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colonial ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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sethammons ◴[] No.42955833[source]
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8561600/

what myth are you talking about?

The study found that washed eggs had higher bacterial counts in their contents after storage compared to unwashed eggs, particularly at higher temperatures. Key findings include:

Cold Storage (4°C for 8 weeks): There was no significant difference in bacterial counts between washed and unwashed eggs.

Warm Storage (30°C for 12 days): Washed eggs showed significantly higher bacterial contamination, suggesting that washing increased the likelihood of bacterial penetration.

Bacterial Types: The number of hemolytic bacteria and coli-aerogenes was also higher in washed eggs.

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1. ars ◴[] No.42957520[source]
First of all the washing procedure they used is not what is used commercially. Commercially they also spray mineral oil on the eggs which this study did not do.

And then of course there's this line:

"These differences between unwashed and washed eggs are not significant."