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.
 
Jacqueline Lindt said:
Eggs In the fridge

Farm fresh eggs must be so delicious. Hope to try some one day ! ☺️
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When I moved here, a friend gave me a dozen eggs from her chickens. I noticed the difference as soon as I cracked it in the pan. Fresh eggs actually smell like eggs. I've been buying fresh eggs ever since, paying a premium of $1 or so per dozen. I have a few sources on tap because eggs can get scarce when each brood goes through molt.

Here's a pic of two batches of pasta dough. The one on the bottom was made with fresh eggs. To be fair, the one on the top had no eggs at all because it was the initial dough run through the pasta machine mechanism to clean out the manufacturing debris and then discard. But fresh egg yolks are a really deep, bright orange.

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I learned that people feed their laying chickens all sorts of scraps, sort of like feeding pigs except not quite so radical. I recall making a batch of cole slaw for a church brunch and giving the leftovers to my friend for her chickens. I can understand chickens eating cabbage, but would never have thought that they would eat it with dressing on it.
 
Chickens are omnivores @John Brunner just like pigs (and humans). Chickens will even eat meat scraps and fat with gusto. We never feed ours anything chicken or poultry-related however. They eat just about anything they can tear apart...even the occasional mouse or vole if they can catch it. If there is anyone nearby who raises ducks, or geese, try waterfowl eggs for pastries or cakes. The albumin in waterfowl eggs is thicker and will give anything using beaten egg whites a much better texture. Chicken eggs are great for routine use, but Angel Food Cake from duck or goose eggs is magnificent IMHO.
 
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