How long? Does it change the concistency or taste?
Thanks you
Probably about as long as any other leftovers, maybe a week or two tops. The texture will probably change more based on how you reheat them. And they will certainly be different from fresh cooked. If your thinking long term storage as an ingredient in something else I’ve had great luck making a big batch of scrambled eggs with a bunch of veg and cheese and meal prepping a bunch of frozen breakfast burritos.
A week or two for leftovers? How are you not dead of salmonella. Eggs are good for maybe 2 days in a fridge.
Fried eggs last 2 weeks in the fridge easy. Maybe turn your fridge temp down? Or just try it; you might be surprised how long you survive.
Almost no open meat or meat related product lasts in the fridge for 2 weeks, the criteria isn’t “is it fuzzy yet” but can it have microbial growth that’s harmful.
Because people are overly afraid of food spoiling. You’ll also be surprised that milk can usually stay good for a couple weeks after the best by date and that fresh eggs last for months in the fridge.
Now, the longer things sit in the fridge the worse the texture usually gets. Rice may be fine to eat 2 weeks later but I’d rather just toss it. It’s going to be hard from drying out in the fridge and trying to fix that means you get either mushy rice or rice that just breaks apart.
I’m a poor person, I know a lot about how food lasts beyond expiry dates.
There’s being overly afraid of going past best-by date, and there’s being stupid by eating 2 weeks old leftovers from the fridge.
After 5 days I wouldn’t eat anything opened or already cooked from the fridge that isn’t naturally preserved (like cheese or sour cream). Things go bad in the fridge too.
I’ve not tried 2 weeks old rice, and I don’t want to. You want to keep something edible more than a few days, that’s what the freezer is for.
I mean, there shouldn’t be any salmonella on fried eggs in the first place. And once dead it won’t come back just from being stored in the fridge.
Right, salmonella isn’t the thing to worry about cooked food. But other things are if you keep leftovers for a week or two.
My searching is saying 3-4 days for scrambled eggs, a week for hard boiled eggs.
Two weeks? I would throw away the whole fridge if I left any food in there for two weeks.
Most foods are okay for around two days without any problems. Some foods may last up to 5 days if they are salty or contain some vinegar, but it requires throughout heating to be save at this point.
I would never eat anything older than that which has been exposed to air. It’s a biohazard!
This begs the question: should you?
A freshly-fried egg will be of vastly superior quality over one that is cold or must be reheated. Raw, uncracked eggs will last reasonably longer in the refrigerator, so it’s preferable to keep them in that state instead.
I have a feeling that you’ve truly got a different problem that needs to be solved, rather than the one that you’ve asked here. Why are you feeling the need to pre-fry eggs?
This begs the question: why eat eggs at all? There are alternatives which don’t affect or harm chickens and contribute to a massive amount of torture or waste. Take a look at Just Egg. Lately cheaper than a dozen and much healthier too.
Because eggs are tasty and vegans are too weak from lack of protein and b12 to stop me.
Just providing a different perspective. Vegan for 7+ years, happy to submit to a protein and b12 test, not deficient in either. Thanks for the response!
Do you know hens lay like 16-24 eggs a month regardless of if they are getting any cock, and if they aren’t getting any, the eggs won’t be fertilised, but they still lay. Hens do this from like 6 months old… it’s wasteful not to eat the eggs.
You should go outside and actually touch grass sometime. If all you know is supermarkets food but you want to preach about where it comes from, at least have the butter to know wtf you are talking about.
Also vegans spouting the shit they do is probably the main reason people don’t try veganism.
Agreed. I’m eating a lot more vegetarian meals recently but mainly because it’s cheaper and I enjoy cooking vegetarian, particularly Indian dishes. However, eggs are a great source of protein and there are so many options available to source them humanely without having to eat an alternative. I’ve connected with a local farmer who has hens kept in really good conditions and I get eggs from him. I admire the principles of vegetarianism and veganism but can’t fucking stand it when vegans get on their high horse and preach unsolicited.
While I somewhat agree with you: this is neither the time nor the place to preach your vegan ways.
This begs the question: why did you bother to post this? Did you really think that walking into the room, announcing yourself as vegan and providing a solution that’s entirely unhelpful to the actual problem OP is having would go well?
Surely not.
Surely you would recognize, as a human being with empathy skills, that when an established non vegan is asking for help on the storage of meals that they aren’t asking for a fucking philosophy lesson or to be convinced that the problem was that they started to do the thing they were doing at all. That’s insulting.
You are a kind person for caring about all life, regardless of cognition, ability or inability to reproduce etc, but you are a damned FOOL. Best of luck to you, I hope this was clear and not too harsh
This begs the question: tldr. Im going to fridge an egg and eat it raw but cold.
To wash the pan once for several meals. I hate oily textures (except in mouth) so the dishwashing take time.
Hell yes! I love my cast iron. Frying eggs in it is a breeze and cleanup is so fucking easy.
Okay, if the goal is to eat eggs that are cooked well with the least amount of greasy dishes, you might consider hard or soft boiled eggs. You can cook several at a time, they last quite a while if you don’t crack them, and you can even cook them in an air fryer if you don’t want dirty dishes at all. If you make them just before eating, you can have a nice hot soft boiled egg in a pretty short time.
I’d personal prefer that over microwaved eggs every time.
Boiled and pickled they will last much longer
no. they will combust after about 2 hours
No. You will be branded a warcriminal and a witch.
