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votedean8 karma

Why? I worked in the dairy department of a couple different grocery stores for approximately 5 years, eventually as the manager. It was never our practice to throw out the whole carton when only an egg or two was broken. We would save the good eggs from that carton to replace broken eggs in other cartons from the same batch. What's the reasoning behind throwing away a bunch of good eggs?

votedean7 karma

no, no, don't save empty cartons. Let's say you have a carton where one of the eggs cracked (very common, not usually smashed). Put that carton with eggs aside, and wait until you find another carton from that box with a broken egg. Take a non-broken egg from the first carton, replace the broken egg in the second carton, etc. If the egg is smashed and there's raw egg over everything, obviously that's probably a candidate to be thrown away. Talk to your dairy manager--I bet you he's already doing this. The eggs you've seen them throwing away were probably from a badly damaged case, or old, or something.

votedean-5 karma

well knock it off. It's wasteful and unnecessary. Unless there's some stupid local/corporate statue that mandates this, do the substitution. Just be sure they're from the same master box (ie, don't mix dates or manufacturors).