• VoxBunn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    One time in like 2014 I opened the eggs for a glance to check for brokens at a Stater Bros outside San Diego and an older guy behind me said “yeah, those are eggs, move along” I just turned around and said “yes, but are they cracked?” and then walked off. Hopefully his rude and impatient ass felt stupid.

    Anyway, now whenever anyone in my family checks the eggs, someone in the family will, without fail, say “yeah, those are eggs, move along”. It’s our little running joke and I wish that guy knew that we’re still making fun of him 12 years later.

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      i dont get it why some people have the diarreah of the mouth where they just cannot keep even one stupid comment from escaping their lips

      sometimes i just dont care and just agree with them ‘yup you got me there’ and continue on with my day regardless of the outcome cuz i just do not have the energy to play teacher to their stupid spilling out everywhere on everybody.

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    I learned a quick tip from an old lady many years ago. Open the carton and use your first finger just to tip (slide) each egg a bit so you know it is not stuck to the bottom of carton. Quick and easy.

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      I just look at the bottom of a closed carton first - if there’s a crack it is rare that it didn’t leak

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          I have never seen anything other than carton boxes for eggs here in Norway. This comment actually baffled me that they came in anything other somewhere.

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            Ours come in a clear plastic vacuum formed container, compressed paper carton, or Styrofoam, depending on the brand.

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              That’s just fucked up. Clear plastic seems like the worst possible container as it gives little or no protection, and is obviously plastic which the world only needs less of.

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                It’s usually multiple foldovers of semi rigid plastic similar to most water bottles around here. They seem to function well. It’s probably six or more 1 litre bottles worth of plastic though.

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                It is the worst. The only pro is you can visible see if they are broken without opening anything.

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            Same here in Sweden, there are som variations on what kind of carton boxes but never seen any plastic or styrofoam.

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          As if the grocery store gives you a choice.

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            There’s like six different egg providers at most grocery stores around me. I have choices.

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              Only one of them is the cheap regular eggs, though. The others are organic or free range or otherwise differentiated in some way other than just the foam vs paper packaging.

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                  Organic is kind of a scam. At least not what people imagine. What you want is floor raised, or even better, free range. And grain fed. In every country the definitions are slightly different. Look into it. What you want is hens that are out in the open, so that they follow natural day cycles, that can move around a bit, and fed grain instead of feed, which is often made from fish flour and such.

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                  The yolk thing is a myth. Farmers feed their hens dandelion extract to get the color. My family actually has pasture raised hens and the yolks are yellow.

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      Yep, that’s the move. You don’t have to pick up each egg and inspect it. If it rocks, it’s good.

      If there’s just one or two, I look for the bad dozen, which is usually there in the case, off to the side. Open that and replace the good eggs from that carton with the bad ones in your carton. Now you have 12 good eggs, and eventually the store will have a carton of 12 cracked eggs.

      You still get dirty looks from dickheads, though, which I enjoy. I’m always pleased to piss off judgemental Karens.

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        I do the put all the bad eggs in 1 carton too. Fuck the ones who glare. If they had any brains they would see we are helping. If not switched and consolidated there would be a lot more bad cartons tossed as waste

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      I used to do this but I got burned once or twice, wound up with cracked eggs that hadn’t leaked enough to stick or hadn’t stuck, for whatever reason.

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    Greatest trick I learned is to open the carton, and then gently shake it side to side while watching the eggs. Check the ones that didn’t wiggle.

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      Works vastly better on the plastic cartons than the old (and still current) paper cartons. I remember mom carefully inspecting eggs.

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    The real psychos are the ones just grabbing the top front carton of eggs and never checking it. You must live a much more charmed existence than me!

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      My grocery store usually has a box or 2 at the top front that’s mostly full of cracked eggs from people swapping. So yeah, psychos. At least grab from the middle of the pile if you aren’t checking each egg.

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      I always check at the supermarket because armies of gronks have put their grubby mitts on them, but I don’t bother at the Asian grocery, because they are always perfect there, and they are kept in high rotation, with the staff checking them when they lay them out.

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    My mother taught me this at the store when we were little. The lady next to us got this like…fucking sudden realization on her face and she checked her eggs as well. It was wild lol.

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      I mean like, imagine no one taught you when you were a kid, right?

      That’s how I feel about electric kettles. They’re so damn useful.

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        Wicked useful but crazy high current drain, don’t plug one and an instant pot into the same circuit.

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          Or use a microwave, or hair drier on the same circuit as one at the same time. Unless you’re in the kitchen I guess. Learned those lessons the hard way.

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    This is learned behavior though. It’s not obvious. I learned it from my parents. He obviously didn’t.

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      You can also learn without parents, when you all of a sudden have your hands/shopping cart/shopping bag/car full of raw egg.

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      1. Even if not learned through experience, it can also be learned through critical thinking. One could take a moment to ponder why someone is checking the eggs and could easily arrive at the conclusion they’re checking for broken ones.

      2. Or they could open their mouth without thinking much and say something ignorant to a stranger in the grocery store

      3. Or they can demonstrate the greater depths of their ignorance and make a post about it on a social media platform showing they had time to figure it out but couldn’t despite it being on their mind the entire time.

