• Psythik@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    I haven’t purchased eggs in years.

    Every time I do, they always go bad before I can use them all, so I stopped buying them. I wish stores would let you buy individual eggs.

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      11 hours ago

      How long did you keep the eggs for? I’ve never had one go bad in my entire life. Where I live, eggs can be bought in boxes of 6, 8 or 10.

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        11 hours ago

        I toss them after they start to float in water, usually after a month.

        We have 6 packs available but they cost more than the 12-pk so I don’t buy them. Regardless, even a 6-pk is too many. There are only two people in my house and one of us doesn’t eat eggs.

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          11 hours ago

          Ok, then I understand. In my household we sometimes need 4 eggs for scrambled eggs or pancakes a week. And I never do the floating test, I just pay attention to how the egg smells.

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    12 hours ago

    It depends how I shove the tray back in. I add eggs to them more often than I take them out.

    Currently I’m sorting my quail eggs between small and large because I’m going to use the small ones for chive blossom pickled eggs, and the large for a big batch of cookies, but usually they just end up wherever they fit, one tray at a time.

    My chickens are going to be another month or two before they start laying.

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    18 hours ago

    I don’t have any right now but I typically take them out on opposite corners, then work towards the middle. Like this.

    (1) (5) (9) (12) (8) (4)

    (3) (7) (11) (10) (6) (2)

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      17 hours ago

      If you reverse your order, the carton will feel more stable in your hands as you use up your eggs. This is because the carton’s mass density moves towards the outer edges, increasing the moment of inertia.

      I’m fun at parties, I swear.

  • lattrommi@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    I can’t afford eggs right now but what i usually did was immediately hard boil half of them, eat two of those and put the rest back in the carton. the hard boiled half always stayed on the right half of the carton, because with the layout of my kitchen, that is the side closer to my oven, so i would know which half are hard boiled.

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    18 hours ago

    Can’t seem to upload photos for some reason :\ but slots 1 and 6 are empty

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    2 days ago

    Can’t take a picture. Egg prices quadrupled where I am so I haven’t bought them in months. But it could have looked something like this:

    x0000x xx000x

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      1 day ago

      I also take from the ends. It balances the carton better for me when taking it out of the fridge

    • Same: haven’t had egg in years.

      I always pulled them from one size so that it was a precarious activity to pull the cartoon from the fridge: you got either the heavy end, which was Ok, or the light end, which was awkward, or the middle, which was totally unbalanced and prone to dropping.

      It’s the little, everyday excitements that makes life fun.

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    2 days ago

    My wife insists on an even distribution pull from the center. Can’t take a photo at the moment. She insists that an imbalance in the carton makes her more likely to drop it in the morning