Timeline for How to tell if eggs are rotten
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| Feb 9, 2017 at 15:48 | comment | added | Mołot | @Ecnerwal and here I was, envying you your sense of smell... | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 15:46 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | I meant your method 2. I basically never use your method 1, and I pretty much always break into a cup, mostly because it's easier to get out bits of shell from a cup (than a bowl/pan with other eggs in it) if the shell breaks badly, but also for the rare case of actually having a bad egg. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 15:27 | comment | added | Mołot | @Ecnerwal seems that either good nose is something that runs in your family, or me, my friends, and OP all have impairment. Sometimes I can't feel egg gone bad without breaking its shell. Actually it needs to be pretty bad for me to tell the difference when it's still whole and only off by a day or two. That said, eggs in USA are usually washed in a way that opens pores in shell. In Poland and most of the Europe, eggs are sold unwashed, with pores closed. Maybe this plays a role? | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 15:17 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | Unless you have a nasal impairment, the sniff test is very effective. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 9:11 | comment | added | Mołot | @dougal2.0.0 all the super duper ideas out there are not fool proof, sadly. Well, not unless you are willing to install quite expensive lab equipment and test the air around the egg for traces of particles you can't smell yet. Or train a dog to sniff them for you. But then, these are only fool proof to some extend. dog can be distracted, detector broken... | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 8:49 | comment | added | dougal 5.0.0 | Thanks, to be honest that is more or less what I am doing at the moment, but I just wondered if any whizz kids out there had a sooper dooper idea. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 8:43 | history | answered | Mołot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |