Why Do Americans Refrigerate Their Eggs and Most Other Countries Don't?
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In supermarkets across the United States, Australia, and Japan, eggs can be found in the refrigerated section alongside other cold items such as milk and cheese. However, in most other countries of the world, eggs can be found stored at room temperature alongside nonperishable food items. People eat both kinds of eggs every day, usually without any ill effects. So why do some people refrigerate eggs and others don’t? The answer lies in the bacteria group known as salmonella and how a particular country chooses to make sure their eggs don’t get contaminated with it.
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Imagine trying to tell somebody you work at the international egg commission without them thinking you're a liar.
Fucking hilarious! 😂🍻
Talking about that kinda work at a party will probably neg you as a sarcastic asshole 😂😂😂
I'm pretty sure you'd believe them. They probably talk egg 24/7 . Lol
@@pootypunt69 Talking about the international egg commission at a party will get you *laid*. Get it?
@Henry S If someone was talking to me about the IEC, that conversation would be over. Easy.
Me just finding out people don’t put their eggs in the fridge
Right.
Who would have thought an egg has a natural protection from outside conditions? Huh... not merica
Marko K. Pribić idk if it’s about protecting it. It’s more about it being a perishable or not. A lot of good has protective layers but is still put in the fridge so it doesn’t spoil
Shook!
@@forzee42 who woulda thought perishables are a thing and refrigeration prolongs it
Can we talk about how there's an International Egg Commission and that they're concerned about eggs sweating too much?
Can’t have those eggs worked too hard
Clearly if they’re sweating they are made to exercise too much
This channel was named perfectly.
Imagine people worried about food supply and safety
@@Patrickf5087 r/whoosh
@@karlrassmann4604 r/yourjokesarebad
I'm confused. Here in Norway, eggs are always found in the refrigerator in the store, and also at home. Refrigerators usually have a particular section in the door, specifically designed for eggs.
Its just because the British never adopted refrigeration technology like most other nations.
Belarus here, same
UK fridges do have an egg compartment, but I've always discarded it and used it for storing jars of mustard, pickles, etc.
"Most other countries" is probably quite an exaggeration at least when we talk about countries where fridge is normal part of equipment. I would say in all european countries grocerie stores sell eggs from fridge and you put it in fridge at home.
@@ivanhajko2660 I meant the more developed ones that adopted industry in the 20th century, Europe/NA/East Asia/Aus.
"The laying area potentially not beeing perfectly clean" sounds is a very nice way of saying the floor is 2 feet of chicken pooo
Yummy
Maybe in free range
Needaman Carpentry if its not free range it’d be dirtier right? Also free range doesnt legally mean anything significant
Our chickens lay eggs in a nest box so it's not covered in poop but there is some from time to time. Also many don't realize that chickens can sometimes have a little difficulty laying and you may even see a little blood on eggs, especially with new layers or with particularly large eggs (double yolks)
Ituo
There is an international egg commission? You learn something new everyday.
When there's a disagreement they throw eggs at each other.
@@SuperMak91 white eggs for regular disagreements and brown eggs for a tier disagreements
J K when I was 8yrs old I knew I always wanted to grow up and sit on the board of the international egg commission. Its been a dream of mine since I can remember
@@slowermindskeepright1788 you could always sit on an egg.
@@slowermindskeepright1788 it would have been a rollercoaster of a ride with all the good for you bad for you now good for you bs.
Homie looks like an egg with a beard. He is uniquely qualified to talk about eggs
Lmfao
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This is actually super interesting for me, my wife is French and I am American and I noticed she does not refrigerate her eggs while I do, at first I was pretty confused as if she isn't refrigerating then then why do we in the US even do it? I figured eggs didn't need to be refrigerated but this answered my question that it depends what country you buy your eggs at!
Eggcellent video, hard boiled facts, none of that scrambled nonsense ive heard before
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really focused on the sunny side up 😂
I wasn't going to comment but I've decided to come out of my shell.
Of course, the century eggformation was relevant even today.
Y'all crack me up.
I used to raise chickens and I offered my ex husband some eggs I had just collected. Naturally they were still warm and he actually asked me "these weren't in the fridge?! Is it safe?!" I laughed "Sorry my chickens aren't equipped with refrigeration units in their ass. Just make sure you wash them and uhh don't eat them raw"
Did his cyberchickens have refrigeration units?
That is human evolution at its pinnacle
But surely, one of the bennefits of having your eggs direct from the chicken, is you can safely eat them raw... I would never eat store bought eggs raw.
@@jakovbrizic I still wouldn't eat a raw egg tbf
@@jakovbrizic you even need to be careful when handling live chickens and anything their poop can touch because they can have salmonella
All I’m going to take away from this video is that there’s an International Egg Commission.
Bunch of egg heads trying to poach money from the rest of us. Really gets my blood boiling.
There’s a National Sandwich league or something
Makes sense. Most staple food products have some kind of commission that overseas them. Dairy, beef, pork. Eggs seem like a natural extension.
@@changer_of_ways_999 Quit being so hard over.
@@changer_of_ways_999, yeah that didn't go over easy with me either.
I remember the first time I bought eggs that weren't refrigerated in a shop - this was in Central America and not only were they not refrigerated, they were a bit old. Nothing wrong with them, just that the white had become VERY watery. They tasted fine but the texture (when scrambled) was a bit wet - I don't think they would have held up to a sunny-side-up or over easy treatment. Fast forward, I moved to Germany and yeah, I often find "dirty" eggs in a carton here. Sometimes I get a downy feather! No worries on my side.
In my region we call that the “bloom”. It doesn’t bother me because I’m not eating that part. My eggs don’t usually last long enough to turn “old” and my little chickens are rather healthy. ❤️
If they're not cold & I can't easily cook them sunny side up the way I love them.
Well wishes.
As someone living in the U.K. who used to buy eggs at room temperature I used to put them in the fridge when I got them home, until about 10 years ago when I found out this was pointless. And they are perfectly fine at room temp for a couple of weeks.
The real irony is that my parents kept chickens when I was a child and the eggs were not put in the fridge.
