Hi


How long is it safe to store eggs before baking? The eggs are stored
refrigerated, and seem to be fine after several months, but are they?


Thanks, NT

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> Hi
>
>
> How long is it safe to store eggs before baking? The eggs are stored
> refrigerated, and seem to be fine after several months, but are they?
>
>
> Thanks, NT

i think not. eggs we buy( U.K.) have a sell by date on them and also a
use by date.the ones i bought last night have a display until the 8th.
and use by the 15th. dates on them and they are fresh free range
eggs.April that is ,so you can say a couple of weeks. i have only used
eggs about 2 to 3 days over the use by date in an emergency as i would
hate to tempt fate and end up with salmonella.
quite often i throw 3 or 4 eggs out if the date has been passed, they
are not expensive so better to be safe than sorry.

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> > Hi
> >
> >
> > How long is it safe to store eggs before baking? The eggs are stored
> > refrigerated, and seem to be fine after several months, but are they?
> >
> >
> > Thanks, NT
>
> i think not. eggs we buy( U.K.) have a sell by date on them and also a
> use by date.the ones i bought last night have a display until the 8th.
> and use by the 15th. dates on them and they are fresh free range
> eggs.April that is ,so you can say a couple of weeks. i have only used
> eggs about 2 to 3 days over the use by date in an emergency as i would
> hate to tempt fate and end up with salmonella.
> quite often i throw 3 or 4 eggs out if the date has been passed, they
> are not expensive so better to be safe than sorry.

When eggs are super cheap I buy up to 20 dozen. They keep for 90 days or
more for me. I don't use them to eat, but I use them for baking. Stores
generally have very cheap eggs right before Easter as a loss leader, so I
anticipate stocking up this week. If not, I get eggs in the 7.5 dozen box
at Costco.

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> (N. Thornton) wrote in message . com>...

> > How long is it safe to store eggs before baking? The eggs are stored
> > refrigerated, and seem to be fine after several months, but are they?


> i think not. eggs we buy( U.K.) have a sell by date on them and also a
> use by date.the ones i bought last night have a display until the 8th.
> and use by the 15th. dates on them and they are fresh free range
> eggs.April that is ,so you can say a couple of weeks. i have only used
> eggs about 2 to 3 days over the use by date in an emergency as i would
> hate to tempt fate and end up with salmonella.
> quite often i throw 3 or 4 eggs out if the date has been passed, they
> are not expensive so better to be safe than sorry.


Hi Paula. I'm in the UK too. The sell by and use by dates do not
equate to what is safe here, by any means. Although the system was
reasonably good in principle, in practice it
- takes no account of widely variable storage conditions
- takes no account of end use, eg raw eggs vs baked eggs, which are
very diffrent safety wise
- is widely used to encourage throw and buy again
- is widely used to offload legal liability (especially with tinned
food)

Thus sell by and use by dates are of debateable use for some types of
goods. Many a time I have seen fresh prepared foods still in date but
quite unfit to eat, and dried and tinned foods far out of date yet
perfectly healthy.

I was looking for solid information on safety. I have old cookbooks
that recommend almost unlimited storage of eggs followed by testing
before use. I have seen 9 month old eggs pass these tests with ease,
and am not aware of any great incidence of egg related food poisoning
from those times. I end up with eggs months past use by dates at
times, hence my interest as to what I should do with them.

I feel I am still in the dark on this.


Regards, NT

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> > > How long is it safe to store eggs before baking? The eggs are stored
> > > refrigerated, and seem to be fine after several months, but are they?
>
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just remembered this whilst i was reading your reply. I remember mum
saying that during and just after the war when items like eggs were
still very scarce, people used to store eggs in a VERY large container
and layer them with ising glass. Not sure exactly what it is or where
it can be obtained from but someone reading may know.seem to recall
ising glass and homebrew having a link( i think)

obsessively
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>> > > How long is it safe to store eggs before baking? The eggs are stored
>> > > refrigerated, and seem to be fine after several months, but are they?
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>just remembered this whilst i was reading your reply. I remember mum
>saying that during and just after the war when items like eggs were
>still very scarce, people used to store eggs in a VERY large container
>and layer them with ising glass. Not sure exactly what it is or where
>it can be obtained from but someone reading may know.seem to recall
>ising glass and homebrew having a link( i think)

IIRC - ising<it might be isen> glass is a name for the mineral Mica
it was used for 'see thru' oven doors before high temp glass was practical

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/lin.../min_mica.html
provides more than enough info for even the obsessively curious

HTH
Dale

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> > > > How long is it safe to store eggs before baking? The eggs are stored
> > > > refrigerated, and seem to be fine after several months, but are
they?
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> >
> just remembered this whilst i was reading your reply. I remember mum
> saying that during and just after the war when items like eggs were
> still very scarce, people used to store eggs in a VERY large container
> and layer them with ising glass. Not sure exactly what it is or where
> it can be obtained from but someone reading may know.seem to recall
> ising glass and homebrew having a link( i think)

I think you probably mean waterglass, wich is liquid sodium silicate. User
correctly it will kill all microorganisms present on the shells of the eggs,
and all the pores in the shell will be filled with silicate, and thus become
completely air- and watertight.
It can stil be bought for this and other uses ( such as making the childrens
clay products, that hasn't been fired, watertight ).

http://www.lehmans.com/jump.jsp?item...iProductID=807
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Kim Grauballe
Thisted, Denmark.
An elephant: A mouse built to government
specifications.

On 2004-04-03, paula wrote:
> (N. Thornton) wrote in message . com>...
>> Hi
>> How long is it safe to store eggs before baking? The eggs are stored
>> refrigerated, and seem to be fine after several months, but are they?

I would say yes.
I rarely if ever throw out eggs, and I don't go thru them very quickly.
I would say mine are in the refrigerator up to 2-3 months, and I have
never gotten sick.

It probably also depends on how cold you keep your refrigerator, y'know?
That's not the same for everyone.


sl