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To be really worried (and absolutely livid!!!)

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Fannydango · 10/03/2018 20:54

SIL let DS lick raw cake mixture from a bowl today - turns out the eggs used were 6 WEEKS out of date and stunk to high heaven!!!

Apart from being furious at her fucking stupidity, how long will it be before I can feel safe that DS has avoided what would likely be a pretty violent case of food poisoning??

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madeyemoodysmum · 10/03/2018 22:50

I always eat out of date eggs Unless they look off or smell off

Surely the mix would taste awful

madeyemoodysmum · 10/03/2018 22:51

However If your son he's ill over the next two weeks and doesn't get better within a few days then I would mention it to the doctor but otherwise I wouldn't worry

SimonBridges · 10/03/2018 22:52

The eggs in mayonnaise are pasteurised

Not always.

Gide · 10/03/2018 23:13

Not always

Shop bought, of course they are.

blastomama · 10/03/2018 23:17

Eggs last for a very long time after the completely arbitrary date stamped on them. It's a best before anyway, not a use by date.

If your kid was eating raw cake mix made with rotten eggs I would seriously worry about their sense of taste and smell. If off they would have smelled bad enough that you would never put them in your mouth! Kids are not stupid.

LilQueenie · 10/03/2018 23:18

was it use by or best before? Either way they are only guidelines. If kept in fridge they last much longer.

Licking the mixture is the best part.

rinabean · 10/03/2018 23:24

If they were actually gone off you'd have smelt them in the other room and he never would have licked them.

But honestly this thread makes me glad I don't eat eggs any more.

PorkFlute · 10/03/2018 23:26

You say your SIL has been ‘hit with the stupid stick’ yet it was you who left her baking with your child after already being aware of her letting him play with knives and driving him around unrestrained in the car.
So you have either had a beating with the same stick or are so spectacularly lazy you’ll leave your child with anyone who’ll look after them for a while. Which is it op?

Ariela · 10/03/2018 23:28

Pah, 6 month old would smell before you cracked them, the shells are semi-porous!
We used to keep chickens and surplus eggs to the ones we sold at the gate would go in a big china hen, one day I didn't have change for the egg farmer's 'help-yourself' shop so bought a whole tray as I had the right money for that, popped the surplus in thechicken and forgot about them for 6 months! Last 2 weeks I thought something was wrong with the drains...till I moved the chicken to clean the windowsill. Oh my! Some had exploded, some were about to explode, and the stench was unbearable once I'd lifted the lid of the hen.
Supermarket eggs would be fine after 2-3 months even if if kept in the fridge IMO.

blastomama · 10/03/2018 23:30

They last ages in the fridge

They last far longer not in the fridge, and they shouldn't be kept there.

Coolaschmoola · 10/03/2018 23:41

You can SEE when an egg is rotten - they go green/black inside.

Not that you'd need to look because the stench would knock you sick. It is the WORST smell in the world and it lasts for hours. There is no way you would have had to sniff the shell or check the date.

If she had made a cake with an actual rotteb egg, missing the fact that it stinks enough to wake the dead AND the strange green/black colour, then baked it the house would smell like a mortuary with a powercut.

A rotten egg can be detected rooms away. NOONE could miss it, no matter how daft. It is literally putrid.

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Fannydango · 10/03/2018 23:45

Seriously. Some people on this site are lovely and are reassuring me that DS will be fine - thank you.

But some of you - Jeez - you just want to be vicious don’t you?

To clarify - no I am not “so lazy I’ll leave my kid with anyone” (where the hell anyone got that from I don’t know). She was not looking after my child and never has. We were visiting. I was in the diner area of the kitchen-diner so I could see them and was watching them while reading a paper.

He is 5. I didn’t mind that he licked the cake mixture - all kids do it.

The eggs did smell bloody awful- the mixture didn’t smell normal. At all. But I accept from what PPs have said that the eggs maybe didn’t smell bad enough to be rotten. Great. Fine.

When she took the cake out, she was the one who said it looked odd and her immediate comment was to suggest the eggs might have been bad. That is what made me angry - that she clearly suspected they might be off but let DS lick the mixture. And when we checked the date on the shells, they

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Fannydango · 10/03/2018 23:45

...posted too soon - they were indeed off.

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Fannydango · 10/03/2018 23:49

And Porkflutes - I was there when she handed him the knife and tablet boxes and took them away immediately. And she never actually drove him unrestrained - she said she thought it would be fine to do so. She has never been on her own with him and will certainly never drive him anywhere. Your “spectacularly lazy” comment was beyond ridiculous and nasty.

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Fannydango · 10/03/2018 23:51

One more- I checked the left over mixture AFTER she’d made the bad egg suggestion. If I’d smelt it before, I obviously wouldn’t have let him lick it.

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busybuildingdens · 10/03/2018 23:56

I often use eggs a couple of months after their use by date. I get paranoid that they smell ‘off’, but in reality they don’t and it is just egg smell which isn’t very nice, but as others have said, you would have known if they were really off as they would have had a horrific smell.

SimonBridges · 10/03/2018 23:56

The eggs were not off just because they were past their best before date.

nocoolnamesleft · 11/03/2018 00:21

If you were in the kitchen diner, and hadn't run gagging out of the room, then the eggs weren't off. Also, hopefully these were British eggs? Hence the hens would have been immunised against salmonella.

MyLoveIsAPrickOnATudorRose · 11/03/2018 00:25

If they were truly rotten you'd not only have smelled it from the other room but as soon as the actual baking began the stink would have fumigated the whole bloody house.

Sounds like they smelled on the turn though, i'd honestly be prepared for the squits at the least within 6 hrs of ingestion and vomiting sooner than that if it was going to take hold. Hope you pass the night without incident though.

MyLoveIsAPrickOnATudorRose · 11/03/2018 00:26

Also as nocool says, if British hens then salmonella risk should be really low.

CadyHeron · 11/03/2018 00:28

SIL let DS lick raw cake mixture from a bowl today - turns out the eggs used were 6 WEEKS out of date and stunk to high heaven!!!

Ooookay. Admittedly I haven't RTFT --as it's late/early/take your pick.
I read the first half of your sentence as in WTAF is wrong licking raw cake mixture from the bowl?! I used to do that as a kid,perfectly normal part of enjoyable childhood! I survived and so did loads of others.
6 weeks out of date and stunk to high heaven though? Really, really?! You'd know about it if they were seriously off. You'd be gagging before you got anywhere near the bowl to lick it!
So not taking that bit too seriously and as a bit of an over-reaction.

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Puffycat · 11/03/2018 00:47

I wanna know who has eggs in the fridge that expired 6 weeks ago?? That’s nasty😳

PorkFlute · 11/03/2018 00:53

Slightly different since earlier you said you were in the next room and wondering if you should supervise more closely.
Seems you were happy for your ‘idiot’ SIL to be entertaining your child so it says something about your judgement. And you’re also a bit rich calling people nasty considering the words you’ve used to describe your SIL on here!

HoppingPavlova · 11/03/2018 00:57

If the eggs were off there is no way he would have eaten the batter.

Eggs can be eaten past the use by date. If they are off you know about it, they are not the sort of thing that you need dates to know whether they are off or not.

I think you have a troubled history with the SIL and go looking/assuming the worst. If the eggs smelt they were probably stored in close proximity to something that made them smell odd. They were obviously not off. Your son will be fine. I’d let the egg thing go.