where do you keep your eggs?

GaleSF63

jackieblack said:

Eggs kept in the fridge, only because I don’t have enough space to keep them out on the counter (and also the cats haven’t worked out how to open the fridge yet - they can open the cupboards 🤦🏻‍♀️)
Bread kept in the breadbin
Potatoes in a cupboard (onions in a different cupboard - like the above poster I read that onions makes potatoes go bad faster when they’re kept together)

We had a cat that could open the fridge (an under-the-counter one) by sliding his very slim paw under the bottom of the door. We put a Mothercare child lock on it. 

-taff

Debran, that's how they are stored before we get to buy them for months sometimes, so it's no surprise that it works at home too. I keep potatoes in the salad drawers because I don't use them very often either but I'm loathe to throw them away too.

Eggs in the charity shop chicken on the top, tomatoes on the side because out of season tomatoes have very little flavour as it is and lycopene is affected by cold so it makes them even more tasteless.

C_J

My eggs are stored in one of these helter-skelter racks, so that I always use the freshest first. We have chickens so the rack is topped up daily with those that I don't sell at the gate.


Bread is kept in a glazed ceramic breadbin with a bamboo cutting-board lid. The butter we use is Aldi's Nordpak (their version of Lurpak) and it spreads perfectly straight from the fridge.

Apintplease

As long as eggs aren't washed at point of lay, they are protected by a bloom.

In America all eggs are sold from fridges and stored in fridges because A - the are washed and B - salmonella 

When we had hens and sold the eggs at the gate I had a big sign explaining why the eggs weren't washed ( might be a bit of mud or poo on them )

Now I have to buy eggs I try to buy from the gate but even if I don't, I don't refrigerate eggs - they stay on the counter

Bread is in the larder

Potatoes and onions in a cool dark cupboard or the garage in sacks

Cheese is now kept in the fridge as there is nowhere cool enough to keep it otherwise.  As a child, cheese, butter and milk was kept on a stone shelf in the brick built larder, the milk going into a bucket of water under a bush in the garden in the summer

3secondmemory

In my ovaries 😃

thriftwizard

Eggs on the (north-facing) windowsill in a spiral "egg skelter" which keeps them in date order; I put the fresh-laid ones on the top every morning & we take the oldest ones from the bottom. We're currently getting 4-5 eggs a day from The Girls and even in a household of 5, we struggle to use that many, so some are given to DS2 & DiL every weekend. The fridge tends to dehydrate them (and bread) so we keep them out, but the temperature on the windowsill is cool & quite stable. Bread lives in a breadbin but rarely stays around for long enough to go stale; any that does (and doesn't get used in a pudding or as a breadcrumb topping) is soaked & added to The Girls' breakfast of layers' mash & oats. Spuds, bought by the sack, live out in the garage where it's cool & dark; peelings may also get cooked up & go to The Girls. (Or to the allotment compost heap.) Other veg live in the conservatory or the bottom of the fridge, depending on where they keep the best, but nothing hangs around for long!

MrsStepford

I keep eggs at room temperature. Americans refrigerate theirs because their poultry-keeping standards are worse. Spuds should be kept dry, in the dark. Husband freezes gluten-free rolls and removes when he wants them. He does sometimes make gluten-free bread/rolls himelf and keeps those outside of the fridge. Tomatoes aren't stored in the fridge. Carrots are stored in the fridge, because so many are refrigerated. Often farmers lift the entire crop, then keep in cold storage. Carrots keep crisper for longer in the fridge. 

carriebradshaw, I collect those china chickens and have them on a sideboard in our hall.