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arrow-up1178arrow-down1imageTIL: You can easily check eggs for being bad or freshslrpnk.netSunny' 🌻@slrpnk.net to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squareMad_Punda.de@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60arrow-down1·8 months agoMy egg packages here in Sweden have that information printed on them. But the version where the egg floats they don’t say to toss it out, but rather crack it open, look, smell. Might still be good.
minus-squareBeryl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48arrow-down1·8 months agoExactly, the egg floating doesn’t mean that it’s not edible anymore, just that it’s old.
minus-squareslightperil@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·8 months agoYes, I’m sick of seeing this infographic and ones like it as it encourages waste
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoExactly. If an egg has gone bad, you can’t really miss it. Also why it’s good to always quickly check eggs before adding them to a mix.
minus-squareDeebster@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoAssuming you have a sense of smell. Anosmia affects about 3% of people - probably more since Covid.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months agoThe colour is typically also a dead giveaway. Of course blind people with anosmia are on their own there.
My egg packages here in Sweden have that information printed on them.
But the version where the egg floats they don’t say to toss it out, but rather crack it open, look, smell. Might still be good.
Exactly, the egg floating doesn’t mean that it’s not edible anymore, just that it’s old.
Yes, I’m sick of seeing this infographic and ones like it as it encourages waste
Exactly. If an egg has gone bad, you can’t really miss it.
Also why it’s good to always quickly check eggs before adding them to a mix.
Assuming you have a sense of smell. Anosmia affects about 3% of people - probably more since Covid.
The colour is typically also a dead giveaway.
Of course blind people with anosmia are on their own there.