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.
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.
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.
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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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.
Yeah, those are eggs, move along.
Vincent…………are we happy?
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.
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
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
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
Walnut bread is pretty great too.
And Shish Andaz
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.
My mother taught me this at the store when we were little. The lady next to us got this like…fucking sudden realization on her face and she checked her eggs as well. It was wild lol.
I mean like, imagine no one taught you when you were a kid, right?
That’s how I feel about electric kettles. They’re so damn useful.
Wicked useful but crazy high current drain, don’t plug one and an instant pot into the same circuit.
I like to preheat water for my electric stove in my electric kettle. So what if the microwave is also running? Ahh, the power of 230V.
Or use a microwave, or hair drier on the same circuit as one at the same time. Unless you’re in the kitchen I guess. Learned those lessons the hard way.
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.
Since nobody else posted it…
I’m not supposed to be here today.
This is learned behavior though. It’s not obvious. I learned it from my parents. He obviously didn’t.
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Even if not learned through experience, it can also be learned through critical thinking. One could take a moment to ponder why someone is checking the eggs and could easily arrive at the conclusion they’re checking for broken ones.
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Or they could open their mouth without thinking much and say something ignorant to a stranger in the grocery store
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Or they can demonstrate the greater depths of their ignorance and make a post about it on a social media platform showing they had time to figure it out but couldn’t despite it being on their mind the entire time.
Sadly, much of our random interactions and popular public discourse are driven by #2 and #3
Or maybe they were just trying to be silly. This is exactly the kind of thing my father would do, with no malice or smugness at all.
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You can also learn without parents, when you all of a sudden have your hands/shopping cart/shopping bag/car full of raw egg.
So what? Then you have a delicious cart, bag, and car…
But global warming hasn’t finished pre-heating yet, so they won’t cook properly.
It’s obvious the first time you get a carton of eggs home and find a cracked or missing egg, or have thought for two seconds about the notorious fragility of eggs.
I feel like the poster might have been aware of the actual purpose but still wanted to spread a little enjoyable sillyness by comparing it to movie scenes where a money briefcase is checked out.
