Expiration Date on Eggs

I never even noticed that there was an expiration on eggs. From my understanding of expirations is that the date is at the peak of the end of freshness. Its still good for a time period after. If i have someting near or at that date i use it up asap. I feel its wrong to throw food away unless its spoiled.

If the expiration date on my eggs has passed, I put them in cold water before using them. (The water should be at least two inches above the eggs.) If they stay on the bottom, they're good to eat. If they stand on their end but are still touching the bottom, they're good to eat. It's only when they rise to the top of the water that they should be thrown out. That indicates that bacteria gasses are collecting in the shell. When they are standing on end, cooking the eggs completely is enough to kill the bacteria that has begun growing but, when they are floating, there is too much bacteria in them to kill with cooking. I've used this method of testing my eggs for years. Eggs keep much longer when they are raw than when they are cooked, since the cooking process kills a lot of the bacteria that grows inside the shells. Hard-boiled eggs should be eaten within a day or two of boiling them.

We don't have to worry about that, eggs do not last long enough in my house for them to expire. I have two young boys and they eat the heck out of them.

I never have thrown away my eggs or tested them, either. Thank you for posting this, though. This is good information. Before I buy eggs, I always check them to make sure none are broken because this is the way I was taught to do. Here lately, however, I have discovered some were broken when I got home. I couldn't help but wonder if they could have gotten broken on the way home because I was pretty sure I checked them before I left the store. The last time, two were broken pretty badly and I just threw them out. Kathy.

This is nice to know because I must have wasted a metric ton of eggs through foolishly trusting the expiration date Maybe I will start trying this, if anything, at least it will prevent some chicks from dying in vain due to my incompetence and expiration dates

I don't test it. I just throw it after expiration. But usually my eggs don't cross there expiration date. I finished it before expiration. Have a good day!

I once learned how to store the eggs much longer than the expiration date. You can open the carton and turn the eggs upside down. Then after a week you can turn them again. That can be done until you have eaten them all. If you do this, the eggs last much longer than the date printed on the carton.

Quite a few things you buy are still good a while after the expiration date. Milk is still good for a few days. Meats are usually not good very long after the expiration date. You just need to be careful.

sad to know that i never see expiration date stickers on egg trays i bought in the grocery store. or maybe i just never noticed them. as far i as can recall, i have never seen one. most of the eggs found in the market being sold are placed in egg trays. they can be bought per piece and so i guess, they don't bother to place expiration dates. or it could be that we have no law providing or checking the quality of eggs, and so the state have no time or not so strict with these kinds of consumables. good that in the US, you have such a law.

hi friend,still now i have not think about the expire date of the egg,i never seen the expire date for egg,i am least bother about the expire date when it comes to egg,for other things i will be noticing and used to throw them out

How do you test your eggs to see if they're still good to eat? I dislike throwing away food, but I don't really know how to do that. However, I don't follow the expiration day in mold bread. I can't believe that in just 2 days that bread will go to waste, so as long as it still looks ok and doesn't get moldy is ok.

I dont throw them away. Maybe they might not be as fresh but we can definitely eat them. There's what they call the century egg and they eat and a lot of people like that. I believe that egg is 100 years old and its not bad so nothings wrong when you eat eggs that are a few days or a few months old. =)

I read a cooking blog today that said a good way to check if your eggs are good enough to eat is to drop them into cold water, and if they float they pass and if they sink you should throw them in the bin. Now, I'm not sure how true this is but it may be worth a try.

Eggs can be kept for easily 6 months @Kowgirl . Eggs expire because they are left to sit in the same position they are put in the refrigerator. The yolk and white drop to the bottom of the shell creating air at the top of the egg. That is what causes them to spoil. If you flip the eggs upside down once a week (whether loose or in the carton), this prevents the air from accumulating and spoiling the eggs.

we do not have expiration date on the cartons of eggs here. anyway, i do not pay attention to it because the office where i work is a feedmill, which also grows chicken that sells eggs. what i notice is that if the egg is around 2 weeks old, the yolk becomes a little thinner ( i do not know the exact term ) than they are when they are fresh.

I've never even paid attention to the expiration date on the eggs lol. I just thought they were always good as long as they stayed cold. I can't remember what's the longest time I've had a carton of eggs, but I've never heard of anyone else talking about eggs going bad, so I've always assumed they didn't.

I never throw away eggs before I've tested them. There's lot of food that keep past the date on them, here it's different if it says "best before" or "expires on". If it expires, you should be careful, if it's best before that's just a hint that you might want to use it soon. Cheese usually have a best before stamp, and some of them are much better after the date. If I forget food, I don't throw it away unless it's bad. I think some things, smoked salmon for example, can get dangerous, but usually it's OK. At least if it's not too long, I just found some waffel mix in my fathers cupboard that was best before november 2004. I didn't test it, I just got rid off it :-)