Will we get sick?

[Pink977]

Baked a cake. Eggs had been in the fridge previous. Since found out that the eggs I used had actually been sat out on the kitchen side from 11am-6pm when I used them for the cake. Will we get sick??!

I never keep my eggs in the fridge. You do realise you don't buy them from a fridge in the supermarket?!

I’m in the UK, keep eggs in the fridge, as does everybody I know. It’s a really normal thing to do, in my experience.

@Pink977 regardless, the eggs have now been cooked. I don’t they will cause you to be sick. Xx

I think it’s as much a storage issue for me. I like to keep kitchen sides clean and use cupboard space for other stuff.

I don’t think there’s really a right or wrong way.

I am mid 40s and have never in my life refrigerated an egg. The egg holder for my fridge lives in the kitchen junk drawer

That an unnecessary comment. How do you get through life with your social skills!

And how were you proposing to bake a cake without the eggs changing temperature?

What do you think happens when you boil/fry/poach/scramble them?

My social skills are pretty good thanks. Good job, good friends, ans good social and family life.

Google is free to use and full of good stuff. I just can’t be doing with folk who can’t google how to safely store an egg. I don’t think that’s completely unreasonable.

E coli and salmonella are killed by cooking so I don't know why you are saying they are heat resistant

You're supposed to leave your eggs to get to room temperature before baking with them if they've been refrigerated. You'll be fine.

@Pink977 That's advice from the USA, where they wash eggs before sale.
That process removes a natural protective membrane resulting in the eggs having to be refrigerated.

In the UK our eggs aren't washed and therefore don't need to be refrigerated and there is no 2 hour rule here.

There is nothing to worry about if you're in the UK.

Millennials think like this. They also think food goes bad on the stroke of midnight on a use by date

Sometimes questions on this place are wild. Haven’t you ever cooked with a egg before, OP?

@dementedpixie Only if cooked at an EXTREME temperature for over an hour

Read it again. British Lion Eggs are the British egg safety people. Nothing to do with America. And it's advisory, unlike in the US where eggs need to be refrigerated.

What, all Millennials? 😂

I have a friend who's husband is Gen X. He is very much like this. He won't eat things on the bb date, and definitely not after.

I have a Millennial daughter and a Gen Z son, neither of whom are worried about bb dates - because they understand what they mean and are used to me ignoring them.

Surely if millennials think that way, it's because that's what they've seen demonstrated in the home? So it's us Gen Xers to blame?

I don't think it's necessarily generational. DSis and I are both around 50 so Gen X and had exactly the same upbringing by the same post war baby boomer parents, who were of a generation where they could remember times before fridges and use by dates, so needed to use their judgement to decide whether something was safe to eat, plus they couldn't afford to waste good food so if it was good/safe to eat, it was eaten and throwing it away because it had passed a very conservative date or had been out of the fridge for a few hours just wasn't on their radar.

But DSis and I have a very different outlook on life about many things but especially food safety. I can sometimes see DM looking at us and wondering if DSis was switched at birth.

She won't eat anything that's been out of the fridge or even approaching a use by date, let alone past it, yet I'll happily stretch use by dates by a day or two, cut mouldy bits off cheese etc.

As for egg safety information, reliability of what you read and critical thinking skills, I've read the 'lion eggs info' and my take on it is the kitchen cupboard is fine, except perhaps if you have a tiny kitchen with the cupboard above the cooker and massive windows that let loads of sunlight in but is nearly fridge cold at night because otherwise, most kitchen cupboards will be fine.

https://www.egginfo.co.uk/ways-to-cook/general-tips/how-store-eggs

I wouldn't take the above info as telling me that I must or even should keep eggs in the fridge (and even that site says keep them in the box rather than the egg keeper in the fridge). And for the OP reading that eggs 'should be discarded if left out for longer than 2 hours after refrigeration' well that's clearly nonsense that can safely be ignored.

As it happens we don't have the egg storer in our fridge, which is only a few months old, but we wouldn't use it anyway - we go through around 25-30 eggs a week (both usually have 2 a day for breakfast and then other cooking/baking too) so would constantly be fiddling around with boxes (the out of date eggs I referred to in my previous post were some that I'd bought reduced because bizarrely it's illegal in the UK to sell eggs that are less than a week before the use by date so I often use this to my advantage.

😂😂😂

That if we met you would know someone. Just because you've not met someone on your survey of egg location doesn't mean your sample is representative. A lot of fridges have egg holes.

Eggs sent kept I the fridge

Of course not.

Yes, you definitely shouldn't give away your refrigerator when you've posted your eggs.

You need go stop reading the DailyMail and similar rubbish!

Eggs are sold in supermarkets on shelves! Not fridges!

OP are you the same person who asked about a bit of discolouring on the skin of an onion the other week?

Again, I'm aghast at how little knowledge or common sense people have regarding food

Have people seen how eggs are displayed in supermarkets?

Was this piece of information written in 1988 at the height of the "Eggwina" salmonella scandal?

British eggs stamped with the lion brand have been laid by hens that have been vaccinated against salmonella.

British eggs don't need to be refrigerated. They aren't refrigerated in supermarkets.