Eating eggs after best before date

hayley11 · 7 February 2011 at 11:30PM

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 do this for all my eggs too. They taught us this at school and it's one of the few things that has stuck with me.

I do a lot of baking, some of the cakes use 10 eggs and I would hate to lose the lot because of one bad egg.

Coopdivi · 8 February 2011 at 6:13AM

dorsetlady wrote: »

Thanks for the advice. I just had a hard boiled egg sandwich with an egg that was one week past the best before date. I didn't float and tasted fine!

You're supposed to put the eggs in water.

chuckley · 12 February 2011 at 11:47PM

i use m&s free range ones, and up to 2 weeks later MAX. however if it's cloudy' when u put in pan its gone! ive only noticed that around the 10 day mark of a few though!

Torry_Quine · 12 February 2011 at 11:55PM

I never even check what the date is on eggs. Often have eggs in the house for several weeks so have obviously eaten them after the best before date and I never do the float test. Can't remember ever having an egg that was off.

No_Future · 13 February 2011 at 3:16AM

I often eat eggs after the 'date' stamped on them as long as they sink in a pan of water and don't smell funny. I ate some from 07 Jan yesterday and they weren't as fresh but tasted ok. I am fine so far.