The Raw Egg thread

[RedWolf]

Egg paranoia! 🤣🤣🤣

 

[Mickalino]

Egg paranoia! 🤣🤣🤣

I'd be more concerned with the guests at my dinner party
They might never come back !

 

[RedWolf]

I'd be more concerned with the guests at my dinner party
They might never come back !

If the eggs are fresh and properly prepared? That is the last thing that I worry about in my kitchen

 

[Mickalino]

If the eggs are fresh and properly prepared? That is the last thing that I worry about in my kitchen

I mean my guests getting E. Coli or Salmonella from a raw egg dish, with raw eggs not fully pasteurized.
I can't get "fresh" eggs. I'm stuck with American supermarkets, where the eggs come from hens being mechanically rotated & stimulated on an automated assembly line, among other things.

 

[skinsmarydu]

I mean my guests getting E. Coli or Salmonella from a raw egg dish, with raw eggs not fully pasteurized.
I can't get "fresh" eggs. I'm stuck with American supermarkets, where the eggs come from hens being mechanically rotated & stimulated on an automated assembly line, among other things.

Don't get me started...I don't eat much chicken at all after seeing a doc about 20 years ago about their processing (I wanna say Pamela Anderson was involved with it???)
I'm under the same confines, very few real "fresh markets" to get stuff.

 

[Mickalino]

I was just trying to count how many raw eggs I consumed as a kid.
From drinking glasses of raw egg, in order to become the next Rocky...
to the leftover dessert batters my mom would save for me.

Anytime she put cake or cookie batter into the oven, I'd hear "YOU CAN LICK THE BOWL NOW !"
And like a dog running for a biscuit, I'd come running and proceed to lick the bowl...like a dog.

So if I multiply that for how many times that happened...
I must have had my share of raw eggs...so I guess the risk can't be that bad. I mean, look at me now ; I seemed to have turned out...oh wait

 

[RedWolf]

When I am in the Caribbean or in South America I see Americans freak out because they have two dozen egg flats/cartons un-refrigerated all over the supermarket. They don't refrigerate them at home either. Americans are looking in the refrigerated aisle and they are not there

 

[Mickalino]

When I am in the Caribbean or in South America I see Americans freak out because they have two dozen egg flats/cartons un-refrigerated all over the supermarket. They don't refrigerate them at home either. Americans are looking in the refrigerated aisle and they are not there

I have heard about this practice in multiple nations like those areas, as well as some European countries.

I need to research this to confirm it, but I think it has to do with how in America something is done differently, between the time the hen lays and the supermarket,
that requires refrigeration of American eggs. Well, let me ask you : when you're back home in America, do you refrigerate your eggs ?

I think in a lot of ways, American food production experiences compromises and shortcuts, due at least in part to the need to mass-produce at a fast rate, compared to the smaller populations of those countries. When I stop and think about how much chicken is consumed in just one American day, compared to the time it takes to raise them, it blows my mind, and I figure there must be steroids involved or something like that. I don't think our chickens could pee in a cup, and pass a test.

 

[RedWolf]

I have heard about this practice in multiple nations like those areas, as well as some European countries.

I need to research this to confirm it, but I think it has to do with how in America something is done differently, between the time the hen lays and the supermarket,
that requires refrigeration of American eggs. Well, let me ask you : when you're back home in America, do you refrigerate your eggs ?

I think in a lot of ways, American food production experiences compromises and shortcuts, due at least in part to the need to mass-produce at a fast rate, compared to the smaller populations of those countries. When I stop and think about how much chicken is consumed in just one American day, compared to the time it takes to raise them, it blows my mind, and I figure there must be steroids involved or something like that. I don't think our chickens could pee in a cup, and pass a test.

I rarely eat eggs and when I do they're straight from the farm. I literally go there

 

[Boone]

A lot of food practices are more 'cultural' than science-based. A lot of people leave butter out unrefrigerated. Growing up, that's not something my mom would ever do or allow. Is it safe? Apparently yes, it's fine. But I guarantee you if someone was raised refrigerating butter, that's what they will stringently insist on.

My wife has a phobia about expiration dates. It doesn't matter what the product is - if it's got an expired date, she is going to throw it out. I have tried a hundred times to tell her, some of the things she throws out (like spaghetti noodles) would still be safe to use a year from now but I cannot get her to change her practice.

 

[Chris]

In Europe it is common to leave butter out, something that for me was hard to get used to. I am now an advocate. No need to wait for it to soften before putting on bread, and I’m still alive.

Eggs are not refrigerated in grocery stores here either. We do keep them in the fridge at home though.

As far as expiration dates go, I trust my nose.

 

[Mickalino]

That's so true about the cultural influence on even fundamental egg storage.
Milk is the same way. Some cultures consume completely raw milk.
And the inverse is true ; Some milks contain cultures. (Kefir)

 

[Mickalino]

Can you believe this.
I was just coming out of the grocery store, and 3 kids in their 20's came up to me and said "Hey, ya wanna try the "Raw Egg Challenge" ? If ya crack a raw egg and drink it, we'll give you 5 bucks !"
First time I ever heard of this one.

I'm like Dang, it seems BGO views must be so high now that we got TikTokers browsin here, and one of them saw my Raw Egg thread, and said "Hey, let's start a TikTok trend on this and become social media stars !"