How to Check If Eggs Are Still Edible: Perform an Egg Float Test at Home
Wondering how to perform an egg float test at home to determine if your eggs are still edible? This simple egg float test in water can help you quickly identify how to tell if your eggs are still good. In this post I’ll teach you how to tell if an egg is still good after the expiration date and how to perform an egg water float test.

I use a lot of eggs at my house between all of my cooking and baking on a daily basis.
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Back before starting our own backyard chicken hobby farm, I would buy eggs from the store and stick them in my refrigerator. There were times I had no idea how old they were or how long they had been in the fridge.
I have less of a problem now with knowing how old eggs are because we collect eggs daily from our hens and then keep them on the kitchen counter in an egg basket. Typically putting new eggs towards the back.
However, I recently was given some farm-fresh eggs from someone, so I stuck them in my refrigerator and then left for vacation.
Upon returning from our 11 day trip, not only did I have a lot of eggs from our two egg laying hens, but I still had those eggs in my refrigerator.
I had a house full of kids who had spent the night, so for breakfast I needed a quick and easy meal that was kid-approved. I made my oven baked puffy pancakes, which requires two eggs per batch.
I pulled out the eggs from the refrigerator and had no idea how to tell if the eggs were still good or if they had gone bad.
I thought back to a conversation I had while in Italy with several of my husband’s co-workers. One gentleman, Paolo, had told me he always performs a simple egg water float test before using eggs by placing them in a bowl of water. He said that if the eggs sink; they are good. If the eggs float; they are bad.
So that’s just what I did before cracking the eggs into my puffy pancake batter! I tested my eggs to see if they were still good or not.
Step-by-Step Guide to Performing the Egg Water Test
To determine egg freshness with a water float test for eggs, gently place the egg in a bowl of water to see if it sinks or floats. This egg float test is a quick way to check for freshness. I’ve created a super short video tutorial showing how to float test eggs!
Sink or Float
After placing the eggs in a bowl of water for the egg float test, the eggs will either sink (indicating freshness) or float (indicating they might be bad) and you may choose to discard them.

Try These Delicious Egg Recipes
Now that you know how to tell if your eggs are still good, put your fresh eggs to good use with these delicious recipes!
- Sausage, Egg & Cheese Breakfast Burrito
- Pillsbury Crescent Rolls Breakfast Rolls with Bacon Egg and Cheese
- Bacon Egg & Cheese Breakfast Cups
- How To Make Homemade Eggnog + Recipe
- Crustless Egg Quiche


