Refrigerate After Purchase

The Queen of England

Why do boxes of eggs come with a label saying "Refrigerate After Purchase"? You buy them off a shelf, so why can't you store them on a shelf after you buy them? Does something happen to them after you purchase them that brings about the need for them to be refrigerated?

The Backwards Man

The Queen of England wrote: »

Why do boxes of eggs come with a label saying "Refrigerate After Purchase"? You buy them off a shelf, so why can't you store them on a shelf after you buy them? Does something happen to them after you purchase them that brings about the need for them to be refrigerated?

You know how hens sit on eggs to keep them warm? Why do you think they do that?

Rayne Wooney

Your fridge is an oxygen free zone and eggs need oxygen to begin germination. So if you buy them from the shelf and leave them on your shelf at home there's a good chance a chicken fetus will begin to form.

Didn't you know that?

donvito99

I shove eggs up my arse for storage

The Backwards Man

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Your fridge is an oxygen free zone and eggs need oxygen to begin germination. So if you buy them from the shelf and leave them on your shelf at home there's a good chance a chicken fetus will begin to form.

Didn't you know that?

Germination? It's an egg, not an egg-plant.:pac:

The Queen of England

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Your fridge is an oxygen free zone and eggs need oxygen to begin germination. So if you buy them from the shelf and leave them on your shelf at home there's a good chance a chicken fetus will begin to form.

Didn't you know that?

I didn't know that but if that is the case, then why the hell aren't they refrigerated before you purchase them?

Feathers

If you use eggs within the best before (use by?) there's no need to refrigerate them, unless you like cooking with cold eggs. If you want to use them past that, I'd give yourself a fighting chance by slowing down any aging on the eggs.

MagicMarker

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Your fridge is an oxygen free zone and eggs need oxygen to begin germination. So if you buy them from the shelf and leave them on your shelf at home there's a good chance a chicken fetus will begin to form.

Didn't you know that?

How is a fridge an oxygen free zone?

Rayne Wooney

The Queen of England wrote: »

I didn't know that but if that is the case, then why the hell aren't they refrigerated before you purchase them?

Because they're bought that day and changed daily, it's easier to display them on the shelf than in the fridges as the supermarkets would need to buy a lot more refrigerators if that was the case.

emeraldstar

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Your fridge is an oxygen free zone and eggs need oxygen to begin germination. So if you buy them from the shelf and leave them on your shelf at home there's a good chance a chicken fetus will begin to form.

Didn't you know that?

LMAO.

Nabber

You put them in the fridge ro keep them warm

El Guapo!

MagicMarker wrote: »

How is a fridge an oxygen free zone?

Because its in space.

bohsman

MagicMarker wrote: »

How is a fridge an oxygen free zone?

Lock yourself into one and see how long you last.

Banjo String

MagicMarker wrote: »

How is a fridge an oxygen free zone?

You know that seal that surrounds the fridge door?

That makes it air tight you know.

Gummy Panda

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Your fridge is an oxygen free zone and eggs need oxygen to begin germination. So if you buy them from the shelf and leave them on your shelf at home there's a good chance a chicken fetus will begin to form.

Didn't you know that?

how would the fetus form when the egg is infertile

The Backwards Man

bohsman wrote: »

Lock yourself into one and see how long you last.

You'll be Ok until the OXYGEN runs out. . . .

Legs.Eleven

Egs r gray. Dey cum n litel shels n evrytin. lol.

Teyla Emmagan

Eggs shouldn't be kept in the fridge, they should be at room temperature for cooking with. Even in way hotter countries than ours (France for example), eggs are never refrigerated. It's just some stupid thing people have started doing recently.

Grayson

SamHall wrote: »

You know that seal that surrounds the fridge door?

That makes it air tight you know.

As tight as a ducks/hens arse?

Yester

Eggs need to be kept at a constant temp to keep them fresh.

The Queen of England

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Because they're bought that day and changed daily,

Supermarkets probably have a high enough turnover of eggs that they can be changed quite frequently, but I doubt it's on a daily basis and it would certainly be a lot longer for small shops. Yet still I have yet to crack open and egg & fry up a chicken fetus for breakfast.

Legs.Eleven

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Eggs shouldn't be kept in the fridge, they should be at room temperature for cooking with. Even in way hotter countries than ours (France for example), eggs are never refrigerated. It's just some stupid thing people have started doing recently.

