Eggs are good 4 to 5 weeks.
Heard that int eh old days, they didn't even refrigerate eggs....kept them in a bowl on the counter.
If I recall correctly from my friend who has chickens, as long as the eggs aren't washed they can sit out like that. There is a natural coating - I think called the "bloom" - that preserves them. Don't know how long it lasts but it was nice of God to design that :)
When I was a kid, the Grade A eggs were smaller than the Grade AA eggs.
When did that change?
Heard that in the old days, they didn’t even refrigerate eggs....kept them in a bowl on the counter.
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That is fine if they are fresh out of the chicken, I don’t refrigerate mine ... but USDA regs require that commercial eggs be washed with high pressure soap and water ... that removes a thin waxy outer coating off the eggs... so you must refrigerate them.
In Britain, eggs aren’t refrigerated. My jaw dropped the first time I visited a new neighbor and saw her eggs sitting out on the counter in an egg holder.
Eggs go bad because air seeps in through the pores in the shell. If you coat them with food grade mineral oil it fills the pores and you can keep them unrefrigerated for up to a year.
If you don’t wash the protective mucus coating off the egg, they last quite well on the counter in a basket.
Washing eggs is why we have to refrigerate them. That, and we keep them for several weeks rather than a few days.