I’ve just bought a new fridge and it comes with a section to hold eggs. I’ve never stored them in the fridge since salmonella isn’t really a problem here because our chickens are vaccinated. Does anybody in the UK actually refrigerate their eggs?

As an aside, I tend to decide what goes into the fridge based on where it was in the supermarket. If they don’t refrigerate it, neither do I. So for eggs, I don’t.

Secondary question - what am I gonna use the egg holder in the fridge for now, other than maybe briefly cooling my balls?

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    52·
    12 hours ago

    Why are you limiting your answer to UK? My decision to store eggs in the fridge has nothing to do with salmonella concerns and I believe it’s likely people in the UK may also have similar judgement.

    • Quicky@lemmy.worldOP
      21·
      12 hours ago

      Because in countries that don’t vaccinate their chickens (like the US) the risk of salmonella is much higher so the recommendation is that eggs should be refrigerated to reduce bacteria growth.

      • Mothra@mander.xyz
        1·
        12 hours ago

        This doesn’t really answer my question, but I’m glad someone from the UK already voiced my reason- as I predicted

        • Quicky@lemmy.worldOP
          42·
          12 hours ago

          It answers the question as to why I limited it to the UK. Advice for eggs from non-vaccinated hens is to refrigerate them. So in a country that doesn’t vaccinate, the proportion of refrigerated eggs will be much higher than a country where it isn’t necessarily advised, and the decision comes down to personal choice. That’s what I’m interested in.

          • Mothra@mander.xyz
            31·
            12 hours ago

            But you are not asking the whole country, and you are not asking to a representative of a country. You’re asking individuals. Anyone who refrigerates eggs for reasons other than salmonella could give you an equally valid answer regardless of where they live.

            • Quicky@lemmy.worldOP
              53·
              9 hours ago

              I think this is bordering on becoming an absurd discussion on the validity of demographics, which I’m not really interested in.

              Besides which, the last time a whole US population was polled about something, they decided to make the worst possible decision, so my interest in US opinion is even less today.

            • Quicky@lemmy.worldOP
              12·
              11 hours ago

              Yeah you’re right, I should really be more invested in global egg storage.