How to Know if the Eggs Have Gone Bad

No, I'm not talking about your ovaries.


If you're like me sometimes you're in the mood for eggs, sometimes not. And that usually means you don't go through all 12 eggs by the expiration date.

I buy the cage free eggs (run free chicken!) and they cost a little extra. So I don't want to toss them out at some arbitrary expiration date (how would the company know the exact date the eggs would go bad?).

I have read that you can still eat eggs beyond the expiration date. This goes against my neurotic, germaphobe ways. But it is inticing for my thrifty self.

Here is an article on how to tell if the eggs have gone bad.

I just put two eggs with a June 26 expiration in water and they balanced on the small end, which according to that site means they are three weeks old. By expiration date they would only be four days. Now I'm all confused.