Will we get sick?

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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??!

Fridges have egg holders because they're also designed for an American market who do need to keep them in the fridge.

As in my sample not being representative...obviously not, but look at this thread. The number of people who keep their eggs in the fridge is significantly lower than those who. If you did a poll in the UK I can almost guarantee you that rhe results would be the same.

Reading this thread makes me wonder how some people manage to get through life.

No idea why but certain people need something to panic about, sure if they thought logically they would know they don't need too but it is a choice

No you will not get salmonella but you know that, you will direct it to something else

You shouldn’t keep eggs in the fridge. They aren’t in the fridge in supermarkets. You will be fine

🤣🤣 OMG. A hour???

That’s absolute rubbish. Some posters will suffer anxiety now thinking you know what you’re talking about. 🙄

If an egg contains salmonella or e-coil bacteria, cooking it until the yolk is hard and not runny so frying or hard boiling, then it will have killed the bacteria. 🤷🏻‍♀️
I usually cook a hard boiled egg for 10 mins max.

I've had an off egg a couple of times. But normally they have been duck eggs. And believe me when I tell you when an egg is off you know it without asking anyone's opinion!!! Stench!!!! Directly into the outside bin as you do not want that in the house!!!

Although it doesn’t apply in this case, cooking something through at a high temperature doesn’t always negate the risk.

Some pathogens cause disease in their own right because they multiply to the point where their number causes us to become ill. Other pathogens create toxic substances which make us ill regardless of whether the organism is still active or not, and those substances tend not to be affected by heat.

Moral of the story - read up a bit about the different pathogens and the methods by which they make us ill.

Not a Science teacher anymore but I did also spend 7 1/2 years working for a poultry processor after I quit teaching.

Reading the major of posts on MN makes me wonder this!

I don't think the poster was being serious

There's no reason not to. You just don't have to.

I'm not sure why so many people think that it's not ok to keep eggs in the fridge. It's perfectly ok - and actually they last much longer. But it's not necessary.

@MereDintofPandiculation I think they were being serious as their first reply to the thread was:

VegTrug · Yesterday 23:04
Whilst I agree with your overall point that the eggs will be fine, them being cooked in a hot oven makes zero difference. E-Coli & salmonella is heat resistant. That's why people still get food poisoning from fully cooked food!

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

And their reply was:

VegTrug · Today 01:24
Only if cooked at an EXTREME temperature for over an hour

Sorry - i was probably getting confused by another thread where soeone did prescribe ott heat treatment, tongue in cheek.
I'm with you on E coli and Salmonella - the lack of heat resistance of Salmonella was why we were being told to hard boil eggs during the 80s.

How much longer? How long do they last in a stable temperature place that's not a fridge and how long do the last in a fridge?

I don't know whetehr it was you I was replying to before. I think it was in the context of someone saying they last longer in the fridge, and I wondered how they knew - had they kept eggs till the went off both in a fridge and outside?