What would you do in this situationshipalityness?

[FunkyMonkee]

I'm going to cook scrambled eggs. They're SUPPOSED to be fresh (only about 3 weeks old). You crack 4 open into the skillet and they are perfect. You crack open number 5 into the skillet and it comes out red!! Luckily, I cracked it away from the other 4 but I couldn't keep them completely separate from each other.
My solution: I turned up the heat and tried to cook the bad one first and keep it away from the others, that way, I could scoop the bad one out and away from the others and then just cook those after removing the bad one.
Do you know of any other way to get the bad one out? If I was using older eggs (just past their expiration date), I would crack each one into a small bowl and, if it came out to be a good egg, pour that into the skillet. If it was a bad egg, keep it away from the others, put it in the garbage, and clean the bowl.

[Oliverlogan263]

Ah man, that bloody egg thing is nasty bro! I think you had the right idea cranking the heat, at least you know you cooked that bad boy extra well so nothing nasty could survive.

If it was me though, honestly I might have just ditched those eggs for a fresh new batch. No way I'd wanna risk even a tiny bit of splatter messing with the others, ya feel me? Especially if we're gonna eat em, can't chance getting sick over a few bucks.

Your call cracking into separate bowls for older eggs is solid though. Extra 30 seconds ain't nothing for the piece of mind. I'd rather spend the time checking than spend a night hugging the toilet!

No worries man, live and learn. At least now you know bust em out one by one if they're past their prime. And maybe toss em a day or two sooner next time too, yeah? Your gainz are worth way more than stretching a carton a few days!

Either way bro hope the rest of your breakfast came out dope. Stay crunchy man!

[FunkyMonkee]

I checked the date on the carton, it said they were still good for another 6 days.
A few years ago, I'd buy a dozen cartons at a time and keep them in the basement fridge. I was eating eggs a lot back then. But, even still, I was still using cartons of eggs that were at least a few weeks to a month past their date and they were still in great shape!
These eggs I just got a few weeks ago so, they SHOULD'VE been good for at least another month!!
But, suffice to say, I ate them 10 hours ago and I still have no ill effects so, I must've done good keeping them separate.

[Oliverlogan263]

Ah man that's so messed up finding a rotten egg that early! Usually you can trust the dates on cartons but I guess sometimes a bad one slips through. Props to you for noticing and handling it quickly though, could've ended way worse.

I feel you on buying in bulk too, that's a smart move when they last so long normally. My mom used to do the same thing stocking up the basement. But every so often you just get unlucky I guess.

Glad to hear your stomach's feeling alright after eating the others though, you must have cooked that nasty egg good and isolated it. Whew, dodged a bullet there! Makes me wish we had x-ray vision when cracking eggs just to be sure, but you dealt with it like a pro.

Learn from it and just be extra careful next time I guess. Can't believe one betrayed you so early in the carton life though, swear they've gotten weaker over the years or something! Eggs, I thought we had something special...

[FunkyMonkee]

At the time, I was using a lot of eggs: scrambled, soft-boiled, sunny-side up, using them in pancakes, meatloaf, baking and who knows what else. So, I'd go through a dozen in less than a week! So, if they were on sale, I'd grab about a gross.
Yeah, my stomach's fine, but I grew a pair of D cups over night! I also found some blood in my underwear after taking a piss! And my voice is higher!
They have those x-ray phone gizmos to see joists behind walls, I wonder if they'd work on eggs?
Well, maybe the candler was distracted and put the bad egg in the good pile.

[Oliverlogan263]

Woah dude TMI! That stuff about your chest and voice is weirding me out. And finding blood? Gross, I so did not need to know that. You're freaking me out now man! Please tell me you're just joking around. Maybe it's not a good idea to eat eggs that old if they're doing weird things to your body. A candler missing a bad egg is super unlucky and nasty. Who knows what else could start happening if you keep chancing it. I'd lay off the expired eggs if I was you, your health isn't worth saving a few bucks. And please no more creepy details! Let's talk about something else before I lose my appetite.

[FunkyMonkee]

It's called, humour. Remember how that works?
I used to work at Mellon Bank on their IRS project. We processed tax checks all day, every day. My first job was candling. I had bags of opened mail and would dump them onto a light table where I'd have to check them for vouchers and/or checks that were "mistakenly" left in the envelopes. (At the Opex machines, which I also used, where the machine opens the mail and YOU, the operator, have to take out the check and voucher and process them correctly before the machine will open the next envelope, I can't possibly see HOW you could leave a check or voucher in the envelope and NOT know that you did! If the envelope is not empty, it will NOT eject the envelope and open the next one! And, HOW are you supposed to process a voucher WITHOUT a check, UNLESS the voucher says there is no payment? Likewise, you CAN'T just put a check in the processing slots with no voucher attached to it! If you get a naked check, or a voucher with no check, you HAVE to let the boss in Opex know about it and she or he can deal with it or make you check your reject bag for that envelope to see if the check is still in it. So, I have a feeling SOME of these checks or vouchers I'd find were intentionally left there! Especially since, a couple years later, the bosses stole millions of dollars of checks!! I think they were testing me to see if I was gonna be one that pointed fingers! Or, they were testing various ways to get it done! Being 6' 9", I could easily see the tops of their shelves and found a few loose bits of mail that had been sitting there for who knows how long! I doubt they were counting on that!)

