Eating eggs after best before date

Poly,put_the_kettle_on

Our chooks took to laying somewhere we couldn't figure out- we'd be several eggs missing a day. We had a neighbour come round to help shift a fence panel, and lo and behold, behind it lay 15-20 eggs. As we had plenty anyway, and some of them could have been there for a month or two, we decided to waste them. Our neighbour protested, took them home, lived on omlettes & survived.

geordie_joe

dorsetlady wrote: »

I just found this: http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/foodlabels/labellingterms/bestbefore/

It seems there is a risk of salmonella.

It is complete rubbish

However, you shouldn't eat eggs after the 'best before' date. This is because eggs can contain salmonella bacteria, which could start to multiply after this date.

For one thing, if there was salmonella bacteria inside the egg, it wouldn't be able to read the best before date on the outside of the egg, so wouldn't know when to start multiplying.

Second the "best before" date is just that, a date when the producer think it will be getting past it's best. Food is fine to eat after it's best before date, but may not be at it's best.

If there genuinely was a risk to eating eggs after a certain date then it would not be allowed to have a best before date, the law would require it to have a use by date.

Snugglebunny8

agree on the float test, we usually eat them way before use by date purely as I buy for the week and they get eaten, Ive eaten them the day of the 'use by' but as others have said, use the flat test and check what they smell like

Middy

I wouldn't use an out of date egg if you aren't going to cook it such as making mayo.

hayley11

Best before dates aren't important really, it's use by dates that are.

I've eaten eggs past their best before dates, you can tell when an egg is bad, we had some once and they stunk.

Middy

I just checked my eggs on the floating test. BB 20th Jan and 4 of them floated. I just binned the lot. I didn't lose out as I bought them from work in the colleague reductions for 20p for 6. The sticker on the box that displays the DU and UB dates was missing - not allowed to sell these to customers. Though eggs were stamped with Jan 20th.

Bought 2 other boxes and had those and these were the last half dozen.

stephen77

Though if egg past it used by date and your cracking it.
Pour into a empty bowl first so if it is off you do not contaminate the rest of the food your adding it to.

Stompa

stephen77 wrote: »

Though if egg past it used by date and your cracking it.
Pour into a empty bowl first so if it is off you do not contaminate the rest of the food your adding it to.

I must admit I do that for all eggs, my mother always did it that way. Having said that, I don't recall ever finding a bad egg, so I sometimes wonder why I bother!

geordie_joe

Stompa wrote: »

I must admit I do that for all eggs, my mother always did it that way.

I do it too, because my mother told me to do it. I can't remember the last time I had a bad egg, but back in the 60's they were so common nobody would ever dare do anything else.

doveston

Stompa wrote: »

I must admit I do that for all eggs, my mother always did it that way. Having said that, I don't recall ever finding a bad egg, so I sometimes wonder why I bother!

a bad egg in your mothers days ment fetus.you won't find a chicken fetus in a egg these days.............