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Boiled eggs

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yeggsornolk · 20/12/2023 00:25

NC for this.

I brought two boiled eggs to work yesterday morning, didn't feel like eating them/forgot about them。It is 08:21 I have just sat down at my desk and found them in my top drawer where they have been for 24 hours。Room temp stable about 18C (its a lab)。Would it be reasonable to eat them now?

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bellac11 · 21/12/2023 08:04

Duh · 20/12/2023 08:58

@bellac11 eating smelly food is fine. Eating smelly food at work is not fine.

It’s basic consideration for others.

Basic consideration? Of what, of someone not smelling something?

How awful that something has as scent to it.

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yeggsornolk · 21/12/2023 01:16

@Howdidtheydothat Metals testing (non wet) and as I said above, I'm in a private office lot in the lab proper.
I mean the eggs are long gone now but would a picture or diagram help?

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Howdidtheydothat · 20/12/2023 13:51

Food in a lab desk draw? What type of lab is it.

TheTripThatWasnt · 20/12/2023 13:38

From a food safety point of view, they'll be completely fine. The bit you're going to eat is completely encased in the shell, and can cope just fine with being at room temp.

But eating boiled eggs in a shared space where people are working is very antisocial indeed, so I definitely wouldn't eat them there!

Housenoob · 20/12/2023 13:31

I wouldn't even think twice about eating them.

FunnysInLaJardin · 20/12/2023 13:28

it is always unreasonable to eat hard boiled eggs at work

Silverbirchtwo · 20/12/2023 13:24

I'd eat them.

Alarum · 20/12/2023 13:16

Surely a room temperature hard boiled egg tastes better than a flat cold one straight from the fridge.

TerrysChocolateBorangejuice · 20/12/2023 11:41

In Germany it is common to see a box of 6 hard boiled eggs in the supermarket (usually brightly coloured).

They aren't kept refrigerated and they are fine to eat.

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yeggsornolk · 20/12/2023 11:40

Well I do have my own office so I don’t think I’m committing too much of a food fragrance faux pas.

But I didn’t eat them in the end, I donated them to the factory cats.

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KinS24 · 20/12/2023 10:53

I like the suggestion to sniff test them. They’re just gonna smell eggy.

DemBonesDemBones · 20/12/2023 10:44

Of course you can eat them.

MrsSkylerWhite · 20/12/2023 09:03

bellac11 · Today 08:41
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I really hate this thing about not eating food that smells
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No wonder we have a crap diet in this country
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Recent threads have had it as well, the one about the prawns with posters going on about how the house must have 'reeked' and 'stunk the house out'.
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Just stick to chicken nuggets and oven chips then.”

Great diet here. Wouldn’t eat a nugget. Just wouldn’t inflict yesterday’s boiled egg on a co-worker.

Duh · 20/12/2023 08:58

@bellac11 eating smelly food is fine. Eating smelly food at work is not fine.

It’s basic consideration for others.

bellac11 · 20/12/2023 08:41

I would eat them by the way

bellac11 · 20/12/2023 08:41

I really hate this thing about not eating food that smells

No wonder we have a crap diet in this country

Recent threads have had it as well, the one about the prawns with posters going on about how the house must have 'reeked' and 'stunk the house out'.

Just stick to chicken nuggets and oven chips then.

MrsSkylerWhite · 20/12/2023 08:40

Safety wise, probably ok.

wouldnt eat eggs in a shared office though. Hard smell to ignore.

Alarum · 20/12/2023 08:40

Love that you’ve name changed for a boiled egg query 😂

GrumpyPanda · 20/12/2023 08:39

Hard boiled eggs will be just fine. Boiled and dyed Easter eggs sit around for longer than 24 hours - don't people do those anymore, is it all chocs these days?

TheCurlyKnobhead · 20/12/2023 08:35

Love hard boiled eggs, I have one as a 'snack' between breakfast and lunch most days. Yum

squishee · 20/12/2023 08:33

In German supermarkets hard-boiled eggs are sold at room (well, supermarket) temp. So I would sniff test and eat then.

Wellhellooooodear · 20/12/2023 08:31

YABU to eat egg in the office!

ChristmasFluff · 20/12/2023 08:26

Fridge yes, room temp no, wouldn't risk it. Hard boiled eggs do need to be refrigerated, even in shells, and I'm pretty lax about eating out of date stuff.

Duh · 20/12/2023 08:09

Boiled eggs at work! That’s disgusting even if you ate them on time. 🤮

BlueberryVelvet · 20/12/2023 08:07

Yep they’ll be fine but maybe go outside to peel them lest you fumigate your colleagues.

Hard boiled eggs don’t need to be refrigerated and last weeks.

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