My little brother actually asked if he could “count the eggs” because he assumed that’s what we were doing. 😄
Greatest trick I learned is to open the carton, and then gently shake it side to side while watching the eggs. Check the ones that didn’t wiggle.
I do something g similar, open the package and kind of pinch them in pairs to see if any are stuck to the carton.
Works vastly better on the plastic cartons than the old (and still current) paper cartons. I remember mom carefully inspecting eggs.
Oh wow plastic cartons for eggs are still a thing? What a total waste of oil
This is learned behavior though. It’s not obvious. I learned it from my parents. He obviously didn’t.
Used to work at a grocery store and it is definitely rational to peek inside to make sure the goods are all intact. Even the fancy expensive eggs that are packaged like Fort Knox come in broken sometimes. This didn’t bother us.
Please don’t block the whole case while you open carton after carton swapping eggs to get the perfect dozen. Please don’t make a mess of the shelf digging all the way to the back for the freshest eggs/milk. You might find something a couple days fresher, but you are slowing everyone else down. There’s not a magic carton that won’t expire for eight months back there.
Also, don’t ask the stocker if they have anything fresher In Back. The back stock isn’t some magic endless space where we hide all of the freshest/best stuff. It’s probably cramped and organized so that the newest stock is rotated to the back/bottom of a stack, so digging through it just for you is a big waste of everyone’s time that will potentially fuck with inventory.
I used to laugh at the segment of Clerks that rants about what I just did, but after working at a few different stores, people are absolutely like this.
Nah I am 100% rummaging at the back for the extra day or two of dated sorry bro.
I wonder how many countries sell eggs in dozens vs tens. I know Japan sells 10. I feel like if the dozen concept isn’t in the language it’s kind of a random quantity.
Where I live in Colombia, we can get eggs in dozens, but it’s more common to find packs of 15 or 30 in the supermarket.
If I shop at the mom-and-pop tienda on my block, they’ll sell me exactly the number of eggs I ask for.
Dozen is likely just technically easier, since if you split it in half, you get 6, but if you split 10 half, you get 5. And only 5 is harder to package. I’ve seen 4 eggs sold as well, but 6 and 12 are probably close enough, around the numbers people reasonably need.
Denmark here, depending on supermarket and brand, you usually get them in 6, 8 and 10. Less common is 4 and they are usually large eggs. 15 and 30 is also a thing but not something I look for so I might underrepresent them in my comment
Life would be so boring, if people stopped putting up every dumb thought they have online for our amusement.
a) Eggs come in 6 or a dozen. Fridge has little shelf with holes for 8 eggs.
b) I always feel as if a supermarket employee is gonna get really offended, and start telling me I can’t open the eggs to check they’re not cracked. They won’t, because they honestly couldn’t give a fuck, they’re just trying to get through their shift. But the feeling is there. Egganoia makes me feel as if the security cameras are zooming in, though, making sure I don’t pocket an egg. “Hey, we saw video of a woman in a supermarket in Russia shoving a raw chicken up her hoo-hah! It’s not impossible you might wanna pocket an egg, fella!”
Supermarket employee doesn’t care. Supermarket employee also checks the eggs before buying them!
id be more suspicious of a store that would take offense at you checking
You don’t need to fridge eggs, if they are not opened.
The skin under the shellbloom is there to protect the intended chicken from yeast and bacteria.Edit: ok, the “bloom” outside mostly, if you don’t wash it off. I only know eggs unrefigerated so far. And colored ones, them are cooled …and also nasty and hard to peel.
If your eggs were refrigerated or washed, definitely refrigerate.
This is not correct, according to the states, and generally seems incorrect as well. The “bloom” on the outside of an unwashed egg protects the insides. In the US, eggs sold in grocery stores are washed so they have to be refrigerated.
https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/what-you-need-know-about-egg-safety
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/eggs/shell-eggs-farm-table
This is only true for American eggs because you guys fuck up the eggs by “washing” them. The rest of the world is not as dumb, and these normal unwashed eggs can live on the counter for a while, no problem. They stay fresh longer while in the fridge either way.
Well dude, i dont know how to appease you. I pointed out that it was a states thing and I pointed out that it had to do with washed eggs. I even bolded “unwashed” from the get go.
Further i believe other countries take care to treat their birds for salmonella, whereas the states just wash the eggs.
