• MeanEYE
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    355 months ago

    This probably goes without saying to anyone who has chickens but a message to rest DO NOT WASH your eggs. It’s the stupidest thing you can do. When you wash them you remove protective layer and they can’t last long outside of refrigerator. Even in the fridge chances of getting Salmonella grows very fast.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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      465 months ago

      DO wash them shortly before eating, though – they come out the chicken’s “universal back hole”.

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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          15 months ago

          They sometimes crack when boiling, and I don’t want my hardboiled eggs in water with dissolved excrements

      • @rainynight65@feddit.de
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        15 months ago

        As someone who has been eating eggs out of our own production for several years now:

        I’ve never washed an egg. Ever. When we get eggs from our hens, we mark them with the date and they go into the fridge. When we want to eat them, we take them out and do whatever is required.

        We mainly consume eggs in boiled, fried and scrambled form, but also sometimes in a carbonara pasta, where they’ll get heated but not cooked.

        None of us have ever gotten sick from consuming those eggs, in whichever form. We don’t consume eggs that are significantly older than one month, but that’s pretty much our only safeguard.