fruit. Been doing that for years.

I like eggs, and could happily eat a bunch more, but, trying to be healthy.

I make omelettes, for lunch, using four or five eggs for the two of us, maybe once a month or so. With toast. And my wife puts 'em in fried rice or ramen with regularity.

I don't think the ones we have are ever around enough to get old. Usually buy two dozen at a time, but the expiry dates are weeks out.. I do notice when very fresh, with several weeks to go, they are harder to peel when hard boiled.

Eggs. I like 'em!

Simply put:

How to Test the Freshness of Eggs

Place the egg in a bowl of water.
If the egg lays on its side at the bottom, it is still quite fresh.
If the egg stands upright on the bottom, it is still fine to eat, but should be eaten very soon, or hard-boiled.
If the egg floats to the top, it’s past its prime, and not good for eating.
Why this method is accurate

Eggshells are very porous. Over time air passes through the shell into the egg, and its shelf life diminishes as more air enters the shell. Also, the more air that enters the shell, the more buoyant the egg becomes.

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2 Blessed 2B Stressed

4/5 egg omelette? How many acres does that cover?

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Release the Kraken

I should have remembered that as my mother learned all the tricks working in the local egg packing company when we lived in the country.

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Thanks for all replies.

Typically I'll make 5-6 eggs with cheese and spinach (2 1/2 - 3 each depending on their size) and 4 slices of bacon (2 each) for breakfast. We don't normally eat lunch so a big breakfast holds us over and is enough fuel until dinner. My wife also is always making some concoction that uses eggs and I do make quite a few cheesecakes these days which requires 5 eggs each. We never have boxes of eggs in the fridge for more than a week! Cereal 1-2 times a week, that's it and it must be with fresh berries. We do not use milk but the fruit gives the cereal moisture and a great taste. I can't stand the taste of milk!

It is now coming out that for many decades the Doctor's were wrong! It's now being disclosed that eggs are the single healthiest food you can eat! Over the last year I have lost 27 pounds (now under 200 lbs at just over 6ft) ) and my wife has been the same exact weight as the day we got married 45 years ago (114 lbs). We eat lots of eggs, steak at least once a week, chop meat at least once a week, a pasta dish once a week, fish once a week and a nice fresh salad every night regardless if we are home or out. I gave up all bread, crackers, desserts, cookies, cake and ice cream - don't miss them either and no longer have cravings. I will have one small sliver of my own homemade cheese cake when I make one - but that's the exception. BTW, we are both Gluten free by choice and avoid as much seed oils as possible. Works for us! The numbers are in my blood work and weight. We also feel terrific!

Tell me why birds eggs in nature are never washed off?
Only the USA has that rule.
I don't go through 12 eggs in a 2 week time....
On a Navy ship, 2 over easy when under way...
Till they run out of eggs.

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Just a guess but maybe in other Countries the chickens & eggs are more naturally raised and the natural coating (if you will) might protect them from bacteria penetrating the shells.

I have found out over the last few years that many food items we have in the USA are actually banned for importation into Europe and that has nothing at all to do with tariffs or pricing. Its got to do with many of the methods, chemicals, food additives, fillers and antibiotics we still use here. So while we were all brain washed into believing our food, vegetables, beef, produce, etc. here were the safest and healthiest - like many other things, we were lied to and mislead.

In the American Westward expansion (1870-1890's) Eggs never had the protective coating washed off and were left at room temperature for easily a month without many going bad. For travel, they were packed in a keg with salt surrounding each egg (Like salt pork).

When the eggs were used, none were ever just poured into the ingredients! One at a time was cracked into a cup or bowl and smelled to see if it was bad. The way eggs were usually good for a year without being refrigerated.

Ivan

I watch a few sailing channels on YouTube and have seen that many sailors keep eggs unrefrigerated for months while at sea. They rotate them daily and that supposedly keeps them from going bad.

Master Chief, I never thought I’d get nostalgic about powdered eggs, but that comment brought a smile to my face

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Eggs are washed off here because we produce them under filthy conditions. That’s why we have to refrigerate them too because that naturally occurring coating that we wash off prevents bacteria from entering the shell

Yes, drop it in a glass of water, supposedly, if it floats it's bad, if it sinks, it's good. Or maybe, it's the other way around?

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Dave Ramsey Cultist

grandma raised chickens... local fresh are the best... use older eggs for hard boiled... we go thru almost 2 dozen a week... hurt$ more now than when they were 59 cents a dozen... wife has a minimum of 2 a day for breakfast and I do about 2 days a week... she has lost about 100 pounds on the high protein no carb diet... I have not.. lol

Eat it. If You get sick it's bad.

I don’t eat that many eggs, so my eggs often just sit in the frig aging out.
Recently I cracked one for some Corn Pone I was making.
You didn’t need a float test to know it was Bad!
Luckily I had some newer ones, threw the old carton away, pressed on with a good one.

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Egg prices are dropping.

Chickens just needed time to re-coop.

