I didn’t mean to imply that boiling increased their shelf life; rather, boiling in advance is necessary to make them convenient enough to have for breakfast, and the shortened shelf life is still long enough for that purpose. (The 4-6 day range agrees with my experience, hence two batches per week.)
I just make a couple of fried eggs for breakfast usually. Takes less than 5 minutes and can be done in parallel with making my morning cup of tea. Advance preparation looks like overkill to me—why not just get up 3 minutes earlier?
We had chickens for a while before they were all murdered by a mink. A freshly-laid egg would last 3 months in a constant temperature. A fiend of mine keeps his eggs on the counter. He lives in a country with a hot climate, and his eggs last for weeks and weeks, too. I think it’s amazing : )
To go bad, it has to undergo processes which make it go bad. For most food, the primary ones are consumption by microbes—bacteria or yeast, typically. Eggs are pretty good at keeping these out.
I’ve heard that as an egg sits, the yolk slowly descends and as soon as the yolk sits against the shell, it’ll go bad. If you keep turning the eggs every week or so, they’ll keep for months even at room temperature. I’ve never tested this, but someone I know found that eggs could last at least 8 weeks this way.
This is the Mother Earth News study that often comes up on Google that fertile eggs, and possibly infertile eggs, could keep as long as 7 months if you refrigerate them and don’t wash off their natural coating.
I didn’t mean to imply that boiling increased their shelf life; rather, boiling in advance is necessary to make them convenient enough to have for breakfast, and the shortened shelf life is still long enough for that purpose. (The 4-6 day range agrees with my experience, hence two batches per week.)
I just make a couple of fried eggs for breakfast usually. Takes less than 5 minutes and can be done in parallel with making my morning cup of tea. Advance preparation looks like overkill to me—why not just get up 3 minutes earlier?
We had chickens for a while before they were all murdered by a mink. A freshly-laid egg would last 3 months in a constant temperature. A fiend of mine keeps his eggs on the counter. He lives in a country with a hot climate, and his eggs last for weeks and weeks, too. I think it’s amazing : )
An egg has to be able to stay fresh while a chick is developing in it.-- about 3 weeks, and the hen will be keeping it quite warm.
It’s amazing that something which isn’t alive, and is full of fat and protein and water doesn’t go bad in that time.
To go bad, it has to undergo processes which make it go bad. For most food, the primary ones are consumption by microbes—bacteria or yeast, typically. Eggs are pretty good at keeping these out.
I’ve heard that as an egg sits, the yolk slowly descends and as soon as the yolk sits against the shell, it’ll go bad. If you keep turning the eggs every week or so, they’ll keep for months even at room temperature. I’ve never tested this, but someone I know found that eggs could last at least 8 weeks this way.
This is the Mother Earth News study that often comes up on Google that fertile eggs, and possibly infertile eggs, could keep as long as 7 months if you refrigerate them and don’t wash off their natural coating.