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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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.
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
I just look at the bottom of a closed carton first - if there's a crack it is rare that it didn't leak
Only works on paper cartons. Shouldn't be buying Styrofoam but still.
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.
Same here in Sweden, there are som variations on what kind of carton boxes but never seen any plastic or styrofoam.
Ours come in a clear plastic vacuum formed container, compressed paper carton, or Styrofoam, depending on the brand.
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.
It is the worst. The only pro is you can visible see if they are broken without opening anything.
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As if the grocery store gives you a choice.
There's like six different egg providers at most grocery stores around me. I have choices.
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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I have to open and see if there are no cracks on top as well. OC I guess.
Well of course, that's just normal caution but don't bother if you already see a wet spot, try another carton
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.
This is learned behavior though. It's not obvious. I learned it from my parents. He obviously didn't.
You can also learn without parents, when you all of a sudden have your hands/shopping cart/shopping bag/car full of raw egg.
So what? Then you have a delicious cart, bag, and car...
But global warming hasn't finished pre-heating yet, so they won't cook properly.
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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Lalo picks up 8 cartons, flicks them, Nacho elaborates
“They bring in a Cisco truck, it’s got 4 pallets of them. I pick one, and they bring the others around to the next store.”
“Uhuh. So. These ones? These are free range. But these - they’re cage-raised.”
In defense of walnuts they're very tasty and great in fudge.
So are deez nuts
not as much in an omelet though
They do help mask the shell fragments though.
Have I been making my omelettes without walnut shell fragments wrong this whole time???
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I like most nuts, but not walnuts.
I was in my 30s when I learned that intensely itchy and stingy mouth is not part of the flavor profile of walnuts and I’m just mildly allergic.
I'm obsessed with peanut butter. I'm also allergic to it. My constant consumption as a child helped reduce my once-moderate allergy to a mild one, according to my allergist.
Which is why it was so wild for me when I temporarily became totally anosmic when I caught COVID. My mom has been completely anosmic the majority of my life, and as someone who loves to cook for her, I took advantage of my situation to quickly taste as many ingredients as possible and come up with recipes that would be more exciting for her.
After trying the entire source rack, fresh garlic, salsas, hot sauces, pepper, lemons and lemon rinds, I got to peanut butter. Suddenly, my mouth and throat were on fire and there was an inescapable flavor of wood. That's when I remembered that I'm still allergic to peanut butter.
I didn't like walnuts,
until I ate a pack that didn't have the oil extracted from it.
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Walnut bread is pretty great too.
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"Meme"
yeah, you are egg, move along
I'm a gongorgernut
Had this comment on Reddit today:
"No comer war is nut"
Obviously counterintelligence; they just had firework. Dumb. Countercells: cine to my apartment, on schedule m
Mode podcasts
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