I was really misinformed. The eggs were in a jar of liquid. I don’t know if it was straight sodium silicate or a sodium silicate/water combination. LOL The stupid, it burns.
Still, aren’t the cells alive and have limited life spans?
How long do you successfully store eggs this way?
It would have to be in water, as sodium silicate is a solid.
Most of the chicken egg is actually not alive in the sense that it is made up of cells. Most of it is food for the (maybe to be) fertilized egg which is tiny. It’s nourishment for the expected growing chicken.
The unfertilized egg we buy in the supermarket would contain one female egg cell. It’s only when it’s combined with the papa chicken’s cell that it starts dividing and consuming the part of the egg we enjoy with our bacon.