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AIBU?

AIBU to throw out eggs past their sell-by date?

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emess · 05/05/2013 13:20

They were 5-6 weeks past their sell-by date. They belonged to PIL. MIL is unwell and housebound after a fall (and hospital stay) and has no appetite. FIL is doing his best but neither of them have eaten much for weeks. I am cooking for them when I can. We visit multiple times per day plus MIL now has carers coming in night and morning. Their ages are 85 & 89. I said it was for safety but he's annoyed with me for 'wasting' food. I'm normally happy to eat stuff that's past it's date, but eggs? For an elderly couple not in the best of health? I replaced them with fresh ones, by the way, before I threw them out so it's not like I left them with nothing to eat.

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IneedAsockamnesty · 06/05/2013 20:15

I'm talking about supermarket eggs ones that have been fed on sulphur reducing feed.

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Trill · 06/05/2013 20:16

If an egg is rotten you will know when you crack it.

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minniemagoo · 06/05/2013 20:21

Definately the best decision to not let elderly rellies eat them, no point in taking any risks at their age.
On the other hand, don't just dump them, bury them at roots of plants, they decompose and are a fab fertilizer...no waste :)

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AmberLeaf · 06/05/2013 20:31

Sock you said eggs that float are rotten, that is not true and I posted explaining why.

Not sure where you're going with this all really.

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aderynlas · 06/05/2013 20:36

op, for being so kind hope your dmil gets well soon.

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Talkinpeace · 06/05/2013 20:36

WATER test every time :
old eggs make the best meringues
elderly eggs make excellent fritata
medium eggs are great scrambled or in cakes
fresh eggs are needed for frying and poaching

the egg I found in a flower pot that the fox had hidden : THAT was rank !

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sarahtigh · 06/05/2013 21:10

sock unfortunately you are just wrong, unless you have no sense of smell whatsoever you can tell a rotten egg if out of date slightly just break eggs into bowl and sniff one by one

i would not give a very young child or the vulnerable an egg 5 weeks past date but there is no need for inaccurate scare tactics

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IneedAsockamnesty · 06/05/2013 23:43

So its a scare tactic to say that a egg that stands up right on its small tip is not fresh at all.

And a egg that totally floats should not be eaten even if it does not smell?

How very dramatic.

Not one person on this thread who has talked about using the floating egg test has said a floating egg is a sign of a perfectly good egg that's why people use that test, if it floats bin it.

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AmberLeaf · 06/05/2013 23:50

No you resorted to scare tactics when your previous 'eggs that float are totally rotten' post was disproved.

Even now you are still staying floating eggs are no good, which is bollocks.

Is it that hard to admit you were wrong? personal preference is one thing, but to carry on stating that floating eggs are bad is a bit silly really.

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IneedAsockamnesty · 06/05/2013 23:55

It was not disproved you just disagree with me.

Eggs that float should not be eaten. If eggs that float are perfectly fine to eat then why do people bother with the float test at all.

Surely smell alone would be enough.

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AmberLeaf · 07/05/2013 00:06

It was disproved! I disagree with you because you are wrong

There is nothing wrong [ie bad ] about floating eggs.

People 'bother with' the float test, to see how old eggs are, not to see if they are bad, cracking one open will tell you if it is bad or not. Also lots of people do the float test under the wrong impression this will show if they are bad or not. You can get bad eggs that don't float too.

Yes, smell alone is enough, that's why sensible people crack eggs they are unsure about into a bowl first rather than straight into flour or whatever. Read talkinpeaces post.

If you would rather only eat the freshest of eggs that's fine, but that is just your personal preference.

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IneedAsockamnesty · 07/05/2013 00:22

How on earth does the air pocket get bigger with out the shell cracking because they do not expand, what do you think has happened to the actual egg inside to allow more air to fit in.

Its a decomposing process.

You eat as many eggs that float on the top of water as you want I'm perfectly content not to when I know that egg is from a supermarket.

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AmberLeaf · 07/05/2013 01:12

How on earth does the air pocket get bigger with out the shell cracking

Because the shell is porous.

So you would eat an egg that floated that wasn't from a supermarket? if so then you must have finally accepted that floating egg does not = bad egg.

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aurynne · 07/05/2013 02:12

I actually use the "shake" test. If you shake an egg and you can feel the yolk moving inside (as in hitting the sides), that egg is so old that the proteins which keep the yolk in the centre have started to denaturalize.

I have eaten eggs which floated in water and were perfectly ok.

But I am a nerdy scientist myself :P

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prettybird · 07/05/2013 08:25

I can remember when dates weren't stamped on individual eggs, so you had to use your own judgement (and use things like the float test to work out relative freshness) as to whether eggs were fresh enough to use or not.

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IneedAsockamnesty · 07/05/2013 09:58

As I have said several times I am talking about supermarket eggs,I have even said its due to the feed and chemicals used in them.

Most none supermarket eggs would not have these things used so the smell test would be fine.

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AmberLeaf · 07/05/2013 10:37

No you said that eggs that float are off.

Even non supermarket eggs will float after a certain time.

Floating bares no relation to their offness wherever they were bought.

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IneedAsockamnesty · 07/05/2013 11:37

No I did not. In my post done at about 8 yesterday I clearly stated I was talking about supermarket eggs.

And in my very first post I even mentioned them perhaps being of a generation that had limited understanding of the supermarket process.

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AmberLeaf · 07/05/2013 13:06

You said eggs

Give it up sock, seriously.

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somedayma · 07/05/2013 14:02

sock and Amber this is hilarious. you're both making arses of yourselves. who cares what some stranger on the Internet thinks of your egg freshness opinions?! :D

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AmberLeaf · 07/05/2013 14:17

I'm not making an arse of myself thanks very much! and yes I agree it is hilarious!

I have seen some rows on Mumsnet with posters refusing to back down even though they are clearly wrong, but never about eggs

BTW my posts are not opinion

Socks posts are and as I have said already, she is entitled to them.

I have seen sock around loads on Mumsnet and I generally respect her opinions, so I must say, this thread has been a tad bizarre!

I have eggsplained several times, I dont eggactly know what else I can say? My brain is scrambled

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everlong · 07/05/2013 14:19

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