I went in the grocery store this morning to buy drinks to take to work this coming week. Plenty of sodas, water, etc. but the eggs and milk were wiped out.

There was a lady ( wearing a surgical mask too) in  the check out line in front of me bought 27 dozen eggs and 10 gallons of milk.  I guess she got all they had left in stock.  Why try to stockpile/hoard eggs and milk?  They won't keep long term.

This grab/hoard behavior beats anything I have ever seen.

easy to freeze the milk
eggs.... naw...

Eggs will keep for up to 6 months if you coat them with oil. At least that is what I have been told. I think that is even unrefrigerated. We have laying hens, if you don’t wash them and remove the coating until you are ready to use them, they last for quite some time.

I think the main effect of Corona is that it induces panic and hysteria.

That is exactly right. Use some common sense things to avoid the sickness but this going apeshit is totally unecessary.

A freshly laid egg, unwashed, will keep a month sitting on the kitchen counter. The hen leaves a bacteria resistant coating on the shell that's been washed off of grocery store eggs. Oil might keep bacteria out but how about the bacteria that are already on them when you buy them?

i went yesterday about 1\4 of the shelf were bare.ththe people were filling there carts up like it were the last day to shop .the check out girl was suprised that i only had a few things .

We picked up a few groceries yesterday, the store had lots of signs up limiting how much customers could buy per day. Limits included 2 cartons of milk any style/size, 2 packages of bread products of any style/size, 4 cans of soup of any brand/size, 2 packages of pasta any style/size, 1 package of TP. I'm pretty sure eggs and butter were limited too but didn't look to see what they were. My wife talked a gal she knows who works there who looked frazzled, lots of folks in the check out lines were being rude when they were told they were over their limit. She said someone had just thrown a package of butter at a cashier when they were told they were over their daily limit.

Now that is just plain rude. It is a good thing Woodrow Call did not see that.

My grandmother used to keep eggs in a crock with lime water. They would last until the new chickens would start laying again.

Grocery stores need to implement strict limits per person during this emergency. The time to stock up was BEFORE the emergency. During the emergency, the main danger is stores with empty shelves because people who didn't already maintain a back supply of essentials are hoarding during the emergency.

Actually, milk will freeze, just fine. I have a couple gallons in the freezer right now.

I'm glad I don't depend on grocery stores for my supply of eggs. I get them fresh from the hen. Sadly, due to recent predation on them, though, I'm only getting just enough for my own needs, and just barely that. Ordinarily, this would be the time where I go pick up some chicks, but I've sort of battened down the hatches here, and don't want to go into the public for that. Hopefully, I don't lose anymore hens. If not, I'm good with eggs till next October, when my hens usually go into dormancy and stop laying till late December, early January. Ordinarily, I will have stockpiled enough to get me through that period, but (absent a new supply of hens), this year I likely will be consuming them as I get them.

I was in town Friday, picked up 5 pullet chicks to augment my flock...was in the plans before the COVID.

Can the regular home user take some eggs out of the shell, put them in a freezer bag & freeze them?
I know in the food service industry they can buy pails of eggs either fresh or frozen.
My wife used to work for Au Bon Pain and they bought the pails of fresh eggs because they did not want to deal with having to thaw pails of eggs in a cooler.
I don't know if they do anything different in food service to the eggs they freeze.

How to preserve eggs. I've never frozen milk, but I know people who do. I've got cows I can milk right now if the store runs out of milk.

Maybe she is making frozen breakfast burritos...

Glad the liberals, hippies, and potheads here aren't hoarders. Went to the store yesterday and there was maybe six people there and not one thing I couldn't find. TP isle was loaded, but they did have a limit of five packs per person. Could've bought five 24-roll mega-packs if I wanted. Several brands were even on sale. Milk, cheese, eggs, bread were business as usual.

Maybe buying for others?

Bingo!

I live in a rural economic backwater, when logging went away (thank you Nafta) and working blue collar families were forced out, some of the slack was taken up by urban folks snapping up cheap real estate for a vacation getaway home. And that's fine, it's a free country, and by and large they are decent folks...just have a different outlook than us bumpkins. Well, it's predictable, they're showing up here from the cities. One family, from SF, about a quarter mile from me, scared to death, hoarding, panic buying, and formerly eager to be friendly now social distancing to an extreme.
It's a strange situation, I have no experience with it and don't know how to act. Maybe that's the best, give them their space and isolation.
The regular long time neighbors have been checking on each other, offering to run errands if we were going into town, just doing regular neighbor stuff.

Well, the first step for leadership is to issue advice and directions for responsible citizens to follow: avoid crowds, don't leave home unless there is no other choice,........When during national emergency which current situation is sensible rules are not followed new steps have to be implemented in publics best interest. Don't worry soon there will be fewer people about town, therefore, there will be less of a hoarding problem.

Fresh eggs will keep on the counter unwashed up to 3 months once washed you can keep them in the fridge for up to 6 months.

In reality, that would be the MSM's doing. Frightened people are easily led.

Which is why the left and Hillary asked why everyone isnt being tested. The test is highly inaccurate and gives a high percent of false positives.

People everywhere would seemingly be afflicted and it would increase the panic.

HB, I'd be asking the store mgr why they werent taking care of ALL their customers by limiting purchases to each shopper.

democrats think they have Trump now they busted the economy. Epic fail...again.

I saw a meme tin he other day—a shelf full of hand sanitizer bottles—price was $4.09 each and $95.60 for 2.
I thought it a clever way to limit hoarding.

There are a few sensible explanations.

My daughter works for her Sister in Law at a preschool/daycare. They are having a real hard time keeping the pantry stocked for 150 little tykes. They buy what they can find when they can find it.

We have three kids with their own families. We purchase as we can find things and share between the four families.

The lady in line in front of you could well have been purchasing for a dozen families, or a shelter.

The way the lady was acting I don't think she was buying for multiple families or shelter, etc.

Acting like she just scored an 8-ball?

We freeze milk here all the time so that we don't have to go to the big town very often to get a decent price. Just give it a little extra room in the jug for expansion. It keeps for many months in the freezer with no problem. This winter, I had about 10 gallons out in the shed when it was cold during Dec-Jan-Feb. We just finished using it.

Eggs will quite honestly keep just about forever it seems, just in a cool basement that doesn't get above 55 or so. If you really want to keep them, wipe them down with mineral oil and keep coolish. 6 months is nothing, a year will work, and I've eaten some when we were growing up that were over a year old with no problems if you cook them. My Mom used to stock up for nearly the whole year on the week after Halloween, when any "leftover" eggs would be reduced to nearly free from local producers.

Why would eggs be on sale at Halloween?

The 1,800 people that have died (so far) in Italy might disagree with you on that "main effect of Corona" statement.

Pretty much. I think the term SCHIITTHOUSE Rat woould be appropriate for her.

Good info. Thanks, K-Lo

Italy reports over 4,800 Coronavirus deaths so far.

You can also freeze them in ice trays, once frozen take them out and freeze in bagies.

He hysterically made a mistake.