TheAlligator wrote:
> Siobhan Perricone > wrote:
> >You don't need a fancy system for keeping track of dates here. You
fill a
> >deep bowl with cold water and gently place an egg on the bottom of
the
> >bowl (don't drop it in, actually place it on the bottom of the bowl)
if the
> >egg floats to the top don't use it. If it turns up on end but
touches the
> >bottom you can still use it. I usually don't use them if no part of
the
> >shell touches the bottom of the bowl.
> >
> Any idea of the mechanism involved? As in - why DOES this work.

That mechanism involves "Pinhead Syndrome"... the fact that an egg
floats is no reason not to use it, just means it's not fresh, not that
it's spoiled. And an egg can be fresh and spoiled.

Btw, the simplest way to store eggs for relatively long term is to
freeze them. Another way is to prepare them for sea voyage; coat
several times with olive oil... that's what the US Navy does, they
don't replenish with eggs bought in foreign ports, too filthy...
prepared for sea they'll easily keep six months. While at sea only
frozen or dried eggs are used in cooking and baking, whole eggs are
reserved for frying, omelets, boiling, and when those are gone yer
chicken shit outta ruck... you'll get dried egg omelets... with a few
reserved bits of egg shell added properly prepared and with enough
butter no one can tell for certain.

And for local eggs you'd have to buy directly from the farm...
commercialy crated eggs contain eggs from quite a large area... local
egg producers from perhaps six counties supply an egg co-op.... no
single egg producer can afford the processing equipment on their own,
nor can they market/distribute the eggs.