In the fridge, out of the fridge....which is it, damnit? I eat a LOT of feckin' eggs and have at least 12 on the go in my fridge at any one time....:eek::eek:

Grayson

This is why.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-american-eggs-would-be-illegal-in-a-british-supermarket-and-vice-versa/

Another important distinction between European eggs and American eggs is how they are stored, and this ultimately leads back to the question of egg-washing.

Go to buy eggs in Britain, France or Italy and you’ll find them sitting on an unrefrigerated shelf, often near the baking supplies in an aisle in the middle of the store. Head to an American supermarket however, and eggs are always held in refrigerated units, like milk and cheese and other dairy products.

EU law actually stipulates that eggs “ should in general not be refrigerated before sale to the final consumer.” The regulations explain how “cold eggs left out at room temperature may become covered in condensation facilitating the growth of bacteria on the shell and probably their ingression into the egg.” Hence if a consumer picked up a carton of chilled eggs then transported them home in the car, the change in temperature would cause the eggs to sweat.

With precisely this scenario in mind, EU regulators considered it more judicious to maintain eggs in an ambient environment that resembles a “cool” room temperature from lay to shelf. In the UK, guidance set out by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers recommends supermarkets maintain a temperature of between 66.2°F to 69.8°F in the winter and between 69.8°F and 73.4°F in the summer. Room temperature is generally considered to be between 68°F to 77°F.

Unregistered.

SamHall wrote: »

You know that seal that surrounds the fridge door?

That makes it air tight you know.

How does it work when the door is open?

Rayne Wooney

The Queen of England wrote: »

Supermarkets probably have a high enough turnover of eggs that they can be changed quite frequently, but I doubt it's on a daily basis and it would certainly be a lot longer for small shops. Yet still I have yet to crack open and egg & fry up a chicken fetus for breakfast.

If you've ever worked in a supermarket you'd know the rotation they do, it's definitely changed daily. If you want to experiment buy some tomorrow and leave them on a shelf for a week.

The Queen of England

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

If you've ever worked in a supermarket you'd know the rotation they do, it's definitely changed. If you want to experiment buy some tomorrow and leave them on a shelf for a week.

I've never kept eggs in the fridge. They go in a bowl beside the fruit.

Ruu

bohsman wrote: »

Lock yourself into one and see how long you last.

be right back...

MagicMarker

SamHall wrote: »

You know that seal that surrounds the fridge door?

That makes it air tight you know.

Are you familiar with the concept of a door?

jester77

Cold eggs are not good for baking.

evolving_doors

Ok just to put this to bed, I've worked in a stores in a chef college abroad (hot country).. You store stuff the way you find it in the shops..

Keep eggs in cupboard, quit being a pussy op you won't die...

eggs are unfertilised..

There is oxygen in a fridge you numpty.. If a tree falls in a fridge you will hear it make a sound (it's not a vacuum, which does not contain any oxygen)

Egg shells are permiable, dont store them near fish like they do in a Dunnes I know

Sergeant

I hop into my Landrover each morning and head down the land to where my brood of hens have hatched their eggs. Like to rustle up a simple breakfast of huevos rancheros served up with fresh bread just out of the Aga. So simple and easy to prepare. More than four hours out of the oviduct and it doesn't matter where you store your eggs.

The Backwards Man

The Queen of England wrote: »

Supermarkets probably have a high enough turnover of eggs that they can be changed quite frequently, but I doubt it's on a daily basis and it would certainly be a lot longer for small shops. Yet still I have yet to crack open and egg & fry up a chicken fetus for breakfast.

Have you never had an egg with a wee reddish bit in the yolk?

Legs.Eleven

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Have you never had an egg with a wee reddish bit in the yolk?

When I see that, I know I've hit the jackpot. Yumzers.

evolving_doors

Sergeant wrote: »

I hop into my Landrover each morning and head down the land to where my brood of hens have hatched their eggs. Like to rustle up a simple breakfast of huevos rancheros served up with fresh bread just out of the Aga. So simple and easy to prepare. More than four hours out of the oviduct and it doesn't matter where you store your eggs.

Yes, and I bet you put on your Dr. Dre headphones and listen to your portable vinyl player whilst jacking off to your new Rachel Allen book...ohhhh scrummy AGA Rachel..

.I agree with your last point in terms of health and safety..although youll get a good spanking from rachel as eggs from the fridge are hard to work with in terms of peaking etc...

