Where do you keep your eggs?

Yvonne Smith said:
We keep them in the refrigerator, too. I have read that you can keep them on the counter, but I have never tried doing that.
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I have often wondered about keeping them out and on the counter, and that sort of thing seems more in keeping with old times, where those who had chickens had a fresh supply of eggs daily where they were being used up on a regular basis, otherwise I can't imagine keeping them out.
 
I believe that eggs fresh from the chicken can be kept at room temperature because they have some kind of protective coating naturally. Commercially packaged eggs have been "cleaned" before packaging and need refrigeration.

I have always kept my eggs refrigerated, but I remember that my grandma had a bowl of eggs on her kitchen counter.
 
@Beth Gallagher is correct yet again. If you have fresh unwashed eggs, they can be kept at room temperature for a few weeks at least. Once they are washed and the "bloom" is removed, they must be kept refrigerated. As far as I know, only the U.S. and Canada wash their eggs. The remainder of the world stores unwashed eggs. That is why , when chickens were being killed by the millions in the U.S., we couldn't import eggs as no one had washed, refrigerated eggs that are demanded by the U.S. consumer. Trump made some deal with Turkey to export eggs to us to lower the prices, but I am not sure how it worked. It is helpful for everyone who is not prohibited by statute or covenant to keep a few hens. Little noise and little mess.
 
Since I don't eat eggs often, when I do buy them, I always keep them in the fridge. Even then, I often have to throw some away because I'm afraid to eat them when they're way past the date on the package. I've experienced food poisoning a few times & I didn't like it one bit.
Even after I read about butter not needing to be refrigerated, I didn't want to risk it for a year, but I always leave it out on the counter now.
 
We go through eggs like they are going out of style. Grocery store eggs. A friend occasionally brings a box from her daughter’s hobby farm as present which I always have something to repay with be it bread, cinnamon rolls whatever. She sells them for $9 a dozen and honestly they are not always farm fresh.
 
When I was a child, my mom did not refrigerate our eggs, but we had our own chickens, and there were seven people in the family, so it wasn't like an egg needed to last weeks. The next day, there would be fresh eggs. Now, I do keep eggs in the refrigerator, but I'm not sure that they need to be. If we ate more eggs, or if my wife didn't buy two dozen at a time, we could leave them out, I think. We usually buy our eggs from someone local who has chickens, rather than from a grocery store. I think Beth is probably right, as I have read that eggs have a protective coating that is easily washed away. I don't think my mom washed the eggs until just before she used them.
 
Ed Wilson said:
They are refrigerated at the grocery, so there must be a reason.
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It's because they are washed to accommodate American sensibilities, and in the process the "bloom" that covers the shell's pores is gone. So they have to be refrigerated. I've never heard of keeping store-bought eggs at room temp.
 
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