Oh and a bit of poop on the shell is no big deal.
In Switzerland, the eggs are sold unrefrigerated, but everyone puts them in the fridge at home.
It's because the video is quite wrong in suggesting something else. Everyone stores eggs in the fridge, because that way they last as long as they should. Eggs at room temperature will go to waste quicker. The key thing that's different is in washing eggs or not, which by the way isn't 'illegal' in Europe.
Same here in the Netherlands
certes mais les suisses sont pour beaucoup d’anciens sympathisants nazis donc on ne va pas les prendre en exemple
I never refrigerate my eggs...I just eat them quickly.
Same in Germany.
I literally just left my eggs on the counter for like an entire day just a few days ago. I freaked out and thought they would be bad, but they were fine.
I sometimes hear Brits scoff at Americans for refrigerating everything and putting ice in our drinks, seemingly not understanding that much of the U.S. is located in the subtropics (i.e. consistently much hotter than the U.K.).
That’s true, though people in Michigan even during not-so-hot days put same crazy amount of ice in their drinks as other days lol. Americans do have some mysterious love affair with ice with origins unknown
@@usamamian309 because it’s good? Try it sometime chap
No, no we don't lol
@@usamamian309 I live in Michigan and I can confirm most people I know love ice cold drinks
This is why we fought a revolution...we want ice in our drinks and cold beer
As a South African, I have to say we buy our eggs room temperature but when we bring them home we put them in the refrigerator lol 😂
"So if you're from Africa why are you white?" (Mean Girls 2004)
@@CBB-dg9jy That sounds a little racist, sir😂
I'm white because my parents are white, and that's also why the other white people in Africa are white 👌😃
I think he was quoting a line from Mean Girls. At least, I hope he was.
Dear everyone,
When I made this comment, he did not have "Mean Girls 2004" in his comment. He has since edited it in. You can stop calling me dumb now.
We also do that in germany (don't know about the rest of the eu but they probably do that too)
@@TheBridget272 For his sake, I hope so too 😂
When I was a lad
I ate four dozen eggs every day
Just to help me get large.
Now I am grown
I eat five dozen eggs
So I'm roughly the size of a barge!
*every morning to help me get large.
But nice reference.
@@mennograafmans1595 *now that I'm grown I eat.
My what a guy!
No.
One.
Eats like Gaston.
No.
One.
Farts like Gaston.
Surfer Dude My what a guy that Gaston!
Surfer Dude
Why is your name suffer dude?
damn Scott's Bass Lessons is really branching out
absolutely wicked
I got that reference
10:31 I can't believe you didn't mention that the color is also influenced by what they eat. We had like 4 chickens all laying eggs when we first got them and they were off white sometimes or just really lightly tanned. After living with us a while they started eating everything in site. Anything green, so grass and other plants like basil and whatever. The egg shells started coming out green and sometimes spotty like yoshi eggs. The inside still came out like a normal egg though. 🤷 They we're also small size to medium the majority of the time. Mostly small.
yeeah, my mom would save the baby blue eggs for me when I was a kid : )
Didn't the yolk of the egg get darker yellow as they started eating grass?
He didn't mention it because the shell of the egg will not change based on what they eat. It's genetic based on their lineage. What will change is the yolk color from light yellow - birds fed on pellets or processed feed - and the rich gold color of a free range hen.
@@karrie7102 🤦 I swear people are so thick headed that they say what they want to say because they want to say it regardless of what has already been said.
Your trying to tell me something about what happened in MY life and is undisputable. It already happened, it's not speculation. I had chickens myself I didn't read something online then try to tell someone who actually has Chickens how it is. 🤦🤦🤦
@@LEXICON-DEVIL sorry, I understand that's how you saw it, but it's literally impossible for a hen previously laying white or brown eggs to start laying green or blue eggs. The blue egg gene came from South America, where it became widespread due to a virus that selected for blue egg layers (long story, the blue colour is a different way for the bird to process excess bile). The blue pigment does not develop in mature layers, it is present genetically in the chick. Green eggs are the result of crossing blue layers and brown layers--they're blue underneath with brown pigment over top, creating varying shades of green. Potentially you had a green-laying hen that didn't lay for the first while.
No one:
TH-cam algorythm: Can I offer you an egg in these trying times?
I've been poisoned by my constituents!
@@ericuswrex you two can go to dinner together.
Maybe the algorithm thought it would be an 'eggcellent' idea.😀
Riinkz...that is possibly the greatest TH-cam comment of all time. Well done.
Eggs are amazing.
As my uncle once told me, Brown eggs are laid by roosters.... I believed him for a few years....
Funny
That's how basilisks are created
LOL
Thats a genius troll 👍 I'm gonna steal that one sorry thats great
Eggs get whiter as hens get older. Some lines can lay white eggs during all their productive life.
I love eggs, any way they're prepared. Ive had them in the USA (where I live) and in Europe, always delicious. That being said, I would not have guessed I'd be THIS interested in learning about how they're harvested and sold. Pretty interesting.
It's kind of funny. Cuz i buy eggs and they are stored in normal temps. Then i come home and put them in the fridge 🤣
I’ve always refrigerated store bought eggs but when my family raised chickens we never refrigerated them, I never thought twice about it but this explains that
*Eggsplains
So much of our life is based on these subconscious habits we form without thinking, that is why we are so prone to superstition.
Nothing important to say, I just find this stuff interesting
@@JoseGranny NO! BAD!
jk hilarious.
If you leave un-fertilized eggs in the nest does the chicken eventually realize they are not going to hatch and knock them out of the nest?
Once you refrigerate them you need to keep them refrigerated
Moving to America taking 3 hours in a store looking by the flour and sugar and down every freaking isle trying to found some damn eggs. Never thought to look by the milk. I finally asked the Cashier and she looked at my like I was dumb.
🤣🤣🤣👍
Yeah I can imagine that was the first time someone asked her that. Omg
while i can understand how it can be confusing, that doesn't making weird in any way, just different. i get a kick out of how that bugs you, but the plug difference due to voltage doesn't blow your stack.
