I live in a country where they don’t boil and bleach the duck placenta off of the egg so you can just sort of keep them on the floor outside of the refrigerator for days and it doesn’t matter it’s fine
Eggs are porous. Birds leave a coating on them that blocks the pores and prevents bacteria getting in but washing the eggs removes that protective coating.
Pretty sure you do this in the US but not every country does.
I wonder how they get them to look nice then. Do they take the egg instantly? Do they refresh the chickens’ nesting material all the time? Does the egg fall down a hole the moment it’s laid?
I’ve physically set up chicken “coops” and the steel cage they stand on all day is big enough for eggs to fall into then rolls down to a conveyor and collected.
There is no bedding and up to 10 chickens in a 1’x3’x 1.5’ cage. I felt horrendous leaving that place by the time I was done
An industrialized system to promote waste. None of the smaller farms in my area (Eastern Ont Canada) wash their eggs but the ones that get sold to stores must.
I live in a country where they don’t boil and bleach the duck placenta off of the egg so you can just sort of keep them on the floor outside of the refrigerator for days and it doesn’t matter it’s fine
for how long?
I’d say for a few weeks, at least for me i keep eggs on the counter and have never had spoiled eggs
Until you eat them
What on earth.
Is this a non-US thing? I’ve never heard of this practice and I worked for a farmer that raised chickens and sold eggs.
Not boiled but “washed” probably with bleach.
Eggs are porous. Birds leave a coating on them that blocks the pores and prevents bacteria getting in but washing the eggs removes that protective coating.
Pretty sure you do this in the US but not every country does.
I wonder how they get them to look nice then. Do they take the egg instantly? Do they refresh the chickens’ nesting material all the time? Does the egg fall down a hole the moment it’s laid?
I’ve physically set up chicken “coops” and the steel cage they stand on all day is big enough for eggs to fall into then rolls down to a conveyor and collected.
There is no bedding and up to 10 chickens in a 1’x3’x 1.5’ cage. I felt horrendous leaving that place by the time I was done
An industrialized system to promote waste. None of the smaller farms in my area (Eastern Ont Canada) wash their eggs but the ones that get sold to stores must.