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Default Hard boiled eggs

On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:58:08 -0400, Ross@home wrote:

>On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:06:30 -0700, sf > wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:46:21 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
> wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps the OP made too many and wants to put them away for later use.

>>
>>I'm sure she didn't make 3 dozen when she only needed two. Hard
>>boiled eggs keep a long time in the refrigerator, no freezing
>>required.

>
>I guess that depends on your definition of "a long time".
>The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the American Egg Board, the
>Canadian Partnership for Consumer Food Safety Education and other egg
>know-it-alls give you a week to use up your hard-boiled eggs
>(providing you got them into the refrigerator within two hours of
>cooking).
>


I give them a month and have never noticed any difference.

Has anyone ever seen the reasoning behind cooked eggs supposedly
becoming unfit to eat faster then raw ones?

Jim