The eggs in my fridge say "sell by 8/18," for how long will they be good to eat?

Question

I am interested in using them in some cake an cookie mixes. Please advise.

Answer 1

If properly stored, eggs are good for a week or two past their sell-by date. If they've gone off, you'll know when you break one open - it'll look off.

Keep them in their carton in a cold part of the fridge. Don't take them out, wash them, or store them in the door, and they'll keep just fine for one, two, even three weeks past their sell-by date. Especially in baked goods, eggs past their sell-by date are just fine.

Answer 2

CARTON DATE - Egg cartons from USDA-inspected plants must display a Julian date--the date the eggs were packed. Although not required, they may also carry an expiration date beyond which the eggs should not be sold:
Julian date is the date the eggs were packed. Starting with January 1 as number 1 and ending with December 31 as 365, these numbers represent the consecutive days of the year.

Expiration Date is the date after which the eggs cannot be sold. The expiration date cannot exceed 30 days after the eggs were packed.


4. Then open the egg container to make sure none are cracked, broken or dirty. The shells should be clean but slightly dull. Shiny shells are a sign of old eggs.

Blood Spots: Also called meat spots. Occasionally found on an egg yolk. Contrary to popular opinion, these tiny spots do not indicate a fertilized egg. Rather, they are caused by the rupture of a blood vessel on the yolk surface during formation of the egg or by a similar accident in the wall of the oviduct. Less than 1% of all eggs produced have blood spots.
TEST FOR FRESHNESS: The air cell, or the empty space between the white and shell at the large end of the egg, gets larger as the egg ages. When an egg is first laid, it is warm. As it cools, the contents contract and the inner shell membrane separates from the outer shell membrane to form the air cell. You can see the air cell in the flattened end of a peeled, hard-cooked egg.

Answer 3

The sell by date is used for grocery stores as they need to rotate their products and the sell by date is used for store shelf life purposes.
If the eggs have been in the fridge and cold then they should still be good at least for awhile longer.
I was told by a cook at a resturant that the way to tell if an egg was not any longer good was by.........
crack the egg and if the yolk sticks to the side of the shell then it is no longer good.

Hope this helps

Answer 4

No problem. By the way, the eggs in my fridge say sell by 6-07-06. I bet they'd be alright too. (Now you won't want to have a meal at my house.) I have boiled them, in the past when the sell date was way overdue, and they were fine. Once an egg floated in the boiling pan, so I threw it out.

Answer 5

As long as they are in the fridge (4C), 3-5 weeks after the date.

Answer 6

Usually about a week after the sell by date.

Answer 7

issues normally final each week after the sell-by ability of date... So i do no longer think of i could try them! Eggs only final approximately 21 days after the poultry lays them besides (or perhaps shorter in case you wash the shells!).

Answer 8

I'm on WIC so I get a lot of eggs, I have used them up to a month past that date and I haven't had any problems

Answer 9

You can usually use them for about a week after the sell by date, if you are cooking them in the oven, all the bacteria and everything will cook away anyway, i would use them, and I bake all the time!

Answer 10

all these people are saying use within a week, **** i had eggs in my fridge from january, and i still used them