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[@puressenceuk35]

Ryan - "well one of us must be wrong!" Rest of World - "Yes, it's America again"

[@ichbinbluna3504]

US Americans: Who was on the moon? You? No!

[@nolajoy7759]

​@@ichbinbluna3504we didn't want to waste the time and money ..we had better things to work on - like gun laws and health care 😅

[@arnodobler1096]

​@@ichbinbluna3504Wernher von Braun Project Paperclip 🤔

[@ichbinbluna3504]

@@arnodobler1096450,000 almost all US Americans. Nazi-Braun would not have stapled the rocket together on his own. 450.000 fast alles US Amerikaner. Alleine hätte Nazi-Braun die Rakete nicht zusammengetackert.

[@ichbinbluna3504]

@@nolajoy7759I fully agree. I gave an example of US arrogance.

[@BoleeOfficial]

Believe me.. I would rather have chicken shit on my egg shells, than random American chemicals

[@maliii266]

same

[@elemar5]

Why would you want chicken shit on your eggs and then random American chemicals afterwards?

[@MysticalJessica]

@@elemar5 No he said he'd rather have the shit. No chemicals.

[@Rick-me3xr]

@@MysticalJessica No he's definitely said he wants both. He needs to change then to than.

[@elemar5]

He should have said than rather than then. Using the correct words makes a hell of a difference.@@MysticalJessica

[@karenchristinewise7833]

I'm Irish and I buy organic free range eggs. Our eggs are different shades of brown and speckled. I find feathers on the eggs occasionally. They come in small, medium, large and extra large sizes. The eggs are sold in 6, 12 and 24 depending on the size.I would rather buy 6 extra large eggs for breakfast and medium sized for baking. The egg cartons are not sealed because you need to check for damaged eggs. The American white eggs look unnatural.

[@littleDutchie92]

You don't have white eggs in ireland at all?? In the Netherlands we have both. There isn't a difference between the two though, both are produced the same way, I think it's just the chicken that lays brown or white eggs.

[@laur4a768]

same in Serbia except they come in pack of 10 and 20 as well as 6 and 12

[@wizardman1976]

Basic chemistry knowledge - all food is organic. Water and salt are only non-organic things that living creatures eat. If you can it something - it's organic by definitions. PS. We have white eggs in Poland. They have been here for centuries only in recent decades people believed the myth that white eggs are fake, covered with plaster or other voo-doo.

[@grahvis]

I remember many years ago when brown eggs were considered to be better than white ones and were preferred by consumers. Egg producers then changed to using a chicken variety that laid brown eggs. In reality, there is no real difference.

[@trirain146]

Czechia 6, 10 and sometimes 18 eggs in boxes and 30 eggs on egg plates. Colour of the shell depends on the breed of the hen. White and brown are totally normal. There are also breeds of hens which produce green tinted shelled eggs.

[@ManunKanava]

The real reason why the US has different regulations, is just the lobbyism, because only big farms can afford the fashing process, and so small farms can't sell their eggs due to the fashing process being expensive.

[@diedampfbrasse98]

aye, also the whole industrial processing of eggs and the then needed cooling is making massive tech companies rich ... those lobbyists will be in bed with big farm companies to wip out small scale competition, creating regional monopolies pushing prices up in the US tradition of capitalism.

[@wizardman1976]

US citizen have right to be ripped off by corporation and enjoy it! This is real freedom! ;)

[@johnleonard9090]

⁠@@diedampfbrasse98, when you consider about two thirds of US eggs come from caged hens with cages around the same size as an A4 piece of paper so the hen hasn’t got room to move and do everything from in essence one position (those single bird cages are banned in EU) the lack of animal husbandry is more telling from the big boys, so far I haven’t found anything about what percentage are free-range, all the statistics just list as either caged or non-caged.

[@HiddenAgendas]

US has no regulations. If you have ever visited any of the big farms you will how nasty and dirty everything is. That's why Chicken is dipped in chlorine and injected with so many antibiotics. Not only is US eggs banned, but pork, beef, soy, etc. Americans are living in a bubble.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

@@johnleonard9090 Sadly, everything in the US comes down to the 'Almighty Dollar' ! 😟

[@yadiracamacho499]

The issue with washing them is that 1) is risky, you could contaminate the egg if done improperly. 2) it damages the natural protection of the egg, so you have to refrigerate them. And that also adds a risk, because if the refrigeration chain is broken in transit the moisture from condensation on the eggshell can lead to contamination. So you could do all of that, or just not wash them and trust that the eggshell will do its job. It's cheaper and safer. Most of the world doesn't wash the eggs and there's no issue.

[@FloofersFX]

It's ridiculous since washing them goes against the intended purpose. Chances of salmonella cause of that protective layer destruction are so much higher...

[@Dqtube]

But detergent producers and energy companies have lower incomes and the whole market is more competitive because small local farmers can easily step in.

[@FloofersFX]

@@Dqtube yeah, imagine paying your workforces an actual living wage and providing them with basic necessities. If only there was rules set for that in the US.

[@noseboop4354]

@@FloofersFX When it comes to working conditions for people who make less than six figures, the US is pretty much a third world country. But unlike third world countries the cost of living in the US is much higher, so it's even worse.

[@paidwitness797]

There is also an animal welfare issue with the eggs, you cant get clean eggs from battery chicken farmed eggs, farmers needing to produce clean eggs drives better conditions for the animals. US chicken farms tend to pack chickens into large 'battery cages', layered on top of each other in the minimum of space, so the eggs (and the chickens) get covered in crap all day long hence needing the extra washing, batterys have been illegal in the EU since 99, chickens have more space and the eggs dont get a shower of crap making them much cleaner. The choice seems to be cheap eggs with an added expense of cleaning and refrigerating them (plus extra energy use), or more expensive to produce eggs with no added costs.

[@noahsarkhive4482]

european here: we are buying eggs directly from our neighbour who has chickens and quails, and they’re clean, last forever, dont have to be refrigerated and taste even better than the supermarket ones. if insane sanitazing of eggs would be necessary for save consumption, we humans wouldn’t be eating eggs for thousands of years 😅

[@karlbmiles]

How are those eggs clean? Somebody, gasp, washes them?

[@mariatheresavonhabsburg]

​@@karlbmiles The chicken coop is relatively clean, they're not stuck in cages sitting in their own feces.

[@wizardman1976]

​@@karlbmiles No, we love to eat them whole, with all the sh.t and feathers :) We wash them just before use, we wash hands and do other magical rituals.

[@karlbmiles]

That's a relief. I hope you keep the eggs locked away from your children until you decide it's time for a hygienic egg. @@wizardman1976

[@karlbmiles]

40% of chickens in Britain are raised in batteries. There are many benefits from batteries, including the ability to control hygiene when you know where the chicken will be at all times of day. @@mariatheresavonhabsburg

[@alisonramsay5091]

When the US does something so differently to the rest of the world - not just Europe - you have to ask yourself why and question if you are really doing it correctly.

