Why Do Americans Refrigerate Their Eggs and Most Other Countries Don't?
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In supermarkets across the United States, Australia, and Japan, eggs can be found in the refrigerated section alongside other cold items such as milk and cheese. However, in most other countries of the world, eggs can be found stored at room temperature alongside nonperishable food items. People eat both kinds of eggs every day, usually without any ill effects. So why do some people refrigerate eggs and others don’t? The answer lies in the bacteria group known as salmonella and how a particular country chooses to make sure their eggs don’t get contaminated with it.
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Imagine trying to tell somebody you work at the international egg commission without them thinking you're a liar.
Fucking hilarious! 😂🍻
Talking about that kinda work at a party will probably neg you as a sarcastic asshole 😂😂😂
I'm pretty sure you'd believe them. They probably talk egg 24/7 . Lol
@@pootypunt69 Talking about the international egg commission at a party will get you *laid*. Get it?
@Henry S If someone was talking to me about the IEC, that conversation would be over. Easy.
Me just finding out people don’t put their eggs in the fridge
Right.
Who would have thought an egg has a natural protection from outside conditions? Huh... not merica
Marko K. Pribić idk if it’s about protecting it. It’s more about it being a perishable or not. A lot of good has protective layers but is still put in the fridge so it doesn’t spoil
Shook!
@@forzee42 who woulda thought perishables are a thing and refrigeration prolongs it
There is an international egg commission? You learn something new everyday.
When there's a disagreement they throw eggs at each other.
@@SuperMak91 white eggs for regular disagreements and brown eggs for a tier disagreements
J K when I was 8yrs old I knew I always wanted to grow up and sit on the board of the international egg commission. Its been a dream of mine since I can remember
@@slowermindskeepright1788 you could always sit on an egg.
@@slowermindskeepright1788 it would have been a rollercoaster of a ride with all the good for you bad for you now good for you bs.
Can we talk about how there's an International Egg Commission and that they're concerned about eggs sweating too much?
Can’t have those eggs worked too hard
Clearly if they’re sweating they are made to exercise too much
This channel was named perfectly.
Imagine people worried about food supply and safety
@@Patrickf5087 r/whoosh
@@karlrassmann4604 r/yourjokesarebad
I used to raise chickens and I offered my ex husband some eggs I had just collected. Naturally they were still warm and he actually asked me "these weren't in the fridge?! Is it safe?!" I laughed "Sorry my chickens aren't equipped with refrigeration units in their ass. Just make sure you wash them and uhh don't eat them raw"
Did his cyberchickens have refrigeration units?
That is human evolution at its pinnacle
But surely, one of the bennefits of having your eggs direct from the chicken, is you can safely eat them raw... I would never eat store bought eggs raw.
@@jakovbrizic I still wouldn't eat a raw egg tbf
@@jakovbrizic you even need to be careful when handling live chickens and anything their poop can touch because they can have salmonella
As a South African, I have to say we buy our eggs room temperature but when we bring them home we put them in the refrigerator lol 😂
"So if you're from Africa why are you white?" (Mean Girls 2004)
@@CBB-dg9jy That sounds a little racist, sir😂
I'm white because my parents are white, and that's also why the other white people in Africa are white 👌😃
I think he was quoting a line from Mean Girls. At least, I hope he was.
Dear everyone,
When I made this comment, he did not have "Mean Girls 2004" in his comment. He has since edited it in. You can stop calling me dumb now.
We also do that in germany (don't know about the rest of the eu but they probably do that too)
@@TheBridget272 For his sake, I hope so too 😂
When I was a lad
I ate four dozen eggs every day
Just to help me get large.
Now I am grown
I eat five dozen eggs
So I'm roughly the size of a barge!
*every morning to help me get large.
But nice reference.
@@mennograafmans1595 *now that I'm grown I eat.
My what a guy!
No.
One.
Eats like Gaston.
No.
One.
Farts like Gaston.
Surfer Dude My what a guy that Gaston!
Surfer Dude
Why is your name suffer dude?
Homie looks like an egg with a beard. He is uniquely qualified to talk about eggs
Lmfao
🗑️🚮
😂
😂🤣
💀
In Switzerland, the eggs are sold unrefrigerated, but everyone puts them in the fridge at home.
It's because the video is quite wrong in suggesting something else. Everyone stores eggs in the fridge, because that way they last as long as they should. Eggs at room temperature will go to waste quicker. The key thing that's different is in washing eggs or not, which by the way isn't 'illegal' in Europe.
Same here in the Netherlands
certes mais les suisses sont pour beaucoup d’anciens sympathisants nazis donc on ne va pas les prendre en exemple
I never refrigerate my eggs...I just eat them quickly.
Same in Germany.
As my uncle once told me, Brown eggs are laid by roosters.... I believed him for a few years....
Funny
That's how basilisks are created
LOL
Thats a genius troll 👍 I'm gonna steal that one sorry thats great
Eggs get whiter as hens get older. Some lines can lay white eggs during all their productive life.
Moving to America taking 3 hours in a store looking by the flour and sugar and down every freaking isle trying to found some damn eggs. Never thought to look by the milk. I finally asked the Cashier and she looked at my like I was dumb.
🤣🤣🤣👍
Yeah I can imagine that was the first time someone asked her that. Omg
while i can understand how it can be confusing, that doesn't making weird in any way, just different. i get a kick out of how that bugs you, but the plug difference due to voltage doesn't blow your stack.
Reminds me of the first time I bought milk in Canada and instead of a plastic container, it was in a bag and I stood there looking at it thinking...WTF!
@@robh063
In a bag? Elaborate please...
I've never been to Canada, so bagged milk is new to me.
All I’m going to take away from this video is that there’s an International Egg Commission.
Bunch of egg heads trying to poach money from the rest of us. Really gets my blood boiling.
There’s a National Sandwich league or something
Makes sense. Most staple food products have some kind of commission that overseas them. Dairy, beef, pork. Eggs seem like a natural extension.
