Eggs... doubt!!!

[Sexy Strawberry]

I buy food for myself because I'm a student living alone... so sometimes I have too much food and it spoils before I have time to eat it.
I have three eggs that will be spoiled in two days and I don't feel like eating them for the moment, I was wondering if they will spoil too if I boil them... so my idea was boiling them and keeping them in the fridge. Do boiled eggs last more time than raw eggs?
Thanks!

[yonksgirl]

If you boil them that should buy you another week. Although I have had eggs in the fridge for a long time like two months and never had them spoil.

[Sexy Strawberry]

Thanks! :D I'll boil them right now then :D

[CC21]

You can check to see how good they are putting them in a glass of water. If they float throw em out. If they sink, they're still good.

[meliz]

ooo thanks for the tip Joni. I rarely used my eggs by the exact BB date, but won't use them too long after.

Hey SS, here I can rip a carton of eggs in half in the grocery store and just buy 6. Can you do that there? I still usually throw out one or two, but that's better than 8 or 9 I guess...

[Csara]

Yum, egg salad! :)

[Sexy Strawberry]

Here the minimum of eggs I can buy is 6 as far as I know, and I buy 6 everytime... but since they're all for me it's still a lot lol

[Sydneyp]

I think it is so cool here, I can buy 1 egg or 7, or however many I want. They sell them in 6 piece cartons, but they're cheaper by the piece.

In the US, eggs are often removed from grocery shelves, sent back to the factory and put in new cartons (new expiration date) and put back in the grocery. They last much longer than their expiration date says. Here, they don't even put them in the fridge at the grocery - they're sitting on a shelf with the sugar. I had a friend when I was a kid whose family stored their eggs in a basket on the porch - and I never ate eggs there because I was afraid of them.

Long story short - it's likely that your three eggs are going to be just fine. If you have a farmers' market nearby, you might check there for eggs by the single piece - or offer to split 6 with your neighbor. By the way, if you will use them for baking, they can be frozen - but not intact. Break them, beat the yolk into the white well, and put them in a dish in the freezer (don't forget to mark how many are in the package.)

[Sexy Strawberry]

Well three months ago I was living in another part of the city and there was a small Iranian supermarket where you could buy eggs by the piece too, but here there are just big supermarkets so you have to take 6 or 12...
By the way, I've never seen eggs in the fridge in the supermarket, in Spain and in Germany at least they're on a normal shelf as well.

Sydney, I'd like to ask you a few things about Crete because we're thinking about where to go this Summer and I thought Greece would be nice... I'll pm you :)