Simple Kitchen Trick: How To Check If Eggs Are Still Good

Created: 01/03/2022, 02:01 PM

From: Maria Dirschauer

The eggs have been in the fridge for a while and you are not sure if they are bad yet?

You can use this simple trick to spot rotten eggs.

Eggs can be kept for a while, around 28 days after laying. While they are sold unrefrigerated in the supermarket, it is best to store them in the refrigerator at home. You can find out why this is actually the case in this article on the correct storage of eggs *. But even with correct storage, the best before date and the use-by date on the egg carton will be reached at some point - which does not have to mean that you have to throw all eggs in the trash immediately. Nevertheless, it is advisable to check in advance whether the eggs can still be eaten, because rotten eggs can make you sick with salmonella, for example. With the following

you can easily see whether the

or not.

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Are the eggs still good?

Simple test to check

The egg test is very simple:

• Fill a bowl or large glass with cold water.

  Put the eggs to be tested inside.

• If the egg is on the ground, it is still fresh.

• If, on the other hand, it is upright, it is older and should be used as soon as possible - for dishes that are heated up, such as scrambled eggs, or for baking a cake with it.

• If the egg swims on the surface of the water, there is an alarm level: it is already too old or has been stored incorrectly.

  Better not eat it anymore, throw it away!

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This is how the egg trick for spotting bad eggs works

Why do rotten eggs swim on the surface of the water?

The background is the

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The longer the egg is stored, the more these air chambers enlarge because, among other things, the water in the yolk evaporates.

The buoyancy of the trapped air ultimately ensures that the egg rises up in the water.

So you can easily distinguish fresh from bad eggs.

Tip:

For dishes with raw eggs, for example tiramisu and homemade mayonnaise, you should only use

.

It is also advisable to keep the food refrigerated and to eat it within a day.

By the way: At the latest when the egg is cracked, the smell will give you an indication that an egg is rotten.

Therefore, you should first break eggs that are a little older separately in a small bowl before adding them to the rest of the ingredients, so that you don't have to throw everything away in the worst-case scenario.