The other day Costco noticed a single cracked egg at the checkout and I stood around afterward for ten minutes waiting for a replacement. Like, I appreciate the customer service, but I was fine with the cracked egg. There were 127 others intact.
wow, they sell eggs in powers of two ?
edit do you routinely buy eggs by the hundreds ? is that 8 times 16 eggs ? 16 times 8 eggs ?
time was you’d get a gross (144) but we got shrinkflated i guess
144 ? is that 9 times 16 ? I’m trying to figure out the carton shape
i remember them coming in five layers last time i bought one. been a while since i did a sunrise picnic in the park, that’s the next generation’s job now.
they stack eggs in 3D ?!
4D if you watch me eat them
1212, or 66*4.
Eggs are probably one of the few grocery store items, where opening the packaging and checking them before purchase is a must do.
also corn flakes
Life would be so boring, if people stopped putting up every dumb thought they have online for our amusement.
Eh… Turns out a whole lot of people are bigots and do not deserve a platform.
a) Eggs come in 6 or a dozen. Fridge has little shelf with holes for 8 eggs.
b) I always feel as if a supermarket employee is gonna get really offended, and start telling me I can’t open the eggs to check they’re not cracked. They won’t, because they honestly couldn’t give a fuck, they’re just trying to get through their shift. But the feeling is there. Egganoia makes me feel as if the security cameras are zooming in, though, making sure I don’t pocket an egg. “Hey, we saw video of a woman in a supermarket in Russia shoving a raw chicken up her hoo-hah! It’s not impossible you might wanna pocket an egg, fella!”
id be more suspicious of a store that would take offense at you checking
I’ve seen them packed in 4s as well. 10 packs are common, and I’ve seen cartons of 15 as well. Dunno who determines that. I swear we had cartons of 12 too but I haven’t seen any in a long while. Am I going crazy?
I keep them in the carton in the fridge anyway and my egg shelf has butter and cheese, so problem solved :p
That depends on where you live. In Europe most common cartons are 10 and 15. In Canada and USA it’s 12 and 18.
Supermarket employee doesn’t care. Supermarket employee also checks the eggs before buying them!
They might do spot checks when taking delivery but I doubt they have the time to check each carton.
Or did you mean at checkout before YOU buy the eggs? If so, that’s not why they open each carton. They’re checking to see if you hid something in there.
I think they mean when the employee is shopping for themself, they check their own eggs.
Yes. I’m talking about when the employee is buying their own groceries they check the eggs!
Oh, I see. Yes, probably. As any sensible person would.
If they get offended you can’t check the eggs, they’re trying to sell pre-cracked eggs. Do you want pre-cracked eggs, buddy?
You don’t need to fridge eggs, if they are not opened.
The skin under the shellbloom is there to protect the intended chicken from yeast and bacteria.Edit: ok, the “bloom” outside mostly, if you don’t wash it off. I only know eggs unrefigerated so far. And colored ones, them are cooled …and also nasty and hard to peel.
This is not correct, according to the states, and generally seems incorrect as well. The “bloom” on the outside of an unwashed egg protects the insides. In the US, eggs sold in grocery stores are washed so they have to be refrigerated.
https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/what-you-need-know-about-egg-safety
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/eggs/shell-eggs-farm-table
This is only true for American eggs because you guys fuck up the eggs by “washing” them. The rest of the world is not as dumb, and these normal unwashed eggs can live on the counter for a while, no problem. They stay fresh longer while in the fridge either way.
Well dude, i dont know how to appease you. I pointed out that it was a states thing and I pointed out that it had to do with washed eggs. I even bolded “unwashed” from the get go.
Further i believe other countries take care to treat their birds for salmonella, whereas the states just wash the eggs.
I have hens so my eggs are cloaca to counter. No sweat off my sack.
I have hens
If your eggs were refrigerated or washed, definitely refrigerate.
I wonder if Howtobasic also checks eggs in the supermarket.
