The Poultry Keeper

crazypianolady · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 733 Location: Nottinghamshire

How do you store your eggs? In the fridge or out? I've read conflicting whys and why nots, I'm interested to know what people actually do!

CP · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject:

I have always stored them out of the fridge after I read somewhere years ago that it wasn't the ideal place to keep them.

If you sell them you mustn't store them in the fridge. Wink

crazypianolady · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 733 Location: Nottinghamshire

Why is that?

kated · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 1851 Location: norfolk

I have stored mine in the fridge since the Edwina Currie furore. Always the very top shelf though. Just feel it's the best foody place for them and my kitchen gets very hot due to the Rayburn being on most of the time.

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2495 Location: South Cumbria

It is not good to keep eggs in a fridge then take them out say at the gate to sell then refrigerate them again that is why eggs in shops are never stored in a fridge, However at catering college we were told an egg deteriorates as much in 1 day room temp as 5 days in the fridge I keep mine in the fridge unless for incubation, also some recipes work better with eggs at room temp HTH

jaydee67 · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:03 pm Post subject:

I used to keep mine in the fridge until I got my own. Now I keep them in a basket, rotating the fresh ones to the bottom. Between the ones we eat and sell, I know at worst the eggs I'm eating are only a few days old and a lot fresher than anything in the shop!

Bhindi · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject:

Mine are on the worktop, and pointy end down, (don't recall why, but I rememberd I was told to on here)

layla · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 537 Location: West Midlands

Yep i store mine in the fridge .....when i get them .....five chickens and only 1 egg Sad

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2495 Location: South Cumbria

gosh I am getting 12 a day far too many making lemon curd tomorrow lol

Woodburner · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:24 am Post subject:

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7177 Location: isle of lewis

out of the fridge ,and pionty end down ,it's just a habit now Wink

made lemon curd this week , Wink

Henwife · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3245 Location: Monmouthshire

Because I have so many eggs, I have a small fridge for eggs only, running at the 'warmest' setting. Both eating and hatching eggs are stored there and always have been.

jaydee67 · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:34 am Post subject:

Pointy end down - admit it - it's just in case the incubator is lonely!

NannyP · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:56 am Post subject:

It's habit, pointy end down. Mine are in a chicken thingy Rolling Eyes

, sorry not very descriptive am I. I bought it ages ago, all nice an colourful....it doesn't hold enough. They lay down in there. When that is full, I start using egg boxes, as I have someone who takes a dozen a week off me, so by the time she comes around for more, the egg boxes are full.

Sparklepeeps · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1952 Location: Cheshire

If they are from my own hens they go in the cupboard (also ponty end down. even my other half has caught onto this craze now!). However if I buy them from the shop, they go in the fridge because I doubt how fresh they actually are.