[@chrisellis3797]

Essentially the biggest difference is the US way introduces multiple different stages that run the risk of making the egg less safe. All those crazy steps just to cover up poor farming practices

[@maxxie84]

One other aspect they quickly mentioned here, but is the fact that allowing to wash eggs means farmers have an incentive to lower their farming standards, which could also lead to poorer quality of food and quality of life for the animal

[@Angelika5378]

European eggs are brushed off when they are packed so their is no dirt or poop on them bit the shell stays protective. Also in europe it is fine to eat raw eggs or make custards creams with raw eggs since we don't really have salmonella. Another big difference: Those "egg farms" where chicken are in tiny cages have been illegal for years now because it's animal cruelty

[@jaqian]

Irish here, as a child I was a poor eater, the doctor advised I have an egg flip (raw egg and milk) for breakfast every day, which I did for years. Very healthy food 🙂

[@TheSuperappelflap]

We do still have salmonella risk, you can use raw eggs for some things but its generally a good idea not to do that too often. The only times I eat raw eggs is when I scrape the left over dough out of the pot I make dough in for apple pie. Wouldnt recommend chugging raw eggs before you hit the gym 3 times a week.

[@heatherhoward2513]

Oh yes,eggflips with vanilla, remember them well!.

[@seldakaya0414]

There is a study about salmonella, Type Ashley has made a great video about food in the US compared to the EU. The US has higher numbers. But there are more factors playing in this. You should watch her video! And that is why US citizens, who are abroad for a while and back again, make videos about how they lost weight elsewhere without changing their diets and feeling sick for weeks being back in the US.

[@Llortnerof]

Or rather, how not being in the US will change your diet even if you aren't conciously doing anything different.

[@arnodobler1096]

Sorry Type Ashton 👍 great channel

[@4400seriesFAN]

@Llortnerof No, mate. You over-process your foods and ypu put too much sugar in them. You also base your diet on takeaway foods. We don't do these things in Europe, except for the college students.

[@Llortnerof]

@@4400seriesFAN So in other words, not being in the US will change your diet even if you aren't conciously doing anything different. For example by eating less sugar. Just like i said. Also, i'm not American.

[@maddog74]

Idk if it's true but I've heard that even bread is so sugared that almost teastes like a cake to europeans, pls correct me if im wrong I've never been to US

[@judithrowe8065]

UK banned battery hens in 2012, while most US eggs are produced in these awful and unhygienic conditions. Many people prefer to buy free range eggs, which do have a better flavour, as well as being more humane for the chickens. I have rarely found dirt on my eggs, even when buying direct from the farm. I've never had a bad egg either.

[@auldfouter8661]

Cages probably kept the eggs cleaner as they rolled away out of the cage the moment they were laid. It was the stocking density and wire floors of the cages that were unethical.

[@Torauth]

My first thought to this is "Why the hell are the rats in US henhouses? Are they really THAT unhygienic?". To me it seems completely effing backwards to do a terrible job at the start and then pay out a huge amount to do a really complicated process to fix the terrible job that was done at the beginning. It would be like during car manufacturing to source cheap rusted metal and then build the car out of garbage then spend a fortune going around de-rusting it after it's all put together.

[@auldfouter8661]

@@Torauth Birds only have one orifice , through which everything comes out ( they don't urinate ) It's not rat dirt that's the problem.

[@reddlizzard3578]

​@@Torauthraising chickens = grain stored on the farm to feed the chickens = rats and mice who come to eat the grain for the chickens this is the pattern of all agricultural operations around the world as long as there is animal feed there are inevitably rats and mice

[@mehallica666]

@@TorauthNice analogy.

[@samstevens7888]

I'm old and English so yes I know what BRB means. The UK and Europe have far stricter animal laws, to keep them clean and healthy. We dont pump them with as many chemicals and antibiotics because 1 we don't need to and 2 that is why we now have bacteria that is immune to antibiotics. It has been passed on through food.

[@kryyto6587]

I'm young and French, and I also know lmao

[@Thurgosh_OG]

I'm middle aged and Scottish and also know what BRB means and I still use it when PC gaming.

[@goatman86]

​@@Thurgosh_OGto be honest, I don't think I've ever seen it being used outside of gaming. Brings some good memories though - brb - 😱 What do you mean brb?! You're the tank and we're fighting a mean boss

[@kietzi]

yeah, german here and know the brb, too from good old chatty time :)

[@maddog74]

One thing in favor of the Americans, however, is that they sell medicines and antibiotics in bulk and not in large packages like in Europe, this helps to avoid developing drug resistance. the downside is that blisters help prevent suicides because they are more difficult to ingest in large quantities

[@V0r4xiz]

9:10 Yes. We can. We did. And the results are overwhelming. The EU has a significantly smaller rate of salmonella. We also don't chlorinate our poultry and we can touch things after touching chicken meat.

[@Lewtable]

It is still generally advised to always wash your hands after handling chicken meat, before touching anything else. Salmonella can still happen, its just much less likely.

[@lilletrille1892]

​@@LewtableI wash my hands after touching any raw meat

[@Lewtable]

@@lilletrille1892 Same and I think most do but with chicken it is still preached more than it is for other raw products precisely because of salmonella in my own experience.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@Lewtable Or any other raw meat. Its not just about salmonella, there are lots of bacteria on raw dead animals, for obvious reasons. Pork for example can also make you sick if its been dead for more than a few days, hence many cultures especially in warmer climates dont eat pork. A good cut of beef has less, which is why people like to eat their steak half raw on the inside, as long as you kill the bacteria on the outside its okay. Or even eat entirely raw beef if its fresh.

[@Kivas_Fajo]

Your eggs are being washed in a chlorine bath and by doing this you remove the natural protective layer, which prevents germs from entering the eggs. We don't wash them at all or just in some water, so you will always find feathers, chicken shit and dirt on the eggs, but not on all of them ofc. Like one or two dirty in a pack of 10. We don't have dozen packs. Half a dozen, yes. Anyway...we can keep them shelved, instead of in the fridge. They will stay fresh for two weeks or more.

[@ichbinbluna3504]

Germany: 6 or 10 packs. Sometimes 12 or 18 als special offer. The pack says that they will keep at +8 degrees Celsius until a certain date, which is generally around 2 weeks from the pack date. +8 degrees Celsius = Refrigerator at home after buying in the market.

[@Ace-Of-Spades---]

Most of the time you get 6 or 10 eggs in a pack, but there are also other, for example pallets of 30 eggs .

[@NikolaBulj]

If there's no traces of poop anywhere, how'd we even know it actually came from the chicken XD /s Anyway my grandparents had chickens when I was a kid, the egg comes from the cloaca where the poop comes too, so it's natural.

[@Kivas_Fajo]

@@Ace-Of-Spades--- True, I forgot about farmers markets in Europe, because I never go to one. Eggs directly from the producer in huge boxes. ^^

[@Kivas_Fajo]

@@ichbinbluna3504 Yeah, I never put mine in a fridge and they still last two weeks + fresh. Cold eggs suck. Bad over easy, even worse scrambled and useless for baking/making doughs.

