Eggs

“If using to cook and eat we take from the rear of the container. If for baking we take from the front as they are not as cold and will come to room temperature faster.”

Wow. You really have this figured out.

IT was this skit that the kids used to do. There were four characters: the cook, the other guy, the doctor, and the director. The cook would act out flipping something in a frying pan. The second guy would walk in and ask “What are you doing?” The cook said “I’m cooking eggs. Want some?” The second guy would pretend to eat and say “These eggs are terrible!” before falling down. The cook would shout “Doctor, doctor, come quick! This man is sick!” The doctor would enter and announce “This man is dead!” (But of course no one was dead. It was a skit. I didn’t need to clarify that; you knew.) The director would come over and shout “Cut! That was terrible! Do it again faster! Or slower, or like ballet, or some other silly variation. Over and over again while that audience cracked up at the absurdity.

This was before we had You Tube to entertain ourselves. It makes me a little sad to think that the “Eggs” skit is no longer being performed anyplace. I hope that somewhere, somebody still knows what I’m talking about.

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Once refrigerated eggs have to be kept refrigerated. Here in small town Connecticut locals sell eggs from stands by their small farms. They are not refrigerated and will keep about a week stored in the pantry. In fact our vet sells local eggs from a neighbor’s flock and they are just stacked on a counter in her reception area.

T613T if you are in the USA, you are being cheated. You should report this to your state Department of consumer protection.

The USDA allows a variance of 3.3% into the next lower weight class, but that requires a weight of 1.92 ounces.

(a) The weight classes for U.S. Consumer Grades for Shell Eggs shall be as indicated

in Table I of this section and shall apply to all consumer grades.

Table I — U.S. Weight Classes for Consumer Grades for Shell Eggs

Size or weight class Minimum net weight per

dozen (ounces)

Minimum net weight 30

per dozen (pounds)

Minimum net weight for

individual eggs at rate

per dozen (ounces)

Jumbo ………………………..30

Extra large ………………….27

Large …………………………24

Medium ……………………..21

Small …………………………18

Peewee ………………………15

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(b) A lot average tolerance of 3.3 percent for individual eggs in the next lower weight

class is permitted as long as no individual case within the lot exceeds 5 percent.

I keep a tray of 30 on a middle shelf that pulls out. Pull it out, take eggs from the front, push back in. When first rows are finished, rotate tray so that those in back are now in front. When almost finished, buy new tray and put on shelf, cut first carton down to hold the last 2-3 eggs from the first tray, and place those next to large new tray.

About eggs being kept out of the refrigerator:

In Israel, the trays of eggs are generally not refrigerated. At home I refrigerate them if I have room. Pesach I do refrigerate them.

Why?

In the US the eggs we would buy in the store have been rinsed. Rinsing removes a natural coating on the eggs. Eggs without the natural coating need to be refrigerated.

This is usually the answer given to Americans who come to Israel and complain about how the eggs are dirty and it is unsanitary and we should push to require that they be washed. Apparently, in this case, the dirty eggs are *more* sanitary 🙂

JM613- how do you have room for all those Pesach eggs in your fridge?

I would say that I always refrigerate my eggs except for Pesach when I just can’t fit them all in!

Note that there is one date on the eggs if kept at room temperature, and another date a month later if kept in fridge.

WinnieThePooh – small family. We only use about 5 trays of eggs. I bought these stackable plastic egg trays so I wash all my eggs and put them in these trays (they hold the eggs just like the carton ones but they are not ruined by the wet eggs and they let the eggs dry (they are also clean). I lower my egg shelf in the fridge and put the pile on it. I use a bunch of the eggs right away, boiling them, baking, etc. before Pesach, so probably one tray doesn’t have to go there.

If we were a larger family I don’t know what I would do with all the pre-washed eggs…..

in the small space under a pull out drawer. Orientation? whichever an eighteen egg box fits. I keep eggs in small quantity and eat one or two now and them to keep the vegetarian from being vegan. I have neighbors and folks that will stack 30 egg trays 4 high on top of the refrigerator. I have heard that fresh eggs will keep two weeks w/o refrigeration, but that is a lot of eggs to use in two weeks