Reminds me of the first time I bought milk in Canada and instead of a plastic container, it was in a bag and I stood there looking at it thinking...WTF!
@@robh063
In a bag? Elaborate please...
I've never been to Canada, so bagged milk is new to me.
In the UK they're not generally sold refrigerated but I don't know anyone who doesn't keep them in the fridge at home
which is the way they are expecting you to handle your purchased eggs. but in the outlier case that you don't refrigerate them on your own, you are fine to do so
I'm also in the UK and only know one person who keeps them in the fridge. They are, by their own admission, slightly neurotic about those sorts of things.
Did you even watch the video?
I was freaked out when I found out that my wife's family keep them in the fridge. Never heard of it
I'm in the UK... I've never kept eggs in the fridge. It just seems an odd thing to do since we don't find them in the fridge in the supermarket, so why then put it in the fridge at home? I've never had food poisoning from eggs (or any other foods for that matter), so other people must be doing something wrong lol.
We used to get eggs from a friend. They gave us an egg carton and we would return it every week or two to get eggs. It was awesome
Its definitely a good system. Dad and I did that for several people when we raised chickens. Had a few that would get a dozen or 2 from us every week in exchange for egg cartons. Usually what they got was a day's worth of egg finding for me.
A grad student that used to work at the poultry unit at my school started feeding a couple of the laying hens food with some charcoal mixed into it, and they started laying eggs with dark grey yolks! It was cool!
Living in a european country where we do refriderate our eggs, i had no idea that countries didnt.
Same in eastern Europe. I see eggs as something that'll get spoiled quicker left at room temp
they do last longer if you refrigerate them, but they do keep for a while anyway. here in the uk they aren't refrigerated in shops, but I've always refrigerated them at home
Here in Netherlands some people do and some people don't
Here in the US, we _used to_ (and bear in mind, this was before my mother was born) coat the eggs in vaseline or the like. I think that some ships might actually still do it, as it doesn't require refrigeration.
This was also quite some surprise for me when moving from eastern country to the western. Even had problem to find them in the store :)
Love the channel. Great vid here. I need to bookmark it to show folks when they turn up their noses upon me telling them I don't wash my eggs and that I don't panic about getting them in the fridge. And this reminds me; I haven't gone out to the hen house yet today. Better gather them up before they get pooped on too much :)
I never knew how much I wanted this guy to explain things to me that I had never thought about before.
If you take uncleaned eggs and dip them in mineral oil and let them dry, you can store them unrefrigerated for up to 9 months because it seals the pores. I learned this from a "surviving off the grid" show. 😊
I’ll pass on the nine month old room temp egg thank you
Problem is you have to get them uncleaned from a farmer, not from store.
@@thavvolf9157 same here.
Eggs remain viable (hatchable and edible) for up to 6 months without the mineral oil... just store them on the counter and wash them just before using... that’s only if they’ve never been washed or refrigerated.
Don't know if it works, but great tip to try!
I just learned more about eggs than I probably need to know.
Please answer
Can we statore eggs in fridge ??
But you found out, today
And I'm only half way through
I probably just learned more about eggs than I WANTED to know lol
They came first.
In Sweden the eggs are unrefrigerated in the food store but put in the fridge at home. If it says on them that they expire on the 25 of September, like those I bought today, it means that you can probably eat them until the 25th of October if put in the fridge. And they are not clean here, but you might find feathers, blood and shit on them. As far as I remember, I never got ill by eating an egg, not even raw ones.
I'm in the UK... and same, I've never gotten sick by eating eggs whose shells were covered in feathers, blood and shit lol
Always wondered about both topics. Thanks for the vid.
Australia: buys them from a non refrigerated shelf
Also Australia: puts them in the fridge when we get home
Zandrom
Coles and Woolies stack them on shelves, as do ALDI.
Nope buys them unrefrigerated and keeps them unrefigerated
@@cheekybastard1018 The Coles I go to, the eggs are kept chilled. Same as cheese or butter.
@Apex Gemini no just having a discussion and saying that not all do what he said we do but apparently it’s ok for others to comment including yourself. So why don’t you go fuck yourself cause no one else will😉
@carl carlson Selling stuff cheap is the whole idea behind this big German chain ... well, actually two chains at the moment, ALDI South and ALDI North, one for each of the two Brothers Albrecht (it's short for Albrecht Diskont, or Albrecht discount). Somewhat surprising to Americans, they also own Trader Joe's. Both together have a revenue around 70 to 80 billion € per year.
I’m from the states and when I went to study abroad in England I had to look forever for the eggs because I kept looking in the refrigerated sections lol I deadass thought they didn’t have eggs (though in my defense it was the university shop so I had assumed that was the reason they didn’t have eggs) until I turned a corner and saw shelves of eggs lmao
That happened to me in Ireland. Took 20 min to find the eggs.
@@Clemsnman ... same here while in Ireland.
I’m half European, and I was kind of freaked out when I saw eggs on the shelf in Europe! After having gotten salmonella here in the states, once, I started wondering if they were on to something.
Eggscuse me Sir, is this a true story?
"do these savages not eat eggs???" Lmaooo
To me free-range vs caged isn't about the nutritional value of the egg, but about the quality of life of the hens that lay them.
Sorry to say but 'free-range' isn't exactly what you probably think it means. At least by US regulations anyways
@@tylert6887 what makes you say that?
@@heygek2769 Well now that i reread your comment yeah, at least free range aren't caged chickens but the quality of life still isn't what i'd consider great. I 100% agree with you caged is just terrible. I'm no farmer but what the regulations are and what i've learned over the years is that free range just means the chickens have access to the outside but that can literally just be an open door in the side of the barn that leads has a small fenced area by it and when that area can be EXTREMELY small. Like a few square feet for an entire barn and the types of chickens that are breed/raised on factory farms don't actually want to be outside in the first place. Anyways, that's what i meant by saying that. Free range isn't all it's cracked up to be, no pun intended, but it is better than caged. If you know something i don't please feel free to fill me in.
Thailand here: eggs are available in outdoor markets unrefrigerated. We usually bring them home, wash them and put them in the fridge for the longest possible shelf life. Eggs sitting out in the near-constant 95°F (35°C) heat wouldn't last more than a week or two.