@@changer_of_ways_999 Quit being so hard over.
@@changer_of_ways_999, yeah that didn't go over easy with me either.
Eggcellent video, hard boiled facts, none of that scrambled nonsense ive heard before
ua-cam.com/video/9Deg7VrpHbM/v-deo.html
really focused on the sunny side up 😂
I wasn't going to comment but I've decided to come out of my shell.
Of course, the century eggformation was relevant even today.
Y'all crack me up.
If you take uncleaned eggs and dip them in mineral oil and let them dry, you can store them unrefrigerated for up to 9 months because it seals the pores. I learned this from a "surviving off the grid" show. 😊
I’ll pass on the nine month old room temp egg thank you
Problem is you have to get them uncleaned from a farmer, not from store.
@@thavvolf9157 same here.
Eggs remain viable (hatchable and edible) for up to 6 months without the mineral oil... just store them on the counter and wash them just before using... that’s only if they’ve never been washed or refrigerated.
Don't know if it works, but great tip to try!
I’ve always refrigerated store bought eggs but when my family raised chickens we never refrigerated them, I never thought twice about it but this explains that
*Eggsplains
So much of our life is based on these subconscious habits we form without thinking, that is why we are so prone to superstition.
Nothing important to say, I just find this stuff interesting
@@JoseGranny NO! BAD!
jk hilarious.
If you leave un-fertilized eggs in the nest does the chicken eventually realize they are not going to hatch and knock them out of the nest?
Once you refrigerate them you need to keep them refrigerated
Living in a european country where we do refriderate our eggs, i had no idea that countries didnt.
Same in eastern Europe. I see eggs as something that'll get spoiled quicker left at room temp
they do last longer if you refrigerate them, but they do keep for a while anyway. here in the uk they aren't refrigerated in shops, but I've always refrigerated them at home
Here in Netherlands some people do and some people don't
Here in the US, we _used to_ (and bear in mind, this was before my mother was born) coat the eggs in vaseline or the like. I think that some ships might actually still do it, as it doesn't require refrigeration.
This was also quite some surprise for me when moving from eastern country to the western. Even had problem to find them in the store :)
Australia: buys them from a non refrigerated shelf
Also Australia: puts them in the fridge when we get home
Zandrom
Coles and Woolies stack them on shelves, as do ALDI.
Nope buys them unrefrigerated and keeps them unrefigerated
@@cheekybastard1018 The Coles I go to, the eggs are kept chilled. Same as cheese or butter.
@Apex Gemini no just having a discussion and saying that not all do what he said we do but apparently it’s ok for others to comment including yourself. So why don’t you go fuck yourself cause no one else will😉
@carl carlson Selling stuff cheap is the whole idea behind this big German chain ... well, actually two chains at the moment, ALDI South and ALDI North, one for each of the two Brothers Albrecht (it's short for Albrecht Diskont, or Albrecht discount). Somewhat surprising to Americans, they also own Trader Joe's. Both together have a revenue around 70 to 80 billion € per year.
I remember the first time I bought eggs that weren't refrigerated in a shop - this was in Central America and not only were they not refrigerated, they were a bit old. Nothing wrong with them, just that the white had become VERY watery. They tasted fine but the texture (when scrambled) was a bit wet - I don't think they would have held up to a sunny-side-up or over easy treatment. Fast forward, I moved to Germany and yeah, I often find "dirty" eggs in a carton here. Sometimes I get a downy feather! No worries on my side.
In my region we call that the “bloom”. It doesn’t bother me because I’m not eating that part. My eggs don’t usually last long enough to turn “old” and my little chickens are rather healthy. ❤️
If they're not cold & I can't easily cook them sunny side up the way I love them.
Well wishes.
Me living in the netherlands: finds chicken feathers on eggs regularly
But I actually don't mind that. At least it reminds you that an actual living being provided you these.
Yeah sometimes it even comes with dirt too lol
Living beings that endure a lifetime of suffering unfortunately :(
They add those on purpose.. it isnt real.
Oh I thought eggs were manufactured...
Elodie, if you’re vegan, don’t say it or you’ll be labeled as an annoying vegan that wants to tell people to know that every 12 seconds as a stereotype.
I literally just left my eggs on the counter for like an entire day just a few days ago. I freaked out and thought they would be bad, but they were fine.
I just learned more about eggs than I probably need to know.
Please answer
Can we statore eggs in fridge ??
But you found out, today
And I'm only half way through
I probably just learned more about eggs than I WANTED to know lol
They came first.
I’m from the states and when I went to study abroad in England I had to look forever for the eggs because I kept looking in the refrigerated sections lol I deadass thought they didn’t have eggs (though in my defense it was the university shop so I had assumed that was the reason they didn’t have eggs) until I turned a corner and saw shelves of eggs lmao
That happened to me in Ireland. Took 20 min to find the eggs.
@@Clemsnman ... same here while in Ireland.
I’m half European, and I was kind of freaked out when I saw eggs on the shelf in Europe! After having gotten salmonella here in the states, once, I started wondering if they were on to something.
Eggscuse me Sir, is this a true story?
"do these savages not eat eggs???" Lmaooo
I refrigerate my eggs because I have a compartment in my fridge designated for them. “A place for everything and everything in its place”
Im sure Rosie the Robot Maid would approve....
So OCD
Geo Nif Keeping your things organised isnt OCD.
new fridges don't have those compartments anymore and haven't had for a decade. Something to do with the US egg thing.
“Mise en place”
I live in eastern europe and everyone refrigerates their eggs here
Can confirm.
Ya most people do when they get them home everywhere I'd imagine. But do your shops refridgerate them?
@@eggnchip yes they're where yogurts etc are
Yes
same here..Ireland
When eggs are laid by chickens they have a layer on them called egg bloom. This is a natural protective layer that protects the porous eggs. When washed the eggs lose the egg bloom and they put mineral oil on to act as another later to protect the porous eggs. Leaving them unwashed they are usually shelf stable for 3 weeks, and up to 3 months refrigerated. I sell eggs from my chickens unwashed and they taste amazing. The only time I would recommend washing them is if you are going to boil them. Otherwise you can crack them open with no exposure really to any potentisl fecal matter.
