Do you wash your eggs?

Do you wash your eggs?

  • Yes

    Votes: 11 10.6%

  • No

    Votes: 77 74.0%

  • Only if visibly soiled

    Votes: 16 15.4%
  • Total voters
    104
abzob said:
Poll added.

The same reason you’d generally wash fruit or veg before eating, I guess. To prevent any possible contaminants on the shell from falling into the cracked egg, or something.
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Yeah look, I worked in the fresh produce industry supplying software to the markets for 12 years. I have been at every market in SA many times over and if you saw the conditions that fruit and vegetables live in then you would wash them for sure.
Between massive trucks offloading indoors, diesel powered forklifts and the generally filthy environment there is no chance I would eat anything without washing it first.
If you touch any surface in a market then you get a mix of dust, dirt and diesel residue that is really difficult to wash off.
 
No. our eggs are pasteurized, so it should be relatively bacteria free. Some other countries don't.
 
saor said:
Yup. This random text just stuck in my head:


Might just be nonsense. Either way, don't really like the egg-white texture and taste raw anyway.
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Eggs are a chickens period, no wonder it tastes so yummy.
 
I believe the whole American concept of doing this is quite bad and it’s one of the origins for why pregnant women should never have eggs, but it actually only applies to Americans and not in the rest of the world but gets perpetuated regardless.
 
abzob said:
/yes, I’m expecting all the double entendres.

On a recent episode of 90 Day Fiance, Natalie (from the Ukraine) was washing eggs before use which Mike (American) found perplexing.

Natalie : In my country we wash eggs.
Mike : Over here we don’t.

I’ve always washed eggs before use but this got me searching for more info. Apparently eggs have a protective membrane (cuticle) over the shell which is why they can be kept unrefrigerated. In countries like the US, eggs are pre-washed, which removes this membrane and thus need to be kept refrigerated to prevent contamination.

Some sources do not recommend washing eggs before use since eggs are porous and washing them can end up pushing bacteria into the eggs.

southafrica.co.za

Egg Quality Maintenance, Poultry Farming in South Africa

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Do you wash your eggs or crack them straight out of the carton?
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A bigger question is did you notice the look of abject horror in her face when she saw the manufactured home that she would now have to call home?
 
cguy said:
A bigger question is did you notice the look of abject horror in her face when she saw the manufactured home that she would now have to call home?
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“It’s like house from the movies...horror movies”.
 
backstreetboy said:
The even bigger question is why would anyone wilfully watch that junk?
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How can you not watch a show with such classic lines as:

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Fulcrum29 said:
Isn't TLC the network mostly watched by those who watch Jersey Shore?
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Probably not considering Jersey Shore was on MTV. Although I haven’t watched JS and besides 90DF there isn’t really anything else I watch on TLC. You should try it, it’s hilarious. Trashy, definitely. But hilarious.
 
I spray mine with sanitizer... (is what i'm sure some of you believe I would do!!)
 
abzob said:
Probably not considering Jersey Shore was on MTV. Although I haven’t watched JS and besides 90DF there isn’t really anything else I watch on TLC. You should try it, it’s hilarious. Trashy, definitely. But hilarious.
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Agreed.
 
Only wash a egg before consumption if you need to. Otherwise unless treated you will remove the covering. Untreated eggs are fine for over a month with no refrigerated, refrigeration six months. If you wash them, those numbers are altered.
 
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