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Mind-bending indeed, but looks pretty impractical. In an ordinary fridge, if your egg carton is a bit out of place, your door may not close properly. In this on
by decimalenough 7mo ago
Mind-bending indeed, but looks pretty impractical. In an ordinary fridge, if your egg carton is a bit out of place, your door may not close properly. In this one, you're going to have liquid omelette slathered all over the place, and how do you even clean the bottom of that thing?
- b112 7mo agoWell, it's a prototype. Any production model would need to watch for fingers too, so it'd have to be gentle. Just as elevator doors won't crush a person due to sensors and such. The cleaning part is an interesting question.
- ndsipa_pomu 7mo agoWho, apart from Americans, puts eggs into the fridge?
- Lalabadie 7mo agoAny country where eggs are industrially washed before showing up in grocery stores. Their protective coating (called the bloom, I believe?) goes away when that happens, and they become susceptible to salmonella when they stay at room temperature.
- ndsipa_pomu 7mo agoWhat's the reasoning behind washing eggs to make them more susceptible to salmonella?
- MrDOS 7mo agoBecause it cleans the poop off.
- andai 7mo agoSo if an egg has poop on it, it's less likely to have salmonella?
- lostlogin 7mo agoThere is a coating on the outside of the egg which prevents that. Washing the egg removes the poo and the coating. No source provided and this may just be some myth.
- quesera 7mo agoIt's true. The bloom on the eggs protects them from whatever nastiness is on the outside. This includes salmonella, which may be present if your flock is infected in the poop on the outside of the shell (remember hens only have one egress port), plus any other sources of environmental pathogens, of which there are many. When the bloom is washed off the egg, pathogens have an easier time penetrating the shell and consuming the nutritious yummy bits inside. At room temperature, they can multiply rapidly. Refrigeration slows the rate of growth. An unwashed egg retains the barrier, and stays fresh longer without refrigeration. YMMV on household acceptance of dirty eggs on countertops, but they are cleaner than many other items within arms' reach that we are conditioned to not think about. :)
- ndsipa_pomu 7mo agoI happily keep eggs in the box on my kitchen worktop for maybe a couple of weeks without them going bad. They'll happily last longer, but the eggs won't be at their best. Incidentally, I heard somewhere that using a ridge to crack eggs on (like the edge of a frying pan) isn't best as that can possibly drive a bit of poopy shell into the interior though if it's just about to be cooked and eaten then that's less problematic. I use the flat kitchen top to crack the shell instead which leads to the occasional amusing outcome of cracking it too hard and dumping the whole egg onto the worktop.
- quesera 7mo agoWhen we've had "too many" hens, we've had multiple large salad bowls full of eggs on the countertops. And that's after overwhelming our friends and neighbors. They will easily last 4-6 weeks with no major degradation (i.e. still good for omelets, but use the freshest ones for poaching). The forest predators eventually help moderate our egg surplus. Free range comes with risks, alas. Interesting point about ridge-cracking. I'd never thought about it, but it makes sense and I will mend my ways! :)
- bashtoni 7mo agoMany British people and Australians, even though our eggs are sold at room temperature and unwashed. I don't know why, but for most of us it 'feels wrong' to store eggs anywhere else.