Finally some one in the comments knows what they are talking about. I grew up on a farm, we never washed out eggs either. And people would come from miles around to buy our eggs instead of supermarket eggs
Eggs that are unwashed taste the exact same as eggs that aren’t washed.
If i wanted to store them in the fridge (so it last longer, since sometimes I don't eat eggs everyday) should i washed the egg first before going in the fridge? Would unwashed eggs affect other food that are stored inside the fridge?
Safira if you live in the US they are already washed if you buy them commercially, the only you can but then unwashed is from a private seller in person typically. Storing unwashed eggs would not affect anything else in the fridge.
@@Fanslerfarmstead thank you so much!! I don't live in the US but knowing that unwashed eggs are safe in the fridge kinda reassure me
10:31 I can't believe you didn't mention that the color is also influenced by what they eat. We had like 4 chickens all laying eggs when we first got them and they were off white sometimes or just really lightly tanned. After living with us a while they started eating everything in site. Anything green, so grass and other plants like basil and whatever. The egg shells started coming out green and sometimes spotty like yoshi eggs. The inside still came out like a normal egg though. 🤷 They we're also small size to medium the majority of the time. Mostly small.
yeeah, my mom would save the baby blue eggs for me when I was a kid : )
Didn't the yolk of the egg get darker yellow as they started eating grass?
He didn't mention it because the shell of the egg will not change based on what they eat. It's genetic based on their lineage. What will change is the yolk color from light yellow - birds fed on pellets or processed feed - and the rich gold color of a free range hen.
@@karrie7102 🤦 I swear people are so thick headed that they say what they want to say because they want to say it regardless of what has already been said.
Your trying to tell me something about what happened in MY life and is undisputable. It already happened, it's not speculation. I had chickens myself I didn't read something online then try to tell someone who actually has Chickens how it is. 🤦🤦🤦
@@LEXICON-DEVIL sorry, I understand that's how you saw it, but it's literally impossible for a hen previously laying white or brown eggs to start laying green or blue eggs. The blue egg gene came from South America, where it became widespread due to a virus that selected for blue egg layers (long story, the blue colour is a different way for the bird to process excess bile). The blue pigment does not develop in mature layers, it is present genetically in the chick. Green eggs are the result of crossing blue layers and brown layers--they're blue underneath with brown pigment over top, creating varying shades of green. Potentially you had a green-laying hen that didn't lay for the first while.
I've never listened to someone who can speak so many words between breaths.
You would be blown away by Eminem
It doesn't seem natural. Must be Satanic or something.
Try listening to Ben Shapiro...
He does the same thing but very very quickly and with a high pitched tone.
Search Car Cleaning Guru here on UA-cam. You will be amazed by the lenght of his sentences.
I’m pretty sure he breaths between words just quickly and shortly I can only count about 5 or 7 words between each breath myself but maybe I’m just mishearing
ben shaprio
I was completely unaware that refrigerating eggs wasn't a universal thing before now.
Damn, I'm glad we don't have to worry about "salmon eller" here in Canada.
Um salmonella come from chicken feces... it is found common in chicken guts
.. you canadians must be proactive to prevent to clean eggs
Farm fresh eggs don't need to be refrigerated so long as they aren't washed. You are supposed to wash them before you crack the egg.
Simon yeller
@@tdgreenbay /whoosh. it was a joke about the way that Simon says "salmonella".
Big r/whoooosh
Simon's dome seemed all the more appropriate for this one.
Lol
Which dome? 😉
@@AwesomeHairo How many YOU see???
@@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA /woosh
🤣
Uk here, I always put eggs in the fridge. They stay good for longer and less likely to spread across the pan when you drop them in the oil. Makes a much tidier egg.
The world NEEDS tidier eggs, bravo.
A chicken is an egg's way of making another egg.
Which came first?
The egg. Laid by something that wasn't quite yet a chicken.
@@Vincent-kl9jy thats actualy the point of the question. Its Creationism Vs Evolution.
@@Vincent-kl9jy The lizard...
@Vincent R the answer to that question was me I came first and boy was the chicken piss
I thought that a egg was an chicken's way of making another chicken.
We have our own chickens and we do refrigerate our eggs.
For us, buying cage free eggs before we had our own chickens wasn't about egg quality, but supporting a more ethical egg farming method.
Same here. I could never go Vegan but I do support livestock being treated "old school." For me, it's more of a gross factor not an ethical one. Raising my own livestock for a period vs seeing mass production animal products is drastic and in many, but not all cases, also affects taste. Free range hens eat better and taste better, same with pigs and cows. Happy animals taste better and are less gross.
@@changer_of_ways_999 Yeah, that makes sense!
@@changer_of_ways_999 Also raise my own protein, also whole heartedly agree with ethical best life management of livestock. HOWEVER, how does one propose providing eggs for MILLIONS of consumers? Cost is a VERY important consideration when raising livestock. “Ideal” living conditions are not cost effective on industrial production....not starting an argument, but a discussion, if you like. Ideas to balance the scale are welcome. I hope you understand the spirit of this reply, and are not angry.😌
You people with your ridiculous “ethical” false beliefs. They are animals God have us to use and dominate and use, they are good. Funny how idiots define their own ethical beliefs. The fact you use chickens are hypocritical. The only way to be “ethical” would be to not use them.
But like any other dumb lefty, it’s all what’s good for you, right?
@@danjohnson6870 Since you brought God into this....
Proverbs 12:10 "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast" Proverbs 27:23 "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds" Matthew 6:26 "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" Numbers 22:32 "And the angel of the Lord said unto him, wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me" Isaiah 1:11 "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? said the Lord. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of the goats."
