
If you’re grabbing them on a daily basis from your back yard you get to know exactly how old your eggs are. You can also get salmonella from playing with chickens or eating lettuce.Īn unexpected bonus to keeping your eggs on the counter is that they’re always at room temperature which is better for baking! Store them Pointy Side Downĭid you know that different ages of eggs are better for different culinary applications? Probably from legit sources and not internet blogs 😉 I did stop eating raw eggs when I was pregnant and if you’re immune-compromised you should do some more research. Homemade Caesar dressing is the best thing that’s ever happened to lettuce in my opinion. Personally I eat raw, unwashed eggs from my flock without a second thought. You need to decide where you feel safe with that. The big scary concern when it comes to eggs in Salmonella.

When you pull them out you get condensation on the shell and it compromises the bloom. That’s the same reason you keep refrigerated eggs in the fridge.

When you wash and egg you remove that coating and the egg has no more defense. That substance keeps bacteria out of the eggshell. When eggs come out of the chicken they’re coated in a bloom. Actually keeping eggs in the fridge is pretty much an American thing.

Unwashed eggs do not need to be refrigerated.
