I haven’t read about anything like this before.
I ran out of egg cartons so I put eggs in a tall Rubbermaid container. They stayed in the back of the refrigerator where it’s cold. The container was sealed. They’ve been there a long time. I now have more egg cartons than I have eggs, so I decided to put these in egg cartons and use them first. I set them in water to see if they were fresh. Two came up on end but did not even bounce. However, I accidently broke one. It had a very weak shell. I noticed mold on the inside of the shell. There was no bad odor. I put this egg down the drain and cracked another just to see. It was also moldy on the inside of the shell. Otherwise the egg looked and smelled fine. I broke one more, and it was normal. The moldy ones had “bumpy” (not smooth) shells. Only two had bumpy shells.
Should I toss all the eggs? I suspect it was because they were in a container which could not breathe. I did not break any others open, and these all lay flat in water. We have only had one power outage, and this was just a few hours. I will not use a container like this again.
~Lori
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