There is a difference between having dominion over animals and using them for food (which is what the Bible describes and exactly what this person is doing), and the extremely cruel practices of many in the livestock industry (which is pretty clearly defined as 'cruel' in God's eyes, according to your Bible). No one brought up politics or showed hypocrisy until you. You did bring up God though, and then immediately showed your own hypocrisy by criticizing people for carrying out the exact animal practices God recommends 🤷♀️
In Germany the eggs my family buys have three dates: day laid, day from which on they should be refrigerated, and expiration date.
You can refrigerate from start and they will last longer. A lot longer, months
@@heleniyahabukarsh513
You can not refrigerate them at all and they last well over a month.
If you’re keeping eggs for much longer than that you should most likely buy them in lesser quantities.
Eggs in Germany are expensive... I used to have four eggs put on my wiener schnitzel!
Those must be amazing chickens, able to print date as she lays it😅😘😻
There was a segment on PBS years ago saying that refrigerated eggs last 21 days longer than the stated expiration date. Of course, many food items go well beyond the FDA food guidelines expiration date.
I used to go to a farm with my grandparents and the highlight was picking the fresh layed eggs. You could see the free range chickens and in the store was this room with "drawers" where you could pick up the eggs.
The stats you quoted on cases of salmonella used a per capita method but wouldn't a per egg consumed be a better method assuming that the two population groups consume a differing number of eggs per capita?
I love eggs, any way they're prepared. Ive had them in the USA (where I live) and in Europe, always delicious. That being said, I would not have guessed I'd be THIS interested in learning about how they're harvested and sold. Pretty interesting.
FASCINATING! Thirteen entire minutes on the subject of eggs. Incredible. I learned a huge amount. Thank you!
I guess you could say this video was pretty... Eggceptional!!!
(Slowly walks away)
@@caffeinatedgamer.4576 Eggscuse me! Don't you walk away when I'm talking to you. LOL
This make me think of the quote, "But what does that have to do with the price of eggs?"
Leggo my eggo
This was a great video, one of the most informative I have seen about eggs, washed vs. unwashed. I raise my own chickens, so we gather eggs every evening, we do not immediately wash our eggs, but I still put them straight into the refrigerator to keep them fresher longer. I also clean nesting boxes every other day to keep the eggs cleaner. On a side note, I have never heard the natural oil called cuticle, my mother and her mother always called it bloom, so I learned something new, thank you!
Canadians refrigerate our eggs too. We’re always left out and/or just lumped in with the states.
Lauren Cheerio "Limped" is right. America U.S. is the most lame nation today. Will you adopt me?
LodiTX I know you’re making a joke but also I meant Lumped* lool thanks for pointing out the typo xD
Just made me think of a joke I heard a while ago. A coworker asked me "have you ever seen an eggplant?" I said "yes", he said "well you've been farther up a chickens ass than I have" 🤣😂🤣. Thinking about it now I should have asked him why he's been up a chickens ass lol but my brain isn't equipped for quick comebacks.
2 eggs in a pan of hot water,first egg says to the second egg 'fucking hell its hot in here.
Second egg replies 'wait till you get outside' you get your head smashed in.😃
@@ultra6737 The 3rd egg said “you guys can fucking talk?!?!”
What do you call a scared egg?
Terri-fried!
@@simonjeffries1419 What do you call an egg that flies through the air, ' a chucky egg'
@@ultra6737 that's funny lolol 😂
Virtually all eggs in the U.K. are brown and don’t get refrigerated until the get to (some) homes and only because there is an egg rack in the fridge and people just use it. Many Brits keep eggs in a basket, especially if they have their own hens, unrefrigerated.
Right, same in Singapore. Local eggs are not refrigerated but people usually refrigerate eggs because of the egg rack on the fridge
Have you ever washed a brown egg only to realize it was white?
Narms no, and never heard of that happening.
@@thomascarroll9556 rip you cant hear words i forgot, it was a joke about the eggs being dirty
Narms “it was a joke” almost, are you sure it wasn’t just a yolk?
This has to be the best idea for a youtube channel ever. I spend time wondering dumb things like why are water towers so tall and now I get more questions like that but with the answers so I don't spend an hour inventing fake answers of why I think things. Or googling if I'm really flustered but youtube is a lot more fun than google.
They're tall and are usually on a big hill which makes the tower taller than all the buildings below it. Pressurized water comes down via gravity and gets distributed to the buildings below. Skyscrapers usually have their own pumps to push water to the upper floor. The city saved money on electricity(gravity) and everyone gets pressurized water yay.
Mr. Morningstar I’ll check it out thanks
It's kind of funny. Cuz i buy eggs and they are stored in normal temps. Then i come home and put them in the fridge 🤣
Yep, in Russia we are used to occasionally encountering an egg with a little feces. Just wash them before cooking. I never got ill from eating eggs
Because this video is BS. In every country in Europe and E. Asia plus Australia, NZ and most S. American countries they DO refrigerate their eggs.
@@miro5031 Which means that they DO refrigerate them (just not in every single case)! There are folks in the US that don't do that also but you can't generalize from those cases. It's still a misleading BS title!
@@miro5031 I live in the US and I don't refrigerate eggs because I don't buy friggin eggs because I'm a vegan! Does that mean that "folks in the US don't refrigerate eggs while in most other countries they do"?
I hate BS misleading titles like this one!!
@@jessicatriplev9802 well, u can say so, but he meant that there are more ppl in the US that refrigerate them than in other countries, just like with the measure system, US uses imperial while the rest of the world uses Metric, that doesnt mean that there arent ppl in the US that does use metric, but MOST ppl (almost everyone) uses imperial, just like with eggs, in the US its a need to refrigerate them but in other countries it isnt, and btw, im living in C. America, here nobody refrigerates them, even in malls eggs arent refrigerated
Nop.. Portugal doesn’t do it.. n no its not needed
"why Americans refrigerate their eggs"
Me: wait... you do not?
My grandparents don't, the place where they live people just leave them at room temperature.
My parents do.
i think it's more a regional thing, like most ontarians use bagged milk, and other s use plastic containers.
