What to do w/ 2 dozen eggs- refrigerator is broken??

[mykidslovesdisney]

What should I do w/ 2 dozen eggs?? Our refrigerator is no longer cooling. I put all the frozen stuff in the extra freezer in the basement. I put everything else on the enclosed porch- unheated-- most likely will freeze by morning (we are in CT). If I hard boil them - how do I keep them cool?? I dont' want to leave them out at room temp. Can I freeze hard boiled eggs??

 

[TiffanyK]

I don't think eggs have to be kept cold. They keep longer that way, but I think in Europe they don't refrigerate eggs.

 

[jadeblue13]

You could make French Toast Casseroles and freeze them for another day.

Taste of home has the recipe-it takes 8 eggs for each pan.

You can freeze without baking it first.

 

[Hannathy]

take a box and put in several bath towels or a blanket with the eggs in the middle and put it on the enclosed porch close to the house. in other words make an insulated cooler that wont get completely frozen, insulate them from the cold. if you wrap the cartons in several towels and then inside a box it will shield them from the extreme cold and then if you put it up against the house I think they will be ok.

Or if you have a cooler do the same thing you just need to insulate them from the really cold.

We kept beer out in a cooler on my patio in below freezing temp and it was fine for a couple days.

 

[mrodgers]

I don't think eggs have to be kept cold. They keep longer that way, but I think in Europe they don't refrigerate eggs.

I use to work in a grocery store and with eggs and the single slice cheese, when there was a big sale on them, they had pallets of them sitting in the back room, none refridgerated.

 

[pamjb]

You can actually freeze the eggs. My mom used to do this when she would get eggs cheap from the farmer. Crack the eggs and pour them into a bowl. Mix them up a bit and then put them into a freezer container. A 1/4 equals one egg. She would use them for scrambled eggs or in baking/cooking.

 

[Kycha]

You can actually freeze the eggs. My mom used to do this when she would get eggs cheap from the farmer. Crack the eggs and pour them into a bowl. Mix them up a bit and then put them into a freezer container. A 1/4 equals one egg. She would use them for scrambled eggs or in baking/cooking.

I was going to suggest the same thing. Except I freeze them in a muffin tin. 1 egg per muffin cup, mix em up a bit(very important), then freeze. Once they are frozen I transfer them to a ziploc freezer bag.

 

[lucyem]

I don't think eggs have to be kept cold. They keep longer that way, but I think in Europe they don't refrigerate eggs.

Eggs can stay on the counter for ages if you took them from the hen. But as soon as they are washed or put in the fridge it changes the membrane around the egg which protects it from bacteria. So any eggs from the store need to stay in the fridge.

 

[TiffanyK]

Eggs can stay on the counter for ages if you took them from the hen. But as soon as they are washed or put in the fridge it changes the membrane around the egg which protects it from bacteria. So any eggs from the store need to stay in the fridge.

I'd never heard of that membrane around the egg until a few weeks ago when a friend gave me some eggs from her chickens. They hadn't been cleaned and I wasn't sure how to do it, so I googled and found out about the membrane. So interesting.

 

[mykidslovesdisney]

Thank you for all the suggestions. I ended up wrapping them in a towel then several yards of flannel and put them out on the porch. They didn't freeze. We used them this morning for scrambled eggs and hard boiled eggs.

The french toast suggestion sound yummy but I had no energy to make them.

We left the refrigerator unplugged for the night. Plugged it in today and it seems to be working properly for now.


thanks again!

 

[seashoreCM]

Get ice from outside and put it in dishes here and there the refrigerator. Note: You will need a lot of them put all around, not all in one corner.

You could even leave plastic containers full of water outside to freeze and then bring them in to put in your fridge, until you can buy a new fridge.