Eggs and use by date

Thanks everyone I have read all your helpful posts

When I was a child we had an Egg Age Measuring Gauge which looked like a measuring cylinder. Useful for assessing an eggs's age, especially if you are planning to have 'egg in an egg cup' for breakfast.
When DS was a student he went off on a month-long field trip. When he returned to his flat the only food in the place was a box of eggs, which he ate. He was really ill with the D and Vs for a week.

Regarding the in fridge not in fridge debate, I was told by someone who should know ? that fresh eggs will definitely keep longer if stored in a refrigerator but that they are better brought out for an hour before cooking to bring them up to room temperature, especially if using for baking. I’ve since followed that advice. I always do the crack and sniff test, occasionally the float test ( if the eggs are a couple of weeks past the use by date) & I’ve never ever ever found a bad one ?

We ate some yesterday dated 14th November, I rarely look at the date as we normally use them up fairly quickly. I'd bought extra in case I did some baking, which I failed to do.

ps they had been kept in the fridge
I didn't do the float test but I did sniff them

Minniesmum , thanks for that tip ! never thought of freezing eggs . I freeze everything else if its due to go over the use by .

I never put eggs in the fridge, they go inside a ceramic chicken in the larder ( when did the craze for putting them in the fridge start?) I usually keep them for about three weeks only, but that doesn’t happen often as I tend to use at least half a doz a week.

My darling daughter takes the biscuit. She’s just thrown out a lot of my spa bath cleaning stuff as it’s past the recommended date! And hair shampoo!

Well, if I had a larder .....

Galen let's hope she is buying you more for Christmas.
If I have any shampoo/shower gel I don't particularly like, having started to use it so can't give it away, I clean the shower with it.
Strange I know, but it makes the glass very shiny!

Does it? I must try that ( cleaning the shower glass with shampoo!)

An old scrubber (not me ) ie one of those nylon scrubbers which you use on yourself and some shower gel or shampoo, scrub the glass doors then rinse.
I usually do it before I get out of the shower!

like bits of net curtain iyswim - or what the Body Shop calls 'a bath lily'

I have several of those, hanging up in the shower, maybe I will use DH’s one, haha.

I once went to open an egg at my mother's as she had a couple in the fridge. It exploded, revealing a black inside. It was even past the bad smell stage. I didn't check how old it was. It may even have dated back to the times before eggs had dates on them!