Believe it or not, fresh and cold eggs affect how you want to cook your eggs. When poaching your egg, you don’t want an old egg because it will fall apart. That’s why it’s important to know if your eggs are fresh using the following method from BBC Good Food on Youtube. Even if you haven’t cracked your egg yet, you can use this method to tell if it’s fresh. Share this with your family and friends because they too could use these helpful tips. Check out the video guide below to learn the following method. Many thanks to BBC Good Food for this fantastic guide. Be sure to check out the channel for more videos like this.
Method:
Step 1
To determine if your eggs are fresh, you need to check the air pocket. In fresh eggs the air pocket is very small, in stale eggs it is very large. To check whether the air pocket contains very little air, the egg should be lowered horizontally into a glass filled with water. If the egg is no longer completely fresh, tip it slightly into a semi-horizontal position at the bottom of the glass. And if the egg is stale, it will simply float in a vertical position when you try to sink it.
step 2
When the eggs are cracked, the fresh egg has a plump yolk and a gelatinous ring of white surrounding the yolk and another ring of white. When it’s no longer as fresh, the yolk will look a little flat in the middle, the double ring won’t be as visible, and the white will be watery. When the egg is old, the yolk is very flat and the white is just watery.
