How long after eggs expire can you still eat them?

[Twista]

I go by the date on the package. I know people who use them far far after the date and also the for milk. They use old dated milk in cornbread and surprisingly the cornbread taste perfect!

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

It's part of the current lack of knowledge regarding food. Most people have little idea of how the food gets from the field to their plate. Couple that with deceitful marketing practices and you've got millions throwing away perfectly good food.

Do you know large chain breakfast restaurants age their eggs because older eggs cook up nicer (more uniform)?

 

[esquared]

Looks to be at least 4-5 weeks after the packing date and the expiration date cannot be more than 30 days after the pack date.

http://www.eggsafety.org/consumers/consumer-faqs#Handling2

What does the date on the egg carton mean?

Egg cartons with the USDA grademark must display a “Julian date”*, the date the eggs were packed. Although not required, they may also carry an expiration date beyond which the eggs should not be sold, but are still safe to eat. On cartons with the USDA grademark, this date cannot exceed 30 days after the eggs were packed in the carton. Depending on the retailer, the expiration date may be less than 30 days. Eggs packed in cartons without the USDA grademark are governed by the laws of their states.

*Julian date: usually on the short side of the carton, represents the consecutive days of the year with the number 001 as January 1 and December 31 as 365.

How long are eggs safe to eat after purchase?

Fresh shell eggs can be stored in their cartons in the refrigerator for four to five weeks beyond the carton’s Julian date with minor loss of quality. Once an egg begins to age, it loses moisture through its porous shell and begins to dry. The membranes that hold the egg structure begin to loosen and the yolk may not be anchored in the center of the white once the egg is broken. An older egg would be most appropriate for a mixed dish, a batter or a hard cooked egg which should be easier to peel than a freshly laid egg.


From the Georgia egg commission

http://www.georgiaeggs.org/pages/expirationdate.html

 

[lxskllr]

I've had fried eggs that were MONTHS past expiration, and they were fine. One time my ex, made fried eggs, and after thinking about it, I asked where she got the eggs from. Turns out she got them from the fridge, and they expired in October. The date she made them was January if I remember right :^D

 

[sjwaste]

Do you know large chain breakfast restaurants age their eggs because older eggs cook up nicer (more uniform)?

I didn't know that. Makes sense, though.

Seriously, if you crack it open and its the right color and doesn't smell, it's usually safe to eat. This works for most food products. Of course, this is the place where we have to fix our meat bright red with carbon monoxide because people don't realize it turns brown in hours.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I didn't know that. Makes sense, though.

Seriously, if you crack it open and its the right color and doesn't smell, it's usually safe to eat. This works for most food products. Of course, this is the place where we have to fix our meat bright red with carbon monoxide because people don't realize it turns brown in hours.

Not to mention one of my favorite examples of deceitful marketing, "vine ripened" means gassed in the fields. :thumbsdown:

 

[darkxshade]

Meh, I'm not too concerned about egg expiration. What I'm more interested to know however is how long does egg white last once it's out of the egg? I typically separate 3 days in advance worth of egg whites so that I don't have to do it every morning and worried they spoil quickly once the egg has been cracked open.

 

[PottedMeat]

I didn't know that. Makes sense, though.

Seriously, if you crack it open and its the right color and doesn't smell, it's usually safe to eat. This works for most food products. Of course, this is the place where we have to fix our meat bright red with carbon monoxide because people don't realize it turns brown in hours.

you mean those fools haven't yet discovered a solution to inject into beef to keep the color? they could be charging us more for meat + cheap liquid :awe:

 

[unxpurg8d]

The eggs at my house are likely fresher than anything you can get in a store though. This morning for breakfast, I scrambled about 2 dozen eggs, just for the dogs. Then scrambled another dozen for me and the wife. The eggs came from the barn last night.

Now I have fresh egg envy. If my neighbors wouldn't throw fits I'd try raising chickens. I barely remembered to feed the kids, though, and THEY could talk... so probably wouldn't work out that well.

 

[SandEagle]

There should be an HOA law against expired eggs. You should lobby for this

 

[DrPizza]

Now I have fresh egg envy. If my neighbors wouldn't throw fits I'd try raising chickens. I barely remembered to feed the kids, though, and THEY could talk... so probably wouldn't work out that well.

Some cities have finally started allowing chickens. Buffalo, NY is one. Up to 6 chickens in a coop in the back yard; no roosters. 6 chickens would provide more than enough eggs for a family of 4 once they started laying.

Hell, I've got a dozen and a half chickens who each lay a dozen eggs in a dozen days. How many days until I have too many eggs?

 

[guyver01]

I guess people never ate eggs before the refrigerator was invented

 

[moshquerade]

I guess people never ate eggs before the refrigerator was invented

you are unbanned. yay! :sneaky:

 

[unxpurg8d]

Some cities have finally started allowing chickens. Buffalo, NY is one. Up to 6 chickens in a coop in the back yard; no roosters. 6 chickens would provide more than enough eggs for a family of 4 once they started laying.

Hell, I've got a dozen and a half chickens who each lay a dozen eggs in a dozen days. How many days until I have too many eggs?

I guess that half chicken is the BACK half, huh? :biggrin:


In all seriousness, that is a LOT of boiled/scrambled/fried/saladed eggs. Whew.

Wonder if the darned owls would eat them... The chickens, not the eggs, of course.

 

[wiredspider]

No.

Use some logic here. A chicken lays one egg a day. She waits until she has at least 7 or 8 eggs; sometimes a dozen or more before she starts setting on them. If they went rotten in 2 days, chickens would have gone extinct long ago.

Heh, freaked me out when the supermarkets in Australia didn't even have eggs in the refrigerated section.

 

[sjwaste]

you mean those fools haven't yet discovered a solution to inject into beef to keep the color? they could be charging us more for meat + cheap liquid :awe:

If they could brine beef and get away with it, they would, but people tend to like beef with a lower moisture content. The exception being the brined briskets (corned beef) that they do sell.

Look at some packaged pork, turkey and chicken - "contains up to a X% solution" in the fine print. They are selling us added water in the weight, for the most part. But that has more to do with the fact that people can't cook and then complain that their chicken or pork is "too tough."

I hate that I have to go out of my way to find unadulterated versions of the usual things found around the perimeter of the supermarket. I get that the processed shit is in the aisles, but now its in the fresh cases too.

 

[WHAMPOM]

I guess people never ate eggs before the refrigerator was invented

They dipped the eggs in a preservative and stored them for six months or more.

 

[guyver01]

you are unbanned. yay! :sneaky:

for now...
:hmm::sneaky: