If you have chickens

[isabel]

How do you ensure that you're using the oldest eggs first?

I don't want to bother with dating them or anything like that, but they're basically just sitting in a bowl on our counter right now. I found this thing on Amazon, which is cool, but it's a little pricey. I may break down and buy it unless I can come up with a better solution though.

www.amazon.com/Egg-Skelter-Cream-Small-Medium/dp/B006MXCLHE/ref=sr_1_14?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1418703323&sr=1-14&keywords=egg+skelter

[isabel]

Dec 15, 2014 23:24:05 GMT -5 @aliciaroset said:

I don't have chickens, but it sounds like you can keep fresh eggs for a very long time:
www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/how-to-store-fresh-eggs-zmaz77ndzgoe.aspx#axzz3M20nXv00

You can always test to see if they're still good:
lifehacker.com/5899893/put-eggs-in-a-bowl-of-water-to-see-if-theyve-gone-bad

Eggs last forever, especially these since we don't wash them until we're ready to use them. But our chickens are each laying an egg a day, which means we are averaging about 18 eggs a week. They started laying right before Thanksgiving, but I can already tell we're going to get overwhelmed with eggs soon. I don't want to have to test them every time I go to eat one. Plus, it's entirely possible I'll keep skipping over the oldest one with my current "system" or lack thereof.

[textbookcase]

I just do the water floaty test thing. They really do last forever.

[textbookcase]

Also, I keep them in cartons in the fridge, with older on top.

[olive]

I try to use the oldest first by keeping them in cartons and putting the cartons with the oldest eggs up front. Sometimes I forget and have to use the water test.

[katb]

I have link from Kohls.  I just put new eggs in the back and move them up as I get new ones. 

[mala]

I don't have chickens, but I will one day! My friends just put the date on it in pencil.

ETA: which is totally not what you asked. Why don't you want to date them? 

[Deleted]

Perhaps you could donate some if you aren't using them fast enough?

[Bad Dingo]

I never really worry about it. When we were getting too many to eat early on I just gave them away a lot.

[jinkies]

What Bad Dingo said-- I don't really worry about. When we get up to 3 dozen I start giving them away. It's never really been a problem.

[isabel]

I just want a system of some sort so that I don't have to think about it. I may just grab a couple of cartons to keep them rotated, like others suggested.

And we'll start giving them to friends if we have too many, that's not a concern.

[Deleted]

I just used egg cartons and kept them in order.

[sugarbear]

We eat them so quickly that it's not an issue.

[sillygoosegirl]

We had a maximum of two chickens at any given time, so never a lot of eggs. We had a convention of loading from the left side of the carton and pulling from the right.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

I laughed about this all night.