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My local store has not gotten the news. Eggs were 50 cents a dozen higher this week than last week.

The float test has been the standard for American eggs for a very long time.
The method used to preserve washed eggs on voyages was to coat them with vasoline to mimic the natural coating and keep out air and bacteria.

My nearest Costco has been out of eggs this week.

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Release the Kraken

They are porous because Americans wash off the protective secretion covering the eggs. That's why American eggs need to be refrigerated. Other countries don't wash them, which allows them to sell them unrefrigerated.

A side tale on powdered eggs:

In my youthful days, the Army/Navy surplus store was my favorite shopping destination. This ten-year-old spent every quarter I could save up there. One time I brought home a case of powdered eggs. Mom decided to cook up a batch. It didn't smell all that tasty. About then, My WWII Seabee dad came home from work, took a healthy sniff of the aroma, and dang near collapsed into the fetal position while gagging. The eggs had to go!

Mom decided to feed them to my Black & Tan hound, Elmer. "It will make his coat shiny," she said. Now Elmer was known to eat almost anything, including my prized Bomber fishing plugs. It hard to catch a bass after all the hooks have been clipped off trying to retrieve the plug from Elmer's mouth. The rubber worms he didn't care for, claiming they were too chewy. Elmer wouldn't touch the eggs for two days, but when he finally got hungry enough to eat them, he collapsed into a fetal position while gagging.

And that's my story; I'm sticking to it.

One “old” egg preservation method was to dip them into a sodium silicate solution (called Water Glass). That sealed the pores in the shells and the treated eggs would stay usable for up to five months at room temperature. Back in the paper cartridge days, the paper used was treated with water glass for moisture proofing.

When I was a wog, crossing the equator to become a shellback, one of the things they did to us was to feed us a “healthy breakfast” so we’d be ready for the days events. The cooks concocted this meal out of powdered eggs, green food coloring and sardines. If you didn’t eat it, you got a “doggie bag”, which consisted of have a prodigious amount of the stuff shoved down back of your dungarees, then a bunch of shellbacks would gather ‘round and wail on your butt with their shillelaghs. The object being to launch this foul smelling mix as far as they could. Talk about a mess! It took us two days to clean it up, but I swore I could still smell that stuff for months in some parts of the ship.
And of course, the newly initiated shellbacks do all the cleaning while the veteran wogs watched and laughed. Ah, the memories.

I enjoyed all of the other crossings, being a shellback, of course

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And that, my friend, is why I joined the Air force.

Rusty and his fowl jokes.

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2 Blessed 2B Stressed

We gave been keeping around 10 hens and now that the 2 girls are gone we have serious egg build ups. But, if you start giving a dozen or so to people who visit you will get more visitors

100% correct.......

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S&W Accumulator

Easy test. Crack the egg open. If the smell makes you want to puke-throw away the egg. Do I have to explain EVERYTHING for you guys????

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I believe the intent of powder eggs was to use them in baking.

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When I was a kid, my father kept a small flock of chickens for eggs and for eating. The usual procedure was when a hen quit laying, she had an appointment with the hatchet. One hen I liked quit laying, and I wanted to save her from becoming Sunday dinner. For quite a while I would steal another egg and put it in her nest. That worked, but not for too long after my mother figured out what I was doing. One of my saddest days what when my father got tired of raising chickens and killed the whole flock. Ever since, I don’t often eat chicken.

Growing up as a kid on the ranch, I gathered the eggs every evening before supper.

It was scrambled eggs for breakfast every morning before I rode my horse to school.

Every Saturday my dad would catch a hen and chop her head off.

My mom would scald it and I would pick all of the wet feathers off of it.
Mom would gut it and clean it up, and Sunday dinner would be chicken.

I got chicken sandwiches for lunch at the one room school on Monday.

I can tolerate chicken today if I have enough BBQ sauce.

I have never been to KFC, and never will be.

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I eat a lot of eggs, my wife and I eat eight at a time in some form of scramble or omellet or oven baked frittata. If an egg is questionable I crack it seperately, I don't believe I've ever had a dozen eggs sitting in the fridge long enough for them to go bad. I remember watching my grandma cracking eggs into a bowl, I asked her what the little bit of white floating around was, she said "Thats the Rooster spot." I've eaten eggs she stole from her set'in hen that had a little blood spot in them, never batted an eye. I still ain't about to eat no Blute. If grandma put it on the table it was good to go. She cooked up everything, brains, sweetbreads and scrambled it in eggs, very similar texture, throw in a handful of wild mushrooms and nettles...GOOOOOD!

A huge congratulations to your wife for that accomplishment!
I've also shed 100 unwanted pounds on a high fat/moderate protein/zero carb diet. And it was easy!
I used to be old, short, and fat. I'm still old and short

I have to watch cholesterol, so meat and eggs are consumed sparingly. I go to Aldi for egg whites, which I much prefer over yolks. Just bought 6 quarts yesterday.

Special K consumes a fair amount of eggs. She buys them up the road from a farm woman. She also gets duck eggs

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