It's so hot here atm, i'm not sure where the best place is to store fresh eggs? I don't want the to go off quickly and smell so on the bench, in the cupboard or in the fridge???
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It's so hot here atm, i'm not sure where the best place is to store fresh eggs? I don't want the to go off quickly and smell so on the bench, in the cupboard or in the fridge???
We always keep ours in the fridge??
I put my eggs straight in the fridge when I get home. If I am going to cook something that needs room temp eggs, I take them out in the morning.
I am curious as to what everyone else does, the cartons say refrigerate, I know people who keep them in their pantry.
I keep them anywhere and everywhere. Cool place is best, but I usually check they are OK with the water test.
When I'm on top of my baking, I keep my eggs in my chooks :D
Fridge here but Kal is sooooooooooo hot! At first glance I thought this was an IVF thread :lol:
Sink= Bad and Float= Good?? Pretty sure that's how it goes.:
Nope - float = bad (sulphur dioxide = rotten egg gas = float)
Sink good.
Definitely the fridge. Am pretty certain that it's sink = good, float = bad, as when eggs start to go bad gas is created inside the egg, and this makes it float.
Thanks Ladies! :)
I keep mine in the pantry.
It's too hot here to store them anywhere but the fridge, but then we argue on whether or not to store them in the door or the fridge.
I prefer the fridge so their temp doesn't fluctuate too much but DH argues that why would the fridge come with special egg storers in the door if that wasn't where you were supposed to keep them....um how about so that people buy them and so that useless space looks less useless???
fridge at our place :D
mmmmmmmmmmm, eggs ... omm nom nom nom nom ...
Fridge, if you're baking its best to take out what you need the night before so they can warm up a little.
And float = bad, sink = good :)
In my ovaries :rofl:
had to have a second glance at what forum it was posted in, i seriously thought it was in the conception area..LOL.
My chook eggs are usually in the fridge, although had a visit from DD's great grandparents who live on a chook farm and they brought a tray of about 30 eggs down with them..so they are sitting on the bench because they won't all fit in the fridge.
And yep, if they sink (lying flat on the bottom) they are fine & fresh, if they sink but stand on one end then they are still ok to use but are starting to go stale and if they float toss them straight away!
Mine are in the fridge but not in the door, on the shelf, for once I actually have some at home.
Looking forward to Kazbah fresh eggs in a few weeks ;)
Always kept them in the fridge.
We have chooks and I only put eggs in the fridge when we have more than 12..... I will put the new ones in the fridge and the older ones in the pantry. I use the room temperature ones first and then move the ones from the fridge into the pantry when they are needed. When we are low on eggs, I get them out of the coop and put them straight into our food!
We keep ours in the fridge too! :)
Fridge...
When I am baking I pull them out the night before with my butter and let them come to temp.... or in an emergency situation, under the boob in the bra is ace for warming them up :) :)
I think mine would break them LOL:
Pantry. I used to put them in the fridge but once we got chickens and got a bit more information about looking after chooks and eggs I read that they last longer in the pantry. But if it was really really hot I think I'd be looking for other options also.
We keep our eggs in the fridge and I always crack into a glass before into the bowl/pan etc. One day I'll get a rotten one and regret doing it that way :lol: :lol:
That sink/float egg thing isn't foolproof - I once brought back fresh eggs from my Gran's farm and half of them floated. So I cracked the floatiest into a cup and it was fine. :dunno:
So now I still do the sink/float test, and if it floats I'll break it into a cup to be sure.
Oh, and pantry. Do they really last longer in the pantry? In my experience this seems to be true, but why?
We keep store bought eggs in the fridge.
We also have chooks but with their fresh eggs, we know they are fresh and keep them on the kitchen bench as we have them for breakfast every day (:) ) FRESH so they don't need to be refrigerated ;)