[@Herraivo]

Dunno about rest of Europe, but by holding the farms themselves to higher sanitation standards, Finland has almost completely eliminated salmonella. You can eat a raw egg here and it's no more dangerous than eating a banana. Virtually every case of salmonella is borught in my travellers, who sometimes don't realize sanitation standards abroad aren't up to par.

[@donvielenio8956]

you make me thinking, as hens are vaccinated against salmonella, how safe would be chicken sashimi?

[@Herraivo]

@@donvielenio8956 Our poultry still has small incidence rate of other food poisoning pathogens that are transmissible through raw meat, so we treat raw chicken as a biohazard like everyone else. If you want to just try it once your odds are great, but I wouldn't make a weekly habit out of it.

[@juliaw151]

Same here in the UK. Raw eggs are fine, the chance of getting sick is slim to none.

[@vezqu840]

True things above. However, the Finnish rate for salmonella is the lowest on the planet. We are also the only country in the world with no trichinella spiralis in the soil. It was eradicated. So if you can be absolutely sure the pork etc, that you have to fully cook elsewhere, is local and no chance of crosstamination, it's 100% safe raw. Ofc other things come in to play with raw mear, but different conversation. Game and wild poultry can travel across borders, so that's a no to be sure. Funny is that vegans etc. Are actively bringing that horrible, deadly, parasite back by being absolutely oblivious with... Well anything involving brain function really.

[@vezqu840]

Typos🤷🏼‍♂️

[@tatjanameyer4022]

I was asking an eggproducer ln Finland about storing eggs. He told me that the best before date is one of EU ideas. If we keep the eggs room temperature you can keep them up to THREE months. But in the fridge they do not last that long. I am 73 years old and I never heard about salmonella.and t also eat raw eggs. The butter is on my kitchen table 24/7 during warm and cold season. One reason why our dairy products last so long is slmple no additives at all, pure milk 4% fat lasts for about 10 days inthe fridge and cream is fine for weeks. Nature is amazing we should not mess around.

[@ichbinbluna3504]

??? Really? Doesn't every egg now have a date printed on it - in accordance with EU law? And that says: At +8 degrees Celsius (refrigerator) the egg is "guaranteed" to be usable until this date. Is that different in Finland? Despite the EU directive?

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Absolutely agree, I grew up in the country and my grandmother had egg producing hens that she fed cooked vegetables, carefully stored grains along with their free foraging! The eggs produced were used quickly as she regularly baked, never washed or refrigerated - unlike her fruits! Her homegrown vegetables were lightly scraped but rarely washed either!

[@Angelika5378]

​@ichbinbluna3504 that's just so the store is protected in cas the egg does go bad. I've had eggs for weeks in the fridge and they are fine. Sometimes i might do the water test and toss them if they float

[@miafinland]

We do have best before date in eggs, but it is best before, not the expiration date. For the last few years I have only bought eggs on sale, because you get -30% or -60% off from the price from grocery stores. You can still use them for a few months, just store them in room temperature. Never had any problem.@@ichbinbluna3504

[@hiscoregirl9784]

You can keep your butter on the kitchen table in Finland! But believe me, that is impossible in Spain in summer! 😂

[@Sofasurfa]

The more complicated you make a system the more chances you have for it to go wrong.😊

[@haga2519]

It's not only eggs Americans wash in chlorine but also chicken. Thus American chicken is also banned in Europe.

[@eaglevision993]

Not to refrigerate the eggs until at the final place where they are used makes is less risky than needing them refrigerated all the time. The cooling chain can also be broken on the way to the supermarked or when moving them from containers, shelfing them etc. Once you refrigerate them, you risk condensation every time they are out of the cooling chain.

[@mariadamedecoeur]

Facts.

[@ronnyseffinga7950]

and in addition to that .... how much extra electricity is needed in the USA for the cooling of the eggs in the stores AND in the private homes after buying ??

[@mariadamedecoeur]

@@ronnyseffinga7950 right?

[@StephenButlerOne]

We have never kept our eggs in the fridge. Never had an issue in 40 odd years.

[@eaglevision993]

@@ronnyseffinga7950 I think no one, ever in the US said the words: This uses too much unnecessary energy.

[@toms5996]

The Nordics are a 'salmonella free' zone. I've been able to eat raw eggs in smoothies and foods all my life and never worry about salmonella in chicken or anything. There is a good Netflix documentary on why the US has salmonella and multiple other diseases in animal products. To NOT have any pathogen in food costs practically nothing in the long run - it's a choice.

[@bohemianbluu]

Yup. I'm a Finn and I've never heard any issues from eggs. I've had maybe two rotten eggs ever and the only issues were terrible smell and disgust 😅

[@dorisschneider-coutandin9965]

I, too, eat raw eggyolk on occasion. Never became sick afterwards. Germany.

[@Gittas-tube]

Hello there! Yes, that's true. In Finland cases of salmonella are practically nonexistant. U.S. agribusiness is on such a scale and the distance (geographically and timewise) between producers and consumers is much longer than in most European countries. This means that fresh produce and eggs, for example, must be treated and manipulated to ensure that they remain fit for consumption much longer than in Europe, where most foods are produced 'locally' by U.S. standards. In Finland, fresh eggs are not washed prior to being sold for the exact reason mentioned. Nature knows best how to conserve products and protect them from harmful bacteria etc. Finnish eggs are sold by the dozen or half-dozen in reclaimable cartons with lids. Just like tomatoes, cucumbers and bananas, for instance, fresh eggs should not be kept in the refrigerator. Like many food items, they should be consumed fairly fast. Dates are shown on the carton.

[@Notmyname1593]

But that cost is profit for some.

[@bohemianbluu]

@@Gittas-tube Yep, USA farming industry very much has an affect here. One might think every state operates similar to EU states but that's not the case (did someone mention similarities with USA and USSR??!). EU has proper regulations for agrigulture and farming but production has still very strong local (per state) emphasis. Finland has even a law to maintain certain level of self-sufficient

[@tubekulose]

Here in Austria you can keep your eggs in your kitchen at room temperature for at least three or four weeks and still enjoy your five-minute breakfast egg with runny yolk without any thought. Regarding butter; I do refrigerate it.

[@reinhard8053]

I put the eggs in the refrigerator (if there is space) because I sometimes use them a long time after the given date (no regular use). Maybe not necessary but just another aid to have them for a long time. But then you should let them stay there until use.

[@tubekulose]

@@reinhard8053 Yes, of course, in this case I'd recommend to refrigerate them as well.

[@ichbinbluna3504]

??? Wirklich? Steht da nicht - nach EU-Recht - mittlerweile auf jedem Ei ein Datum aufgedruckt? Und das besagt: Bei +8 Grad Celsius (Kühlschrank) ist das Ei bis zu diesem Datum "garantiert" verwendbar. Das ist in Österreich anders? Trotz EU-Richtlinie? ??? Really? Doesn't every egg now have a date printed on it - in accordance with EU law? And that says: At +8 degrees Celsius (refrigerator) the egg is "guaranteed" to be usable until this date. Is that different in Austria? Despite the EU directive?

