This doesn’t tell you if it’s good or bad. Just tells you if it’s new or old. Older eggs have more air in them.
If it has so much it floats, you have to throw it away.
I regularly cook eggs that float on water before boiling. It’s still good. Don’t waste food.
The difference between sinks and floats is a pretty small amount of air. Now if the egg truly does go sideways then there is probably an issue because the air sack has broken. But floating itself doesn’t say anything about the safety of the egg.
Have ya ever cracked open a floater? I have recently and it took a few hours for the smell to leave the kitchen
Have you ever cracked open a floater and found a perfectly fine egg? You are counting the ones that confirm your bias but don’t have a large enough sample size to work from. I have 21 chickens. 5 ducks and an unknown number of geese that lay eggs. I’ve seen fresh hour old eggs that are bad and sink. I’ve seen 6 week old eggs stored at room temperature that sink. I’ve had day one eggs that float and are still fine. Eggs are a natural product with high amounts of variation. We can’t even reliably tell if a fertilized egg is male or female using the best science available and people expect a float test to determine if it’s infected with bacteria? Not happening. The float test tells you how much air is in it. That’s all. And that isn’t even a guaranteed way to determine age.
Advice: Don’t trust infographics with zero source reporting for things as important as food safety.
My egg packages here in Sweden have that information printed on them.
But the version where the egg floats they don’t say to toss it out, but rather crack it open, look, smell. Might still be good.
Exactly, the egg floating doesn’t mean that it’s not edible anymore, just that it’s old.
Exactly. If an egg has gone bad, you can’t really miss it.
Also why it’s good to always quickly check eggs before adding them to a mix.
Assuming you have a sense of smell. Anosmia affects about 3% of people - probably more since Covid.
The colour is typically also a dead giveaway.
Of course blind people with anosmia are on their own there.
Must be tough to be a blind person with ansomia and a craving for omelettes.
I felt like cracking a joke but it would stink
Nice try 4chan, last time I microwaved an Iphone.
Don’t eat spoiled eggs.
I had a coworker who did. She had to go to the emergency room and missed work for a month.
I think I dunno. That was her story. She could have went to Cancun or backpacked in Europe and made up the story.
What I learn from this is that if I eat spoiled eggs, I have a 2/3 chance of ending up in Cancun or backpacking across Europe. Brb
Oh no, you created mustard gas
Why is this though? What’s the science for making old eggs float?
The older an egg gets the more experienced it gets with swimming. I once had an egg that was so old, it could do 4 laps in an Olympic swimming pool in under a minute
Unfortunately by that zime it had already gone bad. Started smoking, got into trouble with the law, that sorta stuff. Must be because of that satanic heavy metal music
This is extra important if you’re eating eggs you got from A Guy instead of like a supermarket.
I get my eggs from my E guy. He handles all my eggplant needs too.
I get my eggs from B Guy
Mine was from Z
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4 just smells horrendous, prob won’t kill ya
Nah. it’s just not fresh. Floating is not necessarily rotten. It’s a risky game tho, so i crack each egg into a ramekin before it goes into the bowl.
You’ve obviously never experienced 4
I live in a country where they don’t boil and bleach the duck placenta off of the egg so you can just sort of keep them on the floor outside of the refrigerator for days and it doesn’t matter it’s fine
boil and bleach the duck placenta off of the egg
What on earth.
Is this a non-US thing? I’ve never heard of this practice and I worked for a farmer that raised chickens and sold eggs.
An industrialized system to promote waste. None of the smaller farms in my area (Eastern Ont Canada) wash their eggs but the ones that get sold to stores must.
Not boiled but “washed” probably with bleach.
Eggs are porous. Birds leave a coating on them that blocks the pores and prevents bacteria getting in but washing the eggs removes that protective coating.
Pretty sure you do this in the US but not every country does.
I wonder how they get them to look nice then. Do they take the egg instantly? Do they refresh the chickens’ nesting material all the time? Does the egg fall down a hole the moment it’s laid?
It’s literally the last one.
The other commenter is talking about cage farms, but even free range hens have a similar system.
Hens will always lay their eggs in the same place. So she will cluck around living her best life outside, then go back to the coop to lay an egg in her favourite nest. It’s easy enough to make a hole in the nest and a gravity based collection system underneath.
This is not only to keep the eggs clean but also to protect them from the hens, including the one that laid it.
Modern laying breeds are absolute nutters. Their sole purpose (target attribute) is to produce an egg a day. It’s not uncommon for these deranged weirdos to lay an egg, stand up, crack it open, and consume the contents.
Gotta eat me some chicken menstruations. Mmm mmm!