Eating eggs past expiration?

[Red Squirrel]

Is it safe to eat eggs that are past the expiary date? I really can't see the issue with only a few days, I'm sure they don't have a special timer where they suddenly degrade at midnight. 😛 I'm thinking of hard boiling them or making scrambled eggs, not sure yet.

Are the dates more or less "safe values"? I have eggs that expired on the 12th and I kept telling myself I have tons of time. Next thing you know we're the 14th. Time goes by too fast.

Conveniently I was given a free dozen today at the grocery store. They had a promotion going on where you got a free one if you buy more then 100 worth of groceries.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

It's been my experience that the expiration dates on eggs are very conservative. I've had eggs that were over a week past the date and were OK.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Good to know. I kind of figured as it would seem the shell has a pretty good barrier against bacteria and what not.

 

[Deeko]

In my experience, hard boiled eggs turn out much better well after the expiration date.

I've got eggs in my fridge that expired, uh, end of August. That might be pushing it though 😉 I actually still eat them, but I'm also an idiot.

edit: And when I say eat them, I actually mean put them raw in my protein shakes. Salmonella ain't got nothin on me!

 

[RagingBITCH]

http://www.eggsafety.org/f_a_q.htm#1

 

[seemingly random]

Rotten eggs smell. Trust your senses.

Taste does degrade with time. After six months in the frig, you might not like them.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

They grade eggs based on freshness, essentially, meaning that the white of a fresh egg will stand up in a frying pan whereas a not-so-fresh egg's white will kinda run outward, flatly away from the yolk. They do this by "candle-ing" eggs to see if the yolk will move about in the the white inside the egg or if the white holds the yolk firmly in place.

That doesn't mean that grade B eggs are "bad" as in "rotten," just not as fresh.

I buy my eggs 5-dozen at a time, and I'm more-or-less the only one that eats them. I prepare them almost exclusively 5 at a time, whites only, for my breakfast meal. I know that I keep them well past the expiration date, but since I cook them thoroughly I don't really worry about it.