On 8/1/2010 5:27 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> barbie gee wrote:
>> On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>>> J. Clarke wrote:
>>>> On 8/1/2010 8:17 AM, Kswck wrote:
>>>>> > wrote
>>>
>>>>>> overnight... And I'm sure the temperature was pretty warm... Are
>>>>>> they safe to eat?
>>>
>>>>> If you ever had food poisoning, you wouldn't ask the question.
>>>>
>>>> But why would someone get food poisoning from eggs that were sitting
>>>> at normal egg temperature?
>>>
>>> I don't know the answer to the OP's question, but the eggs weren't
>>> at room temperature, they were in a hot car. FWIW.
>>
>> it was only overnight, and if the eggs weren't in any way broken, I'm
>> still not convinced this would be an issue. I still want to know,
>> how HOT was it? Was the car in the shade til the sun set, or what?
>
> The OP said it got to over 90 in the car.

Which is cooler than the inside of a chicken. The yolk has been at
chicken temperature for a day or so before the egg is laid, and if the
egg is going to have salmonella inside it goes in when the yolk is formed.