@@demonpride1975 where do you think we don't?
@@ExploreUnderground here in the Netherlands we don't, i have never even seen a single fresh (not boiled) egg that was being kept refrigerated, neither in a store, on a (farmers)market or at home; eggs are meant to be consumed fresh so you eat them within the same week that you bought them making it sort of pointless to refrigerate them as there is absolutely no need to hang on to the same batch of eggs for a month
Did anyone else catch that he says “salmonella” half the time and “salmoneller” the other half?
lmaooo just noticed that
If the next word starts with a soft vowel sounds a phantom r is added to make the sentence smoother. It’s like the Liaison in French pronunciation.
The jig is up scatter
😂
intrusive r in British English
its weird
I have friends in Mexico who buy eggs in plastic bags and they leave them out on the counter. Never had a problem.
having grown up on a farm, when I buy eggs from a store I couldn't care less about a bit of poop on them. It's sort of expected
Called 'Farm Fresh'
Aren't there more pressing issues to discuss, than whether or not your juevos are frio....
South China Sea?
Wuhan Flu?
Arizona election discrepancies?
But the State of one's eggshells is paramount in 2021...........
@@sloangiddings9763 well of course it's not a comment relevant to 2021, it's a comment from 8 months ago on a video about eggs...
@@JordyValentine Sorry for confusion, wasn't directed at you, apologies..
Cept the Fresh part.....
@@sloangiddings9763 hahaha yeah I agree but hey it was interesting
@Confederate Hero only for your daddy
I really like it when my food is not covered in poop when I bring it home.
I wash everything before making a salad. I can rinse an egg. All of the evidence points to European regulations making eggs safer and US regulations making eggs last longer. Supply chains have become so efficient (and every egg is documented on its surface) that in Germany, UK and France the average time since laying to being on a store shelf is less than 26 hours. There simply is no need for cosmetic, and potentially dangerous, early washing or refrigeration to hide an issue further up the supply chain.
@@frijofrojsdeern9545 That's funny...you think I eat salad.
One time my family and I went to Kroger. There was poop smeared on a few of those big cereal bags. Fun times.
I suggest you avoid processed meat then.
That's what I pay for, otherwise you can find it for free.
TIL: Chickens have earlobes.
Every vertebrate do
@@GameControlYT reptiles don't.
@@Phyde4ux they actually do but a primitive form of it.
As a Norwegian, I look at the refrigerated eggs in the store and think 'OH, I should probably do that'.
As a Canadian, I made this same connection. Glad it was wise to keep them cold till cooked
As someone who has shoveled out a lot of barns and chicken coops in my young life growing up on a farm, I think that most Americans would not want to see unwashed eggs in a grocery store. It would just not seem sanitary. Also, all of the vegetables grown in the ground are completely washed of all soil... except perhaps at some farmer's markets.
I keep mine cold but I also cover them with a light coating of cooking oil to close the pores, and if I have had them for a while before eating them, I put them in a sink of water and if they float they are bad.
Uh ive taken eggs from a chickens butt and it floats so is it bad?
@@everythingpony the standard egg is heavier than water, one end will be lighter so it’ll float that side up but in general should sink. If the egg is spoiled it’ll produce gasses that’ll increase it’s buoyancy causing it to be lighter than the water and float to the top of the water, you need a dish that can fully submerge your egg and then some to test this
Maybe it's my imagination but brown eggs seem to have stronger shells.
nah it isnt, if you overboil both the white eggs will pop sooner, brown eggs are harder and the shell is sliiiightly thicker
@@ImZyker That's literally proof brown eggs are stronger.
@@Jimmy_Jones what i was saying is "nah it isn't" is no, it is not just your imagination i can confirm what you are saying, i agree with op, apologies if i didnt make it clear enough
White can be strong too, it depends on what you feed the chickens, and what type of chickens they are.
The strength of the egg shell has more to do with a chicken's consumption of calcium.
To me free-range vs caged isn't about the nutritional value of the egg, but about the quality of life of the hens that lay them.
Sorry to say but 'free-range' isn't exactly what you probably think it means. At least by US regulations anyways
@@tylert6887 what makes you say that?
@@heygek2769 Well now that i reread your comment yeah, at least free range aren't caged chickens but the quality of life still isn't what i'd consider great. I 100% agree with you caged is just terrible. I'm no farmer but what the regulations are and what i've learned over the years is that free range just means the chickens have access to the outside but that can literally just be an open door in the side of the barn that leads has a small fenced area by it and when that area can be EXTREMELY small. Like a few square feet for an entire barn and the types of chickens that are breed/raised on factory farms don't actually want to be outside in the first place. Anyways, that's what i meant by saying that. Free range isn't all it's cracked up to be, no pun intended, but it is better than caged. If you know something i don't please feel free to fill me in.
I've never seen eggs refrigerated in supermarkets in Australia in my 60 years of living here. Our household does refrigerate our eggs, I don't know why, we just do. Some Australian households do, some don't, but I've never seen it done in a supermarket at all.
Owning chickens, in the United States, I never refrigerate my eggs.
My family owns chickens. We only refrigerate them after they've sat out for a while. Either to save room or because they've been there for a month or so
@@donniedial3014 yeah ours never last a month really, either we eat them or they are sold off - helps pay for the feed
Same, had some sit for six weeks once (our hens were on fire!). They aren't as "fresh tasting" by then, but they are still superior to most store bought. Anyway, I don't knew what the limit is ... but it is a long long time.
Wish I had the room. Would do this for sure!
Yes. You refrigerate the chickens.
I’m not gonna lie, ever since I’ve started watching business blaze I love the charismatic, joking, laughing Simon more lol. But I still love this version.
A neighbor of mine years ago sold eggs from her free range flock. The yolks at the end of winter would be as pale as store-bought eggs, when hens had eaten nothing but commercially produced feed all winter. As the spring and summer went on, the yolks became a vibrant deep gold color when hens ate as much green weeds, grass,
Why do I feel the need to have a spot of tea while listening to this man?
