I agree with Lesley. The best way to clean is with a damp sponge if you have to. I am on a 1/4 acre in Perth WA and have a coop that my girls can nest in which I have clean straw in. Most of my eggs are now clean. I used to use jarrah sawdust but this can stain the shell. I have a number of cross breeds so have a range of colours from "blue" to brown to shiny pink! I love them all...
Usually I just put the grubby ones aside and use them first, I figure there is less chance of anything getting inside them if they don't sit around for long.
thanks, I will do that. In this wet weather we have been having the eggs are really dirty :( luckily I don't like the taste of raw egg at all so i never eat them, I have to tell the kids off for eating raw cake mixture.
Yes, the egg can act like chalk to suck salmonella and campylobacter and other gastrointestinal nasties off the shell and into the inside. The recommendation is to wipe with a damp cloth (not so easy when the poo is hard and crusty), but the safest way is to cook the egg well, that should kill all lurgies. Avoid using eggs raw (mayonnaise, eggnogs etc, especially if your eggs are free range).
Sarah Walsh said:
I don't know anything about this, but I hope the pathogen bit is wrong as I just wash my eggs under the tap!
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