Large white Eggs used to be like 10 cents a piece up until after the pandemic.
You ever been to Rogers, AR?
You will see Walmart everything, tiny stand alone Walmart Pharmacies, Gas Stations, and convenience stores.
It's like the dystopian America people used to think it was going to be before Amazon became the dominant contender.

At Aldi today, they were less than the free range ones I normally buy.

Free range eggs are fine. Don't wash them. Stick them in the fridge, only wash them before you're about to use them. The hen secretions they're covered in prevent them from spoiling. They'll last LONGER than your sterilized shell eggs will.

Aldi #1.

You don't have to refrigerate them if you are going to use them in a week or two, but even washed eggs will last months in a refrigerator.
I was watching a thing how they keep eggs from going bad "indefinitely" in arctic expeditions, where re-supplies don't happen for a very long time is turn them upside down every month, or something like that.

they will probably last longer honestly, my sister gives me her chickens eggs all the time

I'm aware you don't have to refrigerate them when they still have their "bloom" on. However, I've gotten in the habit of never advising anyone to not refrigerate eggs, because the store bought eggs will spoil within a day or so, and you start looking at nasty bacterial nastiness as a result. So even if you are (you believe) explicitly clear about being able to counter-store unwashed/free range/farm fresh/whatever eggs, there will always been one genius who assumes it applies to store bought and gets horrifically sick. And you end up liable for their stupidity.

Better to continue advising people to refrigerate the eggs. Just not to wash them until the point they're ready to use them.

This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Feb 17 2025 01:19am

Oh yeah I was talking about the unwashed eggs as well.
In the fridge washed eggs last like two months, much longer if they are flipped upside down every month and kept in that orientation until the next flip.

Sure, washed eggs can last quite a while in the fridge. I'm not against store bought eggs. Just wanted to make it clear that if he does start buying "yard eggs" not to wash off the bloom. Long as the bloom stays on, they'll survive in the fridge for... Uh... I've used fresh eggs 8 months after purchase and they've been fine. Never had any sit in the fridge longer than that.

My primary caution would be the same with both fresh and store eggs though: Float test them. They float in cold tap water? Probably bad. Don't float? Probably not bad. Every egg I cook. Never gotten sick from eggs. Ever. So it seems to work.