You better have one, or he's coming to punch u
I was today years old when I found out that other countries don’t refrigerate their eggs
Imagine Americans judging other countries and sometimes even invading them to “save” them when we don’t even know what do they do with their eggs! 😂😂😂😂
Another unrelated and unnecessary fun fact? Their public bathroom doors do not have an inch gap between the door and the door frame.
Ofun Elewa Umm they didn’t say anything bad about not refrigerating eggs
We also don't refrigerate milk by the way.
@@horchatamochi1006 you have not seen the face of American folks when you tell them that people in Latinamerica people do not refrigerate eggs, and they buy them with chicken poop all over.
@@WakkaOwnages hahaha but you boil the milk everyday, otherwise it would be only good for cheese after two days!
From what I learned in Culinary school, (im saying this without watching the video) keeping eggs out at room temp, degrades the protein and yolk, from grade A. There's no point in buying Grade A eggs, if you just let them sit out, the yolk and protein sack degrade and become less oval/circle shape.
the trick is: always use fresh eggs :) this way this will never be a problem.
@Balls and balls I am from mainland europe. I have no trouble at all to get fresh eggs. Its not expensive and not really an inconvence. Also egg grades are not really a thing here. The classes the eggs are divided on are organic/non-organic, different stable conditions (from 100% outside to 100% in a small stable) and the size of the egg (M, L, XL and so on). Most people are either intersted in buying the cheapest eggs or getting the best quality (most natural) eggs :) But many, if not most, store the eggs inside their fridge at home :)
@Balls and balls normally we have two sizes for egg cartons. 6 eggs or 12 eggs. And as we store them also in the fridge after buying them i dont see a big difference here. But even thou, after a few days in the fridge the eggs are not as great as when they are fresh. And buying eggs every 2-3 days is, i guess, considered normal here?! But iguess our shopping behaviour is also different in general :)
@@JeanWayne I eat 6 eggs at once lmao
They’re refrigerated in Canada as well.
We refrigerate them in Malaysia too, but we don't wash them. Or it might just be my family.
Isn't everything refrigerated in Canada?
There are differences in how to go about reducing salmonella contamination in eggs from country to country but I think refrigeration is good practice for ALL dairy products
We get fresh unwashed eggs directly from the farmers.... no need to refrigerate them
Best way to never get samonella... just Cook the Eggs XD.
Seriously though: I'm British and have never known of a single case of food poisoning in the family, nor of refrigerated eggs.
as someone from Denmark(in the EU) we store our eggs in the fridge, i found it wierd not to
Same here EU as well. I would find it beyond odd for someone to store eggs outside their fridge o_o
“Both have proven extremely effective when properly ‘eggsecuted’”
Haha! I see what you did there!🤣🤣
Eggsactly!
Eggcellent pun!
In the US, supermarket eggs have been rinsedto look better. That removes the natural coating that would keep them fresh. Older cookbooks would advise using stored eggs for baking, and fresh one for scrambling or omlettes. At that time, people would storeeggs in straw, in a cellar.
Here in Brazil there is a federal law that prohibits restaurants to serve raw or soft yolk cooked eggs to avoid any health issues, if you want it to consume it raw or a poached egg you can only do it at home.
I would want it anyway. I’m srry but I don’t like ‘medium rare’ anything. If you’re cooking meat or anything tbh then cook it thoroughly.
@@xoxarily True but ruin the juicy and tasty characteristics of medium rare. A well done steak is often referred to as a ruined steak or shoe leather.
Thorough cooking is the smart thing to do. Just read about what E. Coli 0157:H7 can do to your body if you get infected. Kidney failure to start with, then other organs shutting down if antibiotics don't work fast enough. It's what killed those little kids who ate at Jack in the Box several years ago. Nasty stuff. Salmonella isn't much fun either.
@@agoogleuser4443 It's a matter of evaluating the risk v benefit. Risks as scary things, we are programmed that way. Now comes along our smart prefrontal cortex, the thinking part of the brain. We discover bacteria causes disease. We then go about sanitising everything we can. Initially that was a good thing as our sanitation was terrible. Then armed with incomplete knowledge (almost always the case) many went to extremes and overused antibiotics and sanitisers and so we created super bugs. Also, unknown to the people doing this (remember 'incomplete knowledge'), they destroyed or severely weakened their on board defense army. This army is the micro biota that lives on our skin and in our gut and as long as it's diverse and plentiful it will be a protective army. When you destroy or weaken it, some species grow back faster than others so ruining the balance or diversity and therefore putting you at greater risk of illness. The take away from this is: Look after your micro biota, they are part of you just like your skin is part of you.
wait WHAT? where i live many dishes actually only work (really good) with a liquid yolk
I'm Bulgarian, and i refrigerate my eggs.
He talking about the farm to store!
@@brambakker1939 In Bulgaria eggs are always refrigerated, in stores and at home. Someone not refrigerating their eggs would be an exception.
Thailand here: eggs are available in outdoor markets unrefrigerated. We usually bring them home, wash them and put them in the fridge for the longest possible shelf life. Eggs sitting out in the near-constant 95°F (35°C) heat wouldn't last more than a week or two.
We refrigerate in Canada too.
Eh Canada and America are extremely similar I think this meant them too
Isn't pretty much everything naturally refrigerated in Canada?
I too keep mine frozen to the side of my igloo.
global warming melted my igloo
John Smith as if it’s always cold in Canada. You’ve clearly never been there
I am an American and I refrigerate my eggs and will continue to do so. Thank you.
...yes
Me too.
I went to high school with Sal Monella. I also knew his brother,
Bobby Monella and his cousin Vinnie Monella.
😂🤣😄
I've always heard the natural coating on eggs called "bloom".
Someone gave me eggs from their free-range chickens, the difference was amazing! Besides having poop on the shells, the yolks were much darker, and the eggs tasted better.
Farm fresh eggs are healthier and much better tasting than store bought eggs. Hands down.
