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I have never once cracked open a rotten egg, and I've used them well past the sell-by date. Having grown up on a farm where we raising our own livestock for consumption, I really can't be bothered to buy into egg hysteria.
Fresh eggs can last approximately nine months if kept under good refrigeration. At least that is what I read from old Army food preparation manuals.
Three months is my limit on eggs for the most part.
I have never once cracked open a rotten egg, and I've used them well past the sell-by date. Having grown up on a farm where we raising our own livestock for consumption, I really can't be bothered to buy into egg hysteria.
I don't worry about it either. In fact, because fresh eggs are so hard to peel, if I know I'm going to need hard boiled eggs, I will set them out on the counter for a few days to "age" them.
Also, I don't wash my eggs unless they're really dirty....and then just before I crack them. I've always understood there is a natural film or covering over the eggs, and if you wash that off, you cut down on their shelf life.
Mostly I do the "float test" if I find a hidden nest somewhere and I'm not sure how long they eggs have been there. Sometimes, I can tell just by looking at the eggs - dull, maybe kind of dusty looking. Of course, if you pick one up and shake it and you hear/feel it going "whoosh, whoosh" inside the shell, you don't have to even float it to know you don't want to crack it open.
There are three depts in a mkt that require a "Best used by Date".
They are in the Dairy case...Deli Case...Frozen food cases.
Canned goods are basically safe for a long period in time.
Package goods are another matter. Cake mix may not rise but bake flat, pkg pasta has the possibility of minute insects that still can enter the sealed pkg. Same could be said about box cereal in wax bags. You probably see my point. Yrs back was in a Grocery Mkt Chain store and many loafs of bread had these tiny insects inside. Won't say what City but it was in Northern Calif.
When it comes down to the refrigerated items some may be slow sellers in a specific clientile area and the store would generally drop the price or show it to be on sale inorder to move the product and restock with fresh dated.
I myself being in the grocery trade way back when made the mistake at Walmart of buying some sausage links at what I thought was a Sale price and after coming home looked at the pk which gave a Best By date which was two days later and the contents should be consumed or frozen immediatley according the label. Reg price of $1.25 and sold at 0.69 ea I picked up 6 pkgs.
So you see things have to be moved via sales or dumpster.
(Did you note how all old food this store gets goes to the poor...)
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