Where do you keep your eggs?

[ThatGingerOne]

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Where do you keep your eggs? In stores they're kept on shelves, in a place I work (food related) they're kept in the fridge. Most people I meet feel one way or the other is the only safe place to put them.

What do you do?

In a cupboard.

NattyTile - fridged?

The phrase you were looking for is "kept refrigerated".

Remember, verbing weirds language

The cold temperature in the fridge makes the protein of the eggs go woolly, so they taste less fresh.

In one basket.

At the top end of my fallopian tubes

They go from my garden coop to the helter skelter on my worktop. Never in the fridge.

I live in the US and keep mine in the fridge. I didn't know about the washing, I just have no cupboard space for them.

I keep all my eggs in one basket.

In a wire egg basket on top of the microwave. On Slimming World so I eat my own body weight in eggs in a week.

Some eggcellent replies, thanks guys

I am in the UK. Parents kept them in the cupboard and I would have thought to as well - the conversation just came up among a bunch of mates yesterday and we were all arguing over it (super cool 19 year olds at uni, I know.)

There was an amusing column about this in the Saturday Guardian magazine a while ago. The columnist who is originally American plays in a band, 3 sons, his name escapes me. His brother was over from the U.S. And kept buying eggs. Columnist asked why he kept buying them. His brother said the fridge was always empty of them. The columnist explained they're not meant to go on the fridge - and are not sold
from fridges - because of the risk of salmonella to other items in fridge. A row ensued so they googled and they were both right! In the U.S. eggs are painted with some chemical to prevent salmonella so are safe in fridge. In U.K. they are not so are best kept in the coolest place you can outwith the fridge like an egg basket or cupboard. Who knew?

But chickens are vaccinated against salmonella so the eggs won't be contaminating the fridge surely?

We have got a terracotta egg tray in the pantry, it is always cool in there, we have hens, I never put my eggs in the fridge.

My hens are not vaccinated against salmonella.

Ooooo why not the fridge? I've always kept in the fridge cus my mum did. Shall I stop doing it? Would it be okay in kitchen cupboard instead?

I wonder if this has anything to do with the US policy of washing eggs, removing the bloom which means that bacteria can enter the egg from the outside.

UK eggs aren't washed generally and the bloom seals the pores so that bacteria can't enter the egg from the outside.

Separately, from the inside, the salmonella vaccine used to only protect against a couple of strains and not all of them.

I would be interested to know how many chicken keepers with just a handful of hens vaccinate - I am not sure I know anyone who does.

In the fridge . . Always have. Everyone I know does!
I make omelettes every morning with eggs straight from the fridge and they taste fine

In the fridge. I am in Canada though. My parents in the uk keep them in the fridge though but are aware they shouldn't, it's just for space reasons.

We have a little brown pottery hen on the side in the kitchen. Eggs need to be room temperature to bake with.

Fridge.
I seem too remember reading in the very boxes themselves that they're best kept refrigerated?

Chicken poo on eggs means eggs on shelf.

Nice

BadKnee"In their box on the worktop. We get through them pretty quickly."

Same here.

In the fridge. There's a little purposenbuikdnegg rack in the door?

Or even a purpose built egg rack!

I keep them in the box in the fridge so no poo goes anywhere.