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  • HelzBelz
    HelzBelz Posts: 619 Forumite
    Try might be OK, try the water test
    http://recipehut.homestead.com/FreshEggTest.html
  • beemuzed
    beemuzed Posts: 2,188 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    I'd still be inclined to "try" them first before substituting fresher ones - just crack into a cup first and smell them - if the smell is ok I'd certainly use them. I recall that we didn't have fridge when I was growing up and we must have had some warm spells!
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  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    pop the eggs uncracked into a glass if they float bin them.. if they sink or stand on one end.. eat them!!

    Foolproof!!
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  • npsmama
    npsmama Posts: 1,277 Forumite
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    I agree, try the water test
    "Finish each day And be done with it.
    You have done what you could.
    Some blunders and Absurdities have crept in.
    Forget them as soon as you can."
  • robpw2
    robpw2 Posts: 14,044 Forumite
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    pigpen wrote: »
    pop the eggs uncracked into a glass if they float bin them.. if they sink or stand on one end.. eat them!!

    Foolproof!!
    sounds like the test for witches either way its not fair on the egg lol:mad:


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  • IvanOpinion
    IvanOpinion Posts: 22,574 Forumite
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    Alternatively crack one open and if the OH asks 'who farted?' then you know to bin them

    ivan
    I don't care about your first world problems; I have enough of my own!
  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    robpw2 wrote: »
    sounds like the test for witches either way its not fair on the egg lol:mad:

    I know.. that's what gave me the idea.. watching my mother sink!!
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  • Bongedone
    Bongedone Posts: 2,457 Forumite
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    I never refrigerate mine and I am still alive.
  • bravobeastie
    bravobeastie Posts: 1,946 Forumite
    don't forget where they are in the supermarket when you buy them.

    When my daughter was a baby i bought some of the travel sized ready made milk to take on holiday and the room didn't have a fridge so i filled the basin with cold water and kept them there. When we got home my mum laughed and said they're only kept on a shelf at room temperature in the shops :o

    (i was a newbie mum at the time lol)
  • maypole
    maypole Posts: 1,816 Forumite
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    Alternatively crack one open and if the OH asks 'who farted?' then you know to bin them

    ivan

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