should you keep eggs in the fridge

[sfsorrow]

Should eggs be kept in a fridge, everyone seems to have differing views on this, I just want a definitive answer.

[scotman]

It seems that you don't need to but it won't do them any harm. Delia Smith says no.

[Buenchico]

Here's the 'official' answer, from British Lion Eggs:
"For optimum freshness and food safety, eggs should be kept at a constant temperature below 20C. To avoid the typical temperature fluctuations in a domestic kitchen, we recommend that eggs are stored in their box in the fridge".

Source:
http://www.egginfo.co.uk/faqs

Chris

[marval]

I keep mine in the hen

[tiggerblue10]

I keep my eggs in the fridge along with bread which is another food item where some people do and some people don't.

[askyourgran]

Well I'll go with that Chris, I usually keep them in the fridge door compartment but it makes sense. We don't eat that many eggs anyway. I have a china cow, the top half is the lid with air holes in the cows nose, the bottom half is supposedly to keep eggs in, I've never used it for eggs I always assumed they would go off quickly in it.

[mlt3]

you don't find them in the fridge in the supermarkets x

[vivandorron]

I can't agree fully with you Chuck despite my thinking that perhaps you had a lot of knowledge about fowls. Ocasionaly you will find what appears to be a blood spot in an egg and I understand it to be spermatozoon. However most eggs are completely unfertile.

Apologies sfsorrow for my having strayed from the question. However, now back to the subject matter, I have always kept eggs in a fridge and they have been ok to use when some weeks passed their 'sell-by' date.

Ron.

[gingejbee]

mlt: no, and you don't find canned tomatoes with other canned fruit, either. These supermarkets know NOTHING!