Where do you store your eggs? (and other food hygeine questions)

[ChirpyGirl]

After DD1's bout with campolybactor I have been sent some bloody patronising really helpful leaflets on food hygiene but a few things have confused me.

Firstly, I never put my eggs in the fridge, it is not good for them, they absorb odours and also have to be room temperature before being used in loads of stuff, I am aware a lot of people do put them in the fridge (because of those tray things!) but what do you do?

And do you wipe down your child's highchair seat, tray, straps and wash the floor with antibac solution, cos I don't!

Surely eggs are hermetically sealed? They don't "go off" with a big fat hens bum sat on them for 2 weeks, after all! They last for ages and ages on the top - often weeks past their sell by date. All you need to do is pop them in a bowl of water before using them in this case... if they float, ditch them.

Eggs in high cupboard (never fridge)

Wipe highchair once or twice a day with antibac wipes or spray (mainly because the dog licks it after ds1 has been there).

Clean floor once in a while with dilute bleach and hot water.

I keep my eggs in the fridge. There is nowhere else to put them.

So why is it that supermarkets don't refrigerate their own eggs but instruct their customers to do so after purchase?

On top of the bread bin. My kitchen is no less hygienic than Morrison's, or, indeed, a chicken's arse.

Aefondkiss - that is probably related to why the bowl of water test shouldn't be done before wanting to use the eggs too.

Butterflybessie - I like you (and Chirpy, of course!)

I use squirty antibac when I can be bothered

I keep eggs in the fridge, as DS would break them otherwise.

And I would hardly ever wipe a highchair with anti-bac crap. Why would I want my child eating straight off something that has been wiped with chemicals?

Eggs fridge (I did know why they are not stored in the fridge in supermarkets but say refridgerate after use but I have forgotten)

Highchair probably washed every second day it's more a booster chair DD2 eats at the table, table wiped down twice a day.

Kitchen floor washed daily, I do have 3 cats though and although they hardly go outside and don't catch anything they are still cats.

chirpygirl - I remember talking to you when your DD was ill I think you are understandably worried about reinfection but as long as you are careful with things like raw chicken chances are it was a one off. Children need a good bit of dirt around them.

Kerrymum, that was my point to the stupid woman on the phone, teh DD's and I always eat teh same food so it is more likely to be from teh shit on teh chicken coop, but noooo, she had to send me about 5 leaflets on
'egg hygiene'

FFS.

Was amused by the hysteria in her voice when I said the only thing I could think of was whens she collected the eggs from my sister's chickens
'you didn't...eat them did you? You must only eat Lion eggs'

No, we threw them in teh road, you silly bitch. I only didn't eat them cos I forgot to take them home!

(And lots of people I love on here, especially butterfly and Aefondkiss [mwah])

Sweetkitty, thanks for that, I am not woried about reinfection as I am 100% she got it from either those chickens, or the next door farmer's ones that she cahsed, or my uncles later that day, although we don't think she touched those ones, I am just pissed off that she felt the need to send me a HUGE wodge of leaflets when I said I didn't need anything!

And am more pissed off that the GP/hospital still haven't given me any results, I only heard from EH, is that normal? Cos I think it's kinda rude!

[spurned]

My fave time of the year is when I go on hols to a farm and buy some of the fresh eggs. Still warm from the chickens bum, with yolks as golden as the sun. Am jealous of you chicken keepers

Eggs are kept under the chickens or in impossible to find places like flowerpots or the cowshed.
We wipe the baby's chair with a damp cloth and it gets a good hot soapy wash now and again.

Kitchen floor gets mopped annually frequently with boiling water and Flash or whatever is to hand and some Jeyes Fluid in it.

eggs in frige

don't use anti-bac cleaner for highchair or floor

lol

chirpygirl - I would be 99% certain it's from the chickens too much of a coincidence really.

I think they have to be seen to be doing something and ticking the box with something like campylobacter, just ignore it.

winestein, get a hen or two, go on, they are fab!

Chirpygirl, ,I would ask dh for you, if doctor should get in touch, I think they notify environmental health, you could always phone them?, but he is away to play in the shed, he does deal with lots of things to do with shit.

I bought six eggs this morning. Two are in the fridge, because my house is so warm at this time of year that if they weren't in the fridge they'd be hard-boiled.

The remaining four are in a chocolate cake. Now THAT is a good place to store eggs.

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The only anti-bac stuff I buy is buy accident if (for example) some handwash is on offer and I happen to pick up anti-bac.

Eggs are in fridge - habit - and safe from prowling dds in lower cupboards!

Imo hot soapy water is adequate for most/all things in the kitchen (and bathroom too for that matter obviously different cloths!) Dishcloths need washing a lot imo, also separate cloth for worktops and dishes really.

i agree, OPOL.

my landlord's wife left all these vile anti-bac cleansers in the house.

yuk.

liquid soap nuts - got them in lakeland, i throw in an essential oil that's known to have extra cleansing properties, like tea tree, sweet orange, lavender, even a blend i buy from my supplier called 'anti-bacterial' (pine, eucalyptus and whatnot).

handsoap - i just buy whatever sensitive skin one is cheapest and add in liquid glycerine and a few drops of oils.

i certainly wouldn't use all that anti-bac chemical junk on any surface that food might be eaten from, like a high chair.

Eggs in carton on counter. Same with tomatoes. Potatoes in cool cupboard (on NE wall).

Surfaces & floor very rarely cleaned with anything other than soapy water.

Cast-iron stomachs all round.

(I would love hens but we have a minute concrete yard )