Effing gdamn otto korrect.
Probably worthwhile to note here that this is a spinoff of a thread entitled “More Personal Peculiarities”. So I’m not making an argument that anyone else should do what I do. This is just a personal quirk.
If, by some chance, the carton is put back light end forward, we pick it up from the light end. It’s not as if the carton will buckle.
I cut the carton in half
Which way?
This is not a practical problem. This is an exercise in eccentricity. I’m sure that everyone can pick up a carton balanced in any arbitrary way and not care at all. It’s just the one thing that I’m a little OCD about.
I wouldn’t call it CDO*, and I don’t think it’s entirely un-practical. I am not a clumsy person, and I have dropped more than one carton** of eggs because it came away from the shelf with an unexpected balance.
- I prefer to put the letters in alphabetic order.
** Not cartoon. Not this time.
I feel the problem only occurs when an odd number of eggs are removed. With an even number, simply removing the eggs from opposite opposing points should maintain the balance.
Perhaps The following method would work for removal of a single egg:
Remove the first egg from one corner of the carton. Then, with a small knife or scissors, simply cut away the carton above the opposite egg that is the counterweight. The extra weight loss from the removed carton top will balance the missing egg. Next day, remove the exposed egg and cut a hole over the opposite empty spot from yesterday’s egg. Balance maintained as you continue in this manner until the carton is empty.
I gradually remove eggs in a checkerboard pattern. From there, I remove eggs from alternating ends of the container.
**Simple solution: **Buy an extra carton of eggs. Every time you use an egg, replace it with an egg from the extra carton. Voila! Egg carton balanced.
Two extra cartons. You’ll need to replenish the eggs in the carton you’re replenishing from.
No, not if we assume the user is going through 12 eggs a week. Just buy the usual single carton the following week after the extra eggs have replaced the original 12.
Buy eggs. Put in bowl. Voila, self-balancing solution.
Egg cartons, when balanced, provide a degree of protection not achieved by any bowl method. Surely the eggs at the bottom of a bowl will crack by the end of the week we’ll before they can be used.
My wife has a egg holder made of plastic, with holes for 12 eggs. She has it in the fridge, and I simply reach in and take two out each morning.
BTW, she is OCD and has to have a plastic container for everything. When I die she will probably look around for a plastic coffin.
Keeping the mass centered is madness. I always remove the eggs from front to back. The further back the center of gravity is, the less likely it is that the carton will fall forward and out of the fridge if it gets bumped.
I told my daughter that the arrangement of the eggs in the carton was a coded message to the next egg-user (i.e, her). 
My inept egg box distribution skills were recently the topic of conversation to which I replied: ‘That’s why we have a dog’.
Awesome sig.
I buy mine 18 at a tme - got any formulas?