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[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 71 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

I just look at the bottom of a closed carton first - if there's a crack it is rare that it didn't leak

[-] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago

Only works on paper cartons. Shouldn't be buying Styrofoam but still.

[-] virku@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] starik@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

In Canada, they come in bags.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

My neighbor gets hers out of chickens

[-] starik@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago
[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yea, "Chinese", that's what they said, it's to the east of europe, damn, you americans don't know geography at all

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[-] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago

Yes china... Listed under the *more section for eastern europe in the select your location box...

[-] M137@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Same here in Sweden, there are som variations on what kind of carton boxes but never seen any plastic or styrofoam.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

As if the grocery store gives you a choice.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

There's like six different egg providers at most grocery stores around me. I have choices.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

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.

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago

Oh, that is good to know. Here organic includes the highest standards for chicken wellfare, since they have to be let out etc., compared to just freerange that has tiny floorspace requirements, inside.

[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

I have to open and see if there are no cracks on top as well. OC I guess.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Well of course, that's just normal caution but don't bother if you already see a wet spot, try another carton

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 6 points 2 days ago

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.

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