1 hour ago, Tropicalsenior said:I know it's ridiculous keep eggs in the refrigerator here but whether it's habit or whether it's just the most handy place for me to reach for the eggs, I still do it. I know better. My mother had lots of chickens and sold eggs. Most of the time they went to market twice a week but sometimes in the winter it would be 2 weeks. We always had buckets of eggs sitting in the unrefrigerated pantry. They were not washed and they did not go rotten.
Yes, it's the same here. Eggs are laid out in the market all year round. I don't recall seeing any fridges in the markets. Supermarkets have fridges, but no eggs in there. I wash mine immediately before cooking to remove any 'dirt'; until then they sit there as they came from nature. In the last 28 years, I've only found one bad egg and that was a man. 坏蛋 (huài dàn) 'bad egg' is slang for 'a scoundrel' or 'absolute bastard'.
Unwashed eggs in my local market - sitting in baskets on the ground.
