I never heard of moving the eggs. I look at every egg, and if there’s a cracked one, I get another carton. I’d hate to leave all the cracked ones for somebody who isn’t as obsessively careful about looking at every single egg…
I check all the eggs in the carton to make sure that the eggs are all unbroken and uncracked. If there are so many cartons with cracked eggs that I can’t find one, then I’ll trade out a broken egg for a good egg to have one complete carton.
However, I leave the “bad” carton open so that the next buyer doesn’t get duped and so that the stockers can fix things.
If there is an employee nearby, I bring the bad cartons to his attention.
[ul]:eek: [sup]For some reason the word “anal” just came to mind.[/sup][/ul]
Don’t get your feathers in a ruffle, I was just yolking.
I open the carton and wiggle each egg in its little cubbyhole to check them out. If I find a broken egg, I generally leave the carton open and grab another carton to check. I very rarely find broken eggs in our current grocery, though…which is part of the reason why it’s our CURRENT store. I have consolidated cartons in the past, when necessary, and I don’t see anything wrong in doing so.
I also wiggle eggs, but have never even thought to consolidate. Though I rarely get a broken egg at the Safeway where I shop.
Maureen, that’s a great tip for finding fertilized eggs! I’m a pastry chef and at my last job I made creme brulee which involved separating 72 eggs at a shot. Once every couple of weeks or so I cracked a bloody egg. That never fails to make me sick to my stomach.
Another vote for wiggling. I hardly ever find a broken egg but when I do I just grab another carton. Course at check-out I watch the cashier go through them again.shrug
Holy egg yolks! $2.25 for a dozen of jumbos? How much is a Big Mac there in Silicon Valley? 3.25, 3.50? I guess there are good things about living in the middle of no where. I pay .89 for a dozen jumbos or $1.19 for 18 large.
I live less than three MILES from an egg farm. Downside? It used to REEK in the warm months to drive past it twice a day to take the Fem-Bot to Montessori school down the road.
Upside? Cheap fresh eggs. Mmmmm…eggies.
with some money.
I NEVER check the carton. Once in a while I get a cracked one. Life goes on.
I have never thought of doimng what you do, Cartooniverse, but I think it is a fine idea; you’re not cheating anyone; the box says ‘18 eggs’ so why should you pay for 17 eggs and a useless heap of glop?
I won’t buy the box if one (or more) is cracked; if all boxes are the same and this means returning home with no eggs, so be it, I’ll get them somewhere else the next day.
No eggs?
NO EGGS???
NO EGGS???
–channeling Wallace Shawn from Princess Bride
I have to touch each egg and make sure it moves freely in the carton. I usually buy my eggs from the farmers market downtown, so on the very rare occasion I find a cracked egg, I just tell the seller, and she usually puts it in the back of the stand. (It’s an outdoor market.)
I always check my eggs.
So that way the bagger can smash them with the bag of potatoes or laundry detergent bottle atop the carton.
I eat lots of scrambled eggs.
I certainly do jigger each egg, and never consolidate, never even occurred to me. The problem I’d have is that since eggs do carry salmonella, removing a broken egg could leave the bugs behind. No thanks.
And anyway, when you shop at a low-end supermarket in Manhattan, just finding a box with 12 unbroken eggs is a bit of an achievement. Usually takes at least 3-4 tries, sometimes more like 6-7.
One thing I find is that brown eggs seem to have slightly thicker shells than white. Makes a difference when you’re carrying your groceries a third of a mile or more.
I’ll check each carton to find the perfect one…
Also, I hold the carton upside down for a few seconds,
if an egg is cracked on the bottom the yucky stuff will run out, unless it is already dried…YUK
PS… Does anyone else check the temperature of the egg case???
Sometimes the thermostat is hard to find, but I ALWAYS check…
I shop at Shop Rite. Their policy is to only use rectal thermostats.
What? :eek:
I always check, and if I find a cracked egg in my dozen, I just exchange it for a different dozen. Never gave it much thought beyond that – it’s the way my mom always did it.
I get my eggs right from under the chicken’s ass! One day, I picked up a hen to snatch the one she was sitting on, and as I held her up, one dropped right out, steamin’! That’s what I call a fresh egg!
Kinda creeps me out when I see them eating sheep shit and other nasty stuff. But it also keeps my egg intake down. I sell the surplus eggs to people I work with for a buck a dozen.
Never kiss an animal that can lick its own butt.
Uh. Okay.
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