Dates on eggs / how long do they keep for?

jackieglasgow

Gailey "old" eggs make the best meringues if you fancy giving them a try? X

lauren123210

I regularly use out of date eggs, especially if only a few days! They'll be fine!

flipperOSN

Assuming you mean 26th July not June then I wouldn't worry at all. I frequently use eggs a few days past their date.

happybaby

I'd use them, but i'd crack them in a cup one at a time and ditch any that smell bad. There is a float test as well but can't remeber if they are supposed to sink, swim or climb mount everst? :-) acutally I think it may be to do if they float upright or on thier side does any one know ???? x

CCP

happybaby wrote: »

I'd use them, but i'd crack them in a cup one at a time and ditch any that smell bad. There is a float test as well but can't remeber if they are supposed to sink, swim or climb mount everst? :-) acutally I think it may be to do if they float upright or on thier side does any one know ???? x

I think it's: if they lay flat on the bottom they're fresh, if they stand on end they're older but still edible, and if they float they're off and should be thrown out. I'd love to see an egg climb Mount Everest, though!

Subject to this test, yes, I'd use the eggs.

DianneB

Yes I'd use them, they will be fine!!

vixtress

i'd still be happily using them on the 26th aug

susyrosy

I'm going to tell you something which sounds awful (eating very old eggs).

One of my hens disappeared into the bushes, broody, a few weeks ago. She's the only one who lays brown eggs, so as none were being laid in the usual places, and then she vanished, I knew she was trying to hatch some. Poor thing, they're all infertile, as I don't keep a cockerel (for the sake of the neighbours). Anyway, she was gone for some days, and I'd had no brown eggs for ages. I searched and searched but hens can disappear under your nose. Eventually, one night - about 3 in the morning - my son came rampaging down the stairs and rushed out of the front door, as he'd heard a hen shrieking an alarm call. We all charged round to the very bushy area between my garden and the road, with him and his gf on the fence side, me in the road. She came racing out of the bushes, all dopey and disorientated, and I grabbed her and put her in the hen house, and we all went back to bed.

The next morning, looking over my shoulder in case any of the neighbours saw me pushing my way into the undergrowth (I have a reputation to keep up as the mad hen woman in my village ...) I scrambled (!) about and did eventually find this enormous clutch of eggs. I removed them and floated them in a bowl. If they sink, they're fresh, if they stand on their tiptoes, they're still ok, and if they float, definitely throw them away. They all stood on their tiptoes - and I know some of them must have been very old. But I took a chance, broke them one by one into a cup, sniffed - all ok - and made scrambled eggs. And I'm still alive. NO good for frying, as the white spreads all over the frying pan when they're old and the yolk goes flat and spreading as well. Frittata would be fine, too.

So, dates and my hens' eggs aren't a problem.

Susy

Emuchops

Like Vixtress said, if the date said 28/08 I'd still be eating them. Have regularly used "old" eggs with absolutely no problems..

carolinejane_2

I'd use them
I usually will even if a week over
but if they are over the date I do crack them in a cup first