Someone gave me eggs from their free-range chickens, the difference was amazing! Besides having poop on the shells, the yolks were much darker, and the eggs tasted better.
Farm fresh eggs are healthier and much better tasting than store bought eggs. Hands down.
The yolks were much darker (deeper yellow) and tasted better simply because the eggs were fresher. You may have also noticed that the yolks were taller when put into a pan. In other words the fresher yolks are more spherical in the pan. They don't flatten out as much as older egg yolks do. The "free range" didn't have much to do with the differences that you noted.
@@edschultheis9537 I thought it had to do with the anthocyanins the chickens have in their diet due to the insects and vegetables they ate. They lived at a fruit stand and ate a lot of colorful food. I have heard that feeding marigold petals to chickens makes the yolks more colorful. Just this morning I had to chase two of them out of my garden, they were eating my kohlrabi leaves! I think they are much happier than caged hens and knowing that the eggs come from happy naughty chickens makes them taste better.
@@edschultheis9537 yes it does, it depends on what they eat. If they eat only feed they will be just as pale, if they get grass and bugs that’s where the color comes from
@@bryonlako7377 Interesting that throughout the many years that we raised chickens on our farm, feeding them high quality chicken feed and oyster shell (for the calcium for their egg shells), we always had deep yellow egg yolks on all the eggs. They were In large chicken coops with plenty of room to move and fly around as the wished. But if you want to believe that your bug&grass eggs are superior, then knock yourself out. I'll just raise bug&grass eggs and sell them to you at twice the price.
I'm from Argentina. Eggs are sold room temperature but I've always put them in the fridge later
@Johan Liebert hey just because he's Argentinian? That's fucked up
I live in Mexico and I was very uncomfortable buying un refrigerated eggs at first, but after a few years I always leave them on the counter unless it's summer.
I'd love to see a video like this about the "twin" egg phenomenon i.e. an egg with two yolks in it. I get those pretty rarely, but one time I bought a dozen of eggs and I kid you not, every single one had two yolks in it. Every. Single. One. It was one of those "extra large egg" brands. Made me wonder...was it pure coincidence, is there something that they do to make eggs "extra large" that makes "twin" eggs more likely, or is it just that they put all their biggest eggs together and since "twin" eggs are generally bigger, I just got lucky? Been wondering for 6 years and have never found an answer
Damn that’s crazy
I want to believe you but life has hardened me
@@Dvolt89 I don't expect you to believe me, it's pretty unbelievable and this is the internet after all haha. But I swear it is true. I have absolutely nothing to gain from making that up 😂
@@Dvolt89 😆
I have only ever seen a twin egg a single time in my entire life
We have our own chickens and we do refrigerate our eggs.
For us, buying cage free eggs before we had our own chickens wasn't about egg quality, but supporting a more ethical egg farming method.
Same here. I could never go Vegan but I do support livestock being treated "old school." For me, it's more of a gross factor not an ethical one. Raising my own livestock for a period vs seeing mass production animal products is drastic and in many, but not all cases, also affects taste. Free range hens eat better and taste better, same with pigs and cows. Happy animals taste better and are less gross.
@@changer_of_ways_999 Yeah, that makes sense!
@@changer_of_ways_999 Also raise my own protein, also whole heartedly agree with ethical best life management of livestock. HOWEVER, how does one propose providing eggs for MILLIONS of consumers? Cost is a VERY important consideration when raising livestock. “Ideal” living conditions are not cost effective on industrial production....not starting an argument, but a discussion, if you like. Ideas to balance the scale are welcome. I hope you understand the spirit of this reply, and are not angry.😌
You people with your ridiculous “ethical” false beliefs. They are animals God have us to use and dominate and use, they are good. Funny how idiots define their own ethical beliefs. The fact you use chickens are hypocritical. The only way to be “ethical” would be to not use them.
But like any other dumb lefty, it’s all what’s good for you, right?
@@danjohnson6870 Since you brought God into this....
Proverbs 12:10 "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast" Proverbs 27:23 "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds" Matthew 6:26 "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" Numbers 22:32 "And the angel of the Lord said unto him, wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me" Isaiah 1:11 "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? said the Lord. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of the goats."
There is a difference between having dominion over animals and using them for food (which is what the Bible describes and exactly what this person is doing), and the extremely cruel practices of many in the livestock industry (which is pretty clearly defined as 'cruel' in God's eyes, according to your Bible). No one brought up politics or showed hypocrisy until you. You did bring up God though, and then immediately showed your own hypocrisy by criticizing people for carrying out the exact animal practices God recommends 🤷♀️
I was completely unaware that refrigerating eggs wasn't a universal thing before now.
Me living in the netherlands: finds chicken feathers on eggs regularly
But I actually don't mind that. At least it reminds you that an actual living being provided you these.
Yeah sometimes it even comes with dirt too lol
Living beings that endure a lifetime of suffering unfortunately :(
They add those on purpose.. it isnt real.
Oh I thought eggs were manufactured...
Elodie, if you’re vegan, don’t say it or you’ll be labeled as an annoying vegan that wants to tell people to know that every 12 seconds as a stereotype.
My grandparents were farmers in Florida. Never refrigerated eggs. In fact, none of our family in the South who raised their own chickens did. Eggs got washed as they were being used. Otherwise, they came from the hen house to a bowl on the counter. Seeking the answer to why theirs were never refrigerated but ours were (store bought) is actually how I learned why COMMERCIALLY produced eggs have to be refrigerated here in the US.
As someone who raises chickens I can tell you you can also get eggs is many shades of blue, green, olive, pink, spotted and dark chocolate brown and all sorts of varying shades in between. Also support your local chicken keepers. Large egg producers keep their chickens in small cages their entire miserable lives and if a carton or package of chicken says free range it means crammed into a giant warehouse. Most never see outside or grass and the lucky ones that get a small patch are either to scared to go out or get over excited at a small amount of space a fraction can fit in and they crush each other. If you advertise on Kiji (or whatever you have in your area) or Facebook your likely to find someone in your area probably throwing away eggs because people think they are worse or to expensive. Remember it costs a lot to feed a chicken especially if you are breeding quality, healthy and well maintained stock. It also can take a lot of work. I sell mine for the low price of $3/dozen and I've been told i raise them myself and the chickens lay anyway so they should be cheaper. I can also say like people no matter the color on the outside the inside is the same.
