To be grossed out by poo on supermarket bought chicken eggs?

[Hulahoop32]

My oh thinks I’m mad 🤣 Decided to do some baking with my 4yo today and couldn’t find a single egg without poo on it! I read you shouldn’t wash them so just used the cleanest one I could find but now I’m reading all about how dangerous chicken poo is (I’ve been on furlough a long time and my brain isn’t operating rationally anymore. )

What does everyone else do?

I have the perfect solution. Don’t buy eggs! There. All better now.

How completely ridiculous! I have hens, the eggs have poo on sometimes, sometimes with shavings stuck on top too.
My baby sits out in the grass with them, and when she’s bigger will collect the eggs. iI she’s fine I’m sure your 4 year old will live.

I am so glad we live where people actually understand food production!

@Givingup123456

Fun fact for you op... happy cooking!

The egg, poop and urine (which for a chicken isn't a liquid) exits out of the same hole (aka, the vent, as you can see above). BUT, when an egg comes out, the chicken's Cloaca is turned inside out so that the egg cannot come in contact with the intestines (fecal matter nastiness).

Jesus 🤢. Not quite the way I imagined.

@Hulahoop32

My oh thinks I’m mad 🤣 Decided to do some baking with my 4yo today and couldn’t find a single egg without poo on it! I read you shouldn’t wash them so just used the cleanest one I could find but now I’m reading all about how dangerous chicken poo is (I’ve been on furlough a long time and my brain isn’t operating rationally anymore. )

What does everyone else do?

Well, for a start, everyone else doesn't eat the eggshells or the shit itself, we just crack the egg and use what's inside and is perfectly safe, thanks to that unwashed shell.

So you can eat something made by a chicken that then comes out of its arse but disgusted it has poo on it? Get a grip! Do you eat dead animals too? Drink cow breast milk? Do you know that chicks get sorted into male and female and the males get put on a conveyer belt and tossed into a grinder. They get ground to death. Enjoy your poo eggs!

With all the panic about Chlorinated chicken I am surprised no-one's mentioned that eggs in the USA are routinely washed - in fact it's mandatory, by the supplier - sometimes in Chlorine.

Oh ffs lol, its a little bit of shit.

I hope they were high quality free range /organic op..

Honestly, OP, this is one the silliest things I've seen on here for some time. Assuming you realise that eggs come out of a chicken's arse, do you feel they should be magically superscrubbed to remove all evidence of their origins before you buy them? Do you similarly object to any aspect of meat bought in a shop which contains any suggestion that it comes from a dead animal?

You can wash them just before using if this is a big problem for you. It isn't something to be worried about, just so you know.

Saw a youtube video a while ago about the difference between eggs in the US and eggs in the UK/Europe and it talked exactly about this issue. In the US eggs are washed and thus they have to be refrigerated at all times (including transport from the supermarket to your house!). Eggs in the UK don't. Eggs that aren't washed have a natural protective barrier. But basically cases of salmonella and other issues are super low in both situations.

I live on a free range egg farm. Just wipe them with a damp cloth and then use. Don't immerse them in water, eggs are porous.

I don't get it. You mean the poo is on the shell? The exterior? Why is that an issue? Surely you aren't cooking with the shell? Unless the poo is on the inside somehow but that seems an impossibility Otherwise I don't get the issue. Why does it matter?

just rinse it off,my nappys are worst lol

Fun fact. Eggs aren’t solid in the egg canal. They are soft. Sometimes hens lay eggs without a shell.

I can’t get worked up by chicken poo on an egg. We’ve always had chickens and they can’t help a bit of poop on the egg.

My advice is to stop licking the egg shell.

I'd wipe it with a damp cloth immediately before use if I was bothered about handling it mucky. I've used eggs "straight from the hen" from a neighbour before and I've never had any feelings either way. It's a natural state and I wash my hands after handling so no big deal.

I'm more concerned about American style chlorination, industrial washing of eggs, and battery farming than a little bit of poo from a neighbour's hen!

Eggs are gross. Be a vegan then you won't have to deal with animal parts/waste/secretions

My oldies lay eggs that are the weirdest shapes, common as they age.
They’d be rejected by the supermarkets, as would the bumpy shelled ones. Yet they are perfectly good eggs still.
The wastage is heartbreaking in commercial production all because some of the public are so pathetic

@Hingeandbracket

With all the panic about Chlorinated chicken I am surprised no-one's mentioned that eggs in the USA are routinely washed - in fact it's mandatory, by the supplier - sometimes in Chlorine.

Which is why they have to be refrigerated and ours don't. It's yukky. As Joni Mitchell says, "give me spots on my apples and leave me the birds and the bees".

You can wash them immediately prior to use. You just shouldn’t wash them before then as it washes a protective later from the shell.

Never heard anything so silly as this. If you are a country person, and get your eggs straight from the farm, you might always get some feathers and a bit of chicken poo on the shells. I assume you don't eat the shells, so just wipe the shells down. You can't be clinical about fresh eggs, straight from the hens. !!

@Chasingsquirrels

I have hens in the garden so frequently have muck on the shells, never seen supermarket ones with muck on though.

You shouldn't wash then store them as washing removes the protective bloom - but if you wanted to wash them then use immediately (so that you don't crack muck into whatever you are making) then that's perfectly okay.

This, you can was h immediately before use. Have to say I've never seen dirty eggs from the supermarket before. Do you not open the box to check before you buy? I always used to do that to check there were no broken ones.

Again, mine in the garden are often dirty, but I don't care.

If you wash them, the moisture can make the shell more porous, so the toxins can get inside the egg and then into you. This is why you're not supposed to wash them.

Break them individually into a cup to make sure they don't get shell in them. Or shit. Wash hands after handling shells. Job done.

If you can't handle it, OP, you probably shouldn't be eating eggs anyway. You do know it's a chicken's period inside that shell, don't you?

I would only be worried if the poo was human 😀, otherwise wipe off with a damp kitchen towel and use egg as normal. Ignore all the arsey replies Op, you gave me a chuckle and besides, if people don't ask then they don't learn. You are now armed with some useful information about where and how eggs are formed and the difference in how eggs are treated/stored in the USA and Europe/UK. Enjoy your 🥚.

Not that I'm an eggspert...

I only ever buy free range eggs from a well known supermarket .Before everyone tells me how expensive they are :£ 2.60 for 20! really good value .To answer the question just wipe over egg with some kitchen roll and crack it open! Unless you are going to eat it raw, it will be cooked anyway and any traces of its whereabouts will be perfectly safe!