how long do you keep eggs after the expire date?

[destillat]

Only if you stupidly buy stuff you are unlikely to use before its sell date. If you can't eat twelve eggs a week next time buy six.

In any case I can afford to throw out a carton of eggs and I'm guessing so can everybody who is on terb. If this were a forum for maximizing your welfare benefits this might be a more interesting topic, but this is a forum oriented around a particularly expensive hobby.

Ya, and as per usual, you drop down to the 'I can afford to do it'.
I can afford to waste a crap load of stuff... so can probably most the people out here.

CHOOSING to be wasteful though is a completely different thing.
You admitted that even though you don't overbuy, you refuse to eat anything that has gone past its BBD.
That is wasteful. Regardless of if you can afford throwing it away or not, you are being wasteful. Needlessly.
Can you tell the difference between an egg that is one day past the BBD compared to one that is one day before the BBD?
What about produce? What is your demarcation point?

I give some of my time to a local food bank.
To think that there are people out there that CHOOSE to not eat food because it has past its BBD because "it tastes off", frankly, is disgusting... especially when people are out there that desperately need food but can't get it.

 

[fuji]

I don't choose to be wasteful. I try and buy only what I need, and generally eat everything before its expiry date. I visit the grocery store multiple times a week because I like fresh food, I'll buy what I need for the next 2 or 3 days with specific meals in mind, and generally nothing ever gets close to expiring.

If I fuck up and don't eat something before it expires, that's a fuck up. But it doesn't mean I'm going to act like I'm on welfare and can't afford good food: I will deal with my fuck up by chucking the expired food.


As for whether I'm contributing to world hunger by refusing to eat expired food, let me tell you that I sleep remarkably well at night. It's a gift.

 

[GPIDEAL]

So you would rather be wasteful than eat something that is still perfectly fine but doesn't taste 'perfect' in your opinion?

Best Before isn't just about taste. It's about nutritional value too.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Chicken eggs from local farms are much better than store bought eggs too.
My mother used to visit from the country and she would always bring a dozen fresh eggs from the local farmer.
Miles of difference in taste compared to the store bought, bleached and processed stuff.

Agreed, however, one guy I know who lives out in the country and is a hobby farmer, brought in fresh eggs, only that I saw something dark in the yolk later. Wasn't sure if it was an embryo. (He brings them in his vehicle, but it wasn't during the winter).

 

[notthemama]

Agreed, however, one guy I know who lives out in the country and is a hobby farmer, brought in fresh eggs, only that I saw something dark in the yolk later. Wasn't sure if it was an embryo. (He brings them in his vehicle, but it wasn't during the winter).

As a kid I remember store bought eggs had a greenish yellow hue yoke while our free range chicken eggs were bright orange.
The growers have wised up and add food colour to the chicken feed so that their eggs will have an attractive orange yoke.
The free range eggs were also considerably larger. Our average free range egg came up extra large on the egg scale.
As for taste, meh. A blind taste test I'm pretty sure wouldn't find any conclusive difference unless the free range hens got into something aromatic.
I know certain wild grasses gave our cows milk an off taste once in a while. Huge difference in taste from the processed stuff.

 

[GPIDEAL]

As a kid I remember store bought eggs had a greenish yellow hue yoke while our free range chicken eggs were bright orange.
The growers have wised up and add food colour to the chicken feed so that their eggs will have an attractive orange yoke.
The free range eggs were also considerably larger. Our average free range egg came up extra large on the egg scale.
As for taste, meh. A blind taste test I'm pretty sure wouldn't find any conclusive difference unless the free range hens got into something aromatic.
I know certain wild grasses gave our cows milk an off taste once in a while. Huge difference in taste from the processed stuff.

Ok but I doubt this guy I know did that. He's a supplier of construction products, but lives in the country with his wife and they own a few birds.

It wasn't the colour of the yolk that was questionable, just the object embedded in it.


Generally-speaking though, country eggs are great!

 

[notthemama]

Ok but I doubt this guy I know did that. He's a supplier of construction products, but lives in the country with his wife and they own a few birds.

It wasn't the colour of the yolk that was questionable, just the object embedded in it.


Generally-speaking though, country eggs are great!

If the yolk has a small blood spot, it is fertilized.
People used to pay extra for that. I don't know what kind of health benefit.
As a kid it grossed me out and I wouldn't eat the ones with the blood spot.

 

[SkyRider]

Do restaurants ever serve eggs past their best before date? How would you know?

 

[destillat]

I will deal with my fuck up by chucking the expired food.

You do realize that "best before" <> "expired", right?

Tell me... can you tell the difference between an egg that is one day before the BBD and one that is one day after the BBD?

 

[whitewaterguy]

Interestingly enough, during my recent trip to the UK, I noticed grocery stores do not keep eggs refrigerated, nor do people keep them in the fridge at home. The risk of acquiring salmonella poisoning from UK eggs I understand, is next to zero, as this potential source of poisoning is near non existent by virtue of their production standards. Folks there are warned however, that eggs imported from other countries, especially from North America should not be stored similarly, as risk of salmonella poisoning from these imports is significantly higher. Further, in studies of UK eggs, there are no qualitative differences over time of eggs stored chilled versus room temp eggs.

 

[destillat]

Interestingly enough, during my recent trip to the UK, I noticed grocery stores do not keep eggs refrigerated, nor do people keep them in the fridge at home. The risk of acquiring salmonella poisoning from UK eggs I understand, is next to zero, as this potential source of poisoning is near non existent by virtue of their production standards. Folks there are warned however, that eggs imported from other countries, especially from North America should not be stored similarly, as risk of salmonella poisoning from these imports is significantly higher. Further, in studies of UK eggs, there are no qualitative differences over time of eggs stored chilled versus room temp eggs.

Yup.
North America is basically the only place that refrigerates their eggs.
In NA, eggs are sanitized, removing the protective coating on them.
In Europe, that is not permitted, so they maintain their natural protective coating.

 

[fuji]

You do realize that "best before" <> "expired", right?

Tell me... can you tell the difference between an egg that is one day before the BBD and one that is one day after the BBD?

I just chuck it out if it's past due. Life's too short to waste it eating expired food. I prefer fresh, and like my food to be WELL BEFORE the sell date. Certainly not after.

 

[destillat]

I just chuck it out if it's past due. Life's too short to waste it eating expired food. I prefer fresh, and like my food to be WELL BEFORE the sell date. Certainly not after.

Thanks for ignoring the question for a second time.
Figured you would anyways.

Also, the corporate consumption machine thanks you for being so gullible as to take their established best before dates as gospel. Their bank accounts really appreciate your blindness.

 

[fuji]

Thanks for ignoring the question for a second time.
Figured you would anyways.

Also, the corporate consumption machine thanks you for being so gullible as to take their established best before dates as gospel. Their bank accounts really appreciate your blindness.

I can afford it.

 

[destillat]

I can afford it.

Good for you.
You can afford to be wasteful and spend an extra handful of dollars a week.
Impressive.

 

[fuji]

Good for you.
You can afford to be wasteful and spend an extra handful of dollars a week.
Impressive.

Yup.

 

[destillat]

Yup.

You are certainly envied by many, I'm sure.

 

[fuji]

You are certainly envied by many, I'm sure.

Maybe by people on welfare. I'm guessing 99.9% of members here can afford fresh eggs.

 

[destillat]

Maybe by people on welfare. I'm guessing 99.9% of members here can afford fresh eggs.

Can you pick out an egg that is one day past it's best before date?

 

[fuji]

Can you pick out an egg that is one day past it's best before date?

I generally don't pick food out of the garbage.