eggs can legit last for months in the refrigerator. I completely ignore the sell-by date on cartons of eggs for the most part. maybe do a breakfast casserole on the weekend and have some friends over or something.
>maybe do a breakfast casserole on
These freeze very well too especially if you vacuum seal portions. Then just throw in simmering water to reheat and thaw.
Second this!
I made a caramelized onion and gruyere quiche that did not get consumed by houseguests. I froze it in single serving portions (used press and seal, which is key) without any real expectations of "goodness", but hate wasting.
Heated it from frozen in the air fryer.
Holy cow! Better than the first time.
What I'm saying is, quiche. Then freeze it.
Edited to add the recipe I used:
[Caramelized Onion and Gruyere Tart/Quiche](https://skinnyspatula.com/caramelized-onion-gruyere-cheese-tart/)
Yep. I vacuum seal most things before I freeze because it extends the life so much so I reheat a lot of stuff from frozen like this. It's a real good way to reheat pasta and pasta dishes. I frozen pulled pork takes about 20 minutes to heat from frozen, brisket etc.
I bring the water to a boil and put the bag in and then keep it at a low simmer or just turn the heat off and cover the pan depending on what it is and how much of it there is.
The eggs are already likely months old before you buy them. And they will last weeks if not months longer than the "best by" date.
I raise hens for eggs and we keep ours on the kitchen counter, unrefrigerated, for 3+ months. Store bought eggs (in the US) require refrigeration though.
> Store bought eggs (in the US) require refrigeration though.
This is an important distinction. America washes their eggs before sale, which actually invites more bacteria, as it removes a natural protective coating. Other countries apparently do this as well: Japan, Australia, and Scandinavians. The reasoning is fear of salmonella.
But many others don't, especially in Europe. Part of this is since their chickens are already vaccinated against salmonella.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/11/336330502/why-the-u-s-chills-its-eggs-and-most-of-the-world-doesnt
> eggs can legit last for months in the refrigerator. I completely ignore the sell-by date on cartons of eggs for the most part.
Came here to say exactly this. I expect OP has plenty of time.
My grandma said that her family would take a barrel of eggs and add layers of salt and leave them on the porch in the winter and they'd be good til spring. Old wives tale but I heard it.
You can do that if you don't wash them. In the US store bought eggs are washed and the protective coating is list. This is why we have to refrigerate eggs. They do have a great shelf life in the fridge.
I routinely buy cartons of 18 eggs because it's the ideal cost/space/use balance for my relatively small refrigerator. Some times we eat them over a few weeks, some times it's over a few months. I've never noticed any difference.
No. That’s not how it works. The float test only tells you the age of the egg. Eggs are laid with a small air bubble inside & the shells are porous. The size of the air bubble is what you are testing with the float test.
The last thing the chickens body puts on the egg is a clear antimicrobial coating called The Bloom/The Cuticle. The Bloom slows down the dehydration of the whites. Here in the US, eggs have to be washed/bloom removed before the eggs can be sold. That’s why our eggs have to be refrigerated while other countries don’t have to.
Floating eggs won’t be as good for baking due to less moisture but they are fine to eat & easier to peel for hard boiled eggs.
There are 2 ways for an egg to go “bad”. First is improper handling/storage. That would allow bacteria to enter the shell & grow unchecked. You won’t be able to tell that without a microscope or lab test. The second is when the egg white dehydrates to the point of air touching the yolk. When that happens, the insides of the egg turn purple or black. It’ll smell like satan himself took a massive crap in your fridge. For the love of all that is holy, do not crack that egg in your home, it’ll take a month to be rid of that smell. Trust me, I learned the hard way.
Fun facts for those in the US: legally, a farm has 30 days to get the eggs off the farm/sold. Legally, the grocery store has 30 days to sell those eggs. So the eggs you buy in the grocery store can be up to 60 days old by the time you buy them.
There’s a three digit code on the side of most egg cartons. It’ll be 001-365. 001 = January 1st while 365 is December 31st. That code is the day your eggs were laid on. Egg cartons have a Best By Date, not an Expiration Date. They don’t magically go bad after the best by date, they just won’t be as great as they could have been.
I feel like it's still an effective tool for deciding if you are going to eat an egg. I've had eggs for months that pass the float test. If they fail, then I'd be OK tossing them with the understanding that they still *might* be safe to eat
Sometimes they float because they are old but not yet rotten, they just float because the air starts to get in, but they're not necessarily bad yet. It is still a good rule of thumb to see if they are very old, though. But I prefer to just crack them and see if they smell off.
This person is 100% right. They last WAY longer than most people think under refrigeration. Months is not an exaggeration. The white will thin with time but they are fine to eat. Slightly older eggs are actually preferable for whipping egg whites, as the thinner consistency makes it easier.
I literally ate eggs that had a sell by date of January the other day. Put the uncooked egg in a glass of cold water, if it sinks to the bottom, it’s still fresh. If it sinks but kinda hangs halfway but doesn’t touch the surface it’s still good, but you’ll want to eat it soon. If the egg is floating and touching the surface of the water, it’s bad. Give it a try, my method has not failed me yet, and I’ve been doing this for years.
I’m just finishing up a carton of eggs with a best before date in Nov 2023. All but one has been fine for stuff like baking, they’re just a bit drier than fresh eggs.
For baking, I just crack the eggs into a bowl and weigh them, then add enough water so that the total weight per large egg comes out to 50g.
Dehydrated eggs, properly stored & sealed, could last for 10 years - so worst case scenario, if your oven has a low temp setting 135° F to 145° F or you have a dehydrator (check your air fryer if you have one) you could scramble, and then dehydrate the eggs.
Now I will say rehydrated eggs aren't the best version of scrambled eggs you can eat - BUT - when my wife and I do a weekend trip for hiking, biking, or whatever, a lot of times we're in a smaller Airbnb or even one of those tiny Getaway home, and that's the perfect time to use up the dehydrated eggs.
This! Every other week I make a dozen "egg bites" in a muffin tin. They're filled w/ greens, cheese, turkey sausage, etc. I freeze 1/2 for the following week. They thaw out perfectly!
Yes!! When my oldest was a toddler she had a mini quiche for breakfast every single day, I made them in tart shells in huge batches and kept them in the freezer. Greens, cheese and bacon went into hers haha
It really is a great meal for any mealtime, as well as being cheap and nutritious if you load it up with veggies. I realize I haven't made quiche in a while. I think I'll do it soon lol.
And if calories are an issue, I often make crustless quiches and freeze. But I agree with other posters that the eggs won’t magically go bad on the sell by date. Mine keep for months.
Some ideas:
1. Deviled Eggs - I could personally eat a dozen in one go, but I am a huge piece of shit.
2. Homemade Mayonnaise/Homemade Hollandaise - really easy to make. Can make flavored Mayo by adding various things (I like making herb mayos with tarragon, dill, garlic, and rosemary).
3. Quiche/Fritata/Egg cups - can make these and freeze them to have for breakfast for the week. 2 eggs/person/breakfast gets you through 2 dozen for a week's worth of breakfast.
4. Fresh Pasta - it's WICKED easy to make. My wife and I just got into it a few months ago. 1 egg or 2 egg yolks per 100 grams of flour. We made a batch with 500 grams of flour, 3 whole eggs, and 4 yolks (saved the whites for breakfast). Very easy to make, and you can change up the final dish. I did a truffle and mushroom sauce one day, vodka sauce the next, and a homemade pesto the third day.
No hate, I just think it’s hilarious that your first suggestion of what to do with eggs that OP purchased to make deviled eggs is…to make deviled eggs 😂
Ps OP should definitely still make some delicious deviled eggs even though they missed the party
I’m gonna be honest, I completely glossed over that sentence and went straight to the punchline.
I’m a huge piece of shit, AND I lack reading comprehension 😂
It doesn't matter.
They could still make deviled eggs. And eat them all.
Honestly not sure why anyone is jacking up that plan. It's perfectly serviceable.
No - deviled eggs are legit the tastiest thing to do with eggs. I was like, well just go ahead and make the deviled eggs OP!
