Our eggs must now be keep cold. Why? When did this become a lthing to do? When i cook i take my eggs out of the refrigerator and let them become room temp. If i know that i am going to use them i sometimes dont even put them away, i leave them out on the counter. Also i try to buy fresh eggs from the farmers market when i can. Plus is it true that store eggs are bleached?
2006-09-19 08:03:56 · 14 answers · asked by nieceofmissourifats 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
I'm with that flypoop guy.....if you had chickens that layed eggs, you could collect them, leave them out, and use them within a day or two without refrigerating them.
2006-09-19 08:07:22 · answer #1 · answered by Shyguy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eggs can be held at 50degrees or so for a long time, but about 1990 new regs. were instituted for safety reasons, but mostly to protect people from themselves. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone bleaching their eggs for sale. The fresh eggs from the farm will be better than store-bought because they are fresher. It's not a good idea to let the eggs reach room-temp and then refrigerate, and only take out what you plan to use that day.
2006-09-19 15:18:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never heard of a bleached egg. White shelled eggs are white to begin with, no bleaching needed. Eggs will stay good without refrigeration as long as the shell is not cracked and the egg is not cooked (hard or soft boiled) but will last far longer in the frige. The best way to tell if an egg is bad is to crack it open, it the smell offends, throw it out!
2006-09-19 15:08:09 · answer #3 · answered by harleychic 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Once eggs are refrigerated, it does something to them and then they tend to spoil quicker if you leave them out later. At least this is what a farmer told me.
It also doesn't help the eggs you're getting from most supermarkets are produced by massive factory farms. Chickens in cages so small they can't turn around + disease + poor ventilation + constant antiobiotic use to keep overcrowded birds alive = eggs that aren't as healthy or disease-free as they used to be.
Store eggs may be rinsed because of the massive amounts of feces/disease the factory farms have. (I am not making this up and it's not some wacky Animal Rights agenda) If they rinse them, I could see where they could add a little chlorine to keep kill pathogrens.
The bright white eggs are white because of the genetics of the chicken, not because they were Brown Eggs soaked in bleach.
2006-09-19 15:14:25 · answer #4 · answered by Funchy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
eggs were collected and used daily back in the day, and if not they still would only keep for a certain amount of time. eggs back then also had to be checked by candle light to make sure that they weren't fertile yet. back then eggs were eaten every morning for breakfast so they really only sat around a day or two.
the reason eggs seem to last longer now is because thay aren't fertile and we do refrigerate them. they aren't as fresh as they claim them to be.
i don't know about the bleaching, but they are cleaned.
2006-09-19 15:25:46 · answer #5 · answered by KAREN A 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Years ago, they had refrigerators that used big blocks of ice to cool a box on top...hence the word "icebox" they did keep eggs in it for freshness, because the milkman would deliver your eggs, milk, and cream. Before that your great grandparents probably owned their own chickens and the eggs were right there for the eating. If you leave eggs to room temp you are risking salmonella, because you won't know how fresh the eggs are to begin with.
2006-09-19 15:07:43 · answer #6 · answered by Laurie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eggs, back in the day, were used that very day...however, now that eggs are packaged and shipped to stores around the country, they are not used for many days on end. To keep them fresh, they have to refrigerate them.
2006-09-19 15:05:22 · answer #7 · answered by flyboop_2000 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Don't know about the bleached thing - but, eggs have been refrigerated ever since I have been in the kitchen (50 yrs). . .
you/ve got a good point tho, what did folks do before refrigerators>? All our ancestors did not die of salmonella poisoning . . .
2006-09-19 15:07:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that is a big lie that eggs must be kept refrigerated! In most supermarkets eggs are not refrigerated, so why refrigerating it at home? Just leave it in a cold and dry place.
2006-09-19 15:07:22 · answer #9 · answered by Angel 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I recently read ( somewhere , I cant remember where ) that in the UK , they dont refrigerate their eggs because they ( the egg industry ) dont wash them. Apparently , washing them removes a protective coating from the porous shell , so they subsequently need to be refrigerated .
http://allchiara.com/2006/09/04/very-slightly-different/
2006-09-19 15:06:31 · answer #10 · answered by a.gash 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