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Showing Original Post only (View all)How to tell if your eggs are fresh [View all]
From the Homesteading/Survivalism Facebook Page:
How to Tell if an Egg is Bad
Place the egg into a bowl of cold water. The water level should be about 2 times higher than the egg.
Fresh eggs will sink to the bottom of the bowl and probably lie on their sides. Slightly older eggs (about one week) will lie on the bottom but bob slightly.
If the egg balances on its smallest tip, with the large tip reaching for the top, it's probably close to three weeks old. Eggs that float at the surface are bad and should not be consumed.
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The older the egg the easier it peels when boiled. So use the less fresh ones.
TalkingDog
Oct 2012
#13
Nice to know. I love hard boiled eggs and I always start them off that way. I didn't
brewens
Oct 2012
#6
Almost all of the eggs you buy are months old before they hit the shelves anyway
1-Old-Man
Oct 2012
#9
I thought any eggs purchased from a grocery chain were already a couple of weeks old
Sekhmets Daughter
Oct 2012
#10
Note: the same methodology works on witches! If it floats, it's a witch!
OffWithTheirHeads
Oct 2012
#26