Used to work at a grocery store and it is definitely rational to peek inside to make sure the goods are all intact. Even the fancy expensive eggs that are packaged like Fort Knox come in broken sometimes. This didn’t bother us.
Please don’t block the whole case while you open carton after carton swapping eggs to get the perfect dozen. Please don’t make a mess of the shelf digging all the way to the back for the freshest eggs/milk. You might find something a couple days fresher, but you are slowing everyone else down. There’s not a magic carton that won’t expire for eight months back there.
Also, don’t ask the stocker if they have anything fresher In Back. The back stock isn’t some magic endless space where we hide all of the freshest/best stuff. It’s probably cramped and organized so that the newest stock is rotated to the back/bottom of a stack, so digging through it just for you is a big waste of everyone’s time that will potentially fuck with inventory.
I used to laugh at the segment of Clerks that rants about what I just did, but after working at a few different stores, people are absolutely like this.
Nah I am 100% rummaging at the back for the extra day or two of dated sorry bro.
Vincent…………are we happy?
Are people actually having issues of cracked eggs? I have never in my whole life ran into, or heard of anyone else running into a cracked egg in a carton.
Well they’re protected by paper mache. So yeah cracked eggs are a problem. I don’t want to deal with that and I can avoid dealing with that by opening the box.
They started pretending they could avoid people opening the carton by just using flimsy clear shit plastic cartons here. Still gotta take out the cracked eggs though, just don’t have to open the carton to find em anymore which is nice
Shop at aldi and you will find entire crates of eggs that are cracked.
German efficiency. That way you can check that all the eggs are full, so you don’t get an empty one.
well now you just jinxed yourself.
You shop at more expensive stores than me. I swear they employ someone whose sole job is to crack eggs
Wow. Where I shop, egg cracking is only one of the jobs of the guy, he also spills sugar, dents cans, removes one soda can tab per pack, bruises tomatoes, pretty much all these jobs.
Oh yeah it’s a big store here. Also we got a powerful union, one job, one dude. I was the sugar spiller for a season, but I kept getting ants in bed no matter how much I washed and changed sheets.
I really gotta stop eating there, but maybe next job I’ll have less ants
Yep, had happened to me twice recently after not happening for a long time. It’s like the seatbelt in the car, most of the time you don’t need it, but when you do, you’re happy that you did.
And not just look, wiggle each egg to verify it haven’t cracked in the bottom which will make it stick to the package
Yep. Eggs and seatbelts, Totally as important.
Gotta get the protein!
It happens. I can’t say it’s super common, but even with the protection of the cartons, accidents happen. Hell, I’ve checked in store, and had an egg crack on the way home from braking hard. Only once, but it shows that the right forces in the right way can cause cracks.
I haven’t bought eggs in years now (yay for my hen!), but I’d see it maybe twice a year or so
I don’t want to be behind you when you brake.
I wouldn’t either tbh. Small car, great brakes, and I don’t speed. So when I hit them to prevent a problem, that fucker stops.
I run into it often, but I live in a rural place where eggs are commonly sold in huge quantities (like bulk 5 and 1/2 dozen cartons). Usually I’ll find another carton that’s got cracked eggs as well, and swap for some good ones.
Yeah, saw a whole box of cracked eggs last time I bought them.
You’re not supposed to drop them.
At the moment where i am there’s some shrinkflation nonsense where sometimes they’ll lower the “average total” weight on the “mixed” size eggs but change nothing on the packaging (apart from the weight, on the bottom).
So I’m checking to see if I’ve got a pack of tiny eggs that just rattle around in the packaging.
But i do a rattle check first.
If I’ve got the tiny eggs i just buy a different brand instead (until they change it back)
I’ve never seen a carton of mixed size eggs. Around here it’s always S M L or XL packages
Honestly I’d prefer to have a standardised size, but they’re the only eggs at our supermarket that have the maximum ethical standard rating on them.