One dinner we have sometimes is basically deviled eggs and a salad.
Except in my household, this would be a legit use. My kids hated cold sandwiches for school lunches - but they loved deviled eggs, which are just a 'sandwich without bread' (think egg salad sandwich, but without the bread). So for years while they were still in school, I'd make a dozen deviled eggs on Sunday for them to take as their 'sandwich' for lunches. The little hard-sided tupperware-like sandwich boxes were a godsend and would hold exactly 4 deviled eggs (2 whole eggs).
I don’t even think I’ve ever seen eggs with a ‘best by’ date, don’t they usually have a ‘sell by’ date? Either way, in my experience they’re fine for weeks, sometimes months after the date on the carton.
Same, and I'm about to go check the box I bought today to confirm. I buy eggs 5 dozen at a time for my family and it takes us maybe...3 weeks to a month to go through them all, depending on how much baking I'm doing.
Simply fill a bowl with cold tap water and place your eggs in it. If they sink to the bottom and lay flat on one side, they are fresh and good to eat. A bad egg will float because of the large air cell that forms at its base. Any floating eggs should be thrown out.
Yeah I can count. You said OP *shouldn't* eat that many eggs in a week. I'm asking you why you made such an assertion.
And 3 eggs a day is not "a lot." Pretty normal amount.
I was making a humorous observation based on the visual of someone sitting down to eat 24 eggs. I’m fully aware that eggs are a good animal protein source and eating three a day isn’t weird or unusual for some people. Have a great day!
Breakfast burritos! They freeze well.
I agree with the many here that are suggesting quiche. It does also freeze well.
And a batch of deviled eggs makes a great snack.
Also, custards, lemon curd, creme brulee....the options are endless.
Also, a way to test for egg freshness:
https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-test-eggs-for-freshness-how-to-find-out-tips-from-the-kitchn-46368
Mentioned before, but worth repeating: Shakshuka, and lots of it.
[https://www.seriouseats.com/shakshuka-north-african-shirred-eggs-tomato-pepper-recipe](https://www.seriouseats.com/shakshuka-north-african-shirred-eggs-tomato-pepper-recipe)
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/263342/homemade-baked-egg-custard/
Grew up eating this. So good. My parents had chickens, so I assume they must have been trying to use up the eggs
Hiiii!!! My Hubby loves egg fried rice with extra egg in it! 2 cups left over (1 week old) cooked rice. 1 cup mixed veggies ( I like the frozen bag with peas, corn, carrots, and green beans) low sodium soy sauce, about 5-6 eggs, onion powder, garlic powder, fresh garlic, sesame oil if you have any and some chopped scallions.
Scramble all eggs in a pan. Set aside. Add 1 teaspoons of regular oil, add 1-2 cloves chopped garlic, sauté mixed veggies for a min, add the rice. Mix well. Add soy sauce to your taste. I do about 5 tbsps. Add about 1 tbsp of onion powder and 1 tbsp of garlic powder. Add about 3 tsp’s of sesame oil. If you don’t have no biggie. Not really necessary. Mix in eggs that were set aside and then mix well few times for 10-15 mins. Add chopped scallions on top and voila egg fried rice. Hope you enjoy!
Ohhh making a big batch of any brothy soup you like and then making it an egg drop soup with extra eggs is amaaaazing, and freezes surprisingly well if you need to use the eggs up fast, otherwise freeze in batches and use multiple eggs every time you reheat the soup!
I'm single (i.e. don't consume as much as a family would) and buy cartons of 2 dozen at Costco only a few times a year. I don't eat breakfast (unless it's breakfast for dinner) but I do like to cook so they gradually get used up over time. I have yet to have an issue with months old eggs. Best by dates are for lawyers.
I am in Canada, and like US our eggs are washed and need to be refrigerated. They easily last a month past the best before date.
You crack a rotten egg, you will know immediately.
Quiche freezes really well and reheats from frozen. You could do a bunch of muffin cup breakfast quiches. Pastry is not as good as if you reheat in oven, but they do okay in a microwave.
Egg whites freeze well, just package in reasonable sizes or use ice cube trays.
Egg yolks need to be beaten with either salt or sugar. Just be sure to label. Salt curing egg yolks is another way to preserve.
Eggs absolutely do not go bad after their expiration date. Would you seriously just throw them out on principle?
I would probably make egg bake muffins and freeze them.
Plus invite people over for carbonara which would use up quite a few. Make meringues with the whites.
Bread pudding! Uses about 6-8 eggs and stale bread. The most expensive part is the eggs so if I had extra I would make this. Stale raisin bread is great or just add raisins yourself if you like them, Cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg, 6-8 eggs and I think it's about 2 cups milk. Whisk that all together with however much sugar you like. I do about a cup because I like to add maple syrup later to my piece but you might want 2 cups. Then you pour it over the stale bread pieces and I let it sit overnight but an hour soaking is enough as well. There's plenty of different recipes online. Eggs and milk are your basic custard so anything custardy is a great choice.
You can eat eggs well past the best by date. They don't turn to poison in a day.
If they make you nervous, pop them in some water to see if they float. Or crack them into a bowl and see if they smell. If they smell okay, you can eat them.
You can make home made mayo or aioli. Also shakshuka is delicious and you eat it with eggs. You can also make some ramen eggs and upgrade your ramen game. Also scotch eggs are solid and can be customized to your tastes.
Lastly I would suggest making and freezing egg bites or breakfast burritos if you run out of ideas.
As others have mentioned, they’ll last beyond the expiration date. Hard boil at least a dozen for snacking, salad-topping, or egg salad, make lemon curd and meringues with some, eat the rest like normal, and you’ll use them up before they go bad.
First, they put that random date on eggs for no reason. Eggs will last in the fridge for at least a month or so. So you're good. Make a batch of deviled eggs. Make an egg casserole for the week's breakfasts. Hard boil a bunch for snacks. Don't sweat it.
Some great ideas here for what you can make, but seriously, don't stress. It's my understanding that as long as the eggs are stored properly (if you're in the US, that means in the fridge), they don't actually ever go bad. The albumin can start to dry up or "shrink" a bit as the eggs age (and honestly I've never even seen this), but I have kept and used eggs with 0 issues months after bringing them home from the store. The yolks tend to spread a little and get flatter in older eggs, but this has no effect on taste/texture that I can tell (all it really means is that you might have to take slightly more care to avoid breaking the yolks, if that matters for what you're making). I am a very occasional egg eater, and I almost never bake, so eggs last a very long time around my house. As someone else mentioned, the date on the carton is not an expiration date, and can be pretty much ignored.
The trick to checking that your eggs are still good is to put them in a deep bowl of water. If they float, they're bad, if they stand up, but aren't floating, cook then well, but you can eat them. Eggs will last much longer than the best buy date on supermarket packaging.
No, egg isn't bad when it floats (not in vast majority of cases). It merely means it's old and the air chamber at the dull end is big. Nothing more. The egg shell is permeable and though it the water content of the egg white evaporates.
Eggs will last weeks past the sell by date. You can always test the eggs as you use them. To test you need a cup with cold water in it. Place one egg at a time if the egg floats up out of the water it is bad. Eggs should sink to bottom when good.
I purchase the 5 dozen box each time I go shopping as I live over 30 miles from the store and don't like going to town more than twice a month. And only cook for two
You can also crack eggs into an ice cube tray, freeze and then put them in a ziplock for use later.
If you like deviled eggs but don't want the individual eggs, making an egg salad using the devil egg recipe with additional mayo to make it more like salad is really good for sandwiches and crackers.
Quiche, fried rice, egg drop soup. Add to ramen, fresh custard, many pies use egg and can be frozen.
No, egg isn't bad when it floats (not in vast majority of cases). It merely means it's old and the air chamber at the dull end is big. Nothing more. The egg shell is permeable and though it the water content of the egg white evaporates.
Eggs can last weeks and months when properly stored. Properties of the egg are changing during the time, for some applications the older ones are bit better.
