Comments on: SAQ: Is it safe to eat old eggs?

By: Bluesun267

Bluesun267 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:41:00 +0000

A May-December romance! Well… I had a pack of eggs in the fridge that expired in May; it’s now December. Cracked them into a bowl and the yolks look a bit darker, the whites a bit thicker– but no excessive membrane and no bad smell. Made a perfectly fine omelet!

By: EBakes

EBakes — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:20:00 +0000

This was helpful! Thanks! I just ate a cooked egg over toasted buttered english muffins, and the egg was over a month old, refrigerated. No problems! Yet……haha Good luck everyone!

By: Damnliza

Damnliza — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:40:00 +0000

I ate an egg, 2 weeks expired yesterday. It looked okay, smelled pretty neutral, but I’m laying sick as hell today.

It varies from person to person. Some are weaker, and more prone to food poisoning :-(

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:24:00 +0000

The U.S. Navy has done a lot of research/experiments due to long voyages at sea. According to my Uncle, a retired Navy cook, served in WWII when refrigeration was not so good, eggs can be kept a year or longer if well refrigerated, no cracked shells, smell test, AND COOKED – not sunny side up. I just ate some this morning that are over 6 months old – and they were just fine! :-) But I wouldn’t ask anyone else to eat them…
Cheers!
Robert

By: Kiwi123

Kiwi123 — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 03:51:00 +0000

I just ate an egg 7 days past the use by. It has been in the fridge though. I cracked it and it looked and smelt fine. I live in NZ, we are known for high salmonella rates in our chickens and therefore eggs. I did feel sick after that, BUT I am not sure if its just the cold that’s going around because I have ate old eggs before and nothing happened then. I still have more, so I might just eat them. Wish me luck.

By: Bconrad86

Bconrad86 — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:12:00 +0000

WellI just had 2 eggs that the sell by date said november 2010, today is may 24th of 2011.. I didn’t really smell them before cooking but tasted okay… I’ll repost if I get sick :/

By: Dwight Taylor

Dwight Taylor — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:46:00 +0000

ive got old eggs about a month long ill just eat em. see what happens

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:37:00 +0000

I ate an egg about a month+ overdue. It had been kept in the fridge the whole time and was the last of a package I’d been getting through too slowly. It didn’t float in water which was good and when I broke it into a cup it didn’t smell. So I ate it and I’m fine!

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:30:36 +0000

An egg in the shell that floats in a pan of cold water is bad.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:57:06 +0000

Well, I sure hope you guys are right! I’ve just eaten 2 fried eggs that I now know are almost 2 months old…..found this page by searching “I ate old eggs”. Fingers crossed I won’t be sick!

By: Debbie Clark

Debbie Clark — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:04:02 +0000

Thanks for the info! I’ve got some eggs a few weeks old and found your blog by Googling on the question of how long eggs are safe to eat. So I am going to go ahead and use them!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:14:07 +0000

The reason you don’t have to cook eggs with the same heat or duration as meat is because they are not nearly as thick. You don’t cook thin cuts of meat as long as thicker cuts. It takes time for the heat to penetrate into thicker cuts, but the whites and yolk of eggs are quite thin, especially if you spread them around your hot pan.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:38:45 +0000

Three weeks is a long time but three months is a different story…

I had just celebrated my friend’s Birthday last night and wanted to cook an awesome breakfast to crown the whole movie-night event (AKA : “Sleepover” for people over the age of 13).

I checked the date on the package and noticed I missed the mark by 3 months. So, I sat at my computer and began to search and weigh all the possibilities of life and poison the internet offered and then I found you.

Sure my eggs were a little crunchy due to the “cooking” precautions I took, but I scrambled them with some Adobo and they were great. I ate them with a side of pancakes three hours ago and have lived to tell about it.

Thanks for the info.

~Rebecca

By: sam

sam — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:26:37 +0000

Sweet irony would be if the eggs went bad in the time it took you to do the research ;-)

Thanks for the holiday card btw!

By: dbt

dbt — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:56:21 +0000

If an egg doesn’t smell bad, it isn’t bad. If it is bad… you will absolutely positively know.