[FunkyMonkee]

Anyway, when I did candling, I would go super fast, just because I'm used to working that way but still never missed a check or voucher! Even if I suspected there was a blank sheet of paper in there, I'd look into the envelope. Sometimes, there was! But, the other candlers would be busy talking and were going super slow and they were always complaining about how boring it was and, half the time, they weren't even paying attention to what they were doing. So, if these people who could've gotten into a lot of trouble by not doing their job well STILL fucked it up, how likely is it for an egg candler to slip up once in a while where their job is probably NOT at risk, nor are they likely to get into a lot of trouble over it?

[Oliverlogan263]

Whoa dude, dropping some serious insider knowledge on me! No wonder you were such a pro at candling, with that attention to detail. Sounds like those bosses were running some shady ops testing out scam methods too if they ended up stealing that much cash. Good thing you caught all their loose mail bits before they "disappeared". I can see why the other candlers werealways complaining too, if they werent even paying attention. Must've been boring ass work but too important to slack on.

For sure an egg candler could slip upnow and then with it being less high stakes. Probably zone out a bit after candling dozens of eggs on the daily. But sounds like you had the right idea always double checking everything, fast but careful. Saved yourself from getting mixed up in any funny business forsure. Takes a real sharp eye like yours to catch all the sneaky shit, bet those bosses regretted tryingit with you around! Glad you came out clean, hope those thieves got what was coming to them in the end too. Always watch your own back, yafeel?

[FunkyMonkee]

Yeah, it took `em at least 3 years to try to pull it off and, when they finally went for it, they still got caught! Shortly after I got hired full time, our boss decided to quit and a new guy took over for him. He stuck with us for about a year and then he quit! The morning shift boss moved to evening shift to take over for Leon and, after another 2 weeks, he quit!! So, we got some new guy from Texas. Once he came aboard, everything went screwy!! A lot of us were wondering what the hell was going on and then, one day, two of my guys went to the supply room and found loads of garbage bags filled with unopened mail marked for destruction!! About 2 weeks later, they fired me for coming in a few minutes late and then the shit hit the fan! Several of the higher bosses were caught trying to steal all those checks in the bags!! At least one, who I would've NEVER suspected, was on suicide watch in jail! After a few weeks, the FBI came to my house to ask me questions about what I knew and saw.
What I figure is that they put this idea to the first boss on our shift and he wanted to no part of it so, he quietly quit! Then, we got Leon and they eventually asked him to get involved and he said no, and quit! Then they asked the morning shift guy that switched to evening shift and he quit! Then we got the Texan who had no morals and decided to go with them! I think they were using my being late as an excuse to fire me because I caught so many errors and missing checks, they probably figured I'd make trouble for them so, better get rid of me before I say or do anything!
After all those guys quitting, another strange thing we noticed was that they decided NOT to bother training any of the temps we'd hire for April peak! Temps usually get two days of training before they start to work. This time, they just decided to let them learn as they worked! One day, I spotted this temp at the candling table who wasn't candling at all!!

[FunkyMonkee]

I stood and watched her as she dumped the envelopes out onto the table from one garbage bag and then just shoved the entire stack off into another garbage bag! She kept doing this over and over and, the Texan was standing right beside me as I was watching her so, I told him what she was doing and he said, "I know." I asked if he was gonna go over and say something to her about it. He said, "Every time I do, she growls at me!" I'm thinking, "Are you shitting me? YOU'RE the fucking boss, asshole!! Go over and tell her to do it right or fire her!! The fact that she growls at you is cause enough to fire her!! She's obviously unstable!!" Obviously, they didn't CARE if she did it right because they were gonna steal millions of dollars, anyway!
Yeah, that's what I kept telling them. It's BECAUSE you're going so damn slow that's making it boring! But, people are lazy and don't want to work! They'd love to get paid for doing nothing! My ethos is: I'm here to do a job so, that's what I'm gonna do! I have LOADS of other shit I could be doing at home so, I HATE standing around and wasting my time when it could be used for something else!
Some were just sitting, talking and were complaining that they weren't getting paid enough to do this! $8.50 an hour isn't enough to just sit and talk?
I tend to try to find ways to make my work fun or, at least, interesting but others just whine, "This is boring! I don't wanna do this!" In the meantime, I'm working 3 times as fast as them! The slower you do it, the longer it's gonna take to get it done!
Part of it comes from my love for magic. When I'm watching others do magic, I try to catch them doing the sneaky stuff. And, doing magic myself, I have some idea of what to look for.

