Can I still use this egg or not?!


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Can I still use this egg or not?


Making cornbread, my eggs say best before 9/19...will it be bad to use it now really? Today is the 27th


Answers: i wouldn't use the egg.

i use 1/4 cup of applesauce in place of 1 egg. works wonderfully for cornbread-sweetens it up a bit. :)

if you don't have applesauce, you can use 1/2 a banana, but i'm not sure how that's gonna turn out in cornbread. good luck! u bet it will i thinks eggs last a long time. nope.If the egg is expired already...it will have a bad taste. As long as they've been refrigerated, It would still be fine - don't worry about it. take the egg and place it in a bowl of water..If it floats THROW IT AWAY..if it stays down it is still good.bad eggs will float because of the gas they produce when they go bad... 'best before' means just that.. After cracking the egg into a seperate container look at it and sniff it. Is it discolored? Does it smell bad? If it looks and smells okay, you can use it to cook with but not as a raw ingredient (ex: not in Caesar Salad) The freshest of eggs have a yolk that is nice and rounded. An egg that is not so fresh will have more of a flat yolk. It doesn't mean that it's spoiled..just not 'perky' Put it in water. A bad egg will float.

There is a small air pocket in the large end of the egg. When the egg is fresh, the pocket is only about 1/8th of an inch deep and as large around as a dime. As the egg ages, however, it loses both moisture and carbon dioxide — shrinking — so that the size of the air space increases. And the size of the air space determines the buoyancy of the egg.

So if you submerge a very fresh egg in water, it will lie on the bottom. An egg that is a week or so old will lie on the bottom but bob slightly. An egg that is three weeks or so old will balance on its small end, with the large end reaching for the sky. And a bad egg will float.

According to Harold McGee, author of On Food & Cooking (Canada, UK), Hannah Glass gave this practical advice to cooks around 1750, and it's as valid today — a "way to know a good egg, is to put the egg into a pan of cold water; the fresher the egg, the sooner is will fall to the bottom; if rotten, it will swim at the top." No. Buy new eggs. Why risk salmonella? Look at the eggs. Are they free from cracks or any break in the shell? If so, break an egg into a cup. Smell it. If it doesn't smell "off" or bad, I don't think 8 days over will poison anybody. I have used eggs that were 10 days over the "best if used by" date. This applies to cases when the egg is used in a recipe as in cornbread.

For eggs served sunny side up, I would only use the freshest eggs. Oh yeah, it's only a week, it will definitely still be good. Here's what I do. When I am in doubt about an egg I break it into a glass and smell it. Believe me you will know right away if it is still good or not!! My mom did this all the time particularly when she made Christmas cake that took 10 eggs. She always broke them into a glass even when they were just from the store and never broke them right in the batter or the whole thing would be ruined if one turned out to be bad. Your eggs should be fine. they have shortened the expiration dates on eggs recently due to salmonella...But really that is a sell by date and should be good for at least a week after the date! If they stink they are bad.. If they have no smell they are fine. Hope this helped...If not well eggs are pretty cheap :) hang on.....sending you an egg :)



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