[@NikolaBulj]

When a free range chicken lays an egg, sometimes they will "hide it" who knows where, and farmers go around looking for them. If you couldn't eat an egg after a few days/weeks, we wouldn't even use chickens today, they wouldn't be as useful through the ages when they were walking freely around houses and roads and lay eggs everywhere.

[@erikaverink8418]

@@reinhard8053 If they float in water throw them away, that is my way of knowing if i can use the egg. And don't try to make a sunnyside up egg out of it, it won't work , that is for the fresh eggs.

[@laser_simon922]

I see a common thing here. Europe = „lets keep it a bit like nature intended it“ US = „Joe, bring the chemicals“

[@katringibbins4270]

Growing up in Germany I never encountered a rotten egg. Ever. But in U.S. films throwing rotten eggs at houses at halloween seemed to be a thing. When I learned about the differences in US and EU law regarding eggs I did an experiment. I bougth a carton and just placed it on the kitchen counter, labeled it "Experiment" and never touched it. I waited for the stink to develop. Yet, nothing happened. After half a YEAR i decided to end the experiment and open the eggs. They were incredibly ligth, all water had evaporated, the yolk turned into a semi-hard puddle. The shell was full of air, no egg white to find. Everyhing just shrivelled up in there. And no stink. No rot. Its incredible how well the natural coating is protecting the eggs insides.

[@erikaverink8418]

For an EU egg it very simple, if it floats in water you can't use it, if not you can use it.

[@erikthomsen4007]

I encountered a rotten egg once, in the beginning of the eighties. I was about nine or ten years old, and frequently cooked fried eggs. One day, an egg that I cracked open, and splashed onto the hot frying pan, was blue inside. Immediately, a horrible stench filled the kitchen. My brave and manly reaction was to flee, and let my mother handle the mess. In the past forty years, I haven't seen anything like it, so I believe that truly rotten eggs are very rare.

[@constantrandomness]

If it sit's at the bottom, you could basically eat it raw (not my thing) but runny yolks should be okay until it sold enough/contains enough air to be 90° upright. I don't think that's scientifically true, that's what I was tought as a kid. I never had any issues with older eggs after fancy runny egg yolk sunday breakfasts. Floating eggs go right into the trash. @@erikaverink8418

[@shellieeyre8758]

@@erikaverink8418 no. If it floats it doesn't mean it's rotten, only that it isn't the freshest. It will still be perfectly safe to eat, and in fact preferable for hard boiling as it will be easier to remove the shell. The freshest eggs should be used for baking.

[@ForaNakit]

@@erikthomsen4007 so that's what rotten eggs look like! I'm 48, have eaten eggs quite often all my life, and have never seen one rotten.

[@mucxlx]

there is no poop on the egg or at least its very rare. Sometimes there is a small feather or something

[@ichbinbluna3504]

Ja, natürlich werden die auf dem Transportband in einem Bereich auch "gesäubert" aber trocken ohne Wasser etc. Yes, of course they are also "cleaned" in one area on the conveyor belt, but dry without water, etc.

[@jaqian]

I've seen poop on eggs a few times just means it comes straight from the source 🙂

[@hinotenoakai]

Guy watching many videos about why people find Americans dumb and full of themselves: "Do you even know what brb means?" Every non-american millennial watching this: 😐

[@2spliffs41lifetime]

Fr dude like who doesn’t know what brb means 😂 German here btw

[@stefan0ro]

😐

[@bencodykirk]

So true - most English-speakers would know brb. When he said that, I was like "wtf?"

[@etienne8110]

​@bencodykirk sorry young fellow, but was does wtf means? Just kidding.

[@Hirotoro4692]

I think he was being ironic

[@MarkusWitthaut]

Hello Ryan, since you asked for studies on the safety of eggs, here is one for Europe: Linda Chanamé Pinedo, Lapo Mughini-Gras, Eelco Franz, Tine Hald, Sara M. Pires, "Sources and trends of human salmonellosis in Europe," 2015-2019: An analysis of outbreak data, International Journal of Food Microbiology, Volume 379, 2020. The study is online available for free form sciencedirect. In 34 European countries about 300 cases with 5400 infected were reported as Salmonellosis case. About 30% were caused by infected eggs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that each year in the U.S., there are about 1.35 million cases of salmonellosis. Note: the CDC data are estimates while the European data are reported cases. The remarks of the original video on food safety is correct: Both ways (washing+cooling or not washing and good hygiene at the farms) produce save eggs. However, the US way requires that eggs are permanently cooled during transport. So if you buy a cooled egg from the supermarket, then transport it your car and it starts to get moist with condensation then the egg is not safe for consumption anymore. So when buying eggs in the USA better put them in a cooling box.

[@alis49281]

So it is 100 salmonella cases from spoiled eggs in a population larger than 400 million. That's 0,000025 %. Even if that number is per year, it is still extremely low. Listeria seem to be more dangerous.

[@karlbmiles]

Thanks to the CDC, their inflated numbers made it appear that COVID was worse in America than any other place too, even though America had the resources to work from home, masks and home testing kits provided free, and Trump implemented the billion-dollar program to develop the vaccines in "warp speed". You can't trust anybody anymore, all the news is political. "We may be poor and miserable, but at least . . . (fill in the blanks) is better than in America."

[@laurabambam5342]

Ive never had poop on my eggs. Ive had feathers😂 🇬🇧

[@melitapeters7698]

@laurabambam5342 👍same in Germany. Sometimes on one egg a small little feather.

[@Gittas-tube]

​​​@@melitapeters7698Exactly the same for me! A small feather on one egg sometimes. No poop. Usually, the eggs look totally clean. And we have hardly ever had a small outbreak of salmonella here in Finland. Good hygiene at the farms, strict laws and domestic, controlled egg production plus our somewhat isolated location protect us from several food-production problems in some other countries

[@willewiking98]

7:52 considering the us is more or less the only country doing it the us way as usual I gladly keep doing it the safer way and making farmers keep the farms clean 💀💀

[@mikaelmoss1233]

Ryan, I can say something only for Poland. We do not wash eggs, because it's forbidden, also we eat raw beef with raw eggs (beef tartate or tatar steak, beef carpaccio, fresh made from scratch mayonnaise) and I have never heard of anyone having salmonella. Once in whole my life I heard in news, that in one factory production line (don't remember the product) was closed for cleaning, because of salmonella found in the quality control. I'm 34. To be honest, the fear of salmonella I can relate only to my friends from USA, and Ukraine.

[@adrianboardman162]

My dad has had it once. And it was from America. He said he felt like he was dying for about 2 weeks

[@TheXshot]

I'm Dutch but also live in Poland. I've eaten tartar so many times, even from sketchy bars, and never have I ever gotten sick.

