What do you do with your dyed easter eggs

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

As an adult, I've hidden plastic eggs. We dye eggs while they are hot. And they go into the fridge after we dye them. Some come out for breakfast on Easter morning, the rest are made into egg salad, deviled eggs or are tossed into potato salad.

As a child, real eggs were hidden. And then we ate them. Yep, eggs that have been out all night, were then consumed. And none of us got sick or died from bad eggs.

I've also, not at Easter, used fresh eggs. These eggs can be left out on the counter because they have never been cold. If I had enough of those to dye, I wouldn't worry about putting the colored eggs in the fridge.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

This! Except, we did hide the 'actual' eggs. They were not refrigerated for 3-5 days, and we just ate on them at room temperature. Everyone we knew did this, and to my knowledge none of us ever got sick.

Most of us used eggs from our own chickens - not sure if that mattered, or not. Anyway, we never thought of needing to refrigerate them. Had great fun - taking turns, and hiding them 'over and over'!!

My grandparents in their early years did not have a refrigerator, but used a 'flow' well (artesian) as their source of refrigeration as it was very cold. Never was any sickness due to this.

Have often wondered why people sicken on spoiled foods so easily these days, when it was quite the norm to 'mostly' not refrigerate in earlier days??? As a child (and yes, I'm dating myself LOL) we would often leave large dinners (example, Thanksgiving meals) on the table from noon until night when we would have another meal on them - no one got sick (had no room in our small refrigerator).

Mom (and Grandma) were 'very' clean people while cooking and otherwise in home - but that's just the way life was!

Here's an article that explains why we (in the US) refrigerate our eggs, while other countries don't:
http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydi...-need-to-refrigerate-eggs-20140714-story.html

 

[North of Mouse]

Yes, I grew up knowing that you never wash eggs before needing to use them - at last minute. That 'protective' thin coating lets you keep farm fresh eggs out quite awhile with no refrigeration - 'not' store bought eggs, of course.

My ds lives on a farm and sells free range eggs this way.

 

[LilyWDW]

I eat them.

Also a child of the 80's. We would dye the eggs the night before and put them back in the fridge. At some point my parents would go down in the morning and hide the eggs until I came down. I would hunt them and then they would sit on the table in the basket for awhile. At some point they would go back in the fridge, but we for sure ate some that were no longer cold. Never got ill.