Out of Date Eggs

Queenriderbrekke

I know you have to be careful using out of date eggs but nobody in our household is in a vulnerable category and I have cracked and the eggs still smell ok.


Dated 24/11/2014 should I use them in my muffins or not?

sheeps68

In a cake or similar yes I'd use them but not as fried, boiled etc

sarah1972

Get a bowl of water, pop the egg in

Fresh eggs will sink to the bottom of the bowl and probably lie on their sides.
Slightly older eggs (about one week) will lie on the bottom but bob slightly.
If the egg balances on its smallest tip, with the large tip reaching for the top, it's probably close to three weeks old.
Eggs that float at the surface are bad and should not be consumed

Queenriderbrekke

Used them and muffins seem ok x

Shrimply

sheeps68 wrote: »

In a cake or similar yes I'd use them but not as fried, boiled etc

So I have to ask what your logic is? I've never heard the horror stories about out of date eggs which seem to be implied in the initial post. Am I missing some important information? As far as I was aware they tend to be fine way past their use by date. If I cracked one open and it smelled fine I wouldn't have thought twice about using it for whatever I wanted.

Farway

Shrimply wrote: »

So I have to ask what your logic is? I've never heard the horror stories about out of date eggs which seem to be implied in the initial post. Am I missing some important information? As far as I was aware they tend to be fine way past their use by date. If I cracked one open and it smelled fine I wouldn't have thought twice about using it for whatever I wanted.

Same here, you will know and smell a bad egg once you crack it, they are fine well past use by date, may not be hold together in frying pan, poacher etc, but certainly not poison

cherryblossomzel

I regularly use eggs past the best before date, and have done for years. I do find that the consistensy of the yolk might change once they get really old, so I think that some recipes might fail, or won't look so pretty, but won't kill you.

Of course, if it smells off, chuck it.

sheeps68

Shrimply wrote: »

So I have to ask what your logic is? I've never heard the horror stories about out of date eggs which seem to be implied in the initial post. Am I missing some important information? As far as I was aware they tend to be fine way past their use by date. If I cracked one open and it smelled fine I wouldn't have thought twice about using it for whatever I wanted.

No logic just habit. I suppose by cracking them you'll see what egg is like & any smell. If boiled you don't.

alanq

The NHS supports what sheeps68 has written.

'Eggs can be eaten after their "best before" date as long as they are cooked thoroughly until both yolk and white are solid, or if they are used in dishes where they will be fully cooked such as a cake. Cooking eggs until both the white and yolk are solid will kill any bacteria, such as salmonella. ...'

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/food-labelling-terms.aspx

CRANKY40

My nana taught me to crack eggs individually into a glass or cup before tipping them into whatever you are using them for. That way, if one of them is bad you don't waste the rest of your ingredients.

zzzt

I keep my eggs in a cupboard, and I've eaten them in things like omelettes a week or more after the best before date. In my experience eggs are specially designed to protect their contents and they last for ages. Even after the best before, they won't hurt you. But obviously if it smells, don't eat it. And if you are using them raw I wouldn't use old eggs, but for cooking it's fine.