I used to go to a farm with my grandparents and the highlight was picking the fresh layed eggs. You could see the free range chickens and in the store was this room with "drawers" where you could pick up the eggs.
Uk here, I always put eggs in the fridge. They stay good for longer and less likely to spread across the pan when you drop them in the oil. Makes a much tidier egg.
The world NEEDS tidier eggs, bravo.
I have friends in Mexico who buy eggs in plastic bags and they leave them out on the counter. Never had a problem.
Great presentation ! - Thank you
Eggs in Canada, U.s.a and Australia, have much longer distances to travel from farm to table.
That has nothing to do with it. Well not much anyway as long as the eggs aren't left in the heat of the sun. Otherwise they stay fresh for weeks regardless of refrigeration or not.
@@hedydd2 it definitely has something' to do with it...ding dong!
@@hedydd2 they stay good longer with refrigeration, as mentioned in the video
Brad Hart farm to table
brazil is also a big country and VERY VERY HOT, and yet egg products are not transported in refrigerations. only sheltered from the sun direct light. And there are even people who sell them from their cars cheaper than super market, you can imagine how hot THOSE get, and yet not a single case of salmonella was reported nor have health officials made a warning against this.
When eggs are laid by chickens they have a layer on them called egg bloom. This is a natural protective layer that protects the porous eggs. When washed the eggs lose the egg bloom and they put mineral oil on to act as another later to protect the porous eggs. Leaving them unwashed they are usually shelf stable for 3 weeks, and up to 3 months refrigerated. I sell eggs from my chickens unwashed and they taste amazing. The only time I would recommend washing them is if you are going to boil them. Otherwise you can crack them open with no exposure really to any potentisl fecal matter.
Finally some one in the comments knows what they are talking about. I grew up on a farm, we never washed out eggs either. And people would come from miles around to buy our eggs instead of supermarket eggs
Eggs that are unwashed taste the exact same as eggs that aren’t washed.
If i wanted to store them in the fridge (so it last longer, since sometimes I don't eat eggs everyday) should i washed the egg first before going in the fridge? Would unwashed eggs affect other food that are stored inside the fridge?
Safira if you live in the US they are already washed if you buy them commercially, the only you can but then unwashed is from a private seller in person typically. Storing unwashed eggs would not affect anything else in the fridge.
@@Fanslerfarmstead thank you so much!! I don't live in the US but knowing that unwashed eggs are safe in the fridge kinda reassure me
A neighbor of mine years ago sold eggs from her free range flock. The yolks at the end of winter would be as pale as store-bought eggs, when hens had eaten nothing but commercially produced feed all winter. As the spring and summer went on, the yolks became a vibrant deep gold color when hens ate as much green weeds, grass,
As a Norwegian, I look at the refrigerated eggs in the store and think 'OH, I should probably do that'.
As a Canadian, I made this same connection. Glad it was wise to keep them cold till cooked
The stats you quoted on cases of salmonella used a per capita method but wouldn't a per egg consumed be a better method assuming that the two population groups consume a differing number of eggs per capita?
As someone who has chickens, I have to say this is the most accurate advice on eggs I've seen. 👍👍👍
Do you keep your chicken in the fridge?
@@jonjohnson2844 I keep all butchered meat in the fridge, unless I'm preserving them some other way like salting or dehydrating it.
Very interesting so Can you answer this question?
why did the chicken cross the road?
@@itzdcx7991 to get to the fridge
@@itzdcx7991 to find some hot chicken cloaca? 🤷♂️
Egward Yolkington!
Had to repost Jorge - LMFAO
I can't watch the video right now but the title got me. It's in the open in the market, but then I buy it and put in the fridge and now I'm like "???". I will watch the video as soon as I can!
This was a great video, one of the most informative I have seen about eggs, washed vs. unwashed. I raise my own chickens, so we gather eggs every evening, we do not immediately wash our eggs, but I still put them straight into the refrigerator to keep them fresher longer. I also clean nesting boxes every other day to keep the eggs cleaner. On a side note, I have never heard the natural oil called cuticle, my mother and her mother always called it bloom, so I learned something new, thank you!
I refrigerate my eggs because I have a compartment in my fridge designated for them. “A place for everything and everything in its place”
Im sure Rosie the Robot Maid would approve....
So OCD
Geo Nif Keeping your things organised isnt OCD.
new fridges don't have those compartments anymore and haven't had for a decade. Something to do with the US egg thing.
“Mise en place”
We produce organic chickens and eggs and combine the two methods. We keep a separate fridge for keeping unwashed eggs so the bloom (cuticle) does not get washed off and only wash just before use. If you have a backyard flock I suggest buying a small college type fridge for keeping unwashed eggs which last a VERY long time time if kept this way. If you have particularly eggs wash them thoroughly and use them first (then check your management and the health of your flock to prevent dirty eggs from occurring).
Very informative thank you for the colour explanation.
Simon's dome seemed all the more appropriate for this one.
Lol
Which dome? 😉
@@AwesomeHairo How many YOU see???
@@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA /woosh
🤣
I've never listened to someone who can speak so many words between breaths.
You would be blown away by Eminem
It doesn't seem natural. Must be Satanic or something.
Try listening to Ben Shapiro...
He does the same thing but very very quickly and with a high pitched tone.
Search Car Cleaning Guru here on TH-cam. You will be amazed by the lenght of his sentences.
I’m pretty sure he breaths between words just quickly and shortly I can only count about 5 or 7 words between each breath myself but maybe I’m just mishearing
ben shaprio
6:26 Dude, next time give warnings about this, my hypertension can't handle the amount of salt your videos require.
