Eggs, would you eat them?

[greekgranny]

Have just noticed that the eggs have a best by 20/5/20, I would happily use them even if it was just to hard boil them, DH says no way. What would you do?

[Orlando 2004]

We did this earlier this year.

[BevS97]

Yes. You can tell if an egg Is off as soon as you crack it.

You can also test it in a bowl of water. Avoid floating eggs.

[GoldenAvalanche]

I eat eggs about a month out of date! The BB dates on eggs are ridiculous. You will know if an egg is edible or not! I am super cautious about food but eggs are one thing I’m very relaxed about.

[returnplanning]

I would use them - when you crack the egg you will know if it is rotten!

[sha9]

Yes I would do the test mentioned above but to be honest if it’s just a couple of days I’m not sure I would even do that. We get our eggs from a farm locally so they don’t have best before dates.

[cornishfrogboy]

As a child, I used to collect birds eggs (now a poacher turned gamekeeper).

If it sinks in water, then it is fine and I would suck the contents out as there was less risk of damaging the egg. If it floats, then it would be blown!

[Jaybeez]

I always do the water bowl test, I’ve had eggs a month out of date that have been ok. I have no sense of smell so I don’t want to risk cooking with rotten eggs.😀

[Pookie3101]

You’ll know if it’s rotten. I never look at the date on eggs.

[Kat11]

Always use the float test. Have used eggs that are over a week over there use by date. As long as they DO NOT float.

Sometimes I get farm eggs, not from the supermarket which don’t have dates on. The water test is particularly good for them.

Kat