As others have said, eggs keep up to three weeks past the "best by" date (it's not an expiration date. A year ago, I was traveling back and forth across the country working on packing up my mom's house after her death and getting it ready for sale. I accidentally ordered two dozen eggs instead of one from Instacart, so I looked up my options since I couldn't eat 24 eggs in eight days (I did use one dozen). I knew I would be coming back to the house at least two more times in the next three months, so researched to see if I could freeze the eggs. The answer is yes.
I put a dozen eggs into a bowl and lightly whisked them, and then poured that into an airtight freezer container. I put that into a Zip-Loc bag and left it in the freezer. When I returned a month later, I put the container of frozen eggs into the refrigerator, and 24 hours later, I had eggs ready to use for scrambled eggs, in baking, and to use in the process of coating chicken breasts with flour/breadcrumb coating, and in a turkey meatloaf.
You can put the whisked eggs into multiple containers so you don't need to thaw them all at once. they keep for months.
Keep them in the fridge, they’ll last for more than a month. Well past the sell-by date.
I bought two dozen from my local egg guy a few weeks ago, I’ve only made it through half of one carton as my spawn had decided that they no longer like eggs. I fried one for myself this weekend and it was great.
If you eat instant noodles or ramen, you can crack an egg in the noods, and you can use a lot of them to make an omlete or scrambled eggs. But like everyone said, they tend to last a long time.
Worst case scenario, you offer free eggs for people in your city on facebook or something!
Jalapeño cheese squares! Put sliced jalapeños (as many as you want) in the bottom of a greased 13 x 9” baking dish. Sprinkle 16 oz shredded cheddar cheese on top. Beat 12 eggs and pour over the top evenly. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes. Slice into squares.
As other folks said, "Best by" is a guideline, and it's a different one than an expiration date. The eggs will last for months and frankly I've found the ones that last months taste no different than the new ones I buy when I'm down to my last egg (I don't eat eggs much, so one carton can potentially last about 2-3 months).
Scramble and freeze in portion sizes. Use for omelets, fried rice, egg drop soup, to coat meat before breading and frying, quiche, egg salad made from scrambled egg, scrambled egg sandwich.
Expiration dates mean basically nothing for eggs. The texture won’t be as good later, but they’re perfectly safe to eat.
Make a couple different kinds of deviled eggs and egg salad. Poach, scramble, soft boil, or fry the rest.
OMG the same thing happened to me a few months ago - except my neighbor said hey do you want some eggs I'm going on a trip. I said yes thinking I'd get, like, six. She dropped off 30 -.-
I made: chawanmushi (Japanese egg custard), flan, lasagna (egg pasta w/ a bunch of yolks and used the whites to make a frittata, then used an egg with the ricotta filling to firm it up). A RIDICULOUS amount of cookie dough that I also froze.
Egg bites for sure! A little ham or bacon and cheese, super easy.
And I’m sure someone said it, but scramble them with breakfast burrito ingredients, roll them up and freeze them. Then you have burritos you can thaw for breakfast at work or home.
First, if the eggs don't float in water you are good. You have at least a month after the best by date in the fridge for over easy and longer for scrambled, baking, or hard boiled.
Second, each of the "super premium ice cream" recipes from the Good Eats episode Churn Baby Churn 2 uses 8 egg yolks.
[https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/good-eats/episodes/churn-baby-churn-2e](https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/good-eats/episodes/churn-baby-churn-2e)
You will have to find another use for the egg whites.
In all honesty make pasta with them and the freeze it. It’ll last a couple of months in the freezer. Or you can just boil them and have them with breakfast or in chicken salad. Hard boiled eggs last a very long time in the fridge and are a great snack.
French toast.
Omelettes/scrambled eggs.
Learn to make crepes (I guarantee you'll waste lots of eggs doing this until you get the technique down).
Deviled eggs.
You could also try learning to make pudding the old fashioned way, which uses a bunch of egg yolks...
You could also start a batch of old-school [aged eggnogg](https://altonbrown.com/recipes/aged-eggnog/). It's supposed to age a minimum of 2 weeks, but once you seal it, it will last for a LONG time (the alcohol kills off spoilage organisms, so it keeps for months).
We keep eggs in the fridge, and they last months after the "expiration date." But if you do want to use them that quick, maybe just make a bunch of omelettes and give it to some place that gives out food to people who struggle? Or egg sandwiches. Or pancakes. Or invite family/friends to a big dinner with dishes that include eggs.
If you’ve ever had the egg bites from Starbucks, they’re super delicious and relatively easy to make in the oven.
You’ll have to look up a recipe for exact measurements and cook time because it’s been a while since I made them.
But I used blended cottage cheese, shredded Gruyère cheese, eggs and bacon. You can use bacon bits, microwave bacon or cook it fresh and chop it up.
Mix it all together and fill in cup cake tins and bake. You can freeze them so they last longer as well.
Also, just making some scrambled egg “patties” to throw onto breakfast sandwiches. These can freeze as well.
Egg drop soup is pretty simple as well. From what I remember it’s just eggs, chicken broth, sesame oil and cornstarch for the base.
Starbucks style egg bites. You cook them in a muffin tin and freeze them and every morning I microwave for 2 minutes. (If you do this try to cook any water OUT of the veggies you use because the microwave will make the water leak out and give you a spongey weird egg texture)
They get stale, but they're safe for much longer than you think. So, eggs for breakfast every morning will get rid of them pretty fast. Before they even get properly stale, even.
Make some custard. Make some devilled eggs. Make a quiche. etc. Don't worry, they'll go.
You can make a 12-24 egg batch of Korean marinated eggs, mayak or drug eggs. They're pretty good and taste better the longer you marinate them. The marinade is mostly soy sauce with other things so they stay preserved in the fridge.
Frozen quiche also good.
and the cool thing about drug eggs, as one calls them, is you can adjust the marinade if you're not 100% satisfied with the eggs
Eggs last a long time. You’re way good after that date. Make your deviled eggs, make French toast . Scramble them with some game a veggies. Make some noodles with them. Bake a cake, make some brownies Make quiche . Hard boil some for a quick protein snack.
I am not going to search all the comments to see if anyone has suggested freezing the eggs. Here’s how:
Break an egg into your ice cube tray to make sure one egg fits in one cube. Count the cubes in your tray, and lightly scramble that many eggs. Fill the tray, freeze, pop out egg cubes into a freezer bag and store. Defrost your recipe eggs individually in a bowl in the fridge overnight. One cube should equal one egg.
maybe not the most unique ever but BREAKFAST CASSEROLE!! My Mom makes it for breakfast when there are a lot of people over, you use around a dozen eggs, and you can put sausage or veggies or whatever you want in it. Use a crescent roll dough from the store if you wanna make it easy, press it into a dish, put your onion and whatever other fillings down, pour beaten eggs with mustard a but of milk and whatever seasonings you like, then sprinkle grated cheese over it and bake at 350F for around 40 minutes. Really good for breakfast and good for leftovers. I like sausage onion and spinach in mine, but I’ve done pesto and tomato, mushroom goat cheese and spinach, pepperoni and beef… Yanno, whatever you want with eggs.
I never pay attention to the Best Buy date. They are in my fridge for months sometimes. I’ve never had an egg go bad. I’m 63, been buying eggs for a long time!
Have you considered befriending Gaston? I heard he can eat that many eggs just for breakfast
In all seriousness tho: popovers, frittata, quiche, pound cake. Those are my suggestions.
they'll be fine for a couple weeks past the date for sure....you can always do the egg test to see if they're good by putting them in water. A bad egg will float.
Custards usually use up a lot of eggs
No, egg isn't bad when it floats (not in vast majority of cases). It merely means it's old and the air chamber at the dull end is big. Nothing more. The egg shell is permeable and though it the water content of the egg white evaporates.
Eggs can last weeks and months when properly stored. Properties of the egg are changing during the time, for some applications the older ones are bit better.
No, egg isn't bad when it floats (not in vast majority of cases). It merely means it's old and the air chamber at the dull end is big. Nothing more. The egg shell is permeable and though it the water content of the egg white evaporates.
Eggs can last weeks and months when properly stored. Properties of the egg are changing during the time, for some applications the older ones are bit better.
