This is not store-bought, or how many days do homemade eggs last?
Fresh eggs from poultry that eat natural grains, grasses and vegetables are considered a valuable food product.
It has been proven by practice that under the same storage conditions, they remain fresh much longer than store-bought ones.
The reason lies in the proper nutrition of the poultry and the absence of long transportation to the consumer with inevitable shaking of the cargo.
We will tell you further how much and under what conditions homemade eggs are stored.
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Under what conditions, temperature?
According to the recommendations of Rospotrebnadzor, food eggs intended for storage must meet the following parameters:
- have a shell without chips, cracks, holes, or sagging;
- free from contamination;
- have a standard size and weight.
Special cardboard or plastic containers with individual cells are used as containers. The eggs are placed there with the blunt side up. It is recommended to wash plastic packaging that has already been used with soap or soda and dry it dry.
You can keep the eggs in regular boxes or bowls, laid on one side, but it is advisable to layer them with a clean cloth.During storage, it is recommended to turn them over on the other side daily to avoid mixing the air chamber.
The optimal storage temperature for poultry eggs is +4 degrees with a humidity of 60%, which corresponds to the parameters of a household refrigerator.
How to properly store raw ones - in shell and without?
Deterioration of the contents of the shell occurs from the development of putrefactive bacteria that enter through holes in the shell. The cleaner the shell itself and the surrounding atmosphere, the longer the product remains fresh.
In a refrigerator
The standard storage duration for the most common culinary products, raw chicken eggs from your own hens, in the refrigerator 2-3 weeks.
They are kept in a special compartment on the door, where there are recesses for each egg. You can put the container on a shelf where the temperature is maintained at +2 +4 degrees.
If the container does not have a tight lid, food with a strong smell (smoked meats, oriental sweets, Korean salads) should not be kept nearby.
The shell contents, stripped of their shell, do not spoil in the refrigerator for only 2-3 days. The product should be kept in a tightly closed glass jar or plastic container.
How long can raw and cooked quail eggs be stored in the refrigerator? Here, read about the shelf life of broken eggs here.
In the room
The shelf life of raw chicken eggs in the shell at a temperature of +20 +22 degrees is 7-10 days. The packaging with them should be protected from exposure to sunlight and increased dampness. The yolk and white without the shell in the heat begin to disappear after 3-4 hours.
In the cellar, cold underground
Any private home has a wonderful place to store food - a cellar or underground.In a deep pit, tightly closed with a thick door, even at the peak of the summer heat, the temperature does not exceed 8-10 degrees. In such conditions, fresh domestic eggs easily last more than 2 weeks without loss of quality.
Shelf life of boiled
Hard-boiled eggs remain edible 2 times longer than raw eggs. It is not for nothing that they still remain a favorite food for travelers who do not have the opportunity to use a refrigerator on the road.
To properly hard-boil an egg, place it in cold, slightly salted water and cook after boiling for at least 8 minutes and no more than 15. Check to see if the egg is cooked by spinning it on a flat surface. Steep things will spin for a long time, but with half-baked contents they will quickly stop.
Read how long boiled eggs last in the refrigerator here, without shell - Here, at room temperature - in this article, quail - in this.
Features for chicken, quail, duck and others
In addition to chicken, eggs and other types of poultry are actively used in cooking. Depending on the structure of the shell, they have different shelf life:
- Duck and goose, thanks to a special oil film on the shell, do not spoil in heat for up to 10 days and more than a month in the refrigerator.
- The shelf life of turkey and quail eggs is similar to the shelf life of chicken eggs.
- Guinea hens stay fresh for up to 2 weeks at room temperature and up to 4 months in the refrigerator.
The storage champion is the ostrich egg, with a surprisingly strong shell. In room conditions it does not deteriorate for more than 60 days.When kept in the refrigerator, it is edible even after six months!
He will tell you about storing quail eggs this article, goose - this.
Is it possible to increase the shelf life?
If you exclude contact of the shell contents with the external environment, it will remain sterile longer. In the old days, people, without refrigerators, resorted to various methods Preserving eggs for a long time:
- they were placed in baskets, sprinkled with sifted stove ash, coarse dry salt, and calcined sand;
- coated with melted goose or pork fat, beeswax;
- coated with clay mash;
- immersed in a solution of lime or salt (1 glass per 3 liters of water).
These methods helped to extend the freshness of the product for up to several months and wait out the molting period of chickens.
How can you tell if a product has started to disappear?
In eggs that have lain for a long time, the air chamber at the blunt end increases, and the white “dries out” and decreases in size. If you shine a flashlight through the shell, you can see that the emptiness occupies up to half of the internal space. Such eggs should not be used for food.
Another way to check is to put the egg in water. The fresh stuff will remain at the bottom, the rotten stuff will float up., since the air in the enlarged chamber will act as a float.
Adviсe
When selecting eggs for storage, pay attention not only to the integrity, but also to the strength of the shell. This indicator is influenced by the bird’s diet, which must contain minerals (calcium, sodium) and vitamins (D, A).
Poultry lays eggs in the morning, so The “harvest” is collected from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.. The nests must have enough clean bedding (sawdust, hay) so that the laid eggs remain undamaged. When storing raw eggs, care should be taken to shake them so that the white and yolk do not mix.
Conclusion
The benefits of the freshest, just laid eggs cannot be compared with any long-term storage product, no matter how well it is maintained. Having your own small poultry farm allows you to have fresh eggs on the table all year round.
