I can’t tell you how many times I’ve bought a carton of eggs, used one or two eggs, and forgotten about them. Then I have maybe 10 eggs in my fridge, and I end up throwing them all out. 10 eggs! I don’t know how many perfectly good eggs I’ve thrown out…

One day my roommate caught me throwing out the eggs and stopped me dead in my tracks. Apparently there are a few different ways to tell if the eggs are still fresh! So here I share them with you…

1. Drop it in a cup of water

Really! It’s that easy!

Fill a bowl or cup up with water and gently place your egg inside. If the egg sinks to the bottom, it’s fresh! If your egg floats to the top, it is not.

2. Crack it open and take a look!

When you crack the egg open, take a look for the following:

• • Smell it! If they egg smells bad, it’s probably gone bad.
  • A fresh egg yolk will ‘sit-up’ atop the whites, while than an old egg yolk will sink down and the whites will spread out
  • The yolk of a fresh egg is more yellow, while an old egg turns orange

3. Check the Expiry Date

This is one of the easiest things to do. If your eggs are well past the expiry date, it’s definitely time to throw them out. If it’s that day or the next, I’d say try one of our other methods of checking to be sure 🙂

4. Listen

If you hold the egg up to your ear, you can shake it to listen for that sloshing sound. A fresh egg will make little to no sound when you shake it. As the egg gets older it dries out, leaving more room for what’s still in there to slosh around.

5. Take a Flashlight to it

A fresh egg doesn’t have a large air pocket, as the egg gets older that same air pocket gets bigger.

Take you egg into a dark room and hold a flashlight up to it. This way you’ll be able to see the size of the air pocket and decide if your egg is still good to eat.