One day we hope to be raising our own chickens for fresh eggs but for now we try to always purchase our eggs from our local farmers market. On occasion I need to run to our local market and grab a dozen. I never really thought twice that they wouldn't be that fresh. Thinking they were organic and cage free we should be pretty much in the clear. Well I am reading of course another cookbook that I have had around for a while and thought I would finally look through The River Cottage Family Cookbook
. Another fantastic cookbook with great information and photography. Well I stumbled upon a section on eggs and started reading on how to tell if your eggs are really fresh. You gently set them in a bowl of cold water and they should lay flat on the bottom. If the egg stands on its point at the bottom then it is a couple days old. But if it floats to the top of the water it means don't even think about cracking it open, it is old. When an egg gets older I guess the white shrinks and the egg fills up with air. Pretty interesting, so I decided to try it on the eggs I just purchased at a really popular market here and most of them stood on point at the bottom, but a couple floated to the top! So now the fresh egg test is going to become a habit of mine before we use any of them. Maybe you should check yours out and see what you find:)