My step mom's grandma used to complain about how the eggs my dad and supplied tasted. She use to tell us to just buy her eggs at the store, because our eggs tasted too much like egg. Dad and I had maybe 2 dozen hens. We mostly sold the eggs for a buck a dozen or gave them away or donated them. One year, we had so many eggs, that I had an FFA function that we donated all the eggs that were used to cook the breakfast meal for it. When i could still eat egg regularly, I did prefer the taste of homegrown egg vs store bought.
FASCINATING! Thirteen entire minutes on the subject of eggs. Incredible. I learned a huge amount. Thank you!
I guess you could say this video was pretty... Eggceptional!!!
(Slowly walks away)
@@caffeinatedgamer.4576 Eggscuse me! Don't you walk away when I'm talking to you. LOL
This make me think of the quote, "But what does that have to do with the price of eggs?"
Leggo my eggo
In Germany the eggs my family buys have three dates: day laid, day from which on they should be refrigerated, and expiration date.
You can refrigerate from start and they will last longer. A lot longer, months
@@heleniyahabukarsh513
You can not refrigerate them at all and they last well over a month.
If you’re keeping eggs for much longer than that you should most likely buy them in lesser quantities.
Eggs in Germany are expensive... I used to have four eggs put on my wiener schnitzel!
Those must be amazing chickens, able to print date as she lays it😅😘😻
There was a segment on PBS years ago saying that refrigerated eggs last 21 days longer than the stated expiration date. Of course, many food items go well beyond the FDA food guidelines expiration date.
In the US, supermarket eggs have been rinsedto look better. That removes the natural coating that would keep them fresh. Older cookbooks would advise using stored eggs for baking, and fresh one for scrambling or omlettes. At that time, people would storeeggs in straw, in a cellar.
Refrigerated eggs in the US, Japan, Australia ... and Canada as well.
I'd been to Europe twice before on vacations and had been to 8 countries, but only did "normal" grocery shopping once I moved to the Netherlands to live and work for 4 years. I remember looking through all the refrigerated sections multiple times in an Albert Heijn grocery store and couldn't find any eggs anywhere. When I got home egg-less, I asked my housemate if this grocery store just didn't carry eggs? Maybe only specialty egg shops carried eggs?
Only to be told, "Yep. They keep them on the shelves rather than in the refrigerated sections."
Damn, I'm glad we don't have to worry about "salmon eller" here in Canada.
Um salmonella come from chicken feces... it is found common in chicken guts
.. you canadians must be proactive to prevent to clean eggs
Farm fresh eggs don't need to be refrigerated so long as they aren't washed. You are supposed to wash them before you crack the egg.
Simon yeller
@@tdgreenbay /whoosh. it was a joke about the way that Simon says "salmonella".
Big r/whoooosh
A chicken is an egg's way of making another egg.
Which came first?
The egg. Laid by something that wasn't quite yet a chicken.
@@Vincent-kl9jy thats actualy the point of the question. Its Creationism Vs Evolution.
@@Vincent-kl9jy The lizard...
@Vincent R the answer to that question was me I came first and boy was the chicken piss
I thought that a egg was an chicken's way of making another chicken.
As usual, an excellent video on how we Americans store our eggs before consuming them, but what if you are an avid backpacker egg lover? In that case, it is recommended that one smear a thin coating of vegetable oil over the egg and place them in a proper break proof carrier. It will add days to keeping the eggs fresh enough to eat. It had not occurred to me before, but I bet the oil fills in the pores that develop as the shells expand as they warm to room temperature. As with all perishable food stuffs, of course, it's our own good judgement that keeps us safe from bacteria while enjoying our great outdoors. Great video. Thanks!
Simon talking about why the US can’t mandate the vaccination of chickens now makes so much more sense in 2021
I live in eastern europe and everyone refrigerates their eggs here
Can confirm.
Ya most people do when they get them home everywhere I'd imagine. But do your shops refridgerate them?
@@eggnchip yes they're where yogurts etc are
Yes
same here..Ireland
Why did you stop starting your videos with "Hey, Vsauce! Michael here."
Not him? I know you are blinded by his head but cmon
Y'all need to chill lol this is his British cousin, b-sauce
@FreeThinking TruthSeeker They were making a joke about the man looking similar to Michael.
@FreeThinking TruthSeeker Mmmmmmmmaybe this is a joke?
I wanna woooosh everyone in this reply section
From what I learned in Culinary school, (im saying this without watching the video) keeping eggs out at room temp, degrades the protein and yolk, from grade A. There's no point in buying Grade A eggs, if you just let them sit out, the yolk and protein sack degrade and become less oval/circle shape.
the trick is: always use fresh eggs :) this way this will never be a problem.
@Balls and balls I am from mainland europe. I have no trouble at all to get fresh eggs. Its not expensive and not really an inconvence. Also egg grades are not really a thing here. The classes the eggs are divided on are organic/non-organic, different stable conditions (from 100% outside to 100% in a small stable) and the size of the egg (M, L, XL and so on). Most people are either intersted in buying the cheapest eggs or getting the best quality (most natural) eggs :) But many, if not most, store the eggs inside their fridge at home :)
@Balls and balls normally we have two sizes for egg cartons. 6 eggs or 12 eggs. And as we store them also in the fridge after buying them i dont see a big difference here. But even thou, after a few days in the fridge the eggs are not as great as when they are fresh. And buying eggs every 2-3 days is, i guess, considered normal here?! But iguess our shopping behaviour is also different in general :)
@@JeanWayne I eat 6 eggs at once lmao
I'm from Indonesia and as far as i know, everybody put their eggs in the fridge🤷♂️
How much is your average room temp and moisture percentage? We store them on to kitchen table, some put them into fridge out of the way. I tend to do both depending how hot it is. This summer has been 25-30c inside, moisture going from 40-60% but normally its 18(winter)-25c and more into 60% area, on very rainy time going to 80%. I was just thinking if higher temp and moisture percentage in Indonesia effects the shelf life of the eggs. Also do you know how eggs are processed there. You now know the difference and can easily learn how much salmonella is a issue around there to make educated decision on what ever they should be in fridge or not.
