Re: OT- raw eggs

[Guest guest]

If you don't refrigerate the eggs, how long can they stay out? Also are

there any benefits to not refrigerating them?

I just found a source for free range farm eggs and the yolks are incredibly

orange! I started feeding them raw to my cats, but I have yet to try them

raw. I am getting there though and soon as I get over the thought of

it...:-)

-Olif

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[Guest guest]

With a cow, we rarely have room in our fridge for eggs. As long as they are

**unwashed** and fresh, and your house isn't terribly warm, they usually are

fine to leave out for awhile. As far as how long, when a hen decides to

hatch eggs, she lays an egg every day and a half or two, and leaves them in

the nest until she has a " clutch " which is 11 to 15 eggs, give or take.

Those eggs will be left at a range of temperatures until she is ready to

incubate them. Then she begins sitting on them, and those eggs, subjected

to the temperature and humidity of the bottom of a chicken for 23 hours a

day, grow into chicks, and all hatch at about the same time. I kind of

figure if an egg can grow into a healthy baby chick after it's been

unrefrigerated for two weeks, it's probably okay to leave it on the counter

for two weeks, but not in a warm, moist place! :-)

Again, the eggs need to be unwashed. When the hen lays an egg, it is

covered with a fluid that when dry, forms an anti-microbial barrier.

Washing removes that, and can actually drive fecal bacteria into the shell

if the water isn't warm enough - and fecal bacteria will grow mightily at

room temperature with all that food.

I can't imagine that there is any health benefit to unrefrigerated eggs, and

obviously there are some risks. In my experience, they keep several weeks

longer in the fridge than out. Some day when I am lucky enough to have an

extra fridge, I will refrigerate them, and then my kitchen won't look like

such a disaster all the time! :-)

Lee Anne

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If you don't refrigerate the eggs, how long can they stay out? Also are

there any benefits to not refrigerating them?

[Guest guest]

We found that refrigeration changes the taste. I live in Fl. so the a/c is on most of the time unless it is "winter".

Rhoda

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[Guest guest]

Olif,

As soon as you get over it the cats won't have any. My eggs never lasted that long but at least 2 weeks. I gave some to a vegetarian and her family one time. They ate some that night and then the next day the remaining ones from the refrigerator. She said a definite difference in taste. Eggs shells are thin and they pick up the odors from the refrigerator.

rhoda

[Guest guest]

I just started leaving my eggs out a couple weeks ago. It was hard at first to get over the thinking of they have to refrigerated. I get duck eggs. They have really hard shells. I just started eating them raw.

Chris

Olif,

As soon as you get over it the cats won't have any. My eggs never lasted that long but at least 2 weeks. I gave some to a vegetarian and her family one time. They ate some that night and then the next day the remaining ones from the refrigerator. She said a definite difference in taste. Eggs shells are thin and they pick up the odors from the refrigerator.

rhoda