[@tommyvercetti7]

Oh yes raw beef and raw eggs 🤤🤤🤤

[@richardwani2803]

Salmonella is very rare in the UK also you can just leave eggs on the shelf and they stay fresher for longer

[@deanmitchell4233]

Salmonella is much more prevalent in the US and Canada opposed to the UK. Much more ...

[@jenniferharrison8915]

And Australia, it's very rare here!

[@zeideerskine3462]

Vaccinating against salmonella and letting the chicken run free helps a lot.

[@Llortnerof]

Food poisoning in general, too.

[@SpiritDragoness]

My aunt runs organic free range chicken/egg farm. She has special egg laying stations where the chicken will lay their eggs and the egg will roll away before any bird can poop on it. It is very rare for any of the eggs to have poop on them. My aunt just wipes of majority of it with a dry tissue but never washes the eggs. Her eggs are good and safe for at least 4 weeks without any refrigeration. Also, once an egg has been refrigerated, it should remain refrigerated till consumption. If the refrigeration chain has been broken, there is high risk for bacteria to get into the egg due to condensation/sweating on the egg.

[@barrymiller3385]

Firstly there is significantly lower incidence of salmonella in eggs in Europe than in the US. But it would be extremely difficult and expensive to change these practices and educate consumers. Butter IS normally refrigerated in Europe. It would however be normal practice to take it out of the refrigerator and allow it to soften before use.

[@tovarishcheleonora8542]

I'm pretty sure it won't be much more expensive to make a change than the cost of the cleaning process they already use.

[@bettyhappschatt3467]

@@tovarishcheleonora8542 Yes, but try to find a politician to do it.

[@tovarishcheleonora8542]

@@bettyhappschatt3467 That's not my problem. I'm European. :3 It the americans's duty to produce good and reliable politicians for themselves.

[@constantrandomness]

2/3 of eggs inthe US are produced in battery farms, which have been illegal in many parts of Europe for years, or even decades, depending on the country. You are not able to buy egs where chickens have the space of a piece of paper to "move". A well kept chicken would never poop on the egg it's layed, at least not on purpose, but in battery farms there's shit and death in every corner. If you would change the system in the US immediately, US people would either have no eggs to buy or would poop their souls out and probably die, if they'd consume such unsanitary products. I don't care about organic food stuffs, but, where I currently live, you usually choose between free-range (organic or not) and cage-free and I would never dare to get cage-free eggs, because even this conditions are horrible for the hens. @@tovarishcheleonora8542

[@theKiwii]

In Germany, we usually keep some of the butter in a special dish at room temperature and the reserve in the fridge.

[@boelwerkr]

An uncle of mine has chickens, so we get very fresh eggs. I can say the eggs from my uncle tasted much better as the bought eggs. And the taste is different depending on the seasons, depending on the things the chickens eat. The eggs are also clean because the chickens are free to move around and would never poop in the nest itself.

[@jometcalf8991]

Morning Ryan. UK here. I leave my eggs on the side in the kitchen in a mesh egg basket not in the fridge. I do keep my butter in the fridge though although I tend to buy spreadable versions.

[@junebillings9450]

Ryan did you know that all sandwiches in the UK are made with buttered bread, we don't eat dry bread the way the US does, just curious lol

[@Ho_Lee_Fook]

I think they use mayo a lot of the time instead of butter

[@dorisschneider-coutandin9965]

That's why we keep the butter out of the fridge rather often. Much softer to spread on the sandwich/bread. Well, we do put our butter in the fridge, but not permanently. When it will be used for making sandwiches, or breakfast, we take the butter out of the fridge quite a while before it will be needed.

[@SiiriRebane]

@@Ho_Lee_Fook THAT was my biggest cultural shock when learning things, how they're done in US of A. i had heard some vague rumours about sandwiches with mayo but i kinda imagined it goeth thusly: bread, butter, something (ham or cheese or whatnot), bit of mayo as condiment, or smth similar, some seasoning. (what i have here, it is not really sandwich, bc no upper bread, how do y'all call such thing? here it is just literally 'bread-and-butter'; 'ham-bread-and-butter', 'cheese-bread-and-butter') when you put mayo on bread, doesn't it get soggy as eff in 2 seconds? i eat some crackers (or wossname, buckwheat galettes) so: putting lil bit mayo on and then biting, not losing any crispiness. also, i guess, that's why there's no need to store butter in fridge - it gets eaten on sandwiches sooner than it has chance to go bad. normal butter will appear and taste funny after 3 or more days on counter. but i keep my butter in fridge, so's safe from cats and other animals. 🧈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐭🐭🐁🐁🐀🦎🐜🪰🪰🦠🦠 other ppl have nice butter containers with cover.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

@@Ho_Lee_Fook Mayo doesn't have the same effect as butter for making a 'good sandwich'. Also American 'butter' and alternative spreads don't have to meet the same criteria as the UK or Europe to be labeled as such. European butter is HIGHER in butterfat content. Then regular bread purchased in an American store can have upto 500% MORE sugar than a standard loaf in the UK for example. One reason they just don't make sandwiches in the same way as other countries. Mayo as a 'protective barrier' on bread slices doesn't make for a LONG lasting sandwich to take on a picnic... it will become soggy over time!

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

@@SiiriRebane Sorry, I replied to @Ho_Lee_Fook too, before I read your comment... DUH!

[@helloweener2007]

Eggs are not sold in a dozen anymore here in Germany. At least it is very rare to see packages of 12. There are the sizes of 6 and 10 for a single package.

[@thierryf67]

In France, they are sold by 6, 10, 12, and multiples of these.

[@antoniocosta1034]

Sorry, but they are if they are sold in 6 packs 2x a 6 pack is a dozen and normally two 6 packs are bound together ( at least here)

[@Thurgosh_OG]

In the UK we get eggs in 6, 10, 12, 15, 18 and (24 occasionally). Plus those big trays of 30 eggs.

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

In Belgium, by 6, 10, 12 and trays of 36 (IIRC)

[@bencodykirk]

@@antoniocosta1034 Here in Australia you can get 6 packs of eggs, but 12 is much more common. The 12 packs can't be divided into 2 x 6 packs though, so may as well be 10 packs. But if they changed it, they'd probably sell them for the same price! #shrinkflation

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Australia has increasingly tough regulations on imports, and tourists or boats carrying any food products or plants arriving here, most of our farming is chemical free and very closely monitored - we don't add any hormones or others things either! If any of our foods are contaminated by accident or neglect, there is a huge public uproar! Our Eggs are kept on cool shelves, not in fridges! In Tasmania all pesticides and chemicals were banned in the seventies, it has the cleanest air and the best tasting food in the world! Farm .. fresh! 😋

[@Nezumi--]

and yet aussies are scared of raw eggs and the strawberries taste like depressed water and chicken is .,... flavourless. so while some stuff is on the right track, it's also definitely not best in the world

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@Nezumi-- Huh??? 😐

[@bblake5116]

@@jenniferharrison8915 yeah, huh?

