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The fresh ones from a friend of ours stay unwashed on the counter top. Store bought go to the top shelf of the fridge. Orange yolks are so much better.
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Helpful Hint: Make sure the water you are washing them in is warmer than the eggs, or you may actually drive microbes on the surface of the egg's shell, via the mechanism of osmosis, into the egg itself. When the water is warmer than the egg, osmosis is working in your favor, keeping microbes from penetrating the shell.
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Found a whole pile in the barn from some migrant hens. No idea how long they were there. Mom said if they don't float in cold water, they're fine. Indeed they were.
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Orange yolks are so much better. Absolutely. That's what you get when your eggs come from hens that spend their days foraging for wild foods, bugs, small lizards, grubs, tender green leafy weeds and grasses, seeds of many varieties, etc., vs a diet of 100% commercial feed, the latter of which tends to produce pale and less flavorful yolks. This morning's breakfast:
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. Orange yolks are so much better. Absolutely. That's what you get when your eggs come from hens that spend their days foraging for wild foods, bugs, small lizards, grubs, tender wild green weeds and grasses, seeds of many varieties, etc., vs a diet of 100% commercial feed (which tends to produce pale and less flavorful yolks). This morning's breakfast: Must be painful to unignore people to read, then put them back on!
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Must be painful to unignore people to read, then put them back on! It depends on the topic. If it's a friendly discussion of eggs, for example, I read all the posts (reading posts of ignored members is a simple matter of toggling them). If it's politics, then I know that whoever is on ignore is someone who's posts I have no interest in reading due to a proven inability on their part to remain civil within such contexts.
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Helpful Hint: Make sure the water you are washing them in is warmer than the eggs, or you may actually drive microbes on the surface of the egg's shell, via the mechanism of osmosis, into the egg itself. When the water is warmer than the egg, osmosis is working in your favor, keeping microbes from penetrating the shell. Good to know👍
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Yes on refer when they come in the house, unless I know I'm eating eggs the next morning. Then I'll just leave out what I need and put the extras in with the others. The Gulag Girls have started up pretty regular again, not bad for 6 year olds. I only wash eggs if they've got a really good dose of scheidt on them. Three nest boxes in the coop, all three are laying in the same one. Seems to be a bit messier than when the first one started laying alone after the daylight came back. For those who say there's not much difference from commercial eggs to homegrown wandering chicken eggs, tell me which one is the store bought "free range" egg and which came from my hen. Plan view" elevation view of a sort:
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yep, but never a seagull egg. ask Conrad about them, I hear his relatives like them things.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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No, but I hear they are not as pleasant to each as chicken eggs, which is why they tend to be used mainly in baking.
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The fresh ones from a friend of ours stay unwashed on the counter top. Store bought go to the top shelf of the fridge. Orange yolks are so much better. ^^^This^^^ And the fresh ones I get from my friend tastes SO MUCH better.
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Fresh out of the chicken, they'll keep a month sitting on the counter. Wash off the natural film that's on them when laid and it cuts the shelf time considerably. The film keeps bacteria from penetrating the shell to spoil them. Grocery store eggs have been scrubbed and sterilized so they won't keep nearly as long. Yep.
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yep, but never a seagull egg. ask Conrad about them, I hear his relatives like them things. I’m betting Big Jim never met an egg he didn’t like. 😜
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No, but I hear they are not as pleasant to each as chicken eggs, which is why they tend to be used mainly in baking. They poof up when fried probly why there good for baking
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yep, but never a seagull egg. ask Conrad about them, I hear his relatives like them things. I’m betting Big Jim never met an egg he didn’t like. 😜 Seagull eggs sound fishy!
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As mentioned above….we don’t wash our eggs and we don’t refrigerate unwashed eggs. If they get washed they get refrigerated.
Fresh eggs are better than ones several days old.
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Fresh out of the chicken, they'll keep a month sitting on the counter. Wash off the natural film that's on them when laid and it cuts the shelf time considerably. The film keeps bacteria from penetrating the shell to spoil them. Grocery store eggs have been scrubbed and sterilized so they won't keep nearly as long. Yep. Natural film......hahaha! Do you have a natural film on your finger after you stick it up your ass?
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No, but I hear they are not as pleasant to each as chicken eggs, which is why they tend to be used mainly in baking. They poof up when fried probly why there good for baking Never ate any but baked with them.
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