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eggs trivia question
| October 7th, 2019 at 7:30:06 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11790 |
Here is another thing that sets Americans apart In Europe, just everybody there mixes their MJ with tobacco I'm an American, we find that disgusting. We smoke the pure stuff, no tobacco mixed in. Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| October 8th, 2019 at 4:08:34 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5093 | since this is easily researched, I don't really need to provide the answer, but just in case, I learned the hard way that eggs uncooked have a good shelf life, but once cooked, go bad pretty quick. If you hard-boil eggs, you should eat them within a week. If you refrigerate them, they last for weeks seeming fairly fresh even, and I suspect they do in fact go for over a month at least, maybe months, before they actually spoil. The first link says "eggs rarely spoil. However, if you keep them too long, they are likely to dry up." Uncooked, I've never come across a spoiled egg kept in the fridge, though our really fresh local eggs we can get here stand out as better. There have been times I've lost track of how old eggs are, still none 'spoiled' that I've found. Of course i don't trust cracked eggs, and don't examine them either. So it makes no sense to hard boil eggs to preserve them, and I was cooking a dozen at a time and not eating them fast enough. I thought they would last longer cooked! I found the whites start to go watery in old hard-boiled ones, a very disgusting thing to eat even if only slightly effected, and I just threw away any that had that condition bad. None rotted but that was coming soon, it was easy to believe. I put the remarkable fact that eggs naturally resist spoilage down to still essentially being alive, though what you see mentioned is that there is a protective coating. Even though you see criticism of the handlers washing that off, there must still be some coating left if that is what's saving supermarket eggs. https://www.incredibleegg.org/cooking-school/tips-tricks/egg-storage/ https://www.thekitchn.com/the-shelf-life-of-hard-boiled-eggs-kitchen-facts-217747 I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| October 8th, 2019 at 8:42:45 AM permalink | |
| Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 27 Posts: 4256 |
I thought mixing tobacco and marijuana was natural, covers the smell and helps it burn better. I don't do drugs, but from what I understand, it is pretty common. |
| October 8th, 2019 at 9:07:55 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
This is the first I've heard of it, but it sounds like a pretty good idea. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| October 8th, 2019 at 9:16:42 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18193 |
Mostly true, but when I thought of keeping chickens I did learn that once you clean eggs they lose some of their protection from going bad. The President is a fink. |
| October 8th, 2019 at 10:47:54 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | In Downton Abbey, probably the most historically accurate show ever made, the kitchen had dozens of eggs in racks and not in the fridge. This was 100 years ago. Refrigeration is rather new, we've been eating and storing eggs for thousands of years. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| October 8th, 2019 at 2:21:01 PM permalink | |
| Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 27 Posts: 4256 |
There is much that actually does not require refrigeration, but it helps food stay good longer and lowers the likelihood of a lot of bad things happening. Eggs are a great example, as is bread. It basically keeps it a little safer and preserves the taste longer. (just like beer, you don't have to refrigerate it, but you really do). |
| October 8th, 2019 at 7:28:27 PM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
When I studied in Italy the Italians would always say you don't need to refrigerate your eggs and we were stupid for doing it. However in the first 22 years of my life I experience exactly zero bad eggs in my life. In my 5 years in Rome I unfortunately experience 3 bad eggs and they were disgusting. Mi Dispiace i miei cari amici Italiani, ma non e vero! “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| October 9th, 2019 at 2:49:07 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | For centuries the spice trade along the great silk road sustained Europe's diet and dreams. A little fermentation is good as it takes time for food to turn good. That is why squirrels bury acorns in dirt and wait awhile. |