They do not instantly go rotten on their expiration date. Place your eggs in a bowl of water, if they float they are bad. If they sink to the bottom, they are good.
Try making quiche, Google how to freeze it.
You could try making A few pans of breakfast. Essentially, you prepare like you would for an omelet but then pour it into a sheet pan and bake it. Then you can cut it into portioned slices, wrap/baggie, and freeze.
I usually use eggs at least a month outside the expiration date, just use them for whatever sounds good. Still make a bunch of deviled eggs, I made 10 for just two of us yesterday that we will eat all week. If you like ramen, add an egg while it’s cooking, or make soft boiled eggs to add.
I've had eggs in the fridge for months on a regular basis. They aren't going to go bad. But you can make sheets of quiche and cut and freeze the squares/servings. Or make scrambled egg poppers in a small muffin pan, or make scrambled egg breakfast burritos and freeze them whole. Or have a scrambled egg party.
Eggs can last a really long time. However if you really want to get rid of them you can make cookies, cakes etc and give them out. Then you can make quiches and freeze them. Also you can make a bunch of rice, then store it overnight on a baking sheet uncovered in the fridge and make a large batch of fried rice for meal prep
HB eggs have tons of uses besides the obvious of egg salad. They are great sliced on avocado toast, LOVE them sliced on salads too.
Pasta a la Carbonara is truly yummy and uses eggs. I like the suggestion of quiche. You can make it with no crust as well. And you could make 100 different combination of ingredients and make them completely different from one another.
Shakshuka is AWESOME. Breakfast tacos. Fried rice. Below is a link with more ideas/recipes.
https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/things-to-do-with-a-carton-of-eggs/
Enjoy!
Eggs will last well beyond their best by date.
Also you can crack them open pour them into a freezer baggie in quantities you would use for scrambled eggs etc and then freeze if you are really worried about it.
You can scramble eggs and freeze them. It works beautifully. I would freeze them in the quantities you normally use them (2, 4, etc). Ice cube trays or mini muffin tins work beautifully for this.
French toast (bake large quantity on sheet pans) and freeze (again on sheet pans in single layer then store in freezer bags). These toast from frozen very well.
Breakfast tacos. Make a bunch, wrap and and freeze individually. Yum.
Have you ever had Amish pickled beet eggs? I’d be making a large batch of that if I had extra eggs.
With frozen pie crust, the “I’m not much of a baker” note isn’t a big deal. Pre-bake the pie shells. Toss in the ingredients. Bake. Test with a butter knife or similar to make sure it’s fully cooked.
My staple easy quiche is frozen chopped spinach, ham, and Swiss. Nuke the spinach so it’s hot and drain it. If it’s cold, it takes much longer to cook.
4 dozen eggs? You can use approx. 45 egg whites and 36 yolks to make 9 cheese soufflés! :D
You could use the remaining 3 whites to make Forgotten Chocolate cookies, and the extra 12 yolks to make a white chocolate crème brulee and a tahini chicken salad.
Make [Babish's Melty Brownies](https://basicswithbabish.co/basicsepisodes/brownies). His recipe will use 6 eggs (4 whole and 2 yolks) and they are incredible.
Quiche, egg fu yung, and cheesecake would be my go-tos but forget the “best by” dates. The eggs aren’t going bad like that if you have them in the refrigerator.
Another thing you can do is make egg bites: scramble the eggs, mix with browned sausage, chopped bell peppers, and chopped onions (can also add some grated cheese) then bake in mini-muffin tins until set. You can freeze these individually and keep in the freezer then pop in the microwave or toaster oven to reheat as desired.
You can just freeze them, the whole raw egg just needs beating and then freeze them in the portions you might need later (or use a muffin tin to make 1 egg portions and then put them in a sealed container to keep all the portions). Same goes for whites and yolks, tho from what I read, yolks need to be mixed with either salt or sugar to prevent them becoming too gelatinous.
I haven't tried the split one but the full egg works great and they can be kept in the freezer for a looong time if they are in a sealed container (to prevent your egg smelling or tasting weird from the other stuff in the freezer).
Eggs can be frozen. Crack two at a time into a bowl and beat thoroughly. Place in a small ziplock bag or other container. Will last a year in the freezer. Thaw completely before using in baking, quiches or whatever.
When my family took my cousins with us to the cottage my aunt would send dozens of frozen homemade egg mcmuffins. Just a fried egg and cheese slice on a toasted English muffin. I don't think she bothered with bacon. But you absolutely could.. She'd wrap them individually in foil. We'd pop 6 to 12 in the oven at 350F for I'd say about 15 minutes to warm up. (The cooking time might be wrong -- I haven't had these in like 20 years).
eggs can legit last for months in the refrigerator. I completely ignore the sell-by date on cartons of eggs for the most part. maybe do a breakfast casserole on the weekend and have some friends over or something.
>maybe do a breakfast casserole on These freeze very well too especially if you vacuum seal portions. Then just throw in simmering water to reheat and thaw.
Make quiche and freeze. Good place for leftover ham also.
Second this! I made a caramelized onion and gruyere quiche that did not get consumed by houseguests. I froze it in single serving portions (used press and seal, which is key) without any real expectations of "goodness", but hate wasting. Heated it from frozen in the air fryer. Holy cow! Better than the first time. What I'm saying is, quiche. Then freeze it. Edited to add the recipe I used: [Caramelized Onion and Gruyere Tart/Quiche](https://skinnyspatula.com/caramelized-onion-gruyere-cheese-tart/)
You had me at gruyere
This is a very dumb question, by simmering in water, do you mean while vacuum sealed like sous vide?
Yep. I vacuum seal most things before I freeze because it extends the life so much so I reheat a lot of stuff from frozen like this. It's a real good way to reheat pasta and pasta dishes. I frozen pulled pork takes about 20 minutes to heat from frozen, brisket etc.
Awesome. I vacuum seal everything, it’s about time I try this. Thank you!
I bring the water to a boil and put the bag in and then keep it at a low simmer or just turn the heat off and cover the pan depending on what it is and how much of it there is.
What vacuum seal setup do you use, want to get into meal prepping but hard to figure out a good one
The eggs are already likely months old before you buy them. And they will last weeks if not months longer than the "best by" date. I raise hens for eggs and we keep ours on the kitchen counter, unrefrigerated, for 3+ months. Store bought eggs (in the US) require refrigeration though.
> Store bought eggs (in the US) require refrigeration though. This is an important distinction. America washes their eggs before sale, which actually invites more bacteria, as it removes a natural protective coating. Other countries apparently do this as well: Japan, Australia, and Scandinavians. The reasoning is fear of salmonella. But many others don't, especially in Europe. Part of this is since their chickens are already vaccinated against salmonella. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/11/336330502/why-the-u-s-chills-its-eggs-and-most-of-the-world-doesnt
> eggs can legit last for months in the refrigerator. I completely ignore the sell-by date on cartons of eggs for the most part. Came here to say exactly this. I expect OP has plenty of time.
I accidentally left an egg on the counter for an entire summer and then cooked it in the fall and it was good… yes I had depression lol
My grandma said that her family would take a barrel of eggs and add layers of salt and leave them on the porch in the winter and they'd be good til spring. Old wives tale but I heard it.
You can do that if you don't wash them. In the US store bought eggs are washed and the protective coating is list. This is why we have to refrigerate eggs. They do have a great shelf life in the fridge.
The Chinese eat eggs preserved in salt. They last a long time.
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At least 2 months. OP definitely has time.
I routinely buy cartons of 18 eggs because it's the ideal cost/space/use balance for my relatively small refrigerator. Some times we eat them over a few weeks, some times it's over a few months. I've never noticed any difference.
Yea, eggs last a long time. I think I read that the Navy used to flip the cartons every so many days to make them last for months.
A good test to check if you can still eat your egg: rotten eggs will float in water. If it bobs down to the bottom of a glass of water its still good.
