Eaten an out of date egg-advice needed please

[mistymoor]

Am a bit worried and needed some advice please.

Last night at a friends house I made meatballs and used 1 egg to bind the mixture.

It was'nt until this morning that we discovered the egg I had used was dated use by june 25th 06

My two children who are 5 and 3 hardly ate any of the meatballs but the adults did.
We are all feeling fine this morning and the children seem ok.Just more concerned for them really and worried.

Would we have been ill by know if we were going to be do you think?

I know this is a bit of a strange one to answer but if anyone has any advice I would be gratful.

If you eat a bad egg, you know all about it really quickly. I would say you ar probably fine... Phew!

Think it owuld have stank if it was bad.
I'm sure the never used to put dates on eggs.

that is one ooooooooold egg!!!!! i ld have thought that if you
were going to be ill....it would have happened by now........if the egg was cooked, probably less of a risk.......why don;t you call NHS direct if you are really concerend...they will know the incubation times for food poisoning etc..

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guess your friend needs to clean out her fridge a bit more often!!!!!!!

Oh well, there is this chines delicacy of eating an egg years and years old...

I think you will be fine, was it in the fridge? it might have not be fresh (that for sure) but if it was too bad you may have smelled it.

Thanks everyone.No it was'nt in the fridge,it was stored in a pantry.

Just checked a website which says food poisoning can have an incubation period of 8-48 hrs.
So does this mean we could still get ill?

Am just concerned about the children .

OH lordy I have hens and they lay eggs without the date stamps !
I read somewhere that a woman who lived on a farm in the US found a stash of eggs hidden under a sheet of corrugated iron in their farmyard in deserty Arizona. Must have been there for years. In the heat and the dust.
Her Mother said 'fantastic' and they ate the lot that week!
They last a long long time.
I am sure you will be fine.
You can put the egg in a bowl of water and if it floats it has air in it and is off (for future reference).

If you had cracked it , it would have stank. I am sure.

Mistymoor, eggs are either ok or they are OFF and if it was off it would have smelled awful. Eggs are the one thing I don't worry about use-by dates, although June is pushing it a bit. MOST food poisoning occurs by 12-24 hours, I think you can relax.

Thanks everyone.
I tried putting it water in the sink and it did float.

The food tasted ok so i would have assumed it would have tainted the taste and we would have noticed.
The meatballs were in a tomato pepper and mild chilli sauce and that tasted ok.

May I ask you why you eat it if you had seen it floating?

Oh well, the excitement of life's surprises I guess... I knew of some people who loved fungi, and loved them so much as to know that a particular variety was as tasty as poisonous so.. they cooked them, rang the hospital to see if they still had the antidote, on confirmation they ate the mushrooms and dashed to A&E!

Chandra,did,nt realise the date and did'nt test it before I cooked with it.

It was this morning I testeed it in the water after we realised the date.

I would drink a glass of coke. I met someone in Nepal whose doctor had recommended a daily glass which would kill anything! Can't harm anyway.

sorry to be dim, but how did you test it if you'd already cooked with it? Or did you test another egg????

If it was 'off' you'd have know about it when you cracked it.

I eat them past their 'best by' date, but not quite that long

Footprints,I tested another one from the same box.

martianbishop-the yolk looked a funny colour but did'nt really get an awful smell from it.
But I was cooking onion,chilli etc so whether that covered the smell so to speak.

The yolk of 'bad' eggs will lie flat on the white. The fresher the egg the larget wil be the 'raft' of more jelly like white it will sit on.....hard to exlain without a picture