Determining Eggs Freshness in Water
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Ivan the Butcher
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Those tattooed eggs are from Black Leather Clad Biker Chickens. But there isn't a bad egg in the bunch!
Ivan
Ivan
kwselke
Member
Pressure cooker
You got me thinking it was time to get a new cooker so I grabbed one at the store. Wasn't too hungry that night so I boiled some eggs in it & made a chicken salad sandwich. It worked great. Gotta do more experimenting with it. Thanks for mentioning it.
Guess what the second thing was I cooked in it?
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You got me thinking it was time to get a new cooker so I grabbed one at the store. Wasn't too hungry that night so I boiled some eggs in it & made a chicken salad sandwich. It worked great. Gotta do more experimenting with it. Thanks for mentioning it.
Guess what the second thing was I cooked in it?
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Fishslayer
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
This picture and Rusty1953's information must be for eggs that are not refrigerated.
I buy eggs from small local farms. I know they are fresh because to get any at all I either have to call ahead and reserve some or get there early in the morning. At the farm I buy from most often the lady will go down to the chicken coup to see if she can fill up a carton but that's mostly because she wants her hubby to get some guy talk about guns, fishing, boating and the like. I'll try the test in the picture starting with six eggs the day they are laid. Three I'll store in the refrigerator and three at room temperature. At the end of the three weeks I'll break the eggs that were stored at room temperature.
Most fresh eggs have orange yolks. During the time it takes to make it to the grocery store the yolks lighten to yellow. It takes over two weeks without refrigeration for the yolks of freshly laid eggs to get as light colored as grocery store egg yolks.
Check back in a month for the results.
Regarding James Bond's eggs, my now 95 year old mother spent a year in England as an exchange elementary school teacher. Her hosts usually fried tomatoes with their eggs. When I call her in a day or two I'll ask whether they flipped their eggs while frying them. However, this forum has enough members in England that you'll get more knowledgeable information from them.
USDA rules allow refrigerated eggs up to 5 months old to be sold as "fresh eggs." You would be lucky if you bought grocery store eggs that are under 2 months old. Knowing that, is a grocery store egg that was in your refrigerator a few weeks a big concern? I do not think so but if it concerns you just break the eggs into a bowl so that each one can be smelled before it is added to the others.
I buy eggs from small local farms. I know they are fresh because to get any at all I either have to call ahead and reserve some or get there early in the morning. At the farm I buy from most often the lady will go down to the chicken coup to see if she can fill up a carton but that's mostly because she wants her hubby to get some guy talk about guns, fishing, boating and the like. I'll try the test in the picture starting with six eggs the day they are laid. Three I'll store in the refrigerator and three at room temperature. At the end of the three weeks I'll break the eggs that were stored at room temperature.
Most fresh eggs have orange yolks. During the time it takes to make it to the grocery store the yolks lighten to yellow. It takes over two weeks without refrigeration for the yolks of freshly laid eggs to get as light colored as grocery store egg yolks.
Check back in a month for the results.
Regarding James Bond's eggs, my now 95 year old mother spent a year in England as an exchange elementary school teacher. Her hosts usually fried tomatoes with their eggs. When I call her in a day or two I'll ask whether they flipped their eggs while frying them. However, this forum has enough members in England that you'll get more knowledgeable information from them.
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