How To Tell If Eggs Are Fresh

Believe it or not, fresh and stale eggs will impact how you like to cook your eggs. You don’t want a stale one if you’re poaching your egg because it will just disintegrate, so it’s important to know if your eggs are fresh with the following method from BBC Good Food on Youtube. Even if you haven’t cracked your egg yet, you’ll be able to determine if they are fresh with these methods. Share this with your family and friends; they might also need these super helpful tips. Watch the video tutorial below to learn the following method. Thanks to BBC Good Food for this fantastic tutorial. Make sure to check the channel for more videos like this.

Method:

Step 1

To determine if your eggs are fresh, you need to check the air pocket. Fresh eggs have a very little air pocket and when it’s stale, there’s a lot. To check if there is very little air in the air pocket, the egg should sink into a glass full of water in a horizontal position. If the egg is not so fresh, it will slightly tilt into a semi-horizontal position at the bottom of the glass. And if the egg is stale, it will just float in a vertical position when you try to sink it.

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Step 2

Now, if the eggs are broken, the fresh egg would have a plump yolk and a gelatinous ring of white that surrounds the yolk and another ring of white. When it’s not so fresh, the yolk in the middle looks slightly flat, the double ring is not so visible, and the white is watery. When the egg is stale, the yolk is very flat and just watery white.

How To Tell If Eggs Are Fresh