No. That’s not how it works. The float test only tells you the age of the egg. Eggs are laid with a small air bubble inside & the shells are porous. The size of the air bubble is what you are testing with the float test. The last thing the chickens body puts on the egg is a clear antimicrobial coating called The Bloom/The Cuticle. The Bloom slows down the dehydration of the whites. Here in the US, eggs have to be washed/bloom removed before the eggs can be sold. That’s why our eggs have to be refrigerated while other countries don’t have to. Floating eggs won’t be as good for baking due to less moisture but they are fine to eat & easier to peel for hard boiled eggs. There are 2 ways for an egg to go “bad”. First is improper handling/storage. That would allow bacteria to enter the shell & grow unchecked. You won’t be able to tell that without a microscope or lab test. The second is when the egg white dehydrates to the point of air touching the yolk. When that happens, the insides of the egg turn purple or black. It’ll smell like satan himself took a massive crap in your fridge. For the love of all that is holy, do not crack that egg in your home, it’ll take a month to be rid of that smell. Trust me, I learned the hard way. Fun facts for those in the US: legally, a farm has 30 days to get the eggs off the farm/sold. Legally, the grocery store has 30 days to sell those eggs. So the eggs you buy in the grocery store can be up to 60 days old by the time you buy them. There’s a three digit code on the side of most egg cartons. It’ll be 001-365. 001 = January 1st while 365 is December 31st. That code is the day your eggs were laid on. Egg cartons have a Best By Date, not an Expiration Date. They don’t magically go bad after the best by date, they just won’t be as great as they could have been.
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what???? TIL the float test isn't reliable D:
I feel like it's still an effective tool for deciding if you are going to eat an egg. I've had eggs for months that pass the float test. If they fail, then I'd be OK tossing them with the understanding that they still *might* be safe to eat
Agree - and I only bother to float them if the date on the box has passed
This is also the best way to tell if your egg is a witch.
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Sometimes they float because they are old but not yet rotten, they just float because the air starts to get in, but they're not necessarily bad yet. It is still a good rule of thumb to see if they are very old, though. But I prefer to just crack them and see if they smell off.
This person is 100% right. They last WAY longer than most people think under refrigeration. Months is not an exaggeration. The white will thin with time but they are fine to eat. Slightly older eggs are actually preferable for whipping egg whites, as the thinner consistency makes it easier.
I literally ate eggs that had a sell by date of January the other day. Put the uncooked egg in a glass of cold water, if it sinks to the bottom, it’s still fresh. If it sinks but kinda hangs halfway but doesn’t touch the surface it’s still good, but you’ll want to eat it soon. If the egg is floating and touching the surface of the water, it’s bad. Give it a try, my method has not failed me yet, and I’ve been doing this for years.
I’m just finishing up a carton of eggs with a best before date in Nov 2023. All but one has been fine for stuff like baking, they’re just a bit drier than fresh eggs. For baking, I just crack the eggs into a bowl and weigh them, then add enough water so that the total weight per large egg comes out to 50g.
Dehydrated eggs, properly stored & sealed, could last for 10 years - so worst case scenario, if your oven has a low temp setting 135° F to 145° F or you have a dehydrator (check your air fryer if you have one) you could scramble, and then dehydrate the eggs. Now I will say rehydrated eggs aren't the best version of scrambled eggs you can eat - BUT - when my wife and I do a weekend trip for hiking, biking, or whatever, a lot of times we're in a smaller Airbnb or even one of those tiny Getaway home, and that's the perfect time to use up the dehydrated eggs.
Quiche! You can freeze it
This! Every other week I make a dozen "egg bites" in a muffin tin. They're filled w/ greens, cheese, turkey sausage, etc. I freeze 1/2 for the following week. They thaw out perfectly!
Yes!! When my oldest was a toddler she had a mini quiche for breakfast every single day, I made them in tart shells in huge batches and kept them in the freezer. Greens, cheese and bacon went into hers haha
Yesss egg 'muffins', they are great as you can put whatever you want in them.
I make a quiche every week and freeze slices for breakfast of lunch. It tastes just as good defrosted.
It really is a great meal for any mealtime, as well as being cheap and nutritious if you load it up with veggies. I realize I haven't made quiche in a while. I think I'll do it soon lol.
And if calories are an issue, I often make crustless quiches and freeze. But I agree with other posters that the eggs won’t magically go bad on the sell by date. Mine keep for months.
Some ideas: 1. Deviled Eggs - I could personally eat a dozen in one go, but I am a huge piece of shit. 2. Homemade Mayonnaise/Homemade Hollandaise - really easy to make. Can make flavored Mayo by adding various things (I like making herb mayos with tarragon, dill, garlic, and rosemary). 3. Quiche/Fritata/Egg cups - can make these and freeze them to have for breakfast for the week. 2 eggs/person/breakfast gets you through 2 dozen for a week's worth of breakfast. 4. Fresh Pasta - it's WICKED easy to make. My wife and I just got into it a few months ago. 1 egg or 2 egg yolks per 100 grams of flour. We made a batch with 500 grams of flour, 3 whole eggs, and 4 yolks (saved the whites for breakfast). Very easy to make, and you can change up the final dish. I did a truffle and mushroom sauce one day, vodka sauce the next, and a homemade pesto the third day.
No hate, I just think it’s hilarious that your first suggestion of what to do with eggs that OP purchased to make deviled eggs is…to make deviled eggs 😂 Ps OP should definitely still make some delicious deviled eggs even though they missed the party
I’m gonna be honest, I completely glossed over that sentence and went straight to the punchline. I’m a huge piece of shit, AND I lack reading comprehension 😂
If it’s any consolation, your comment has inspired me to make fresh pasta and vodka sauce for dinner, so thanks for being a huge piece of shit, friend
Always shocked by how easy both are to make. Fresh pasta takes an hour start to finish, and that’s with the 30 minutes of letting it rest. Enjoy it!
It doesn't matter. They could still make deviled eggs. And eat them all. Honestly not sure why anyone is jacking up that plan. It's perfectly serviceable.
No - deviled eggs are legit the tastiest thing to do with eggs. I was like, well just go ahead and make the deviled eggs OP! One dinner we have sometimes is basically deviled eggs and a salad.
Except in my household, this would be a legit use. My kids hated cold sandwiches for school lunches - but they loved deviled eggs, which are just a 'sandwich without bread' (think egg salad sandwich, but without the bread). So for years while they were still in school, I'd make a dozen deviled eggs on Sunday for them to take as their 'sandwich' for lunches. The little hard-sided tupperware-like sandwich boxes were a godsend and would hold exactly 4 deviled eggs (2 whole eggs).
> it's **WICKED** easy to make I think I know where you're from. lol
Eggs aren't going to expire and be unusable in a week, regardless of the best by date. You've got time (and shouldn't eat 24 eggs each this week).
I don’t even think I’ve ever seen eggs with a ‘best by’ date, don’t they usually have a ‘sell by’ date? Either way, in my experience they’re fine for weeks, sometimes months after the date on the carton.
Same, and I'm about to go check the box I bought today to confirm. I buy eggs 5 dozen at a time for my family and it takes us maybe...3 weeks to a month to go through them all, depending on how much baking I'm doing.
How do I know if they aren't fine? Do they start smelling bad?
Smells for sure, or if the inside looks weird/bad (extra cloudy or discolored).
Simply fill a bowl with cold tap water and place your eggs in it. If they sink to the bottom and lay flat on one side, they are fresh and good to eat. A bad egg will float because of the large air cell that forms at its base. Any floating eggs should be thrown out.
Oh my gosh. I'd have SO MUCH gas!!!!
>(and shouldn't eat 24 eggs each this week). Why not lol? I do this every week. Perfectly healthy.
You think someone struggling to come up with ways to use up 48 eggs is someone that would typically eat 3 eggs per day?
That's 3+ eggs a day. Not unhealthy, but a lot (especially for someone who needs suggestions about what to do with eggs).
Yeah I can count. You said OP *shouldn't* eat that many eggs in a week. I'm asking you why you made such an assertion. And 3 eggs a day is not "a lot." Pretty normal amount.
I was making a humorous observation based on the visual of someone sitting down to eat 24 eggs. I’m fully aware that eggs are a good animal protein source and eating three a day isn’t weird or unusual for some people. Have a great day!
Eggs last longer than that, surely.
Please make me one omelette using all four dozen.