The yolks were much darker (deeper yellow) and tasted better simply because the eggs were fresher. You may have also noticed that the yolks were taller when put into a pan. In other words the fresher yolks are more spherical in the pan. They don't flatten out as much as older egg yolks do. The "free range" didn't have much to do with the differences that you noted.
@@edschultheis9537 I thought it had to do with the anthocyanins the chickens have in their diet due to the insects and vegetables they ate. They lived at a fruit stand and ate a lot of colorful food. I have heard that feeding marigold petals to chickens makes the yolks more colorful. Just this morning I had to chase two of them out of my garden, they were eating my kohlrabi leaves! I think they are much happier than caged hens and knowing that the eggs come from happy naughty chickens makes them taste better.
@@edschultheis9537 yes it does, it depends on what they eat. If they eat only feed they will be just as pale, if they get grass and bugs that’s where the color comes from
@@bryonlako7377 Interesting that throughout the many years that we raised chickens on our farm, feeding them high quality chicken feed and oyster shell (for the calcium for their egg shells), we always had deep yellow egg yolks on all the eggs. They were In large chicken coops with plenty of room to move and fly around as the wished. But if you want to believe that your bug&grass eggs are superior, then knock yourself out. I'll just raise bug&grass eggs and sell them to you at twice the price.
The only thing changed between an egg with a red white or even blue or green shell, is the white shells from commercial sales tend to have been bred for thicker shells to help with preservation; but that was started by the first people who raised chickens and perfected later.
I worked a store in the late 1970s in Alaska. When it came to Easter we would get pallets of eggs and the the first thing we did was roll them out on an aisle with no refrigeration and leave them there till they sold.... No problem.
My dad owns a business where they get eggs from farmers, wash them, and distribute them to places like Costco and other supermarkets. They ship out 1.2 million eggs a day and it's pretty cool.
He sounds like he’s pretending to have an exquisite accent
Yo Mama Hmm, yeshh, very good
He sounds like he's explaining something. I don't know about you but almost every teacher I come across talks like this when explaining something.
An “EGGsqusite🥚 🍳” accent you meant
@@asandax6 they're pretending too then
He is. When he's joking around his Britsh (?) accent is a lot softer
"Longer shelf life" is often what things come down to. Remember, in America we buy a lot of food at once and usually have it for a while. We have probably 40 eggs sitting in our fridge right now, for example, and we don't exactly zip through them.
In other countries people go shopping a lot more often.
For this, 'looks' also makes a big difference. If you go to a typical supermarket here, most of the food on the shelves has to look 'perfect'. Yes, there are places you can go to find more natural food, but most places a lot of people shop have extremely high standards for how the food looks. People would freak out if they opened their carton of eggs and an egg was dirty at all.
(Noting that I said how a food looks, and not necessarily overall quality. A funny looking orange might be even juicier on the inside than one that looks perfectly plump and round. But you won't find the funny looking one on the shelf).
Is there a reason why in America you choose to buy a lot of food at once and store it for longer instead of shopping more often?
@@codelyoko363 Part of the reason is because we have few small stores where we can easily buy things. Most of our towns are very car dependent and have mostly big box stores that are not conveniently located so a trip to the store could be a 20 or 30 minute commute. Thus its the norm to stock up to minimize time spent commuting. Also some of use just hate shopping so we buy lots at once so we don’t have to do it often.
@@Sinistar123 certainly true for rural areas.
I've lived 30+ minutes from town and currently 6 miles from town.
Back then groceries were a once a week thing, maybe every two weeks. The deep freeze was used constantly.
Being 6 miles from town, if we need a couple of items we can excuse a random run to town if we need an item or two in between proper grocery runs.
Then you have people that live in big cities, they'll often pick up what they plan on cooking on the way home and often have little in the fridge aside from drinks and condiments.
@@codelyoko363 Americans also work about 20% more then Europeans so less time to go shopping
@@codelyoko363 payday also governs our lives. I need things to last, otherwise it’s back to ramen, which is comparatively expensive compared to preplanned meals like rice + eggs.
When I lived in Korea, I always saw eggs laying out and about. It was weird at first, but I never got sick in the 6 years I was there.
I've got chickens here in the US and I keep a bowl of room temp eggs for immediate use and refrigerated ones for giving out.
I’ve kept unwashed eggs from my chickens on the counter for months. Eggs last a REALLY long time. Having my own chickens was a game changer. Letting them free roam and giving them the best quality food I can find. They’re happy and loving pets if you take care of them. In return, they give you incredibly delicious eggs.
I do the same. I haven’t had to buy eggs from the store in several years.
Pardon my ignorance. This is an interesting idea and I like to try it. how do you deal witn their poops? How many hens do you need for a family of 3, and how much land to support them?
Bhoomtawath Plinsut I use the poop for my garden. And also share it with my neighbor for her garden. Also, I have 4 hens for my family of 5, but I now have 4 more chicks almost ready to join the flock so my egg production will double.
We do the same in Serbia.
Which?
@@msgoody2shoes959 eggs in the refrigerator.
Pichkalu Pappita 😂
Serbia is not Siberia, its a country close to Greece...
The only reason we have such high Salmonella counts is because most of us Americans can't cook for shit
And we like our cookie dough
Yeah speak for yourself, American food is best food
@@Jef_Jingles You funny man. Your cuisine is a mix of those who came to colonize. So, national food is something considered unhealthy in other countries. Correct me if Im wrong.
@@Jef_Jingles America has two cuisines to outsiders. First is the processed shit and its not nice. The second is your quintessential dishes and they are notable because they are a bombardment of flavours via spice mixes or sauces. Everything is sugary and salty at the same time. More often than not, it's not great and just hides shit quality produce.
@@naycnay you people obviously have only eaten American fast food and not actual home cooked meals made by real Americans
My grandparents were farmers in Florida. Never refrigerated eggs. In fact, none of our family in the South who raised their own chickens did. Eggs got washed as they were being used. Otherwise, they came from the hen house to a bowl on the counter. Seeking the answer to why theirs were never refrigerated but ours were (store bought) is actually how I learned why COMMERCIALLY produced eggs have to be refrigerated here in the US.
