Hack It: Awesome Food Hacks You must know!

in lifehacks •  6 years ago 

How to know that egg is in perfect condition to eat or not? 

Here are simple food hack to test 

Floating test:

  • Take a bowl of water
  • Put eggs in this bowl
  • If they go down to the bottom and settle flat , then they are fresh
  • If they settle by standing at one end at the bottom, they are few weeks old but still good  to eat
  • They are not good enough to eat if they float.

Candling Test:

Here is an another test to test the freshness of eggs. Its bit difficult to judge in this test.. but just you can try!

  • Go near a light source like a bulb or you can even use flashlights or better to use LED egg candle light
  • Hold  the egg in-front of light source.
  • By doing so, light pass through the egg and you can see inside the shell.
  • It shows you the amount of air filled up and the amount of  mold.
  • If you see very little air space and  slightly visible yolk , then tadaa... its fresh to eat.
  • If its little old, then you can see larger air space and  slightly darker yolk 
  • If its about to become a bad egg then  you can see really dark yolk and spotty 
  • If its spoiled egg, the the yolk will be mixed up and  lots of dark.

Another method to know the freshness of eggs is cracking test on plates/flat surfaces.

Crack test:

  • Take a plate/any flat thing
  • Crack the egg on it.
  • If the yolk is bright yellow in color / orange in color then its fresh and also the white part should not spread lot.
  • Then smell it, Fresh eggs will not have smell much.
  • If the eggs are old, the yolk will be flat and white part spreads lot. But it may not be bad it is just old.
  • If its bad test, there will be bad smell.

Save Your Expiring eggs!

If yo have many eggs left in your kitchen that you thing are going to rotten! then don't worry!!! Here is a hack for that too!

  • Hard boil those eggs
  • Put them in a container jar.
  • Add  beet brine for making your eggs look pink.

 Do you know of any other ways to test whether or not an egg is good to eat? Share your method with us in the comments. 

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I use the floating test all the time haha. I didn't know about candling test though! Thanks for the info! :)