Boiled eggs

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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?

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?

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

Safety wise, probably ok.

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

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.

I would eat them by the way

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

It’s basic consideration for others.

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.

Of course you can eat them.

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

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.

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.

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

I'd eat them.

it is always unreasonable to eat hard boiled eggs at work

I wouldn't even think twice about eating them.

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!

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

@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?

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

How awful that something has as scent to it.