How to Safely Wash and Store Chicken Eggs
If you are new to keeping chickens for the eggs they produce, it's important to clean those eggs before eating them. Egg cleaning methods are helpful to know for your personal needs or if you want to sell eggs at the farmers market or direct to consumers. Learn a couple of ways you can make sure freshly laid eggs are clean, safe, and attractive to buyers.To get more news about Egg cleaning machine, you can visit dinneregg official website.
The best method for washing your eggs is to dry clean your eggs. To do this, use something dry and slightly abrasive to rub off any dirt or feces until the egg is clean. With this method, you do not use water or any sanitizer. Use a sanding sponge, loofah, fine sandpaper, or abrasive sponge of some kind to dry-clean the eggs. Periodically sanitize the sponge or loofah or discard the old one in favor of a new one.
This method preserves the natural antibacterial coating called the "bloom." Washing the eggs with water removes the bloom and encourages bacteria.
The main bacteria you want to avoid with eggs is salmonella, which is food-borne and can lead to food poisoning. You only run the risk of getting a salmonella infection if bacteria is present on the eggshell, and you intend on eating the egg in a raw preparation. Some popular dressings have raw egg, such as fresh mayonnaise, hollandaise, and Caesar dressing. However, cooking kills bacteria.
Sometimes eggs are just too grimy or unpleasant to dry clean. It is not uncommon to get unsightly smears or splashes of feces or dried egg yolk (from broken coop eggs).
If you cannot seem to get them clean with the dry-clean method, then you need to wet-wash the egg. Use water that is warmer than the egg's temperature. Keep it at medium warmth, not hot but not tepid. Avoid cold water entirely. Cold water can cause the pores in an eggshell to suck bacteria from the surface and into the egg where you don't want it. Never immerse or soak the eggs in water.
Wash the eggs under running water from the faucet or spray the eggs in washer flats or wire baskets with warm water. Let them sit and wipe dry with a dry paper towel one at a time. Place the clean eggs in another basket or flat.
To sanitize the eggs, spray the cleaned eggs with a diluted bleach-water solution. Allow the eggs to dry on a rack, in a basket, or a washer flat. If the water and sanitizing spray are not enough for particularly stubborn stains, you can remove those stains by dipping the eggs in warm vinegar.
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