The medium eggs I buy when these ones have a “shrink week” have a lower rating.
I suspect it’s more to do with supply line issues though, due to correlation with various events in the news.
Your free-range standard hen still has variations when laying eggs. Good on you that you even have the option for mixed cartons and go for total weight, that should be done here as well.
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Have you really never had the misfortune of encountering one cracked in the carton?
In my experience there is usually a small pile of cartons with cracked eggs set off to the side of the shelf in the refrigerator in the store.
Those cartons are not meteor strike proof. I have bought cracked eggs in cartons several times before. That’s when I started inspecting the contents before buying them.
They can crack before/while they get in the carton. Those cartons are handled by various people, transported under varying conditions. Even if they get to the shelf unscathed, any other customer might accidentally knock them off and just put them back like nothing happened.
It does happen from time to time. Now what? Is your world now flipped upside down? Are you gonna cry? Like a baby? Are you having a little baby cry now? About the cracked eggs? How nothing is perfect? How life is fragile? Are you crying like a tiny little baby now?
One time in like 2014 I opened the eggs for a glance to check for brokens at a Stater Bros outside San Diego and an older guy behind me said “yeah, those are eggs, move along” I just turned around and said “yes, but are they cracked?” and then walked off. Hopefully his rude and impatient ass felt stupid.
Anyway, now whenever anyone in my family checks the eggs, someone in the family will, without fail, say “yeah, those are eggs, move along”. It’s our little running joke and I wish that guy knew that we’re still making fun of him 12 years later.
i dont get it why some people have the diarreah of the mouth where they just cannot keep even one stupid comment from escaping their lips
sometimes i just dont care and just agree with them ‘yup you got me there’ and continue on with my day regardless of the outcome cuz i just do not have the energy to play teacher to their stupid spilling out everywhere on everybody.
Running yolk was right there for ya
Hahaha how did I miss that???
You weren’t paying eggtention
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Yeah, those are eggs, move along.
Oh see I’d probably say “Why yes they are eggs, good eye! Well done” and walk away. Like you’d say to a 3 year old.
They ARE toddlers so that’s probably the best move.
I was with you about the not giving a crap part, up until you decided you wanted to fight a random stranger over a minor inconvenience.
In defense of walnuts they’re very tasty and great in fudge.
not as much in an omelet though
They do help mask the shell fragments though.
Have I been making my omelettes without walnut shell fragments wrong this whole time???
Sorry we be imprecise. The walnuts help mask the flavor of the vs-50 antipersonnel mine shells
Wait, was I supposed to open the walnut carton to see if they were broken?
😅
I like most nuts, but not walnuts.
I was in my 30s when I learned that intensely itchy and stingy mouth is not part of the flavor profile of walnuts and I’m just mildly allergic.
My mother too. One allergy I’m glad I don’t have, I like big nuts
I’m obsessed with peanut butter. I’m also allergic to it. My constant consumption as a child helped reduce my once-moderate allergy to a mild one, according to my allergist.
Which is why it was so wild for me when I temporarily became totally anosmic when I caught COVID. My mom has been completely anosmic the majority of my life, and as someone who loves to cook for her, I took advantage of my situation to quickly taste as many ingredients as possible and come up with recipes that would be more exciting for her.
After trying the entire source rack, fresh garlic, salsas, hot sauces, pepper, lemons and lemon rinds, I got to peanut butter. Suddenly, my mouth and throat were on fire and there was an inescapable flavor of wood. That’s when I remembered that I’m still allergic to peanut butter.
What’s anosmic, precious?
No sense of smell. Sometimes called nose-blind
Thank you!
Sort of a low intensity megosniac, but nothing like it.
So am I (also kiwis)
Pecans for the win!
Pecans are life
I didn’t like walnuts,
until I ate a pack that didn’t have the oil extracted from it.
So are deez nuts
And Shish Andaz
Walnut bread is pretty great too.
