This doesn’t tell you if it’s good or bad. Just tells you if it’s new or old. Older eggs have more air in them.
If it has so much it floats, you have to throw it away.
I regularly cook eggs that float on water before boiling. It’s still good. Don’t waste food.
The difference between sinks and floats is a pretty small amount of air. Now if the egg truly does go sideways then there is probably an issue because the air sack has broken. But floating itself doesn’t say anything about the safety of the egg.
Have ya ever cracked open a floater? I have recently and it took a few hours for the smell to leave the kitchen
Have you ever cracked open a floater and found a perfectly fine egg? You are counting the ones that confirm your bias but don’t have a large enough sample size to work from. I have 21 chickens. 5 ducks and an unknown number of geese that lay eggs. I’ve seen fresh hour old eggs that are bad and sink. I’ve seen 6 week old eggs stored at room temperature that sink. I’ve had day one eggs that float and are still fine. Eggs are a natural product with high amounts of variation. We can’t even reliably tell if a fertilized egg is male or female using the best science available and people expect a float test to determine if it’s infected with bacteria? Not happening. The float test tells you how much air is in it. That’s all. And that isn’t even a guaranteed way to determine age.
This is extra important if you’re eating eggs you got from A Guy instead of like a supermarket.
I get my eggs from B Guy
Mine was from Z
I get my eggs from my E guy. He handles all my eggplant needs too.
Remember, if the thick cloud emitted by the egg only drifts upwards, it’s probably no good.
No, this graphic really is solid advice for people to know, but damn if it could have been designed with a little more forethought. Imagine, for instance, if the reader is yellow/blue colorblind. They could make a guess at what’s happening, but they may not quite be sure. Arrows are doing 99% of the lifting, here.
I think it’s if it produces both a thick gas cloud and Fruitloops. If it’s only one of those, it may still be good.
Gotta eat me some chicken menstruations. Mmm mmm!
Why does the tosser egg have some sort of donut shaped cereal in the bowl?
And what is the picture in the background? It sort of looks like breasts.
Why is this though? What’s the science for making old eggs float?
As an egg gets older it starts to break down, so it’s density becomes less. Eventually it’s density will be less than the water so it’ll begin to float.
The egg start to decompose and produces gas. Some of that gas escapes through the shell, so the egg’s mass decreases, which causes the density of the egg vs water to drop.
Thanks for this explanation! I couldn’t understand how the overall mass of the egg would change, even if some of the contents turned to a gas.
The older an egg gets the more experienced it gets with swimming. I once had an egg that was so old, it could do 4 laps in an Olympic swimming pool in under a minute
Unfortunately by that zime it had already gone bad. Started smoking, got into trouble with the law, that sorta stuff. Must be because of that satanic heavy metal music
Nice try 4chan, last time I microwaved an Iphone.
Oh no, you created mustard gas
Advice: Don’t trust infographics with zero source reporting for things as important as food safety.