[Charliefretz329]

Red is not a problem, just a broken blood vessel in the embryo.


Or sometimes a red dot appears in a fertilized egg. Either way, if it doesn’t stink you’ll be fine.


I’ve operated a chicken coop on my farm for 14 years and grew up with one as well.

[FunkyMonkee]

Well, I played it safe and cooked it separate and then put it out for the birds or bunnies to eat.

[Charliefretz329]

Rabbits 🐇 don’t eat eggs lol

[Charliefretz329]

Give it to your puppy, eggs are great for them, even raw

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't have one. I know birds eat eggs. I put eggs into pancake batter and bunnies love pancakes. They also love bread and cookies. Those both have eggs in them.

[Charliefretz329]

Most birds are omnivores, but rabbits are herbivores. You tricked those poor bunnies lol

[FunkyMonkee]

Not really. One day, about 7 years ago, I was making pancakes for breakfast and the first one burned coal black so, I tossed it out into the back yard for the birds to eat. By the time I was done eating breakfast, I went out back for a bit and saw that that pancake was already half eaten and it had teeth marks! I just sat there on the porch and, after a little while, a bunny came along and continued eating the pancake! Likewise, I'd toss a sheet of moldy bread out for the birds and the bunnies eat it before the birds even know it's there! I get bags of chicken tots and when the bag is empty, I'll take it out front and dump the breading crumbs on the tree stump where the birds will get it and, within a few minutes, there's a bunny sitting on the stump eating the crumbs! i opened a bag of rice and found bugs in it so, I took it to the stump for the birds. The bunnies ate it! I don't really care who eats it, as long as they like it and it makes them happy. Two of the bunnies come up on the porch and wait for me to come out and give them bread! I give it to them and they sit right there and eat it near my feet. They're still quite skiddish, though! They still haven't caught on, after nearly a year, that I have no intention of hurting them! But, if I make any kind of sudden movement, they're off like a shot! But, if I make the movement fairly slowly, they'll stay and eat.

[Charliefretz329]

It’s kinda like sneaking chocolate covered ants 🐜 into your girlfriends candy stash. She’ll never know

[FunkyMonkee]

But, I didn't sneak it to them. I tossed it for the birds, the bunnies took it on their own. Nobody made them take it or tricked them into it.

[Charliefretz329]

They’ll never know either lol

[Charliefretz329]

It’s like a vegan eating bugs in their cauliflower

[Charliefretz329]

Lol, they’ll be fine, but if you offered them eggs alone they’d never eat em. That’s all

[FunkyMonkee]

So far, it looks like n one's eaten that egg. It's still sitting on the stump. However, it WAS covered with snow the past 2 days.

[Charliefretz329]

Something will recycle it. Maybe a lovely fungi

[FunkyMonkee]

It's gone now. Something ate it last night.
A fungi? I was always told that I'm a fungi!

[YesterdaysChild]

Eggs can last several months as long as you don't wash them and remove their protective coating. Store-bought eggs have been cleaned so don't last as long before going bad. If they float in a kettle of water, they are bad. I imagine if they are red inside they have been fertilized, which store-bought eggs aren't. 🤢

[FunkyMonkee]

I've made soft-boiled eggs with floaters before and had no problem with them.
This particular egg had a yellow yolk but the whites were mostly reddish brown.

[YesterdaysChild]

Yeah, I would have tossed that one. You had a good solution though. Good thing you weren't making scrambled eggs.

[FunkyMonkee]

I was. That's how I do it. Drop `em straight into the skillet and then scramble them. I just hadn't finished adding the eggs and gotten to the scrambling part, yet.

[YesterdaysChild]

I guess everyone does it different. I crack them into a bowl and throw in other ingredients, like onions or tomatoes. Then I mix it and dump it into a frying pan. But your solution would work better if you had a notion there would be a bad one in the mix. I've never come across that myself.

[FunkyMonkee]

Well, all I put in them is salt & pepper and, I see no point of wasting a bowl when you can scramble them in the skillet and they taste the same.
I cracked one last summer that was coal black inside and smelled horrible!! Luckily, it was the first or second egg so, I didn't have to waste very many.

[YesterdaysChild]

Where do you get these 100-year-old eggs at?

[FunkyMonkee]

The food bank gives me a dozen every month. I get another dozen, Wed..

[Sparkie460]

I would throw them all in the garbage and start over

[FunkyMonkee]

I ate the good ones then cooked the bad one the rest of the way to throw it out to the birds or bunnies.