eggs

[teamcool]

if some eggs went out of date yesterday 22nd, can i still eat them today 23rd?

[Artemis]

Yes

[teamcool]

cheers

[Mistopheles]

I've cooked eggs that were a couple of weeks out of date - good thing about eggs, you can always tell if they are off when you crack them!

[Sasha13]

BTW - you can still drink milk after it's use by date too. The bacteria that can cause harm are the same bacteria that make the milk smell bad, so as long as the milk smells alright, you're ok to drink it.

[sunflower68]

yes teamcool

[johnny5]

you should always try the float test

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[johnny5]

if eggs float when put into a bowl of water then they are not edible as too much air has entered through the shell and made it rotten or so my mum used to tell me ...so it must be true

[ursula62]

Johnny is right. If in doubt, fill a washing up bowl with clean cold water and carefully put your eggs in one by one.

Very fresh eggs stay flat on their sides at the bottom of a bowl of water. Eggs that are not newly laid, but are still definitely edible will stand on the pointy end, but not float.  Eggs that float have gone bad and shouldn't be eaten.

[gaz_farr]

well yes you can eat them unless you've had your mouth sewn together

[Xollob]

The sell-by dates are one of the more perfidious aspects of modern retailing. Supermarkets make you feel stupid if you don't take advantage of the "buy two, get one free" promotions. This means you buy more than you actually need and end up throwing much away because an arbitrary sell-by date has expired. Studies indicate that up to a third of all food purchased is binned.

See Guardian article, and also an article on Freeganism. And enjoy your eggs!

[lkn2cln22]

I didn't know eggs had a date on them.Where would it be?

[teamcool]

cheers for all the answers they were spot on(so were the eggs), the date is usually on the box and stamped on each individual egg shell