At the moment where i am there’s some shrinkflation nonsense where sometimes they’ll lower the “average total” weight on the “mixed” size eggs but change nothing on the packaging (apart from the weight, on the bottom).
So I’m checking to see if I’ve got a pack of tiny eggs that just rattle around in the packaging.
But i do a rattle check first.
If I’ve got the tiny eggs i just buy a different brand instead (until they change it back)
a) Eggs come in 6 or a dozen. Fridge has little shelf with holes for 8 eggs.
b) I always feel as if a supermarket employee is gonna get really offended, and start telling me I can’t open the eggs to check they’re not cracked. They won’t, because they honestly couldn’t give a fuck, they’re just trying to get through their shift. But the feeling is there. Egganoia makes me feel as if the security cameras are zooming in, though, making sure I don’t pocket an egg. “Hey, we saw video of a woman in a supermarket in Russia shoving a raw chicken up her hoo-hah! It’s not impossible you might wanna pocket an egg, fella!”
Eggs are probably one of the few grocery store items, where opening the packaging and checking them before purchase is a must do.
Are people actually having issues of cracked eggs? I have never in my whole life ran into, or heard of anyone else running into a cracked egg in a carton.
Shop at aldi and you will find entire crates of eggs that are cracked.
Yep, had happened to me twice recently after not happening for a long time. It’s like the seatbelt in the car, most of the time you don’t need it, but when you do, you’re happy that you did.
And not just look, wiggle each egg to verify it haven’t cracked in the bottom which will make it stick to the package
Well they’re protected by paper mache. So yeah cracked eggs are a problem. I don’t want to deal with that and I can avoid dealing with that by opening the box.
Yeah, saw a whole box of cracked eggs last time I bought them.
It happens. I can’t say it’s super common, but even with the protection of the cartons, accidents happen. Hell, I’ve checked in store, and had an egg crack on the way home from braking hard. Only once, but it shows that the right forces in the right way can cause cracks.
I haven’t bought eggs in years now (yay for my hen!), but I’d see it maybe twice a year or so
I run into it often, but I live in a rural place where eggs are commonly sold in huge quantities (like bulk 5 and 1/2 dozen cartons). Usually I’ll find another carton that’s got cracked eggs as well, and swap for some good ones.
My mother taught me this at the store when we were little. The lady next to us got this like…fucking sudden realization on her face and she checked her eggs as well. It was wild lol.
The real psychos are the ones just grabbing the top front carton of eggs and never checking it. You must live a much more charmed existence than me!
My grocery store usually has a box or 2 at the top front that’s mostly full of cracked eggs from people swapping. So yeah, psychos. At least grab from the middle of the pile if you aren’t checking each egg.
I always check at the supermarket because armies of gronks have put their grubby mitts on them, but I don’t bother at the Asian grocery, because they are always perfect there, and they are kept in high rotation, with the staff checking them when they lay them out.
My little brother actually asked if he could “count the eggs” because he assumed that’s what we were doing. 😄
Since nobody else posted it…
I’m not supposed to be here today.
I just wiggle each one to make sure they move. I buy whatever is cheapest/sale so mix of Styrofoam and cardboard containers. And I probably end up with old eggs so I guess I really am the dunce here. Haha.
Old eggs peel better though and I have yet to encounter an egg actually turning bad, so it might be the better deal even.
I wonder how many countries sell eggs in dozens vs tens. I know Japan sells 10. I feel like if the dozen concept isn’t in the language it’s kind of a random quantity.
Denmark here, depending on supermarket and brand, you usually get them in 6, 8 and 10. Less common is 4 and they are usually large eggs. 15 and 30 is also a thing but not something I look for so I might underrepresent them in my comment
Dozen is likely just technically easier, since if you split it in half, you get 6, but if you split 10 half, you get 5. And only 5 is harder to package. I’ve seen 4 eggs sold as well, but 6 and 12 are probably close enough, around the numbers people reasonably need.
Where I live in Colombia, we can get eggs in dozens, but it’s more common to find packs of 15 or 30 in the supermarket.
If I shop at the mom-and-pop tienda on my block, they’ll sell me exactly the number of eggs I ask for.
One time in like 2014 I opened the eggs for a glance to check for brokens at a Stater Bros outside San Diego and an older guy behind me said “yeah, those are eggs, move along” I just turned around and said “yes, but are they cracked?” and then walked off. Hopefully his rude and impatient ass felt stupid.
Anyway, now whenever anyone in my family checks the eggs, someone in the family will, without fail, say “yeah, those are eggs, move along”. It’s our little running joke and I wish that guy knew that we’re still making fun of him 12 years later.