How ever i like to point out that you might also consider how trust worthy your electrical grid is, since if those eggs are stored in fridge and power goes out, shelf life of eggs and everything else food related that is mechanically stored will go bad with in days, so during disaster you have way too much food to eat before it goes bad and then have shortage, hence why those things that can be stored with out mechanical help should be, well as have least 2 weeks supply of non perishable goods that you can cook with out electricity and maybe even with out running water. Learning these skills and preparing can be matter of life or death if and when disaster hits what ever the nature of it. Way too many people grow complacent in large cities and end up one thumb in their ass and another in mouth when say 30 hour blackout happens, even starting to loot and whole civilization crumbles down.. now imagine its two weeks power outage and least as few days before foreign aid comes in and mix in huge earthquake or similar event.... witch is why i live outside of smaller city and have two months of food, hell even more though even now i find my self wanting as lots of it is in freezer. I can run generator to keep them cold for around week, but i still need to upgrade my power outage setup to keep those fridges cold. Still we have animals to get fresh eggs and of course meat, so there already is plan B and C (hunting wild life) in place, so starvation will not be issue.
It turns out that people knew how to store food thousands of years before Refrigeration was invented.
This has to be the best idea for a youtube channel ever. I spend time wondering dumb things like why are water towers so tall and now I get more questions like that but with the answers so I don't spend an hour inventing fake answers of why I think things. Or googling if I'm really flustered but youtube is a lot more fun than google.
They're tall and are usually on a big hill which makes the tower taller than all the buildings below it. Pressurized water comes down via gravity and gets distributed to the buildings below. Skyscrapers usually have their own pumps to push water to the upper floor. The city saved money on electricity(gravity) and everyone gets pressurized water yay.
Mr. Morningstar I’ll check it out thanks
As someone who has shoveled out a lot of barns and chicken coops in my young life growing up on a farm, I think that most Americans would not want to see unwashed eggs in a grocery store. It would just not seem sanitary. Also, all of the vegetables grown in the ground are completely washed of all soil... except perhaps at some farmer's markets.
The only thing changed between an egg with a red white or even blue or green shell, is the white shells from commercial sales tend to have been bred for thicker shells to help with preservation; but that was started by the first people who raised chickens and perfected later.
So I’m a Poultry Science major in university (why? Idk fell into it), and there’s another large reason we refrigerate eggs that you kind of hit but not fully. Idk how other countries are regulated, but we have a grading system based on size of air cell in the egg and other factors. The air cell starts off small and at its smallest it’s Grade AA, as it gets larger it goes down to Grade A, B, etc. The best way, by far, to slow that process is refrigeration. This all matters because we have pretty serious regulations on how eggs are labeled. Inspectors can come into a market and grade the eggs. If you have Grade B eggs in a Grade A carton, well I don’t know exactly what happens but it’s not good. Also the cuticle isn’t as great as it’s made out to be. In some studies I read through my coursework they were only fared marginally better than washed eggs with no cuticle. Refrigeration blew everything out of the water by a mile.
I've never seen eggs refrigerated in supermarkets in Australia in my 60 years of living here. Our household does refrigerate our eggs, I don't know why, we just do. Some Australian households do, some don't, but I've never seen it done in a supermarket at all.
I’m not gonna lie, ever since I’ve started watching business blaze I love the charismatic, joking, laughing Simon more lol. But I still love this version.
I know this is old, but I have a couple corrections. First, eggs will last longer than stated in this video regardless of how long they are kept--people are FAR too quick to throw out eggs. The longest keepers are unwashed AND refrigerated, the shortest washed and unrefrigerated...but even given that, you're looking at a month or two, not a few weeks. We stored washed eggs at room temperature for over two months before they started to go bad. The float test is NOT a reliable method to check if eggs are rotten, as eggs slowly lose moisture as they age resulting in increased buoyancy. Now--if they're actually floating that's a problem, but it's far easier and more reliable to take them into the bathroom and shine a flashlight in them. The bacterial growth will look like a dark cloud. The one time it is NOT safe to keep eggs on the counter is when temperatures are going to be extremely high--over 35 celsius. Eggs start to develop over 36 celsius, so fertilized eggs are at risk of starting to develop and then dying, which results in rapid decomposition.
Second, red-lobed chickens to not eat more than white-lobed chickens because of lobe colour. The vast majority of commercial white-layer hens are Leghorns, a breed selected for low food input and fantastic egg production. They're a medium-sized Mediterranean-type breed, most of which are lighter-bodied, flightier birds with white earlobes that lay white eggs. The majority of commercial brown egg-layers are a cross between Rhode Island whites and reds, with the Rhode Island initially being a dual-purpose bird, larger and heavier. They've been bred for egg production rather than meat for a long time now, but they still don't match the light, efficient frame of the Leghorn. Regardless, I think the reason that brown eggs tend to cost more than white is that companies know that consumers think brown eggs are healthier. We have nearly 100 layers with all colours, from pure white to deep chocolate brown, blue, and green. I like having one or two whites in a carton to contribute variety, but if the carton has too many white eggs it doesn't sell as quickly.
“Why I refrigerate my chickens and not my eggs.”
Canadians refrigerate our eggs too. We’re always left out and/or just lumped in with the states.
Lauren Cheerio "Limped" is right. America U.S. is the most lame nation today. Will you adopt me?
LodiTX I know you’re making a joke but also I meant Lumped* lool thanks for pointing out the typo xD
I keep mine cold but I also cover them with a light coating of cooking oil to close the pores, and if I have had them for a while before eating them, I put them in a sink of water and if they float they are bad.
Uh ive taken eggs from a chickens butt and it floats so is it bad?
@@everythingpony the standard egg is heavier than water, one end will be lighter so it’ll float that side up but in general should sink. If the egg is spoiled it’ll produce gasses that’ll increase it’s buoyancy causing it to be lighter than the water and float to the top of the water, you need a dish that can fully submerge your egg and then some to test this
"Longer shelf life" is often what things come down to. Remember, in America we buy a lot of food at once and usually have it for a while. We have probably 40 eggs sitting in our fridge right now, for example, and we don't exactly zip through them.
In other countries people go shopping a lot more often.
