Cleaning and storing fresh eggs

Excellent and sensible advice. I've seen those egg wipes - always felt they were an expensive waste of money. Glad you didn't mention them in the article.
I'd rather keep the bloom on my eggs if there's just a small muddy smear on the shell. Generally if you keep a clean coop you'll have clean eggs that don't need washing. We really only have dirty eggs when we have heavy rain storms & everything gets muddy! Then I wash, dry and refrigerate the eggs.

Simple and to the point! Great information for those just starting out

Interesting article!

Thank you! Very helpful information

I never wash my eggs, I just crack them poop side up.

If you have hens that lay eggs, this may be some good information for you to decide whether cleaning eggs is right for you, and how you want to store them.

And information!!!

I love having the information about commercial egg. I think a lot of people are amazed to hear this.

Preparing for our pullets to lay in a few months. So much to learn. In an age of overwhelming information on every possible bacteria, virus, parasite, etc., that can afflict us, or our flocks, as we try to provide healthy to our families, I really appreciate sensical articles like this!

That "egg slide" is pretty cool if you have a few chickens

Thank you for the information. Informative and with sources! This helped me a lot.

This was a great and interesting article to read, and a lot of the information I had no idea about! Such as, eggs from grocery stores could be old! Thanks for writing this article it definitely helped!

Thank you for writing this article. Due to roll-out best boxes I rarely get dirty eggs but one or two insist on laying on the coop floor! I sometimes wash those eggs and always wonder whether I should just leave them alone! I usually end up eating those eggs myself instead of selling/giving them away.

Breaks down old myths about fresh eggs.

I had no idea store bought eggs were could be that old!!! I am even more "egg-cited" for my littles to start laying...though I know it's months away. Very informative on how to clean "dirty eggs". Thanks for all of the info!

Great article with lots of information. I love how you linked other appropriate threads to this one.

This is is great article, and I was glad you mentioned the bloom because not everyone knows about that and a lot of people leave it out.

Really interesting article. I wasn't aware of the 'bloom' properties and even though I've worked in a butchers for 17years selling eggs, I had no idea they have 30 days to get the eggs to the store before the 'best before' date gets stamped on the carton with another 30 days!
Thank for the info.

Before reading this article, I was not aware that cool water could potentially suck bacteria in through the porous shell. Will definitely wash with warm water from now on!

My grandma used to clean her eggs with a dry scrub pad only if needed. Otherwise they'd be left alone. This article is a good reminder that most often things are best left in their natural state.