5:48 - "Approximately 90% of chicken eggs sold in Britain come from vaccinated hens, with the other 10% coming from small farmers..."
Now *that's* a good trick!
That s why we just don't get recalls of eggs they even stopped telling pregnant not to eat raw egg products because the risk is beyond low .
@@Chevalier_knight Except, in cases of bird flu, salmonella or infectious coryza, you will see entire hen populations destroyed. The risks are high. And the vaccination, again, only applies to certain transportation and countries known to have salmonella prevalence about 10%. Most countries do not have that, especially because of how they destroy entire populations when salmonella is found. Lots of nations exempt holdings from vaccination requirements. As such it's not 'illegal'.
midgets and dwarfs do not have to comply with Food Safety standards historically?
@@PHeMoX I'm in the UK the last time an outbreak happened was more then 25 years ago.
I recommend you wash your eggs while they're still in their shells.
Christel Headington I rinse my eggs real quick before I crack them
@@DemonFox369 I believe Christel was being facetious, and funny.
I keep all my freshly laid eggs in a basket in the kitchen. When I have enough I wash them in a soap/bleach solution and then coat them in Waterglass. They are then good for at least 6 months sitting on the counter.
I've noticed that some people have a partial allergy to cheap store bought eggs, I know i do. I have a 50% chance of nausea when eating them but have a 0% chance of it when eating true Free Range eggs.
I can't sell my eggs since it's against the law, but I have no problem giving them away to anyone that asks. My girls lay about 4 dozen a week.
FYI: Chickens love eating meat, raising Meal Worms or Earth Worms will make your girls very happy.
YOU PUT BLEACH ON THEM!? NO WONDER YOU HAVE NAUSEA!
@@Erebus-PCFX Your not very bright are you.
@@Erebus-PCFX She gets sick from STORE BOUGHT EGGS and so do I.
It makes me lol when people advertise their eggs as vegetarian. They’ve never watched a chicken run down a fly? They’re dinosaurs.
We produce organic chickens and eggs and combine the two methods. We keep a separate fridge for keeping unwashed eggs so the bloom (cuticle) does not get washed off and only wash just before use. If you have a backyard flock I suggest buying a small college type fridge for keeping unwashed eggs which last a VERY long time time if kept this way. If you have particularly eggs wash them thoroughly and use them first (then check your management and the health of your flock to prevent dirty eggs from occurring).
Reminds me of when I asked a high school coworker where he thought chocolate milk came from. 🤣
JCmtw Biz brown cows. Duh.
Daniel Daniels I prefer to have my chocolate milk made from regular milk with some Hershey’s syrup. I think that taste way better. 😉
In Sweden they are refrigerated both in stores and at home
There is a you tube channel called The Swedish Homestead and he said in one of his videos last year that they were not allowed to wash the eggs prior to selling.
@@funnyfarm5555 There is no law that says you cant refrigerate without washing them first!
US HAS to refrigerate because they wash them, but the advantages like longer shelf life still applies even if they are not washed.
It is the same in Denmark, we also buy them refrigerated, and we are also EU aka not allowed to wash.
@@funnyfarm5555 there are strikt rules about washing eggs and u need to do it the right way and he is a small farm so he cant afford it probably.
No they are sold open in every store Ive been in.
Ehm no, usually eggs are in the dairy section, but they aren't inside any fridge, rather they are there to be in a little bit colder environment than the rest of the shops. At home tho most people I know do refrigerate it and that fine
“Why I refrigerate my chickens and not my eggs.”
Me: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Simon: To give us Salmonella
Better question "which came first the chicken or the egg?".
Answer: whom ever is smoking the cigerette...
Could you do an episode explaining *"Why do we die so quickly without air?"* I know the process of aerobic/anaerobic ATP, (as if I understand it) - it would be really cool to see it done in your fine detail... Thanks! Love the channels, not sure how you do 4 channels and still have time to breathe... nudge, nudge, wink, wink... so no more...
Seeing the comments here makes me think a lot of europeans haven't thought about where the eggs actually are in stores. For example, Sweden sells eggs in the refrigated section, but they are not in the actual fridge. The eggs are on shelves right next to the milk etc that are actually cooled, but the eggs are just sitting on regular shelves out in the open. There are still swedes in the comments here that claim otherwise, but it is absolutely false. All the biggest food brands/stores does it this way, and no doubt smaller stores too.
In Sweden there are both refrigerated and unrefrigerated eggs....... so stop lying.
And sweden wash eggs to not all eggs are washed tho. Kronägg tvättar alla sina ägg och uv behandlas.
@@Diabolus1978 Ja för jag "ljuger" när jag säger att en majoritet av ägg inte är i kyldiskar? Flännunge.
@@tomastuoma det skrev du inte. Du skrev att dom är i svalar och nä dom är i kylen.
@@Diabolus1978 De är inte alls i kylen, gå och kolla din närmsta affär. Påstår du annat så visa bildbevis.
@@tomastuoma dom står ute i rumstemp i stora butiker och i kylar i små i regel. Dom står inte i några coolers som du skrev innan.
Czech Republic also refrigerates eggs in stores.
I'd love to see this youtube channel produce a video comparing the US's prohibition on making cheese with non-pasteurized milk vs. the French's preference for doing otherwise. I've heard the quality of their cheese is superior on account of that.
Their cheese is amazing. I swear we do most of the ridiculous stuff we do with regulations in this country so businesses don't get sued. That's why we have warning labels on the dumbest things possible.
Eggcellant info! I could watch this at least a dozen times!
😂😅
Spelling! No A in Eggcellent.
I dont get it
Eggciting and eggs-hilarating too!
But which came first, the Chicken or the Egg?
It’s usually 30 degrees C in Singapore and we still don’t refrigerate. But I still get the nice pasteurized eggs to enjoy raw eggs in Japanese breakfast.