The Backwards Man

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

When I see that, I know I've hit the jackpot. Yumzers.

Two meals for the price of one, winner winner chicken dinner.:)

Senna

We went on holidays one year and forgot about the dozen eggs sitting in the cupboard, came home and the kitchen was full for new born chicks running around.

juneg

Senna wrote: »

We went on holidays one year and forgot about the dozen eggs sitting in the cupboard, came home and the kitchen was full for new born chicks running around.

I leave eggs on the worktop for weeks on end, they are fine to use ( I bake )even 2 weeks after the sell by date. If you crack open a bad egg your nose would tell you instantly!!

They have never hatched nor do I expect them to.

hfallada

Apparently eggs are good for 3 months after purchase. Like chickens used to stop laying for the winter people saved eggs for the winter months

But the EU with the amount of useless regulations say they are only good for one month

jjbrien

I found this funny as well people putting eggs in the fridge its the same with Ketchup its stored on a shelf in the shop but some people then put it in the fridge at home.

MagicMarker

jjbrien wrote: »

I found this funny as well people putting eggs in the fridge its the same with Ketchup its stored on a shelf in the shop but some people then put it in the fridge at home.

Ketchup is like beer, it tastes nicer from a chilled glass bottle.

juneg

hfallada wrote: »

Apparently eggs are good for 3 months after purchase. Like chickens used to stop laying for the winter people saved eggs for the winter months

But the EU with the amount of useless regulations say they are only good for one month

Now that you mention it I don't remember if there were best before dates on any thing when I was young. You learned how to tell if something was fresh.
Tinned food and packets of soup were the only other choices. There was no pasta or mixes for dinners!

gowley

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Because they're bought that day and changed daily, it's easier to display them on the shelf than in the fridges as the supermarkets would need to buy a lot more refrigerators if that was the case.

what complete rubbish. eggs have a best before date and they are not changed daily. they are taken off the shelves on the bb date and reduced and put back on. if they are not sold they are then taken off.

Rayne Wooney

gowley wrote: »

what complete rubbish. eggs have a best before date and they are not changed daily. they are taken off the shelves on the bb date and reduced and put back on. if they are not sold they are then taken off.

I'm obviously joking.

HJL

jjbrien wrote: »

I found this funny as well people putting eggs in the fridge its the same with Ketchup its stored on a shelf in the shop but some people then put it in the fridge at home.

Is Ketchup not different because they tell you to keep it in a fridge after opening it because the seal has been broken?

I never keep eggs in a fridge, although i often wondered about it because some fridges come with compartments in them for holding eggs in the door. I always thought it was quare because eggs dont go in a fridge!

cooperguy

It has to do with keeping them at a constant temperature. Shops tend to be temperature regulated without much fluctuation up or down. Your kitchen gets hot and cold depending on the time of day and if your cooking or not.

gowley

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

I'm obviously joking.

obviously. or you havent a clue what youre talking about. i wonder which one it is

Sky King

In America you are not allowed sell eggs refrigerated - in the EU you are not allowed sell them unless they are refrigerated... or maybe that's the other way around. I read something about it recently anyway.

Anyway the best before data on the eggs is a load of cack, to test if an egg is gone off place it in a cup of water, gone off eggs float, good ones sink.

Rayne Wooney

gowley wrote: »

obviously. or you havent a clue what youre talking about. i wonder which one it is

Joking. Obviously.

gowley

Sky King wrote: »

In America you are not allowed sell eggs refrigerated - in the EU you are not allowed sell them unless they are refrigerated... or maybe that's the other way around. I read something about it recently anyway.

Anyway the best before data on the eggs is a load of cack, to test if an egg is gone off place it in a cup of water, gone off eggs float, good ones sink.

its the wrong way around. in the us they have to be refridgerated because the usda require all eggs to be power washed before they go for sale.this removes any harmful bacteria but also strips the protective coating thus requiring the eggs to be stocked in a fridge.

theidiots

People do know the eggs you get are the hens period and the egg cannot be fertilized unless the hen got rode by a Rooster before the eggs are layed.

Eggs just stay much fresher in the fridge is the only reason they say this

Sky King

Yea. My local supermarket stocks them on the shelf but my local shop (which is in Ireland) has them in the fridge.

You can see where the confusion arises.

theidiots wrote: »

People do know the eggs you get are the hens period and the egg cannot be fertilized unless the hen got rode by a Rooster before the eggs are layed.

Do you teach biology by any chance?