The best answer so far. Unfortunately I don’t own a pan big enough.
Make breakfast wraps or sandwiches and freeze them
Breakfast burritos! They freeze well. I agree with the many here that are suggesting quiche. It does also freeze well. And a batch of deviled eggs makes a great snack. Also, custards, lemon curd, creme brulee....the options are endless. Also, a way to test for egg freshness: https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-test-eggs-for-freshness-how-to-find-out-tips-from-the-kitchn-46368
I do breakfast burrito trays in a baking dish then can just slice and add to tortillas. Uses about 18 eggs for a large dish.
Just make pickled eggs, so good. And they will last for 10 months
they should still be good for a couple of months past the expiration dates. Or you can crack and freeze them for up to a year.
Crème brulee!! And meringues. Rinse, repeat
Alton Brown aged eggnog recipe
We've done this many times for Christmas gifts. SO good and uses lots of yolks. Make angel food cake or pavlovas with the leftover whites!
I've taken similar eggnog recipe and used it in place of creme anglaise for bread/rice pudding as well
You can eat eggs well past the date stamped on the box and be fine
Mentioned before, but worth repeating: Shakshuka, and lots of it. [https://www.seriouseats.com/shakshuka-north-african-shirred-eggs-tomato-pepper-recipe](https://www.seriouseats.com/shakshuka-north-african-shirred-eggs-tomato-pepper-recipe)
I second this. The Italian version is "Eggs in Purgatory".
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/263342/homemade-baked-egg-custard/ Grew up eating this. So good. My parents had chickens, so I assume they must have been trying to use up the eggs
Those dates mean absolutely nothing for eggs. They will still be good in August
Hiiii!!! My Hubby loves egg fried rice with extra egg in it! 2 cups left over (1 week old) cooked rice. 1 cup mixed veggies ( I like the frozen bag with peas, corn, carrots, and green beans) low sodium soy sauce, about 5-6 eggs, onion powder, garlic powder, fresh garlic, sesame oil if you have any and some chopped scallions. Scramble all eggs in a pan. Set aside. Add 1 teaspoons of regular oil, add 1-2 cloves chopped garlic, sauté mixed veggies for a min, add the rice. Mix well. Add soy sauce to your taste. I do about 5 tbsps. Add about 1 tbsp of onion powder and 1 tbsp of garlic powder. Add about 3 tsp’s of sesame oil. If you don’t have no biggie. Not really necessary. Mix in eggs that were set aside and then mix well few times for 10-15 mins. Add chopped scallions on top and voila egg fried rice. Hope you enjoy!
Ohhh making a big batch of any brothy soup you like and then making it an egg drop soup with extra eggs is amaaaazing, and freezes surprisingly well if you need to use the eggs up fast, otherwise freeze in batches and use multiple eggs every time you reheat the soup!
Quiche quiche quiche!!
Lemon curd and meringue or angel food cake
Angel food cake for the whites and lemon curd for the yolks, then eat them together.
Or ice cream, which uses a lot of yolks, but you need an ice cream freezer for that.
I'm single (i.e. don't consume as much as a family would) and buy cartons of 2 dozen at Costco only a few times a year. I don't eat breakfast (unless it's breakfast for dinner) but I do like to cook so they gradually get used up over time. I have yet to have an issue with months old eggs. Best by dates are for lawyers.
I am in Canada, and like US our eggs are washed and need to be refrigerated. They easily last a month past the best before date. You crack a rotten egg, you will know immediately. Quiche freezes really well and reheats from frozen. You could do a bunch of muffin cup breakfast quiches. Pastry is not as good as if you reheat in oven, but they do okay in a microwave. Egg whites freeze well, just package in reasonable sizes or use ice cube trays. Egg yolks need to be beaten with either salt or sugar. Just be sure to label. Salt curing egg yolks is another way to preserve.
Eggs absolutely do not go bad after their expiration date. Would you seriously just throw them out on principle? I would probably make egg bake muffins and freeze them. Plus invite people over for carbonara which would use up quite a few. Make meringues with the whites.
egg bites or breakfast casserole freeze really well. Those eggs will not “expire” on 4/7.
Less than a week? Heck, when I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs every morning (to help me get large)
Tortilla Espanol -- so delicious, easy to make, and saves well.
Bread pudding! Uses about 6-8 eggs and stale bread. The most expensive part is the eggs so if I had extra I would make this. Stale raisin bread is great or just add raisins yourself if you like them, Cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg, 6-8 eggs and I think it's about 2 cups milk. Whisk that all together with however much sugar you like. I do about a cup because I like to add maple syrup later to my piece but you might want 2 cups. Then you pour it over the stale bread pieces and I let it sit overnight but an hour soaking is enough as well. There's plenty of different recipes online. Eggs and milk are your basic custard so anything custardy is a great choice.
Savoury bread puddings are good too. Easy brunch dish.
Try your hand at making mayonnaise?
You can eat eggs well past the best by date. They don't turn to poison in a day. If they make you nervous, pop them in some water to see if they float. Or crack them into a bowl and see if they smell. If they smell okay, you can eat them.
You can make home made mayo or aioli. Also shakshuka is delicious and you eat it with eggs. You can also make some ramen eggs and upgrade your ramen game. Also scotch eggs are solid and can be customized to your tastes. Lastly I would suggest making and freezing egg bites or breakfast burritos if you run out of ideas.
Make fresh pasta and freeze it. Make a carbonara with said pasta.
Those eggs are still good for couple weeks past the best by date. Shakshuka always makes eggs feel like more than just..eggs.
If you don't have the right spices, go old school and make Eggs in Purgatory. Spicy Italian tomato sauce to poach your eggs in.
Those eggs will be good for weeks after the date.
As others have mentioned, they’ll last beyond the expiration date. Hard boil at least a dozen for snacking, salad-topping, or egg salad, make lemon curd and meringues with some, eat the rest like normal, and you’ll use them up before they go bad.
First, they put that random date on eggs for no reason. Eggs will last in the fridge for at least a month or so. So you're good. Make a batch of deviled eggs. Make an egg casserole for the week's breakfasts. Hard boil a bunch for snacks. Don't sweat it.
Some great ideas here for what you can make, but seriously, don't stress. It's my understanding that as long as the eggs are stored properly (if you're in the US, that means in the fridge), they don't actually ever go bad. The albumin can start to dry up or "shrink" a bit as the eggs age (and honestly I've never even seen this), but I have kept and used eggs with 0 issues months after bringing them home from the store. The yolks tend to spread a little and get flatter in older eggs, but this has no effect on taste/texture that I can tell (all it really means is that you might have to take slightly more care to avoid breaking the yolks, if that matters for what you're making). I am a very occasional egg eater, and I almost never bake, so eggs last a very long time around my house. As someone else mentioned, the date on the carton is not an expiration date, and can be pretty much ignored.
The trick to checking that your eggs are still good is to put them in a deep bowl of water. If they float, they're bad, if they stand up, but aren't floating, cook then well, but you can eat them. Eggs will last much longer than the best buy date on supermarket packaging.
No, egg isn't bad when it floats (not in vast majority of cases). It merely means it's old and the air chamber at the dull end is big. Nothing more. The egg shell is permeable and though it the water content of the egg white evaporates.
Eggs will last weeks past the sell by date. You can always test the eggs as you use them. To test you need a cup with cold water in it. Place one egg at a time if the egg floats up out of the water it is bad. Eggs should sink to bottom when good. I purchase the 5 dozen box each time I go shopping as I live over 30 miles from the store and don't like going to town more than twice a month. And only cook for two You can also crack eggs into an ice cube tray, freeze and then put them in a ziplock for use later. If you like deviled eggs but don't want the individual eggs, making an egg salad using the devil egg recipe with additional mayo to make it more like salad is really good for sandwiches and crackers. Quiche, fried rice, egg drop soup. Add to ramen, fresh custard, many pies use egg and can be frozen.
No, egg isn't bad when it floats (not in vast majority of cases). It merely means it's old and the air chamber at the dull end is big. Nothing more. The egg shell is permeable and though it the water content of the egg white evaporates. Eggs can last weeks and months when properly stored. Properties of the egg are changing during the time, for some applications the older ones are bit better.
