egg test

[sjmjax]

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.

 

[LVSteve]

My nearest Costco has been out of eggs this week.

 

[SMSgt]

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.

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.

 

[SMSgt]

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

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.

 

[DWalt]

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.

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.

 

[tlawler]

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.

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

 

[SMSgt]

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

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

 

[Chik a Boom]

Egg prices are dropping.

Chickens just needed time to re-coop.

Rusty and his fowl jokes.

 

[steelslaver]

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

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

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.

100% correct.......

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

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????

 

[mtgianni]

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.

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

 

[DWalt]

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.

 

[Iggy]

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.

 

[Kinman]

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!

 

[Donna K]

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

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

 

[Narragansett]

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