For this, 'looks' also makes a big difference. If you go to a typical supermarket here, most of the food on the shelves has to look 'perfect'. Yes, there are places you can go to find more natural food, but most places a lot of people shop have extremely high standards for how the food looks. People would freak out if they opened their carton of eggs and an egg was dirty at all.
(Noting that I said how a food looks, and not necessarily overall quality. A funny looking orange might be even juicier on the inside than one that looks perfectly plump and round. But you won't find the funny looking one on the shelf).
Is there a reason why in America you choose to buy a lot of food at once and store it for longer instead of shopping more often?
@@codelyoko363 Part of the reason is because we have few small stores where we can easily buy things. Most of our towns are very car dependent and have mostly big box stores that are not conveniently located so a trip to the store could be a 20 or 30 minute commute. Thus its the norm to stock up to minimize time spent commuting. Also some of use just hate shopping so we buy lots at once so we don’t have to do it often.
@@Sinistar123 certainly true for rural areas.
I've lived 30+ minutes from town and currently 6 miles from town.
Back then groceries were a once a week thing, maybe every two weeks. The deep freeze was used constantly.
Being 6 miles from town, if we need a couple of items we can excuse a random run to town if we need an item or two in between proper grocery runs.
Then you have people that live in big cities, they'll often pick up what they plan on cooking on the way home and often have little in the fridge aside from drinks and condiments.
@@codelyoko363 Americans also work about 20% more then Europeans so less time to go shopping
@@codelyoko363 payday also governs our lives. I need things to last, otherwise it’s back to ramen, which is comparatively expensive compared to preplanned meals like rice + eggs.
My wife and I have a few chickens at our place here in the states and we leave our free range eggs out. We clean them just before use. Anytime we give eggs away we have to educate people on cleaning/refrigerating vs table top storage.
I literally clicked on this video without watching it to comment that I'm from the UK and we buy eggs at room temperature and I've always kept them in the fridge at home
Same here :D Greetings from Germany
the guy says theres a specific temp range to store them depending on summer or winter which would be hard to do so the fridge is the best bet
That’s the same in Australia, our shopping centres are air conditioned but our homes are not all the time and tend to get very hot in summer, so we buy them at room temperature but store them in the fridge at home.
Same here.
I just always thought dairy - refrigerate
@@skechyassmofo - but eggs aren't dairy lol. Dairy means it comes from a cow.
Just made me think of a joke I heard a while ago. A coworker asked me "have you ever seen an eggplant?" I said "yes", he said "well you've been farther up a chickens ass than I have" 🤣😂🤣. Thinking about it now I should have asked him why he's been up a chickens ass lol but my brain isn't equipped for quick comebacks.
2 eggs in a pan of hot water,first egg says to the second egg 'fucking hell its hot in here.
Second egg replies 'wait till you get outside' you get your head smashed in.😃
@@ultra6737 The 3rd egg said “you guys can fucking talk?!?!”
What do you call a scared egg?
Terri-fried!
@@simonjeffries1419 What do you call an egg that flies through the air, ' a chucky egg'
@@ultra6737 that's funny lolol 😂
Eggs have an outer coating when naturally laid and not processed they come out smooth surfaced.. If the outer coat is left alone and the egg washed off, they will last and not have a problem for weeks. The bleached off white shelled eggs we use HAVE to be refrigerated because they can too easily be contaminated. It is much like whole milk from the cow with ALL cream and fats will last cooled quite awhile, and is better for you. But because a couple of people failed to wash their cows teat and became sick, the 'Pasteurize" and "homogenize" milk. as long as you wash off a cows udder, you can safely drink the milk directly.
Eggs directly out of a chicken? wash the poop off, put them in a basket on the counter and use them as needed. Only a few numbers were becoming sick from improperly washed eggs, and due to super production the cleaning had to be changed to meet the same, but too many urbanites just cracked open the egg and went to using without washing them.
Really...if you want roundworms pull a "fresh carrot" out of the dirt and eat it right there...(no, you're smart enough to wash a carrot but never eggs....the same ingnorance is in the folks who say( idon't need to wash my hands , i only pee'd) that works......until your 2 yr old gets pin-worms....then you'll wash before and after and in between.....even a racoon washes all it's food and paws before eating.
I've got chickens here in the US and I keep a bowl of room temp eggs for immediate use and refrigerated ones for giving out.
Virtually all eggs in the U.K. are brown and don’t get refrigerated until the get to (some) homes and only because there is an egg rack in the fridge and people just use it. Many Brits keep eggs in a basket, especially if they have their own hens, unrefrigerated.
Right, same in Singapore. Local eggs are not refrigerated but people usually refrigerate eggs because of the egg rack on the fridge
Have you ever washed a brown egg only to realize it was white?
Narms no, and never heard of that happening.
@@thomascarroll9556 rip you cant hear words i forgot, it was a joke about the eggs being dirty
Narms “it was a joke” almost, are you sure it wasn’t just a yolk?
"why Americans refrigerate their eggs"
Me: wait... you do not?
My grandparents don't, the place where they live people just leave them at room temperature.
My parents do.
i think it's more a regional thing, like most ontarians use bagged milk, and other s use plastic containers.
@@demonpride1975 where do you think we don't?
@@ExploreUnderground here in the Netherlands we don't, i have never even seen a single fresh (not boiled) egg that was being kept refrigerated, neither in a store, on a (farmers)market or at home; eggs are meant to be consumed fresh so you eat them within the same week that you bought them making it sort of pointless to refrigerate them as there is absolutely no need to hang on to the same batch of eggs for a month
We have chickens at my house, not so much for their eggs, but because they eat all the bugs that would otherwise mess up the plants in our garden. Of course you have to also keep them from eating the leaves of the plant but it's easier to keep a chicken away from a plant than a bug. So they run around in the back yard pretty much free and their eggs do taste better. We've had both ones who lay white and brown eggs and I never noticed a difference. The ones who lay the brown eggs seem to be slightly more friendly to people in general but we haven't had enough of the other ones to be sure.
From Australia here, we wash our eggs and store them room temperature at the supermarkets. After we buy them we put them in the fridge. Wtf is going on! LOL