Oooo, look who’s so rich, they can afford eggs…
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Nice
Normally like this, but we ate them all yesterday.
Any particular reason for the markers on the eggshell?
It's the dates they're laid!
Id be cautious about using sharpies on eggs. The shell is pourous. It looks like you're using a regular pen. You're probably fine but we avoid out of an abundance of caution
pencil would probably work
I have 4 eggs left and they're all right in the middle, 2 in the top row, 2 in the bottom row, to create balance in the flimsy container they came in.
I don't use eggs like that, but my housemate does. Looks like they take em from the carton one row at a time, the carton currently looks like:
1 1 1 1 1 1
0 0 0 0 0 0
Of all the things I could have been embarrassed about today I was not expecting this
Bunch of rich people or non Americans on here.
Why do companies refuse to tessellate their eggs?! You could have 3x rows of 3-4-3 for 10 eggs, 5-6-5 for 16 eggs or 7-8-7 for a 22-pack.
I'm assuming they want extra cushioning and don't want the complexity that would bring. Maybe there would be issues where they would fall into each other's pits and get stuck or smash into eggs beneath.
USA. I have a ceramic egg holder for my fridge. it holds 18 flat.
As an American, I can't afford eggs. 😔
And even if you could, you’d get RFKitis
Saw someone buying eggs the other day and asked them what they did for a living
"Egg broker"
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Always eggs in the middle. Because when I pick it up I always want the center of the weight to be in the same place. If all the weight is to one side and I grab the opposite side I'm more likely to drop it. Yes this is how I live my life, by overanalyzing everything.
That's the same reason that I do the opposite - I take an equal number from each end, so the remaining eggs are centered in the carton, so I'm never surprised by a carton that's unbalanced in an unexpected direction.
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You at least have to keep it symetrical.
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Almost out, picking up three more cartons tomorrow from my supplier of eggs from free range, grass fed, goat harassed happy hens.
The cartons are usually whatever my supplier happen to have there and then. Pretty standard egg cartons as sold at the store.
I usually use pairs as it's fastest to mentally intuit how many eggs remain that way.
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Eegan bo beegan I'm vegan
2 ounces of plain applesauce is one egg for simple baking recipes
Amateurs.
(90-packs due to two bodybuilder household – amateurs, as in not professional :)
husbears?
Had to look it up XD Just regular papa and mama bear with cubs :)
Currently full, but I work my way in from the outside corners to the inside by the hinge so it is balanced when I pick it up one handed. It might be slightly lopsided because I always pull multiple eggs next to each other with one hand, but mostly centered.
So it frequently looks something like this:
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We have backyard chickens. The huge one was a double yoker and delicious 😋
For a second I thought you had some kind of crazy triangular egg carton until I realized it was just foreshortening.
I had to read your comment to realize it wasn't some cool home-chicken-owner egg holder.
I think the combination of strong foreshortening, the unexpected extreme size differences of the eggs, and maybe the half carton many of us are less used to, makes this the eggbox version of one of those 'mystery houses' where things are warped in sone strange way that it fools you into thinking things roll uphill and such.
Normally, I work from one side to the other in pairs like below:
XX
OO
OO
OO
OO
OO
I face the heavier side toward the door so that I will have the majority of the weight in my hand as I pick it up.
Exactly the same, except the reason is that the eggs at the back can freeze if the carton is pushed back in the fridge, so I work from the far end to near
I remove eggs opposite each other (front right, rear left and so on) so that it remains level for weight and balance. My partner doesn’t subscribe to my logic and just sprays a machine gun of bullets around the carton, grabbing whatever like she’s blindfolded. It’s not a hill I wanna die on, so I don’t say anything.
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We use this thing instead of the carton.
Let me guess, European? Or at least not from US
Yes, European :)
But the egg dispenser is something I once 3d printed when it was still a hobby.
Can't seem to find the original design anymore though.
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Oh, I think it's this one: https://www.printables.com/model/70036-fridge-spiral-egg-holder
European because we can keep the eggs outside the fridge
The design is very human
I normally eat scrambled eggs for breakfast so I always grab two at a time. So next time I make breakfast I'll grab the next eggs from the right side.
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I always remove the eggs in the Fibonacci sequence first until I run out of indices, and then I remove them in order by index.
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