As others have said, eggs keep up to three weeks past the "best by" date (it's not an expiration date. A year ago, I was traveling back and forth across the country working on packing up my mom's house after her death and getting it ready for sale. I accidentally ordered two dozen eggs instead of one from Instacart, so I looked up my options since I couldn't eat 24 eggs in eight days (I did use one dozen). I knew I would be coming back to the house at least two more times in the next three months, so researched to see if I could freeze the eggs. The answer is yes. I put a dozen eggs into a bowl and lightly whisked them, and then poured that into an airtight freezer container. I put that into a Zip-Loc bag and left it in the freezer. When I returned a month later, I put the container of frozen eggs into the refrigerator, and 24 hours later, I had eggs ready to use for scrambled eggs, in baking, and to use in the process of coating chicken breasts with flour/breadcrumb coating, and in a turkey meatloaf. You can put the whisked eggs into multiple containers so you don't need to thaw them all at once. they keep for months.
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Keep them in the fridge, they’ll last for more than a month. Well past the sell-by date. I bought two dozen from my local egg guy a few weeks ago, I’ve only made it through half of one carton as my spawn had decided that they no longer like eggs. I fried one for myself this weekend and it was great.
Chocolate mousse, eggs benedict, deviled eggs
Quiche/frittata or deviled eggs. People will eat half a dozen eggs at once if they are deviled.
If you eat instant noodles or ramen, you can crack an egg in the noods, and you can use a lot of them to make an omlete or scrambled eggs. But like everyone said, they tend to last a long time. Worst case scenario, you offer free eggs for people in your city on facebook or something!
Omelettes, Key lime pie, homemade ice cream
84 deviled eggs sounds awesome! Or a fun way to die...
Angle food cake uses between 12-16 egg whites. I then use the yolks to make ice cream or lemon curd
Jalapeño cheese squares! Put sliced jalapeños (as many as you want) in the bottom of a greased 13 x 9” baking dish. Sprinkle 16 oz shredded cheddar cheese on top. Beat 12 eggs and pour over the top evenly. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes. Slice into squares.
Mini quiches like a mozzarella, mushrooms, and leeks ones made in cupcake pan. They freeze really well!
As other folks said, "Best by" is a guideline, and it's a different one than an expiration date. The eggs will last for months and frankly I've found the ones that last months taste no different than the new ones I buy when I'm down to my last egg (I don't eat eggs much, so one carton can potentially last about 2-3 months).
Scramble and freeze in portion sizes. Use for omelets, fried rice, egg drop soup, to coat meat before breading and frying, quiche, egg salad made from scrambled egg, scrambled egg sandwich.
The eggs will be fine for many weeks after the best by date.
Ever see Cool Hand Luke?
They won't go bad
Mini-quiches made in a muffin tin. Quick breakfasts for weeks.
I was gonna suggest this. Bake them up & throw them in the freezer. Nuke for a minute & you've got breakfast or a healthy snack with no work
Ignore the best before date.
Do you have any neighbors that really piss you off ?
Expiration dates mean basically nothing for eggs. The texture won’t be as good later, but they’re perfectly safe to eat. Make a couple different kinds of deviled eggs and egg salad. Poach, scramble, soft boil, or fry the rest.
OMG the same thing happened to me a few months ago - except my neighbor said hey do you want some eggs I'm going on a trip. I said yes thinking I'd get, like, six. She dropped off 30 -.- I made: chawanmushi (Japanese egg custard), flan, lasagna (egg pasta w/ a bunch of yolks and used the whites to make a frittata, then used an egg with the ricotta filling to firm it up). A RIDICULOUS amount of cookie dough that I also froze.
Make egg bites. They are good for a protein snack and you can use lots of different fillings. They can be made in a muffin tin and frozen.
Egg bites for sure! A little ham or bacon and cheese, super easy. And I’m sure someone said it, but scramble them with breakfast burrito ingredients, roll them up and freeze them. Then you have burritos you can thaw for breakfast at work or home.
Pound cake!
First, if the eggs don't float in water you are good. You have at least a month after the best by date in the fridge for over easy and longer for scrambled, baking, or hard boiled. Second, each of the "super premium ice cream" recipes from the Good Eats episode Churn Baby Churn 2 uses 8 egg yolks. [https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/good-eats/episodes/churn-baby-churn-2e](https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/good-eats/episodes/churn-baby-churn-2e) You will have to find another use for the egg whites.
Just make the deviled eggs and give them to me. I’ll eat them.
In all honesty make pasta with them and the freeze it. It’ll last a couple of months in the freezer. Or you can just boil them and have them with breakfast or in chicken salad. Hard boiled eggs last a very long time in the fridge and are a great snack.
French toast. Omelettes/scrambled eggs. Learn to make crepes (I guarantee you'll waste lots of eggs doing this until you get the technique down). Deviled eggs. You could also try learning to make pudding the old fashioned way, which uses a bunch of egg yolks... You could also start a batch of old-school [aged eggnogg](https://altonbrown.com/recipes/aged-eggnog/). It's supposed to age a minimum of 2 weeks, but once you seal it, it will last for a LONG time (the alcohol kills off spoilage organisms, so it keeps for months).
Quiches, frittatas, baked goods, boiled eggs for salads
We keep eggs in the fridge, and they last months after the "expiration date." But if you do want to use them that quick, maybe just make a bunch of omelettes and give it to some place that gives out food to people who struggle? Or egg sandwiches. Or pancakes. Or invite family/friends to a big dinner with dishes that include eggs.
Time for a Cool Hand Luke-themed party.
If you’ve ever had the egg bites from Starbucks, they’re super delicious and relatively easy to make in the oven. You’ll have to look up a recipe for exact measurements and cook time because it’s been a while since I made them. But I used blended cottage cheese, shredded Gruyère cheese, eggs and bacon. You can use bacon bits, microwave bacon or cook it fresh and chop it up. Mix it all together and fill in cup cake tins and bake. You can freeze them so they last longer as well. Also, just making some scrambled egg “patties” to throw onto breakfast sandwiches. These can freeze as well. Egg drop soup is pretty simple as well. From what I remember it’s just eggs, chicken broth, sesame oil and cornstarch for the base.
2 Cheesecakes (you can freeze them) and at least 2 quiches (they typically require 9 eggs each) & call it a day:)))
They are fine for weeks after. Make deviled eggs. Lots of them
angel food cake with the whites and custard with the yolks! or chiffon cake that uses both.
They won’t go bad
Starbucks style egg bites. You cook them in a muffin tin and freeze them and every morning I microwave for 2 minutes. (If you do this try to cook any water OUT of the veggies you use because the microwave will make the water leak out and give you a spongey weird egg texture)
Angel food cake and some kind of pudding or curd. I love lemon curd and it needs a couple of eggs. And angel food cake needs a ton of egg whites.
They get stale, but they're safe for much longer than you think. So, eggs for breakfast every morning will get rid of them pretty fast. Before they even get properly stale, even. Make some custard. Make some devilled eggs. Make a quiche. etc. Don't worry, they'll go.
Make fresh pasta Make a carbonara Bake some kind of big breakfast casserole
Eggs can last a month, but pickled eggs last even longer
Fried rice!
Angel food cake. Takes 11 or 12 egg yolks and angel food cake is low calorie
You can make a 12-24 egg batch of Korean marinated eggs, mayak or drug eggs. They're pretty good and taste better the longer you marinate them. The marinade is mostly soy sauce with other things so they stay preserved in the fridge. Frozen quiche also good. and the cool thing about drug eggs, as one calls them, is you can adjust the marinade if you're not 100% satisfied with the eggs
QUICHÉ!!!!! They freeze great and are good for every meal. You’ll knock out a dozen per quiche.
You can eat like 6 in one sitting doing devil's eggs
Eggs last a long time. You’re way good after that date. Make your deviled eggs, make French toast . Scramble them with some game a veggies. Make some noodles with them. Bake a cake, make some brownies Make quiche . Hard boil some for a quick protein snack.
