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.

Wondering how to tell if your eggs are still good? Learn the simple egg float test in water to check egg freshness at home. This quick, step-by-step guide will show you how to perform the egg water float test to see if your eggs are still edible. Perfect for store-bought and farm-fresh eggs! | Gathered In The Kitchen

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!

YouTube video

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.

Four eggs in a bowl of water showing the egg float test. Three eggs have sunk, indicating freshness, while one brown egg is floating, showing it may be bad. Labeled with 'Sunk 👍' and 'Floated 👎' for clarity. | Gathered In The Kitchen

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!

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Learn how to tell if eggs are still good with the simple egg float test. This quick guide shows you how to check if eggs are still good using the egg water test to see if they sink or float. Discover how to know if eggs are still good or how to tell if eggs are bad easily at home. | Gathered In The Kitchen

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