Left eggs out!

useless4

Ironically while inspired by a Hoarders marathon on A&E I am cleaning my house top to bottom, and during the episode with a house full of rotten food everywhere I found we left a new carton of eggs out over night!

I know outside of america they sell eggs on the supermarket shelves with no refrigeration so I am pretty sure it's safe to stick in the fridge and use.

They were outside of a fridge about 12 hours.
It's about 72 degrees (20 celsius?) in the house.

What do you think?

Dunadan019

http://recipes.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Are_eggs_still_good_if_sat_out_overnight

or

http://recipes.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Are_eggs_still_good_if_you_accidentaly_leave_them_out_of_the_fridge

Ruckus

Eggs often sit under a chicken's warm ass for hours before they get collected on smaller farms. On production farms, the eggs are collected and cooled much quicker, so their shelf life is probably even longer. Also, I'd say the "if it floats, its gone bad" rule is probably pretty accurate.

CelestialBadger

Overnight? LOL. They will be fine. As you say, outside the US they sell eggs on the shelves. You can leave an egg a week with zero ill effects. Probably more than a week. They keep well.

useless4

Seriously , have you seen the show Hoarders? It will scare the crap out of you about things like "should be fine."

Esh

Actually, everywhere I've been, the eggs are refrigerated in the supermarkets. I'm sure they're fine though after just one night.

HotTuna

1 Night? Yeah dude, you're strait. And even if you try one and puke, I would suggest you finish the whole carton because obviously your stomach needs to step up its Iron Gut game at that point.

Rainbulimic

We used to keep our eggs in a basket on the worktop and I never suffered, or found any of them rotten, so one night should be cool. That said, I do live in London, so it's probably a lot cooler here so ymmv.

CelestialBadger

Esh wrote: »

Actually, everywhere I've been, the eggs are refrigerated in the supermarkets. I'm sure they're fine though after just one night.

You are in America. In the UK they are not refrigerated.

useless4

Yea I've been to 37 countries and 36 of them keep the eggs out ... I am just being paranoid and I know it.

Off course in 1 of those 37 countries they keep the COWS outside hanging up in the desert sun on the main road... You get a little worried when you see them cutting your lunch special off of it.

Corvus

CelestialBadger wrote: »

Overnight? LOL. They will be fine. As you say, outside the US they sell eggs on the shelves. You can leave an egg a week with zero ill effects. Probably more than a week. They keep well.

They keep them refrigerated in Canada. But yeah, overnight on the counter is not going to make your eggs go bad, unless they were about the go bad anyways.

fadingathedges

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Pheezer

You are fine. I've personally done this and figured "what's the worst could happen", and have not yet died. This is in Canada where we refigerate eggs same as in the USA in grocery stores.

tehmarken

In Japan, it's about 50/50 whether a store refrigerates eggs.

Eggs are fine to leave out as much as fruit or vegetables are. They might go bad a little faster though (like 1 day or two before the exp date)

Sir Headless VII

Like the second link from the first response said, if you are worried drop them in some water:
If they float they have gone bad.
If they don't sink but don't float (just sit at whatever level they are at) they are still fine but baking with them would be preferable to say an omelet.
If they sink they are fine.
Also like everyone else said they are almost certainly fine.

psycojester

We just leave the damn things on the carton on the bench in Australia, how the hell do you think chickens reproduce if they need to refrigerate their eggs to stop them going rotten?

bowen

useless4 wrote: »

Seriously , have you seen the show Hoarders? It will scare the crap out of you about things like "should be fine."

There's a difference between leaving eggs out overnight, or some old cereal in the pantry and keeping yogurt or opened cans of beans for 8 years.

Just FYI.

Ruckus

psycojester wrote: »

We just leave the damn things on the carton on the bench in Australia, how the hell do you think chickens reproduce if they need to refrigerate their eggs to stop them going rotten?

In nature, a Rooster would bang a Hen, which would lay an egg and then incubate it as the chick developed inside. On a production farm, hens are kept in cages, and are not accessible to the Rooster. The eggs they lay are unfertilized. Store-bought eggs are, 99.99% of the time, Chicken period. Since there's no living organism inside, developing and growing into a chick, the contents just decompose over time.

VisionOfClarity

psycojester wrote: »

We just leave the damn things on the carton on the bench in Australia, how the hell do you think chickens reproduce if they need to refrigerate their eggs to stop them going rotten?

It also has to do with how fresh the eggs are if you refrigerate them or not.

And apparently there is a whole website about egg safety and it has a FAQ that addresses the OP.

http://www.eggsafety.org/f_a_q.htm#7.5

corcorigan

Ruckus wrote: »

psycojester wrote: »

We just leave the damn things on the carton on the bench in Australia, how the hell do you think chickens reproduce if they need to refrigerate their eggs to stop them going rotten?

In nature, a Rooster would bang a Hen, which would lay an egg and then incubate it as the chick developed inside. On a production farm, hens are kept in cages, and are not accessible to the Rooster. The eggs they lay are unfertilized. Store-bought eggs are, 99.99% of the time, Chicken period. Since there's no living organism inside, developing and growing into a chick, the contents just decompose over time.

They are still alive. We're not haploidphobes here.

(I don't know how long they stay alive for though.)

desperaterobots

My housemate worked on her grandfathers chicken farm as a kid. She keeps eggs in the cupboard for... well, as long as it takes her to eat a dozen eggs. A few weeks at least. Pretty sure you'll be good, so long as you're not glugging them down raw.