Comments on: Eggs : Room Temperature with Feathers Please

By: Karina Bravo

Karina Bravo — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:12:01 +0000

I just started reading your blog and I love it! Eggs have been a big deal for me lately. My family is on a tight budget and I am “splurging” no trying to be healthier and eating free range organic eggs. But I would love a paper box (mine come in paper sometimes) and I think it sounds like a beautiful thing to pick however many eggs you want…they are so pretty when they are not in styro! I feel so grown up for the choice I have made for my family! keep picking your eggs!

By: jja

jja — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:38:52 +0000

I put eggs also in the fridge and don’t feel comfortable with any other option.

By: Angie

Angie — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:45:45 +0000

LOVE this post, even though i’m chiming in late. We have chickens ourselves, and so we never refrigerate the eggs–except the few dirty ones that need to be washed. The posts about the protective coating are correct. Hens secrete a clear film on the eggs that seal the eggs. Almost all of our eggs are perfectly clean, our nesting boxes are clean with nice fresh straw or dried grass in them, so there’s no need to wash them. Occasionally we find eggs laid on the floor, or in funny places, so those we wash and refrigerate, and our family eats those–we don’t share the dirty eggs at all. We actually just hatched two chicks last weekend for the first time–it was a really thrilling experience! LOVE your blog Katie, keep it coming!! :)

By: Jennifer S.

Jennifer S. — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:56:12 +0000

Good topic! I get my eggs from three places — the grocery store, the farmer’s market, or a friend who has hens. The ones from my friend usually are the best tasting but the dirtiest. She uses recycled egg cartons. The ones from the farmer’s market are the most expensive but tasty and cleaner. They keep them in a cooler because summers in Virginia can get quite hot. I’m not sure what happens to eggs when they sit in hot temperatures. The ones I buy from the grocery are refrigerated and in cardboard boxes sold by the dozen. I think they way they sell them in Germany makes a good deal of sense.

By: queen stuss

queen stuss — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:05:52 +0000

I’ve never even seen eggs in styrofoam containers! In Australia, some supermarkets keep the eggs on the shelves, some in a cooled shelf similar to the shelf some vegetables are stored on. They are predominantly in those cardboard containers, occasionally in clear plastic.

I then take them home and keep them in the fridge because my egg use is inconsistent, and room temperature at my house is generally around 30 degrees celcius!

I’d like to know about what you then do with the small packets you bring the eggs home from the shop in. Do you then take them back next time you buy eggs and reuse them?

By: annie

annie — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:33:23 +0000

I have my own laying hens, I keep my eggs in a beautiful blue bowl in my frig. People are always giving me stryo- egg cartons, the cardboard cartons are few and far between here but reuse the ones people give me so it takes a while before they go to the landfill… I only wash my eggs that might get alittle yucky right before I use them to keep them fresh!