[HN Gopher] The Eggstraordinary Fortress
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       The Eggstraordinary Fortress
        
       Author : tippa123
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2025-11-13 18:10 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | IAmBroom wrote:
       | Lots of thinking, from someone apparently experienced with lab
       | testing of anti-germ precautiuons. Zero testing.
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       | Disappointing. He actually has the lab equipment to measure some
       | of his theories about denatured proteins et al.
        
       | TN1ck wrote:
       | That egg was totally still edible, even if you pierce it for the
       | cooking, it should be good for at least a few days. If you do it
       | right, it can be weeks. In Germany you can buy cooked eggs in the
       | super market and they are not refrigerated.
        
         | pverheggen wrote:
         | It addresses this in the article, but in countries that wash
         | the bacterial layer off (like the US), they have to be
         | refrigerated. This is to minimize salmonella contamination, EU
         | deals with this by vaccinating hens against salmonella instead.
        
         | D13Fd wrote:
         | Even though it had a hole in the shell?
         | 
         | This article was weird, in that he went through the whole thing
         | about how effective the layers are without also mentioning
         | there was a hole through all of them other than the egg white
         | (until the end).
        
       | MarkusWandel wrote:
       | Eggs really don't go bad quickly. It is common knowledge that due
       | to different washing techniques it's safer in Europe than in
       | North America to keep them unrefrigerated (raw), but let's just
       | say a certain spouse of mine is pretty callous about that - a
       | tray of 30 of them from Costco doesn't fit in the fridge right
       | now so it sits around for a few days - and we've had exactly
       | _zero_ issues from all that. And hardboiled eggs don 't spoil
       | very fast either. If it had been sitting out for a week, I'd take
       | a careful sniff at it before consuming but overnight is nothing.
       | _Edit_ all this assumes the raw eggs are going to be cooked, of
       | course.
        
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