Question regarding fresh farm eggs.....

[ramyankee]

We get our milk and our eggs from farmers/ranchers in our area. The question is: our Granddaughter brought some eggs to the house (finally) but had left them in the car for a day. Outside temperature was probably 90* and that was just yesterday. I do not know how long they had been in her car the day before/what time of day she had put them in her car. They HAD been there for one full day. Mornings are usually 35*..............Your opinions of safety of those eggs.....
Thank you

[Cruzette]

When it came to food safety, my mom use to say "if in doubt, through it out!"

As for floating eggs in water, that applies to eggs that are too old to eat, not eggs that have spoiled.

The reason why old eggs float is due to the amount of air inside the egg shell. Over time, air passes through the egg shell as the egg begin to shrink.
For more egg facts

[USARMYCW]

Pangaea Ron wrote:
USARMYCW

I like the theory that you need to test your system occasionally.

Believe me, the US Army tested my system more than any body would ever need. 😛

[SWMO]

When they float one has to think about what is making them float. I would toss.

[Happytraveler]

USARMYCW wrote:
My motto is "when in doubt, throw it out". I don't gamble on getting sick.

Same here, I would toss them.

[swtgran]

The 90 degrees outside wouldn't bother me as much as the greenhouse effect, inside the car. If it is 90 outside, it can get a whole lot hotter inside.

[Little_Kopit]

I haven't read everything.

I'm 71.

As a child I lived on a farm.

My morning and evening chores included feeding the hens and checking and collecting the eggs. Got that: 2x a day. Before school, before suppers.

Now in the summer temperatures certainly went up into the 90s. Once the eggs were in the house, they were taken to the cool basement. & my father took care of them for sale. He would deliver them to our buyer 1x a month.


I know we had a reputation for good quality eggs.

So, you see eggs will tolerate a certain amount of heat and cold.

That test of putting them in a pot of room temperature water is a good one.

Remember sailing boats coat eggs or store them in sawdust for voyages several months long.

:C

[Pangaea_Ron]

USARMYCW

I like the theory that you need to test your system occasionally.

[Wagonqueen_Truc]

those eggs are just fine. My girl's eggs sometimes sit in the 90 degree coop for an entire day before we get down to gathering them. And true, unwashed eggs are good unrefridgerated for a month or longer.

[USARMYCW]

My motto is "when in doubt, throw it out". I don't gamble on getting sick.

[SWMO]

When I was a little younger my folks had a mom and pop grocery and my first job was candleing eggs every Saturday morning. The farmers would bring them in every Saturday morning and we sell them through the week until we ran out sometimes. I was about 10 at the time.

[Pangaea_Ron]

Re: Son's eggs

There's another joke in there somewhere.

[Francesca_Knowl]

Super_Dave wrote:
I'd do an experiment and put them back in the car to see if any of them hatch.

I'll bet you think you're kidding...my husband brought in a basket of eggs one morning, and while I was making lunch a few hours later I kept hearing a faint "peeping" coming from the vicinity of the basket. You guessed it- he'd picked up several that one of the hens must have been brooding and they were starting to HATCH! Little buggers were actually pecking from the inside...

Back they went where he found them- next day, here came mama banty with three new chicks!

[Super_Dave]

I'd do an experiment and put them back in the car to see if any of them hatch.

[Escargot]

Pangaea Ron wrote:
We test our son's eggs by submerging them in water.

If the sink they are OK
If they are suspended vertically in the water, use them quickly.
If the float, don't use them.

Smell is another obvious test when you break the egg open.

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