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Do you guys put fluoride in the drinking water? I heard they do that in NZ. Thought it was just an American thing before.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@Nezumi-- The chicken tastes bad because you buy chicken breast filets, which are injected with water so they weigh more. Buy chicken thigh filets, chicken legs or chicken wings instead of the chicken breast filets. Much more taste. Or just buy the whole plucked chicken, put it in a pot and broil for a few hours until the meat falls off the bone. Mmmmmm

[@YukiTheOkami]

For contamination its quite funny I automaticly wash my hands after cracking an egg open but not becouse of the shell but becouse i always get some egg on my hand and ibdont want to touch the next food item or a knife with egged hands😅

[@helenwood8482]

Butter is kept in the fridge most of the time, then put in a butter dish, where it can be left out for about a week with no issues. If you've ever tried spreading butter straight from the fridge, you will understand why.

[@sharonmartin4036]

They (USA) use fake butter too. It comes in squeezy bottles FFS! So they don't have a problem spreading their processed, chemically altered, butter.

[@peterjackson4763]

More like a month. Or longer in winter. When I lived in the south of England it would sometimes get warm enough to melt butter so I would put it in my fridge. Since the US is much further south than the UK I would expect them to need to keep it in the fridge normally.

[@wessexdruid7598]

Remember - Americans don't put butter on their bread, normally - only on their toast.

[@nswinoz3302]

From someone who’s lived in both UK and Australia I can say you need to refrigerate butter when purchased (not in use) and a butter dish then after. Note during winter no issues and can leave it at all the time, however in summer normally in smaller quantities and in pantry cupboards (cooler ambient temp) to stop it melting over the counter. Cooked only in butter all my life and my wife refuses to use margarine due to the(possible) detrimental affects on your eyes (nurse)? NSW in Oz

[@bencodykirk]

@@nswinoz3302 If we kept butter out here in Queensland - there would be a parade of buttery ants stealing it all. We get Mainland Buttersoft - nice and soft from the fridge (I dread to think what chemical keeps it soft 🤔).

[@s.b.907]

6:35 decades ago I had a parttime job during my vacation as a 16 year old ad a egg packing facility. Looked like what they are showing. The lights under the eggs are not for finding fertilized eggs but for small cracks. Those eggs get removed and the facility I work sold those to food factories for egg ingredients. There are no fertilized eggs in the supermarket as there are no roosters at those kind of big farms.

[@lizvickers7156]

I did too. The light under the eggs wasn't for cracks it was to look for bad eggs. Black spots, blood spots not cracks. I had that job so I know that it's true.

[@jandmath]

Ryan interrupts and comments so much that he often misses the points made

[@utebellasteinweg3976]

Food production in the USA only serves to maximize the profits of the manufacturers, not the health of the consumers. The Americans have little protection against the poison to which they are exposed. This is completely different in Europe

[@archiebald4717]

It's also an animal welfare issue. US chickens are kept in dirtier conditions.

[@smaragdwolf1]

if the Chicken have a clean environment for egg-laying, enough room for themself, the Egg itself will be mostly clean. Raw Eggs have a shelf life of roughly 4 weeks at roomtemperature (eggs have their birthday printed on the shell, the 4 weeks count from that date) and up to 6 weeks if they are stored in the refrigerator. Supermarkets dont have to cool them because of that. Its a fragile but durable Item.

[@andrayellowpenguin]

Lol! I remember when i first started looking up recipes on the internet and everything with eggs from the US was like "make sure you only make the mayonnaise right before serving and don't keep it more than 1 hour and always keep the eggs in the coldest part of the fridge". I honestly couldn't understand why there were all those instructions. I had never refrigerated eggs in my life, and when we made home made mayonnaise it kept just fine in the fridge for a couple of days (possibly it could have kept longer, only we always ate it up in a couple of days). Then once i saw a documentary about salmonella in the US and the way you guys clean your eggs and things made more sense. And i was also horrified at how prevalent salmonella was in the states, when i had never heard of a case around here in my 30 years.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Wait, they put mayonnaise in the fridge too? I just put the jar in my spice cabinet. Whats next, ketchup in the fridge? Mustard? These people are nuts.

[@cockneycharm3970]

In the UK we don't tend to refrigerate eggs. However, we do refrigerate butter.

[@chrissaltmarsh6777]

Here (UK) there can be a bit of dirt on the outside of eggs - particularly straight-from-farm; but that is easy to solve. Wash it before you use it. Mine sit next to the espresso machine. They last a long time and taste a lot better (I lived and worked in the US for a decade, I have experience) Salmonella is around 4 to 5 times more common in the US per capita - including deaths. I think they probably cost a bit more here. But then I never buy factory farmed eggs; free-range only. Do you know chickens like hanging around in trees?

[@eugenioginicambaceres2882]

It’s easy, just don’t eat the shell and so whatever might be on it will be of no concern if you just eat the inside

[@nolajoy7759]

Real pure butter is difficult ti spread straight from the fridge..we used to cut some off the block and leave it out. Now, you can buy 'soft' buttet with various oils added to make it spreadable. They can't be called "butter" if a lot of additives or lower butter percentage..they get called "table spreads" or "Can't believe it's not butter" , etc. If you can spread yours straight from the fridge, Ryan, you might want to check the ingredients.

[@jfrancobelge]

I've tried oiled butter, it tasted something between margarine and butter. I hated it, as it just kills the taste of real butter.

[@etienne8110]

I don t put butter on the fridge (except in the summer). I got a cool ceramic butter container from my grandmother. Keeps exposure to light and air as low as possible sonit doesn t go rancide. Butter can be kept for at least two weeks at room temp. Probably more but i usually ate it all by then 😅

[@TheSuperappelflap]

In the EU what some farmers do is feed the cows food with vegetable oils on it which they cant process, so there will be vegetable oil in your butter and they can sell it as 100% pure butter because it technically all came out of a cow. Up to 30% of the butter can just be vegetable oil this way.

[@etienne8110]

@@TheSuperappelflap if the cows can t process them, how the hell would they end up in the milk? You do know that milk isn t cow piss? 😂

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@etienne8110 Well obviously it does come out of the right part of the cow but its still just vegetable oil.

[@timglennon6814]

I’m a Brit and if I crack an egg or three I immediately wash my hands with hot water and soap.

[@Flamebeard0815]

You mean you use common sense and best practice? All at once? You beast, you!

[@emycharaa]

​@@Flamebeard0815I know right!

[@loopywren]

The shell does the job of protecting the inside, once you wash them you take off that protection

[@user-ic8wh5su2t]

That was fun watching you change your mind back and forth as you got more information. Australian eggs aren’t washed but these days they are often stored in the refrigerated area of the shop. They never used to be, don’t know why they changed. I remember little lions being stamped on the eggs when I was a kid in Britain. Here in Oz, the use by date is just a sticker on the carton but they will keep well past that date (if in doubt, see if it floats. If it sinks, it’s fine). As for butter, you’d have to drink it if it was left out of the fridge in Australia.

