“Hey thanks...The folks who told me about the sodium silicate left out that important information.”
The way my dad explained it (he was born in 1908 before widespread use of refrigeration), it’s akin to putting a bandage on a wound without cleaning it first. It just seals in surface germs and incubates them. An ethel alcohol wash would probably work too, but they drank that if they had any.
Drinking the alcohol wash...LOL
When I tried my experiment a few years ago and cracked some eggs that were in sodium silicate, the stink of rotten eggs was so bad it ran all of us out of the house. We wondered if the inside of the egg, being potential life (at the cellular level, not the baby chick level) did the life/death thing on its own. It was so disgusting that I never tried it again.