Storing your eggs

[burnie]

Non chook owner here(in the deeds to my house,can't keep pigs or chooks,tempted to buy an Elephant just to wind the council up),I digress.
Where/how do you store your eggs,we put 'em in the fridge,but SWMBO was told that it destroys the protein/calcium fridging them,is this right?

[Glutton4...]

Dunno, Eggwina Curry has a lot to answer for ...

There was a thread on here about this earlier in the year. I keep mine on an Egg Skelter on the worktop. I do this because it keeps them in date order, and looks good. No room in the fridge anyhow!

[Hilary B]

Non chook owner here(in the deeds to my house,can't keep pigs or chooks,tempted to buy an Elephant just to wind the council up),I digress.
Where/how do you store your eggs,we put 'em in the fridge,but SWMBO was told that it destroys the protein/calcium fridging them,is this right?

Try a billy goat if you want to annoy the council AND the neighbours<g> (no, you really don't want to keep one, they do stink, especially in Autumn, but a nanny maybe, or a wether.....!)
I always understood that eggs are best kept at a temperature just a fraction higher than is desirable for a fridge. If you haven't got such a place, the fridge is better than letting them get too warm (especially shop eggs which are not the newest at best of times).

[digthatchick]

Mine are kept in a wire basket in the kitchen, I never put them in the fridge.

[RichmondHens]

Mine are kept in trays on the worktop in a cool corner of the kitchen - these are the freshest; they get put in here when they are laid. I sell from these trays. Then after a few days what are left unsold are put in the fridge for our own home use. I date each day's batch with a pencil number on one of the eggs so I know exactly when each batch was laid. Eggs will happily keep in the fridge for at least 3 weeks. I've not heard about the fridge temperature destroying protein etc, although certain recipes I've followed in the past have suggested using room temp eggs rather than straight from the fridge.

[Flummery]

Egg skelter in the kitchen. There are only 2 there at the moment. I gave away a dozen yesterday!

[Tiny1000]

I keep 1 doz eggs in a egg rack on the kitchen side - but if the rack is full up (most of the time) the fresh eggs go in the fridge - that way when we use the eggs they are always at room temperature

[MaureenHall]

Mine are in a tray that holds 30 eggs on the side in the kitchen. All the eggs are dated when I collect them and are used oldest first. I sell a couple of dozen a week, and give away to family and close friends. It's not often I have more than 30 to store. When my other laydeez were killed by the fox, I had an almost full tray of eggs. I stored them in the fridge for my own use and they were still perfect 6 weeks later

[HayleyB]

I've got them on a ceramic egg tray on the worktop

[Bephlam]

Basket in the kitchen...

[Twinkle]

egg boxes in the kitchen.

[CoraxAurata]

LOL.... tray in kitchen, basket ON (not in) Fridge, by the sink in the back kitchen and in the feed bucket where they were put on collection and haven't been dated/sorted yet (I pencil date too)....

[frias]

I put mine, pencil dated in the fridge. I haven't got a cool larder and the kitchen is very hot. I work on the asumption that bacteria grows quicker in the warmth and eggs must have bacteria on them so are better in the fridge. That's my theory anyway. I never bake cakes so don't need them room temp.

[OverWyreGrower]

Egg boxes, on the worktop... at any one time I can have 30-40 eggs there, so no room in the fridge!

Have come into work and found 4 emails with egg requests on, so they will take up most of the ones I have currently