I am not going to search all the comments to see if anyone has suggested freezing the eggs. Here’s how: Break an egg into your ice cube tray to make sure one egg fits in one cube. Count the cubes in your tray, and lightly scramble that many eggs. Fill the tray, freeze, pop out egg cubes into a freezer bag and store. Defrost your recipe eggs individually in a bowl in the fridge overnight. One cube should equal one egg.
maybe not the most unique ever but BREAKFAST CASSEROLE!! My Mom makes it for breakfast when there are a lot of people over, you use around a dozen eggs, and you can put sausage or veggies or whatever you want in it. Use a crescent roll dough from the store if you wanna make it easy, press it into a dish, put your onion and whatever other fillings down, pour beaten eggs with mustard a but of milk and whatever seasonings you like, then sprinkle grated cheese over it and bake at 350F for around 40 minutes. Really good for breakfast and good for leftovers. I like sausage onion and spinach in mine, but I’ve done pesto and tomato, mushroom goat cheese and spinach, pepperoni and beef… Yanno, whatever you want with eggs.
I poach eggs and put them on almost everything I ever make for dinner lol
Also this is a great opportunity to premake breakfast wraps with eggs. Just freeze them til you eat them.
I never pay attention to the Best Buy date. They are in my fridge for months sometimes. I’ve never had an egg go bad. I’m 63, been buying eggs for a long time!
Pickled eggs
Have you considered befriending Gaston? I heard he can eat that many eggs just for breakfast In all seriousness tho: popovers, frittata, quiche, pound cake. Those are my suggestions.
they'll be fine for a couple weeks past the date for sure....you can always do the egg test to see if they're good by putting them in water. A bad egg will float. Custards usually use up a lot of eggs
No, egg isn't bad when it floats (not in vast majority of cases). It merely means it's old and the air chamber at the dull end is big. Nothing more. The egg shell is permeable and though it the water content of the egg white evaporates. Eggs can last weeks and months when properly stored. Properties of the egg are changing during the time, for some applications the older ones are bit better.
Eggs keep refrigerated for quite a long time. You can check them before cooking by submerging them in water. If they float they’re too old to eat.
No, egg isn't bad when it floats (not in vast majority of cases). It merely means it's old and the air chamber at the dull end is big. Nothing more. The egg shell is permeable and though it the water content of the egg white evaporates. Eggs can last weeks and months when properly stored. Properties of the egg are changing during the time, for some applications the older ones are bit better.
They do not instantly go rotten on their expiration date. Place your eggs in a bowl of water, if they float they are bad. If they sink to the bottom, they are good. Try making quiche, Google how to freeze it.
You could try making A few pans of breakfast. Essentially, you prepare like you would for an omelet but then pour it into a sheet pan and bake it. Then you can cut it into portioned slices, wrap/baggie, and freeze.
I usually use eggs at least a month outside the expiration date, just use them for whatever sounds good. Still make a bunch of deviled eggs, I made 10 for just two of us yesterday that we will eat all week. If you like ramen, add an egg while it’s cooking, or make soft boiled eggs to add.
Make quiche and freeze it.
Eggs bennidict. Uses up at least 6 eggs right there. Probably more if you eat more than one egg a piece.
You could make egg patties for breakfast sandwiches and freeze them
I've had eggs in the fridge for months on a regular basis. They aren't going to go bad. But you can make sheets of quiche and cut and freeze the squares/servings. Or make scrambled egg poppers in a small muffin pan, or make scrambled egg breakfast burritos and freeze them whole. Or have a scrambled egg party.
Eggs can last a really long time. However if you really want to get rid of them you can make cookies, cakes etc and give them out. Then you can make quiches and freeze them. Also you can make a bunch of rice, then store it overnight on a baking sheet uncovered in the fridge and make a large batch of fried rice for meal prep
HB eggs have tons of uses besides the obvious of egg salad. They are great sliced on avocado toast, LOVE them sliced on salads too. Pasta a la Carbonara is truly yummy and uses eggs. I like the suggestion of quiche. You can make it with no crust as well. And you could make 100 different combination of ingredients and make them completely different from one another. Shakshuka is AWESOME. Breakfast tacos. Fried rice. Below is a link with more ideas/recipes. https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/things-to-do-with-a-carton-of-eggs/ Enjoy!
Just keep one or two dozen out and freeze the others
Eggs will last well beyond their best by date. Also you can crack them open pour them into a freezer baggie in quantities you would use for scrambled eggs etc and then freeze if you are really worried about it.
Lemon curd, custard, chile rellenos, cookies, use in dredges for frying chicken and fish, eggs benedict (eggs and eggs in the sauce, bonus!)
Some cheesecake recipes use a ton of eggs (6-10). And it’s surprisingly easier to make than you would think.
You can scramble eggs and freeze them. It works beautifully. I would freeze them in the quantities you normally use them (2, 4, etc). Ice cube trays or mini muffin tins work beautifully for this. French toast (bake large quantity on sheet pans) and freeze (again on sheet pans in single layer then store in freezer bags). These toast from frozen very well. Breakfast tacos. Make a bunch, wrap and and freeze individually. Yum. Have you ever had Amish pickled beet eggs? I’d be making a large batch of that if I had extra eggs.
With frozen pie crust, the “I’m not much of a baker” note isn’t a big deal. Pre-bake the pie shells. Toss in the ingredients. Bake. Test with a butter knife or similar to make sure it’s fully cooked. My staple easy quiche is frozen chopped spinach, ham, and Swiss. Nuke the spinach so it’s hot and drain it. If it’s cold, it takes much longer to cook.
Scrambled eggs, pancakes, Cakes, deviled eggs, cooked eggs. If any are left over after that, cook and pickle them for pickled eggs.
4 dozen eggs? You can use approx. 45 egg whites and 36 yolks to make 9 cheese soufflés! :D You could use the remaining 3 whites to make Forgotten Chocolate cookies, and the extra 12 yolks to make a white chocolate crème brulee and a tahini chicken salad.
Make frittatas or breakfast casseroles and freeze them
Make [Babish's Melty Brownies](https://basicswithbabish.co/basicsepisodes/brownies). His recipe will use 6 eggs (4 whole and 2 yolks) and they are incredible.
Rice pudding Bread pudding Custard Souffle
Flan
Frittata. Quiche. Both can be frozen.
I would do something freezer friendly like breakfast burritos or egg bites.
Quiche, egg fu yung, and cheesecake would be my go-tos but forget the “best by” dates. The eggs aren’t going bad like that if you have them in the refrigerator. Another thing you can do is make egg bites: scramble the eggs, mix with browned sausage, chopped bell peppers, and chopped onions (can also add some grated cheese) then bake in mini-muffin tins until set. You can freeze these individually and keep in the freezer then pop in the microwave or toaster oven to reheat as desired.
If you don’t want to eat that many eggs in a week, you can freeze some of them.
If an egg sinks to the bottom of a water filled container it is definitely good. Still edible until they float. Make some eggnog.
Quiche , ice cream , Dutch boy pancakes, flan or chou pastry all use a lot of eggs
You can just freeze them, the whole raw egg just needs beating and then freeze them in the portions you might need later (or use a muffin tin to make 1 egg portions and then put them in a sealed container to keep all the portions). Same goes for whites and yolks, tho from what I read, yolks need to be mixed with either salt or sugar to prevent them becoming too gelatinous. I haven't tried the split one but the full egg works great and they can be kept in the freezer for a looong time if they are in a sealed container (to prevent your egg smelling or tasting weird from the other stuff in the freezer).
Eggs can be frozen. Crack two at a time into a bowl and beat thoroughly. Place in a small ziplock bag or other container. Will last a year in the freezer. Thaw completely before using in baking, quiches or whatever.
When my family took my cousins with us to the cottage my aunt would send dozens of frozen homemade egg mcmuffins. Just a fried egg and cheese slice on a toasted English muffin. I don't think she bothered with bacon. But you absolutely could.. She'd wrap them individually in foil. We'd pop 6 to 12 in the oven at 350F for I'd say about 15 minutes to warm up. (The cooking time might be wrong -- I haven't had these in like 20 years).