How long are refrigerated eggs good to eat after their "Sell By" date?!
How long are refrigerated eggs good to eat after their "Sell By" date?
I hate sell-by dates. Why can't all products just have an expiration date?
Answers:
for quite a while.
to test: fill a bowl with water, place the eggs you want to use in the water.
if they sink, they're fine
if they stand on end in the bowl's bottom they are still good, but make sure you are cooking them thoroughly (ie: no eggs over easy)
if they float at the top of the water, toss 'em
I'm not reccomending this or anything, but I had a customer who used to ask for outdated eggs when she was making large amounts of potato salad. She claimed they were easier to peel and cut up if they were a couple weeks past the sell by date. As far as I know she never had anyone complain or get sick from it.
I don't think you can go by sell date, but a tried and true method on finding out if eggs are still good is to to put them in a bowl/pan of cool water, if they float - pitch them. We always did it this way on the farm when we found a hidden nest and it works.
Don't know about the eggs but whoo hoo about the expiration date. By the way how determines these expiration dates?
EGGS ARE GOOD UNTIL THEY WON'T FLOAT IN WATER
OOOOOOOOOOOOO...don't let the "sell by" or "use by" dates go by. I just tried some the other day that were in my fridge for awhile, and they were rotten! OMG, what a smell!!!!!! I learned a lesson on that one! Be careful of eggs!
It takes eggs a long time to really spoil. What happens to them is that they tend to lose moisture through the porous shell. You can probably keep eggs at least a week after their "sell by" date. You can test the freshness of an egg by putting it in a cup of water. The higher it floats in the water, the more moisture it's lost and therefore the less fresh it is. You can also tell this by feeling the "heft" of an egg -- does it feel lighter than you expect it to feel? If so, it's no longer fresh.