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I don't think it's a myth compared to unwashed eggs. You should try leaving washed eggs out on the counter for 20+ days (incubation for a chicken) and see.
by declan_roberts 2y ago
I don't think it's a myth compared to unwashed eggs.
You should try leaving washed eggs out on the counter for 20+ days (incubation for a chicken) and see.
- ars 2y agoI've left them for 2 months (I found a big sale, so I bought a bunch). The yolk broke easily when I opened the egg, but it was perfectly fine to eat. And it was not small and dried out as implied by someone in the thread.
- mrguyorama 2y agoFood borne illnesses are not a guarantee, and doing the thing the FDA calls dangerous a hundred times might still mean you never get sick, because you got lucky or some other safety caught you. I have eaten genuinely year old (and older) eggs with no issues. That doesn't mean it is a myth that eggs only last 5 weeks in the fridge, it just means that I was putting myself in extra danger out of a weird sense of frugality and laziness. I've also eaten pounds and pounds of raw cookie dough and not gotten sick, but that doesn't mean raw cookie dough doesn't have an inherent salmonella danger (ironically for this conversation it mostly comes from the flour!)
- nearbuy 2y agoThis is true, but the FDA doesn't back up the original claim that unwashed eggs don't need to be refrigerated. They say to put all eggs in the fridge.
- bena 2y agoAre you implying that these eggs would incubate chicks? Or are you using the incubation time as a sort of natural timer? Like they would last that long if they were unwashed, but washed eggs wouldn't last even the incubation period.