To chill, or not to chill...

Two items I find interesting that are rarely brought up when discussions of this topic are brought up are summed up in this quoted section of the article:

"Once you start refrigeration, you have to have it through the whole value chain, from farm to store. Because if you stop — if the eggs are cold and you put them in a warm environment — they're going to start sweating," says Guyonnet.

No one wants sweaty eggs. They can get moldy. Another perk of consistent refrigeration is shelf life: It jumps from about 21 days to almost 50 days.

As a consumer, this just reinforces my practice of refrigerating eggs, but not worrying because I left them out on the counter for an hour or so.

If you saw the inside of the factory chicken farms where store bought eggs come from you'd know why. :W

I remember coating the shells with Vaseline when we used to tent camp. This extends the shelf life without refrigeration

rockhillmanor wrote:
If you saw the inside of the factory chicken farms where store bought eggs come from you'd know why. :W

??? Re: chicken farms
Of course in the chicken house where they lay their eggs there is lots of chicken Poop but then they come in through the conveyer belt to area that is air conditioned. Each egg is washed by hand and placed in crate and put in a further air conditioned/refrigerated room. The chicken houses are cleaned after each bunch of chickens and dozed out (with some very good fertilizer produced I might add). The companies come by and inspect everything on a regular basis and are very strict with the rules for the growers. Then the eggs are picked up often and taken away for further cleaning and processing. somebody has to do the dirty work.LOL

BTW, Magnusfide, how did your DO weekend in Hot Springs go? I really want to do that one of these days!

Coming from a farming family I had the rare and valuable experience of smelling the poop of all types of animals.

Nothing alive on this earth smells worse than a chicken coop. As a youngster I would do ANYTHING to avoid chicken coop cleaning duty. :)

We never chilled the eggs.

Dog Folks wrote:
Coming from a farming family I had the rare and valuable experience of smelling the poop of all types of animals.

Nothing alive on this earth smells worse than a chicken coop. As a youngster I would do ANYTHING to avoid chicken coop cleaning duty. :)

We never chilled the eggs.

Pig Poop???:E

rightlaneonly wrote:

Dog Folks wrote:
Coming from a farming family I had the rare and valuable experience of smelling the poop of all types of animals.

Nothing alive on this earth smells worse than a chicken coop. As a youngster I would do ANYTHING to avoid chicken coop cleaning duty. :)

We never chilled the eggs.

Pig Poop???:E

Yep, smelled it, but everyone has their own "flavor." I still think chicken is the worst.

I think we do it right here in U.S. Any Protein Item that is also moist can easily be a Breeding Ground for Bacteria unless it is refrigerated.

I remember how upset I was when the USDA told us not to eat cake batter with raw eggs. I did it anyway!