Running yolk was right there for ya
Hahaha how did I miss that???
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Yeah, those are eggs, move along.
Oh see I’d probably say “Why yes they are eggs, good eye! Well done” and walk away. Like you’d say to a 3 year old.
They ARE toddlers so that’s probably the best move.
I was with you about the not giving a crap part, up until you decided you wanted to fight a random stranger over a minor inconvenience.
Greatest trick I learned is to open the carton, and then gently shake it side to side while watching the eggs. Check the ones that didn’t wiggle.
Works vastly better on the plastic cartons than the old (and still current) paper cartons. I remember mom carefully inspecting eggs.
Lalo picks up 8 cartons, flicks them, Nacho elaborates
“They bring in a Cisco truck, it’s got 4 pallets of them. I pick one, and they bring the others around to the next store.”
“Uhuh. So. These ones? These are free range. But these - they’re cage-raised.”I learned a quick tip from an old lady many years ago. Open the carton and use your first finger just to tip (slide) each egg a bit so you know it is not stuck to the bottom of carton. Quick and easy.
Yep, that’s the move. You don’t have to pick up each egg and inspect it. If it rocks, it’s good.
If there’s just one or two, I look for the bad dozen, which is usually there in the case, off to the side. Open that and replace the good eggs from that carton with the bad ones in your carton. Now you have 12 good eggs, and eventually the store will have a carton of 12 cracked eggs.
You still get dirty looks from dickheads, though, which I enjoy. I’m always pleased to piss off judgemental Karens.
I do the put all the bad eggs in 1 carton too. Fuck the ones who glare. If they had any brains they would see we are helping. If not switched and consolidated there would be a lot more bad cartons tossed as waste
I just look at the bottom of a closed carton first - if there’s a crack it is rare that it didn’t leak
Only works on paper cartons. Shouldn’t be buying Styrofoam but still.
I have never seen anything other than carton boxes for eggs here in Norway. This comment actually baffled me that they came in anything other somewhere.
In Canada, they come in bags.
Same here in Sweden, there are som variations on what kind of carton boxes but never seen any plastic or styrofoam.
Ours come in a clear plastic vacuum formed container, compressed paper carton, or Styrofoam, depending on the brand.
That’s just fucked up. Clear plastic seems like the worst possible container as it gives little or no protection, and is obviously plastic which the world only needs less of.
It’s usually multiple foldovers of semi rigid plastic similar to most water bottles around here. They seem to function well. It’s probably six or more 1 litre bottles worth of plastic though.
It is the worst. The only pro is you can visible see if they are broken without opening anything.
As if the grocery store gives you a choice.
There’s like six different egg providers at most grocery stores around me. I have choices.
Only one of them is the cheap regular eggs, though. The others are organic or free range or otherwise differentiated in some way other than just the foam vs paper packaging.
You should always buy the organic ones, even if they are so much more expensive. The conditions in which the chickens are kept, to produce the cheap eggs, is absolutely, inhumanely fucked up. You can see the difference in the yolk as well: the ones produced by chickens, that are fed better, and not kept in a way they cannot even move, are orange, while the ones by chickens kept and fed horribly, are yellow.
I have to open and see if there are no cracks on top as well. OC I guess.
Well of course, that’s just normal caution but don’t bother if you already see a wet spot, try another carton
I used to do this but I got burned once or twice, wound up with cracked eggs that hadn’t leaked enough to stick or hadn’t stuck, for whatever reason.
This is learned behavior though. It’s not obvious. I learned it from my parents. He obviously didn’t.
I feel like the poster might have been aware of the actual purpose but still wanted to spread a little enjoyable sillyness by comparing it to movie scenes where a money briefcase is checked out.
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Even if not learned through experience, it can also be learned through critical thinking. One could take a moment to ponder why someone is checking the eggs and could easily arrive at the conclusion they’re checking for broken ones.
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Or they could open their mouth without thinking much and say something ignorant to a stranger in the grocery store
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Or they can demonstrate the greater depths of their ignorance and make a post about it on a social media platform showing they had time to figure it out but couldn’t despite it being on their mind the entire time.
Sadly, much of our random interactions and popular public discourse are driven by #2 and #3
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You can also learn without parents, when you all of a sudden have your hands/shopping cart/shopping bag/car full of raw egg.
So what? Then you have a delicious cart, bag, and car…
But global warming hasn’t finished pre-heating yet, so they won’t cook properly.
It’s obvious the first time you get a carton of eggs home and find a cracked or missing egg, or have thought for two seconds about the notorious fragility of eggs.