      Sadly, much of our random interactions and popular public discourse are driven by #2 and #3

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        Or maybe they were just trying to be silly. This is exactly the kind of thing my father would do, with no malice or smugness at all.

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      It’s obvious the first time you get a carton of eggs home and find a cracked or missing egg, or have thought for two seconds about the notorious fragility of eggs.

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      I feel like the poster might have been aware of the actual purpose but still wanted to spread a little enjoyable sillyness by comparing it to movie scenes where a money briefcase is checked out.

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    Eggs are probably one of the few grocery store items, where opening the packaging and checking them before purchase is a must do.

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    a) Eggs come in 6 or a dozen. Fridge has little shelf with holes for 8 eggs.

    b) I always feel as if a supermarket employee is gonna get really offended, and start telling me I can’t open the eggs to check they’re not cracked. They won’t, because they honestly couldn’t give a fuck, they’re just trying to get through their shift. But the feeling is there. Egganoia makes me feel as if the security cameras are zooming in, though, making sure I don’t pocket an egg. “Hey, we saw video of a woman in a supermarket in Russia shoving a raw chicken up her hoo-hah! It’s not impossible you might wanna pocket an egg, fella!”

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      id be more suspicious of a store that would take offense at you checking

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      Supermarket employee doesn’t care. Supermarket employee also checks the eggs before buying them!

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        They might do spot checks when taking delivery but I doubt they have the time to check each carton.

        Or did you mean at checkout before YOU buy the eggs? If so, that’s not why they open each carton. They’re checking to see if you hid something in there.

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          I think they mean when the employee is shopping for themself, they check their own eggs.

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            Yes. I’m talking about when the employee is buying their own groceries they check the eggs!

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              Oh, I see. Yes, probably. As any sensible person would.

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      I’ve seen them packed in 4s as well. 10 packs are common, and I’ve seen cartons of 15 as well. Dunno who determines that. I swear we had cartons of 12 too but I haven’t seen any in a long while. Am I going crazy?

      I keep them in the carton in the fridge anyway and my egg shelf has butter and cheese, so problem solved :p

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        That depends on where you live. In Europe most common cartons are 10 and 15. In Canada and USA it’s 12 and 18.

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      If they get offended you can’t check the eggs, they’re trying to sell pre-cracked eggs. Do you want pre-cracked eggs, buddy?

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      You don’t need to fridge eggs, if they are not opened. The skin under the shell bloom is there to protect the intended chicken from yeast and bacteria.

      Edit: ok, the “bloom” outside mostly, if you don’t wash it off. I only know eggs unrefigerated so far. And colored ones, them are cooled …and also nasty and hard to peel.

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    The other day Costco noticed a single cracked egg at the checkout and I stood around afterward for ten minutes waiting for a replacement. Like, I appreciate the customer service, but I was fine with the cracked egg. There were 127 others intact.

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    My little brother actually asked if he could “count the eggs” because he assumed that’s what we were doing. 😄

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    Life would be so boring, if people stopped putting up every dumb thought they have online for our amusement.

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    Are people actually having issues of cracked eggs? I have never in my whole life ran into, or heard of anyone else running into a cracked egg in a carton.

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      Well they’re protected by paper mache. So yeah cracked eggs are a problem. I don’t want to deal with that and I can avoid dealing with that by opening the box.

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        They started pretending they could avoid people opening the carton by just using flimsy clear shit plastic cartons here. Still gotta take out the cracked eggs though, just don’t have to open the carton to find em anymore which is nice

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      Shop at aldi and you will find entire crates of eggs that are cracked.

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        German efficiency. That way you can check that all the eggs are full, so you don’t get an empty one.

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      Yep, had happened to me twice recently after not happening for a long time. It’s like the seatbelt in the car, most of the time you don’t need it, but when you do, you’re happy that you did.

      And not just look, wiggle each egg to verify it haven’t cracked in the bottom which will make it stick to the package

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      It happens. I can’t say it’s super common, but even with the protection of the cartons, accidents happen. Hell, I’ve checked in store, and had an egg crack on the way home from braking hard. Only once, but it shows that the right forces in the right way can cause cracks.

      I haven’t bought eggs in years now (yay for my hen!), but I’d see it maybe twice a year or so

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      You shop at more expensive stores than me. I swear they employ someone whose sole job is to crack eggs

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        Wow. Where I shop, egg cracking is only one of the jobs of the guy, he also spills sugar, dents cans, removes one soda can tab per pack, bruises tomatoes, pretty much all these jobs.

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          Oh yeah it’s a big store here. Also we got a powerful union, one job, one dude. I was the sugar spiller for a season, but I kept getting ants in bed no matter how much I washed and changed sheets.

          I really gotta stop eating there, but maybe next job I’ll have less ants

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      well now you just jinxed yourself.

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      I run into it often, but I live in a rural place where eggs are commonly sold in huge quantities (like bulk 5 and 1/2 dozen cartons). Usually I’ll find another carton that’s got cracked eggs as well, and swap for some good ones.