[@lucyblayney2208]

Yeh the red lion stamp, is to show it's an item that has a high standard of food safety.

[@SaraSara-rj9kr]

Ryan, for gods sake, come to Europe already. See the beauty of life and good food. Maybe even move. Also, yes eggs are great and natural, you can even buy some on the market with poop on their shell. Those are my favourite cause it just means they are fresh, natural and firm once you break them.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Sorry but he's coming to Australia first, after we relax, feed, pamper and retrain him, he may consider a European break - sometime! 😁 It's just so much more peaceful and clean here! 👍🇦🇺

[@NikolaBulj]

He'd have to change his entire channel if he ever visited any part of the Europe. His entire thing is an "uninformed American reacts".

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@NikolaBulj Just because they may travel to Europe it doesn't mean they learn anything - I watch House Hunters International!

[@NikolaBulj]

Yeah, it's sad some people never learn from experiences. @@jenniferharrison8915

[@mats7492]

In Europe Health regulation are installed to protect customers, in the US.. to protect corporate profits! And the USA has a LOT more cases of salmonella

[@cherylemaybury9967]

I have kept my own hens for over 50 years and never had a problem with not washing my eggs. I knew about the protective layer of cuticle on the shell which keeps bacteria out of the eggs and also makes them last longer. Here in Australia we don’t have a problem with eating things that contain raw eggs because we don’t refrigerate the eggs before selling them.

[@arthurwolstenholme2021]

He really loves the sound of his voice, doesn't he?

[@user-ni1hj2ht2g]

It's how he stays uneducated. If he actually learned things then he wouldn't be able to cover the same topics over and over again! The USA has a very well brainwashed society. They truly believe the U.S. is the greatest country. They are just like the other isolationist countries, don't let people know that it's better in many many other places

[@galaxspace1]

By allowing US farmers to wash the eggs it means that the US farmers can treat their animals like shit (literally) because the US farmers can just was the final product.

[@Aloh-od3ef]

In regards to butter. Most people keep their butter in the fridge. However some people do store butter outside of their fridge. By keeping it in a ceramic butter dish. 😊

[@ichbinbluna3504]

And more and more people are using a blended product made from butter and rapeseed oil, which can also be spread when chilled. Und immer mehr verwenden ein Misch-Produkt aus Butter und Rapsöl, das auch gekühlt streichfähig ist.

[@etienne8110]

​@@ichbinbluna3504the taste isn t the same. I prefer real butter in a butter dish. 😅

[@ichbinbluna3504]

@@etienne8110I respect that.

[@billydonaldson6483]

Most of British eggs sold in supermarkets are free-range and the shells look clean in general, egg production is highly regulated and the mixing of flocks banned, each egg is stamped with its origin and best before date. We have had problems in the past with supermarkets using cheap imported eggs in their ready prepared salads etc. this has been catastrophic for the sales of those who have done this, once you lose trust in your customers it’s difficult to reassure them that your products are safe to consume. In the US farmers are allowed to add to flocks, a practice that can introduce problems within those flocks. I’ve seen videos where US meat producers have said that “it doesn’t matter how the food gets on the plate as long as it gets on the plate.” I don’t buy US produced rice because of the amount of insect parts allowed in its production.

[@rinynewton8297]

Hi Ryan here in the Netherlands we store our eggs also on a shelve that's in the store same as in people's homes. Never in fridges! I get my eggs from a farm even go early morning to get the most fresh ones! Go home and enjoy a lovely breakfast. They are very tasty and the chikens are happy because they run around free. And ...no I do not wash them before consuming!!

[@eugenioginicambaceres2882]

In Argentina I only keep eggs in the fridge in summer because here in Buenos Aires it can easily rise to 32 Celsius

[@ThisTrainIsLost]

Butter stays edible longer when stored at room temperature than margarine, which will go rancid faster. If you like, put 1/2 of your butter in the fridge and leave the other half out for daily use.

[@eugenioginicambaceres2882]

I totally agree

[@lenakohl2339]

I grew up in Germany and people my age (mid thirties) know acronyms like brb, afk, rofl etc. 😀

[@ThereWasATime]

Hey Ryan, it's more that you guys in the US do a lot of processing to deliver an egg, that is just as clean as ours. Just because you start with washing them. Well done.

[@kevins2961]

US Food safety is that you can put anything into food products until it is proved to be unsafe. EU (and for the moment UK) Food safety is that you can't put anything into food products until it has been proved to be safe, Big difference

[@andrewgoodenough1809]

If you think about it USA farmers /egg producers want too battery farm eggs for maximum profit Europe farmers want too do the same but the government say you have to produce good clean ethical eggs ,so most of the USA eggs are battery and most of EU are free range . This is a wide ranging approximation but it gives you the general idea

[@A._Meroy]

Butter is refrigerated in the shops, but margarine (the plant oil based alternative to butter) usually isn't. Also the UK apparently sells packs of a dozen eggs. In Germany it's only 10 pieces in a pack, or 6 (sometimes 4) in the small ones.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Margarine is refrigerated in the UK, just like butter. Egg packs in the UK come in 6, 10, 12, 15, 18 and occasionally 24. I've seen a 4 pack of eggs but it was a special pack, not generally available.

[@raycardy4843]

I keep my eggs and butter (in a glass butter dish with a lid) in the same kitchen cupboard, apart from the extra 2/3 packs of butter in the fridge (for baking cakes, etc), and have never had any issues, although even in Summer we don't get the same temperatures as parts of the US. Eggs are generally sold in boxes of 6 or 12, although some of the cheaper 'mixed-weight' eggs (usually from other production methods) may be in 10's or 15's - the colour of the eggs shells depends on the breed of hen, most of ours are free-range, brown eggs - although you can get white ones, as well as pale blue ones, and even duck/quail eggs in large supermarkets! Even though every fridge I've had or seen has a thing for putting eggs into, most of us never use them!

[@blackdragoncyrus]

"What's tomato juice?" Err... clue's probably in the name. XD

[@willewiking98]

3:51 hahaha i think you underestimate how dominant english is online and all over Europe and culture, everyone uses english abbreviations even when speaking swedish for example, it's all just mixed together

[@Llortnerof]

BRB is still in common use in online gaming to my knowledge. Kinda important to know your teammate needs to take care of something away from their machine for a moment.

[@helenroberts1107]

We used to have chickens and ate their eggs. They were lovely and no one ever got ill.

[@101steel4]

I buy eggs from a neighbour who keeps chickens in their garden. Usually from their honesty box.

[@user-we7vk5zg7l]

Eggs can do just fine for maaany weeks in room temperature. I have had a lot of hens. Just dont wash them with anything but water.

[@stephenlee5929]

UK & EU chickens are vaccinated, US chickens are not, it would cost about 15 cents per chicken, this cost is often sited as the reason. Note on refrigerating Unwashed (UK & EU) eggs, once they are refrigerated, they should continue to be refrigerated.

