Left eggs out for 6-8 hours... still OK?

Absolutely fine.

They are fine at room temperature.

I've done this plenty of times...they will be fine

Some recipes call for eggs at room temperature, yes?

You might want to wash them before you crack them. The refrigeration these didn't get would have slowed the growth of bacteria on the outside of the shell.

But the contents of your eggs are fine.

Eggs are meant to be kept room temperature, it's only the Americans who refrigerate them.

Agree with the other posters. I lived in London some years ago. What shocked me was the fact that they were in aisles in the supermarkets (Waitrose) without refrigeration.

Chicken's pussy? I think I'm gonna throw mine away. Thanks, OP.

My ass is warmer than that, so I'll venture a yes.

Other countries don't refrigerate eggs like r6 said. You'll be fine. Just wash the chicken pussy juice off and enjoy!

Chickens have a cloaca, which is not only a pussy but also their urinary and digestive outlet. Three functions in one!

There is an easy way to check if eggs are good or bad - Fill a glass with water - or your sink for a lot of eggs. if they sink they are good, if they stand up but not float - they are good but if they float - they are bad.

Other countries don't refrigerate their eggs because they're unwashed. The USA washes their eggs. Washing removes some kind of protection against germs.

Awesome. I kind of suspected that.

It's just a consequence of growing up American, I guess. I was in my twenties before I could eat reheated pizza that spent "overnight" at room temperature in a box without worrying that I was going to die from food poisoning a few hours later. And even after I accepted that it was OK to do it with cheese pizza, pepperoni still makes me kind of nervous after a few hours.

Pepperoni is a cured meat product; it's INTENDED to be unrefrigerated.

R13 is correct. The US washes the protective natural wax coating off of the eggs as part of a cleaning process. Europeans (and perhaps the rest of the world) leave that wax coating on which leaves them shelf stable.

r15, that's interesting. I always assumed that unrefrigerated pepperoni was only OK if it was vacuum-packed after presumably being superheated or irradiated to kill any bacteria in it.

I was surprised to learn ~5 years ago that American cheese-food slices (the kind that are individually-wrapped and vacuum-packed) don't actually need to be refrigerated, and are only kept refrigerated in the dairy aisle because people are less likely to buy them if they aren't.

Oh, fuck dat, r11. Off to the trash they go.

Eggs are absolutely fine kept on the kitchen counter in a bowl for days at a time.

Why do European chicken eggs have a more orange yoke and the American chicken egg yokes are yellow? Is it the type of chickens? What gives?

R20 usually diet. American chicken egg farms feed them basically garbage (including ground up male chicks).

Elsewhere they are fed more grains and grasses.

[quote] Eggs are meant to be kept room temperature, it's only the Americans who refrigerate them.

We have to refrigerate commercially bought eggs in the US because the eggs are washed before they're sent to the stores. This washing removes the protected natural layer on the outside of the shell produced by the hen's body that keeps eggs safe at room temperature for a long time. They don't wash their eggs in most of Europe so they can leave their eggs out.

But even so we can leave our eggs out for a day or so without any worries.

They are not refrigerator right from the chicken....you okay girl!

[quote]American chicken egg farms feed them basically garbage (including ground up male chicks.

The fuck? Disgusting.

If you've ever seen chicken processing plants sort their chicks it is heartbreaking. The live chicks come down a conveyor best and a line of sorters stand there and pick them up to verify if they're male or female and they just throw the poor little things into different sorting bins. The males are taken away and electrocuted en masse and as said above, ground up to make chicken feed out of.

Here r25

Thanks, but I don't feel like seeing it. I did actually know that they kill all the male chickens, which is awful enough in itself, I just didn't know that they were ground up and fed to other chickens. That's the sort of thing that started the foot-and-mouth disease.

I only eat (European) organic eggs. From what I remember the killing of the male chickens also goes on in organic egg production, but I can't imagine the grinding up and feeding does.

The OP eats eggs, shoot right outta chicken's ass!

You were able to find eggs at the grocery store? WOW.

OP be careful. I once knew a girl who ate room temperature eggs.

And then she died!!!

They are OK. I raise chickens. I collect fresh eggs daily and soak them using a couple of drop of dish detergent for several hours to clean the shells. Then rinse, softly dry with paper towel, then place in the refrigerator.

Since we are talking eggs, how long past the sell by date on the carton are they good?

Or is the sell by date the throw it out date?

In my shithole country, no one puts eggs in the fridge if they intend to eat them every day.

Sorry but 5 hours is the absolute limit.

Are the dead ones still edible?

Store bought eggs can already be three weeks old when they get to the store. If they are week+ past the stamped date on the carton, be cautious. Break one open, smell it, look at it. If it doesn't look or smell right, don't eat. Don't undercook.

r26 most of the time they are not even electrocuted. They are just thrown in a grinder live.

Yeah plus you're cooking them so

They are fine

This thread partially illustrates why Americans have such ENORMOUS refrigerators compared to Europeans, yet Europeans aren't particularly troubled by theirs... we feel compelled to refrigerate literally everything.

It's not just a matter of kitchen size or older homes. Americans with small kitchens will get a huge second refrigerator & put it anywhere they possibly *can*, even if it means the living room or dining room. Or garage, or a porch or even out in the elements next to the house.

Literally everyone I know has two refrigerators, including me... and my partner. We use the one in the kitchen for "opened" food, leftovers, and beverages, and use the one in the laundry room (occupying space originally meant for the dryer, before we got a stacking kit) as a "cold pantry" for storing stuff like unopened 10lb bags of mexican & italian cheese, additional beverages, long-term extra-cold freezing (freezer #2 = 0F, kitchen freezer = ~20F so ice cream won't be rock-hard). Both are 36" side-by-side.

I accidentally left a cartoon of eggs out overnight and when I woke up in the morning they had all hatched into adorable little chicks. It was such a pleasant surprise.

r26 r38

That is heartbreaking and barbaric. I'm old enough to remember the time before farming turned into what it is now.

It makes me angry that the answer is "let's make meat in a lab" instead of pushing for turning back the clock to when processing was done on smaller scales all over the country.

I will never eat lab meat. It’s a crime against nature.

Here's how you test eggs: Put them in a bowl of water. If they float, they're bad. If they're lying on the bottom of the bowl, they're fine.

I left the USA permanently about twelve years ago and am now a citizen of Mexico. I was surprised to see that no one refrigerates their eggs here as they do up north, and they stay fine for weeks. Same with mayonnaise and a lot of other condiments we were always told to keep cold.

They are fine. I am a pastry chef and most of my stuff has to be at room temperature.

Seeing how normal and industrialized animal abuse is I can't help but think maybe we as a species deserve all the coronaviruses we get.

They sat longer inside the chicken. You'll be fine.

In the US eggs are spray washed as they go through the packing facilities, R46. That washes off the protective outer coating, which allows eggs to be stored room temperature. That's why eggs in the US are refrigerated.

[quote] Chickens have a cloaca, which is not only a pussy but also their urinary and digestive outlet. Three functions in one!

Daddy, I want a cloaca too!!!

OP created this thread, just so he could say the words "chicken's pussy."

Sicko.

Well, for what it's worth, the eggs were all eaten (French Toast, and brownies baked a few days later), and I obviously lived to tell about it. :-)

No, they aren't OK. I had a chicken ranch and every night we would take all the eggs from the hen house and put them in the fridge.

You wasted your time and a lot of money running a refrigerator.