eggs...

[readytocook]

Question 1: I enjoy eating hard boiled eggs for breakfast. If I want to make a few at the beginning of the week, how many days can they sit in the fridge & be safe for so that I don't need to boil them daily? (I would leave the shell on until eating)

Question 2: If I make a recipe that just calls for yolk, can I keep the white for an omelette the next day or does it have to be cooked right away?

[DGresh]

my grocery store sells *peeled* hardboiled eggs (dozen in a wrapped package), and I doubt they are just one-day old (they are an odd item in my mind, but obviously someone is buying them)

[macca]

I saw them in the grocery store, too- and thought it was odd. But last week, a co worker wanted egg salad, and stopped by the local grocery store and bought some hard boiled aggs from the salad bar ( we have the rest of the fixinngs in the office)", so I guess if you wanted to make lots of egg salad wuickly, the dozen would suit you well.

[dct]

A convenience store sells individual hard boiled eggs--sign reads "whole boiled chickens--50 cents"

[gourmanda]

1. 5 days
2. yes, the white will keep for a couple of days

[Quine]

Definately cook your week's worth of eggs in one batch and refrig. I use a pencil to write the date. No guess on when or if they are boiled that way.

[alkapal]

i use the pencil trick, too -- also drawing a ring around the egg for really quick i.d.. i recall someone else just used a little easter egg dye when boiling. imo, pencil is easier.

has anyone else boiled eggs in the same water with potatoes for a fast start on potato salad? neat trick, i say.

[HungryRubia]

I always boil the eggs with the potatoes. Mom did it that way too.

[NE_Elaine]

According to the USDA, hard-cooked in-shell eggs can be kept for up to a week and egg whites can be refridgerated for 2-4 days.
Personally, I have eaten deviled eggs that were a couple days old without any ill effects. They are one of my favorited diet foods!

[MMRuth]

I eat hardboiled eggs days after boiling them, or even deviling them, with no ill effects. Egg whites freeze well.

[alkapal]

second mmruth! -- although deviled eggs never make it to fridge for any time at all -- because they are summarily dispatched down the gullet! i'm a pure, unabashed glutton for deviled eggs!

[Maximilien]

Q1. I would not keep cooked eggs longer than a day in the fridge.

Q2. Egg whites can be frozen; I don't know if that can help you.

M.