[@SpiritDragoness]

Yeah, like washing eggs doesn't add any additional expenses... Water and chlorine and those egg washing machines are free and machine maintenance and repair is also free (sarcasm).. Plus you vaccinate a chicken once and she is good for life. While eggs need to be washed every day as most egg laying chickens (bread to lay maximum eggs) lay an egg a day.

[@philipmason9537]

No, Brits don’t leave butter out at room temperature except when buttering bread and sandwiches at the dinner table ready to be eaten immediately. 95% of the world DON’T refrigerate their eggs and they are cheaper to buy because the US process of washing and refrigerating employs thousands of extra workers and their salaries are reflected by higher prices to the N. American consumers.

[@lilbullet158]

All I did was Wash it with water, Detergents, Blow dried it and Bombarded it with Ultraviolet Radiation...So *_"Yes it's 'Fresh'...?"_* 🤣

[@sophiastorm8616]

i usually keep my eggs in the fridge but i live in soutyh europe so it feels safer to me. same for butter. in the winter tough, none of this is needed...the eggs and the butter can perfectly stay outside the fridge. much easier to deal with the butter when it s not as hard as stone :)

[@anacristinaribeiro9592]

Same here in Portugal.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

In the Netherlands, due to climate change, temperatures in summer are regularly 30+ for weeks and eggs still keep for 3-4 weeks at those temperatures on the counter. Just dont put them in direct sunlight.

[@nelsvantoor5159]

Dutch here. I *do* store my butter in the fridge * UNTIL* I open the package. From that moment the butter is kept at the countertop. Y'know..... to be able to actually spread it on my bread... And it won't last long enough to spoil anyway...

[@gerhard6105]

Zo is het. En de eieren in het eiervakje in de koelkastdeur.

[@fredmidtgaard5487]

They are banned because US eggs are washed in a hefty brine that takes away the protective surface of the natural eggshell. It means that US eggs do not last, but natural EU eggs may stay out of a fridge for weeks.

[@SOFTCOCOGIRL]

I worked on farms and with farmers during my studies in Biology. Eggs have pores, like our skin and it breaths through these pores. If you clean or wipe the eggs you close these pores and they go bad very quick. We have free range eggs in our stores or partly free range. And the farmers don't clean the eggs so you have really fresh eggs. And thats why we don't need to store them in a fridge.

[@YukiTheOkami]

Be right back😅 Afk means away from keybord May i remind u some europeans(beside uk they dont count here) speak vetter english than some amaricans😅

[@guyvandurme7228]

I eat eggs since I was a kid, I am now 57 and obviously not dead yet ! Greetings from Belgium ( you know, this little country with a T Rex form next to France). Do not worry, every country has silly laws nobody understands....

[@pressuredrop6173]

The egg holders in your fridge are put there for boiled eggs. Fresh eggs should be stored at room temperature.

[@Thorium_Th]

How would a bird provide refrigeration to its eggs until the chicks are hatched? Eggs are meant to NOT spoil in high temperatures because birds nest during spring and summer. So eggs don't need to be washed. Chickens need around 20 days to brood. Therefore the shelf life of eggs is at least 20 days without cooling.

[@pammy0809]

The natural 'bloom' actually protects the egg and washing it off makes it more likely to allow bacteria in. You can always wash the egg off before you use it so that any dirt on it doesn't get into your Eggs Benedict or Omelette. I keep my girls eggs on the counter until I have a dozen then put them into the fridge til I can use them or give them away to the neighbours.

[@Sir_Rantalot]

I wonder if humankind ate eggs, before the refrigerator was invented...

[@kristymac3236]

Yes I was born in the 50’s and we didn’t have a refrigerator until the late 60’s. Still here and never had salmonella

[@hape7539]

7:09 there is no rat poop on eggs , there is chicken poop on eggs

[@zeideerskine3462]

Salmonella infection is massively more common in the US.

[@g.peters244]

I prefer "dirty" eggs from a small farm in Europe to chemically disinfected eggs from American hens fed with GMOs. I don't buy eggs in the supermarket - only in local vegetable stores. And most important - I always wash before use.

[@gregclark5084]

If you ever lived on a farm or had your own chickens you would not be washed. Nature made the egg perfect by giving them prtective properties that keep the bad out and the good inside.

[@nswinoz3302]

Most reaction videos for immigrants into Australia from the UK and the EU always comment on when going to a supermarket, is that our eggs are kept in the fridge, which is true. Go to fruit & vegetables only store or a road side seller and they’re NOT. There is this weird thing that we have the similar practices to both USA and the EU but not necessarily the same regulation. in fact I’ve got eggs in my fridge right now that both countries might class as filthy, but they were never refrigerated until they came to our home. Truly I believe they do last longer in the fridge only because you don’t have the extremes in temperature for days on end and unbeknownst to most people. Every home in Australia does not have have fully ducted air-conditioning we do resemble European in that regard in that we open the whole house up when it’s moderately warm and air the place, that’s probably because over 50% of the people are European background here. NSW in Oz

[@audechermette7828]

Ryan, the butter is usually refrigerated but if you want it soft to spread on toast, you have to leave it on the table overnight for breakfast next morning, otherwise it is rock solid

[@ZuzkaButterfly]

I like the progression from: Omg bird poop and not washed eggs -ewww never! To: Oh, they taste better and there's no increased contamination - who cares about a little bit of poop on the shell 😂

[@valeriedavidson2785]

Ryan. Why don't you listen to the video. You drove me mad not hearing what the commentator is saying and were continually talking and you were jumping to conclusions.

[@JakobFischer60]

In Germany many farmers have mobile hen trailers that allow the chickens to run around a field and are moved to a new field every month or so. The farmers usualy have small huts where they sell the eggs on a honor system, so you can buy them 24/7. No companies involved. And yes, they are sometimes dirty and with feathers. But you can choose which ones you take.

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

Those afraid of a little Chicken poop can just wash the egg before cracking it. But it's on the shell, so who cares? I don't know how long American eggs lasts, but shelf life here is around one month in room temp, and a little longer if stored in the fridge. And yes, butter is best stored in room temperature, it's much more workable, and it lasts way longer than most people realize.

[@yick39]

Uk.. Been Keeping bantams (chicken) for 50 years never had any trouble with my eggs on the side... The USA chicken hygiene on farms is disgusting that's why they have to wash the eggs

[@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq]

7:12 Where the fuck would this hypothetical rat poop come from?

[@chaosshade1804]

Eggs have over 15000 micro pours so washing the egg can lead to the detergent can actually get to the egg

[@lynnt9852]

eggs are mainly completely clean in the UK and come in organic, free range, barn or cage raised. Most people don't like using cage or barn raised for the welfare issues although they are cheaper and go for free range instead. All come in cardboard boxes which everyone opens to check for damaged eggs prior to purchase. And eggs are all stamped with a date for use by. Ideally you want free range eggs stamped with a red lion or a little red tractor on box, this shows the farm has not only adhered to government standards, but has also been independently inspected to meet animal welfare and food standards