I have hens so my eggs are cloaca to counter. No sweat off my sack.
I have hens
I’ve seen them packed in 4s as well. 10 packs are common, and I’ve seen cartons of 15 as well. Dunno who determines that. I swear we had cartons of 12 too but I haven’t seen any in a long while. Am I going crazy?
I keep them in the carton in the fridge anyway and my egg shelf has butter and cheese, so problem solved :p
Vincent…………are we happy?
Eggs are probably one of the few grocery store items, where opening the packaging and checking them before purchase is a must do.
also corn flakes
The other day Costco noticed a single cracked egg at the checkout and I stood around afterward for ten minutes waiting for a replacement. Like, I appreciate the customer service, but I was fine with the cracked egg. There were 127 others intact.
wow, they sell eggs in powers of two ?
edit do you routinely buy eggs by the hundreds ? is that 8 times 16 eggs ? 16 times 8 eggs ?
time was you’d get a gross (144) but we got shrinkflated i guess
144 ? is that 9 times 16 ? I’m trying to figure out the carton shape
i remember them coming in five layers last time i bought one. been a while since i did a sunrise picnic in the park, that’s the next generation’s job now.
they stack eggs in 3D ?!
4D if you watch me eat them
1212, or 66*4.
Are people actually having issues of cracked eggs? I have never in my whole life ran into, or heard of anyone else running into a cracked egg in a carton.
Shop at aldi and you will find entire crates of eggs that are cracked.
German efficiency. That way you can check that all the eggs are full, so you don’t get an empty one.
You shop at more expensive stores than me. I swear they employ someone whose sole job is to crack eggs
Wow. Where I shop, egg cracking is only one of the jobs of the guy, he also spills sugar, dents cans, removes one soda can tab per pack, bruises tomatoes, pretty much all these jobs.
Oh yeah it’s a big store here. Also we got a powerful union, one job, one dude. I was the sugar spiller for a season, but I kept getting ants in bed no matter how much I washed and changed sheets.
I really gotta stop eating there, but maybe next job I’ll have less ants
well now you just jinxed yourself.
Yep, had happened to me twice recently after not happening for a long time. It’s like the seatbelt in the car, most of the time you don’t need it, but when you do, you’re happy that you did.
And not just look, wiggle each egg to verify it haven’t cracked in the bottom which will make it stick to the package
Yep. Eggs and seatbelts, Totally as important.
Gotta get the protein!
Well they’re protected by paper mache. So yeah cracked eggs are a problem. I don’t want to deal with that and I can avoid dealing with that by opening the box.
They started pretending they could avoid people opening the carton by just using flimsy clear shit plastic cartons here. Still gotta take out the cracked eggs though, just don’t have to open the carton to find em anymore which is nice
It happens. I can’t say it’s super common, but even with the protection of the cartons, accidents happen. Hell, I’ve checked in store, and had an egg crack on the way home from braking hard. Only once, but it shows that the right forces in the right way can cause cracks.
I haven’t bought eggs in years now (yay for my hen!), but I’d see it maybe twice a year or so
I don’t want to be behind you when you brake.
I wouldn’t either tbh. Small car, great brakes, and I don’t speed. So when I hit them to prevent a problem, that fucker stops.
Yeah, saw a whole box of cracked eggs last time I bought them.
You’re not supposed to drop them.
I run into it often, but I live in a rural place where eggs are commonly sold in huge quantities (like bulk 5 and 1/2 dozen cartons). Usually I’ll find another carton that’s got cracked eggs as well, and swap for some good ones.
The real psychos are the ones just grabbing the top front carton of eggs and never checking it. You must live a much more charmed existence than me!
I just wiggle each one to make sure they move. I buy whatever is cheapest/sale so mix of Styrofoam and cardboard containers. And I probably end up with old eggs so I guess I really am the dunce here. Haha.
Old eggs peel better though and I have yet to encounter an egg actually turning bad, so it might be the better deal even.
Rule
At the moment where i am there’s some shrinkflation nonsense where sometimes they’ll lower the “average total” weight on the “mixed” size eggs but change nothing on the packaging (apart from the weight, on the bottom).
So I’m checking to see if I’ve got a pack of tiny eggs that just rattle around in the packaging.
But i do a rattle check first.
If I’ve got the tiny eggs i just buy a different brand instead (until they change it back)
