Help...I bought a dozen fresh chicken eggs at the Farmer's Market on Saturday and just found them in

USA is the only place I know of that refrigerates eggs...

Everwhere else I have lived they are sold on a shelf, not even near the fridge aisles...

London wasn't too hot, but Mexico/Central America and Australia are regularly well over 83 degrees in the summer and people keep them on their counters at home...

What did you end up doing with them?

 
Sandra, I do appreciate your point. However, in the US for example,

there are numerous incidences of salmonella poisoning, etc. attributed to eggs. We (US) are accustomed to buying store-bought pasteurized eggs that are obtained from our supermarket in the dairy refrigerated aisle.

How long is the shelf life of "fresh" eggs that one brings home and stores is another matter, as far I'm concerned. I'm not a farmer, but I think it's too grey of an area on my turf here in the US - Florida to be exact, to take a chance.

I would welcome some feedback on fresh farm eggs and lifespan/storage of same in certain worldly conditions.

This is a very interesting subject to me.

Call me, The Eggstremist!!

 
The North American food culture is far less "fresh oriented." In Italy, for instance, you can buy

unrefrigerated eggs (in supermarkets they tend to be refrigerated, though) and keep them out on the counter, but it's likely the eggs were laid that day or at the most the day before, and that you'll be using them that day or the next. If the average Italian wants eggs a week from now, she'll shop for them a week from now. If the average North American wants eggs a week from now, or even if she doesn't know when she'll next want eggs, she'll shop for them today in her weekly supermarket "stock up on everything" run and keep them in the fridge till whenever. After all, they're stale-dated up to two months hence. And you don't know when they were laid, so overall it's best to keep them in the fridge.

 
I do think that FRESH is the operative thing here....not.....

so much the heat. There is samonella in both Australia and S Africa that I have read about.
Still fresh eggs are sold at farmer's markets/road side stalls of even in some supermarkets ...unrefridgerated.

I also know that fresh eggs are not supposed to be washed as it washes off some coating which I belive helps in keeping them fresh...

I wash the eggs I collect from my chicks here in the Caribbean 'cause I dont like the poss. thought of poop on them in this heat....and they sometimes stay out of the fridge for a day or two but in SA my eggs went into a basket on top of the fridge as did my grandparents/parents eggs.......and no one ever had a problem.

I often wonder if the real problem is airconditioning.........airconditioning is not common much in the homes anywhere in Africa or even in Australia. Well not in those days.

I also have heard that the samonella contracted is not in the eggshell but from the outside. True or false I would hate to test it.

As an aside my wee grandie got samonella here when she was about 14/15 months old....it appears, apparently, that her Mum had her sitting in the seat of the trolly in the supermarket and then Mum picked up and looked at several packets of chicken...thighs/breasts etc.....not liking the look of them she did not put any in the trolley but the little one sucked on her hand as Mum pushed the trolley and the Doc seemed to think that is where she picked up the bug....

Made us far more careful touching things when we had the wee ones out shopping with us after that.

 
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