when was the last time an egg you broke open was bad?

this has literally never happened to me

nope me neither

Ditto. I think.

I assume I’d know if it has happened

i mean i've bought and eaten century eggs so i guess i'm telling a baldfaced lie there but they are sold and advertised as being very extremely non-fresh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

This has happened to me and it was the worst thing ever

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/39700000/Boiled-Scotch-Ostrich-Egg-random-39795616-2048-1536.jpg

imagine a rotten ostrich egg, or even worse an ostrich scotch egg...

this has only happened to me once and it was probably 6 or 7 years ago i don't know

so i'm guessing the innovation of best-before date is a p good gatekeeper and that's why we don't all these days spin* our eggs before we crack them into a batter

*(rotten ones spin easily and well as the nasty mass is distributed uniformly within, fresh ones lollop around and soon stop as the yolk lurches about)

I do the float test.

with every single egg?

No only when the sell-by date on the eggs in the fridge induces suspicion.

I don't keep them in the fridge, use them after the best before date, and don't think I've ever had a bad one

white American that I am I keep both eggs and ketchup in the fridge.

Is this pro-life propaganda.

I keep ketchup in the fridge, I'm not v consistent

silby: did the float test ever save you from catastrophe? (i assume it never failed you or you wouldn't go on using it)
NV: my mum always eggs and tomatos are spoiled by fridging (and she had had egg disasters but obviously grew up before the sell-by revolution and in and and among farms where eggs might be straight from the hen's bum OR spotted who knows how long after resting in a hedge somewhere)

i keep all kinds of needless stuff in the fridge -- jam! -- but that's partly just because it's convenient space-wise and partly bcz i am very absent-minded

The great thing about the float test is you get a linear readout of spoiledness so while there’s maybe been a couple times I detected an entirely bad egg there’s been many more times where my verdict was “eh that’s fine” and it always was.

I'd put up with the odd rotten egg or even shortages if those industrial egg factories were abolished. A friend used to work in one and used tell me about the kind of grim humour that develops working in such places, although I can't remember what the joke was but it was usually about finding dead hens with their necks caught in the cage wire or something.

It was some time in 2018 or so, while making breakfast. Had to clean out the pan and start over. Prior to that, it had been over a decade.

I had to look up a picture to see what this would look like. I don't think it has ever happened. Once I left some eggs in the back of a fridge and they were kind of slushy when I cracked them open. I prefer when I don't have to refrigerate them.

I love eggs so much.

i keep all kinds of needless stuff in the fridge -- jam!

there is a need, for the jam to feel nice and cold when u eat it

I don’t think this has ever happened to me. And I eat plenty of eggs.

Keep them in a cupboard, not the fridge, and float test if concerned.

i don't even own an egg

i need a non-ugly egg rack in a cooler kitchen

i don't even own an egg

lolllll

a few months ago in the staff kitchen at work. it was really horrible

sure, blame it on the egg

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I had to look up an egg rack. I just usually keep them in a bowl beside the stove. My kitchen will get super hot in the summer but I will only put some in the fridge if I buy more than I will eat in one week.

this is the kind of ugly one i don't want:

http://www.antiquerevival.co.uk/image/cache/data/INDO/Egg%20Rack%20(600x434)-1050x1200.jpg

ornate egg bunk bed

you ever get a fishy egg?

I regularly eat eggs past the sell by date, since I don’t go through them fast enough, and I think this has happened to me maybe once.

I never even look at the sell by date.

i finish my eggs fairly quickly so i never have any that are past their sell by date but i do just get the occasional fishy one anyway

theory: eggs in canada are not as good as they are in dear old blighty

i feel like my mom would have the same carton of eggs in the fridge for over a month. It was always fine. I go through eggs pretty fast though. I think I had an egg problem at one point where I was eating like 5 a day.

what does fishy mean? it smells?

I've googled the phenomenon to confirm I'm not crazy:

Interestingly, in some hens that lay brown eggs, eating too much canola or rapeseed meal can cause a fishy smell in the eggs . Not all hens are affected by the process that causes the smell. The smell is caused by the accumulation of trimethylamine (TMA) in the yolk.

it'll be the canola meal

oh weird. i have never noticed this and I am usually really annoyingly sensitive to smells. I usually just get surprised by the super pale yolks of eggs in the US.

yeah you would notice if you had one of these things. the smell is noticeable, but the taste is stronger. had a bad bite of shakshuka a couple weeks ago, ruined my whole dinner

I eat eggs 4/5 days out of 7 I think. I don't always cook them myself - there's nothing quite like a quick hungover egg mayo on the way to work. But I do cook them a lot and I've never really seen a bad one. Sometimes there's a bit of red, but that's not what we're talking about, right?

Eggs is good. I think we've rolled back into eggs are healthy again in the UK at least.

yeah even when i was eating 5 eggs a day my cholesterol/bloodwork was insanely good. eggs are such a perfect food.

https://i.imgur.com/fUHkUVl.jpg

I grew up in the country and when I was very young we had some chickens so occasionally there would be a bad egg (I'm guessing we sometimes waited too long before collecting them). I also have a childhood memory of my mom cracking open an egg and there being a dead chick in it, which seems gross in retrospect, but I guess when you're 6 years old or whatever nothing really seems that weird or abnormal.

I wish I had a shell gland pouch.

I bet women wish they laid eggs instead of live birth

I wish I laid haribo.

*at the ultrasound* "Looks like your having Peaches"
*slight disappointment*

I wish gummy bears came out when i pee

corrugated eggs, not the best building material

chick in the egg = balut, i'm not going to post a picture bcz it's VERY GROSS but it's in this list: https://www.hostelworld.com/blog/the-50-weirdest-foods-from-around-the-world/

(i've eaten 13/50 of these -- plus also some bugs not listed -- but i'm going to give balut a miss i think, it's VERY GROSS)

some weird pedestrian inclusions on the list (spam, marmite, tartar?)

My mom used to make chicken feet a lot. I would come downstairs for breakfast and open the pot on the stove and see a bunch of chicken feet sticking up. I would go back to bed.

this has now happened to me, 2020 continues to deliver

I get my eggs/milk from a local dairy farm now delivered to the doorstep by a nightcreep milkman, he usually turns up at 2-3 am. But the eggs are consistently a+ I'm not joking they are like the ones you see on cooking programs that always seem impossibly golden compared to supermarket ones.