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643 points throwaway5752 | 3 comments | 05 Feb 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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colonial ◴[05 Feb 25 16:58 UTC] No.42951468[source]▶
Yup, bird flu moment. I'm very glad my family put up a chicken coop in our backyard years ago; we get a ~carton a day, and they last forever even outside the fridge due to the natural "sealant" still being intact.

Hopefully store prices will come down as the year goes on and flocks bounce back.

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ars ◴[05 Feb 25 17:09 UTC] No.42951685[source]▶
The commercial eggs also last forever outside the fridge. That thing about the natural sealant is a widely believed myth.

Source: I leave my commercial eggs outside the fridge, and they last with zero problems.

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declan_roberts ◴[05 Feb 25 18:21 UTC] No.42952853[source]▶
I don't think it's a myth compared to unwashed eggs.

You should try leaving washed eggs out on the counter for 20+ days (incubation for a chicken) and see.

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1. ars ◴[05 Feb 25 18:37 UTC] No.42953067{3}[source]▶
I've left them for 2 months (I found a big sale, so I bought a bunch). The yolk broke easily when I opened the egg, but it was perfectly fine to eat. And it was not small and dried out as implied by someone in the thread.
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2. mrguyorama ◴[05 Feb 25 23:28 UTC] No.42956870[source]▶
Food borne illnesses are not a guarantee, and doing the thing the FDA calls dangerous a hundred times might still mean you never get sick, because you got lucky or some other safety caught you.

I have eaten genuinely year old (and older) eggs with no issues. That doesn't mean it is a myth that eggs only last 5 weeks in the fridge, it just means that I was putting myself in extra danger out of a weird sense of frugality and laziness.

I've also eaten pounds and pounds of raw cookie dough and not gotten sick, but that doesn't mean raw cookie dough doesn't have an inherent salmonella danger (ironically for this conversation it mostly comes from the flour!)

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3. nearbuy ◴[06 Feb 25 02:36 UTC] No.42958336[source]▶
This is true, but the FDA doesn't back up the original claim that unwashed eggs don't need to be refrigerated. They say to put all eggs in the fridge.