2007-09-22 22:45:11 · 5 answers · asked by Aaron W 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
I have done this and have never had a problem.
2007-09-22 22:54:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To this day I still don't know why they put an expiration date on eggs. Probably to appease some customers. I raise chickens for personal use and have investigated the store-bought eggs.
Some egg farmers stock up the eggs until they have enough to go to market with so the eggs you buy in the store could be as old as a month by the time you get it. If you keep turning the egg, the yolk will stay in the middle and it will last for some time as long as there is no crack in the shell. The fresh yolks are very yellow - almost orange in color. I've seen store-bought eggs where the yolk is a very light yellow.
In the old days, if you were to buy an egg from an egg farmer, the way to tell a good egg from a bad is whether it floated in water or not. If it floated, you didn't buy it. Have you ever put eggs in a pot to hard boil and had one float? Guess what you got! It's not a bad egg, necessarily - just an old one.
Eggs fresh from the chicken are the PITS to peel if you plan on hard-boiling them. They need to be anywhere from 4 days to a week old to peel right without chunking off the white. I can generally take a store-bought carton, put it in water, hard boil it and peel it very easily.
If you take your egg carton and turn it upside down every 4th or 5th day, they can last well past the "date" that was put on the carton.
Keep your eggs refrigerated because if any of the eggs are fertile (meaning a rooster was there), and the temperature goes above 70º, it will try to grow - not very successfully because of the age of the egg - but it will start to create the chick and die - thus turning bad if kept warm.
2007-09-23 13:24:40 · answer #2 · answered by Rli R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eggs that reached their expiration date are still fit for consumption unless there are cracks in them. Boiled eggs will last a week longer in the ref.
2007-09-23 06:56:21 · answer #3 · answered by chizcake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, YOU WILL ONLY HAVE EXPIRED HARD BOILED EGGS
2007-09-25 15:45:26 · answer #4 · answered by gran for z&K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes....and you can keep them in the fridge for another week or so...so use them up
2007-09-23 15:20:31 · answer #5 · answered by Raylee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