zigmonty wrote:

Tzadeck wrote:

There are a lot of stores in Japan, mostly in the inaka, that don't refrigerate their eggs.  You can stop worrying about the pizza and hot dogs.

A lot of food preservation and safety ideas are cultural rather than scientific.

Supermarkets in Australia don't usually refrigerate their eggs either. They don't need to be refrigerated. Doing so extends their shelf life however, so unless you have a similar turn-over to the supermarket, it's smart to refrigerate them when you get them home.

Yup, eggs do not require refrigeration. Eggs in the UK are not refrigerated in supermarkets, only in the home (and even then, lots of people prefer to keep them out of the fridge - they are better to cook with at room temperature). From what I've heard, the US is one of the only countries in the world that keep eggs in the chilled section. They are just out on the shelves here, I have NEVER seen them refrigerated in a store. I've also eaten raw eggs a good few days past their use-by and survived, I think the trick is to drop it in a pot of water - if it floats, it's bad.

We also immunise our eggs against salmonella so cases of salmonella even from raw egg are really rare.

http://www.lioneggfarms.co.uk/informati … -practice/ (most eggs here, even the cheapest of cheap ones, are lion quality)

http://www.wikihow.com/Tell-if-an-Egg-is-Bad

http://thehappyhousewife.com/cooking/re … ting-eggs/ <-- interesting comments on eggs + refrigeration