I learned a quick tip from an old lady many years ago. Open the carton and use your first finger just to tip (slide) each egg a bit so you know it is not stuck to the bottom of carton. Quick and easy.
I just look at the bottom of a closed carton first - if there’s a crack it is rare that it didn’t leak
Only works on paper cartons. Shouldn’t be buying Styrofoam but still.
I have never seen anything other than carton boxes for eggs here in Norway. This comment actually baffled me that they came in anything other somewhere.
In Canada, they come in bags.
My neighbor gets hers out of chickens
She probably Chinese.
Eastern European
Ours come in a clear plastic vacuum formed container, compressed paper carton, or Styrofoam, depending on the brand.
That’s just fucked up. Clear plastic seems like the worst possible container as it gives little or no protection, and is obviously plastic which the world only needs less of.
It’s usually multiple foldovers of semi rigid plastic similar to most water bottles around here. They seem to function well. It’s probably six or more 1 litre bottles worth of plastic though.
It is the worst. The only pro is you can visible see if they are broken without opening anything.
Same here in Sweden, there are som variations on what kind of carton boxes but never seen any plastic or styrofoam.
As if the grocery store gives you a choice.
There’s like six different egg providers at most grocery stores around me. I have choices.
Only one of them is the cheap regular eggs, though. The others are organic or free range or otherwise differentiated in some way other than just the foam vs paper packaging.
You should always buy the organic ones, even if they are so much more expensive. The conditions in which the chickens are kept, to produce the cheap eggs, is absolutely, inhumanely fucked up. You can see the difference in the yolk as well: the ones produced by chickens, that are fed better, and not kept in a way they cannot even move, are orange, while the ones by chickens kept and fed horribly, are yellow.
The yolk thing is a myth. Farmers feed their hens dandelion extract to get the color. My family actually has pasture raised hens and the yolks are yellow.
Organic is kind of a scam. At least not what people imagine. What you want is floor raised, or even better, free range. And grain fed. In every country the definitions are slightly different. Look into it. What you want is hens that are out in the open, so that they follow natural day cycles, that can move around a bit, and fed grain instead of feed, which is often made from fish flour and such.
I have to open and see if there are no cracks on top as well. OC I guess.
Well of course, that’s just normal caution but don’t bother if you already see a wet spot, try another carton
Yep, that’s the move. You don’t have to pick up each egg and inspect it. If it rocks, it’s good.
If there’s just one or two, I look for the bad dozen, which is usually there in the case, off to the side. Open that and replace the good eggs from that carton with the bad ones in your carton. Now you have 12 good eggs, and eventually the store will have a carton of 12 cracked eggs.
You still get dirty looks from dickheads, though, which I enjoy. I’m always pleased to piss off judgemental Karens.
I do the put all the bad eggs in 1 carton too. Fuck the ones who glare. If they had any brains they would see we are helping. If not switched and consolidated there would be a lot more bad cartons tossed as waste
I used to do this but I got burned once or twice, wound up with cracked eggs that hadn’t leaked enough to stick or hadn’t stuck, for whatever reason.
Greatest trick I learned is to open the carton, and then gently shake it side to side while watching the eggs. Check the ones that didn’t wiggle.
I do something g similar, open the package and kind of pinch them in pairs to see if any are stuck to the carton.
Works vastly better on the plastic cartons than the old (and still current) paper cartons. I remember mom carefully inspecting eggs.
Oh wow plastic cartons for eggs are still a thing? What a total waste of oil
The real psychos are the ones just grabbing the top front carton of eggs and never checking it. You must live a much more charmed existence than me!
My grocery store usually has a box or 2 at the top front that’s mostly full of cracked eggs from people swapping. So yeah, psychos. At least grab from the middle of the pile if you aren’t checking each egg.
I always check at the supermarket because armies of gronks have put their grubby mitts on them, but I don’t bother at the Asian grocery, because they are always perfect there, and they are kept in high rotation, with the staff checking them when they lay them out.
