You can boil them to extend shelf life. Once a food is cooked, you have another week (approximately) to use it before it goes off - maybe a little longer for eggs still in unbroken shells. Boil them, store them in the fridge, and add them to meals over the next week.
Best buy dates are meaningless hype to get you to use more.
I keep eggs for months. Average time in my fridge, 1-3 months. Eggs can always be scrambled, then frozen. Texture changes, but can be used in less sensitive dishes - I wouldnāt make a cake with them.
That said - Dutch Baby. Chef Johnās version on Food Wishes works perfectly. Itās like breakfast dessert, though nutritionally much better because of the eggs.
Re: Best buy dates. For decades Iāve done āinformal testingā (forgot about stuff) and have learned most things last far beyond their sell by/best buy date. (I put dates on everything I buy - restaurant inventory management lesson).
I currently have numerous intentional tests going - dozens of cans of different dates, chips, crackers, cookies, boxed meals (cake mixes, hamburger helper, pasta, Mac n cheese, etc.). Pasta lasts forever. As does pasta sauce in a jar or can.
Chips: will last upward of 2 years past sell by date. Oils go rancid eventually from oxygen exposure (I suspect a bag develops a leak).
Cookies:similar
Crackers: these seem to oxidize faster than chips (the oils go rancid, safe to eat just taste bad). I suspect itās because crackers arenāt sealed as well as chips.
Peanut Butter: 4 years, no problem.
Canned drinks: 3 years average. Cans are very thin, develop pinhole leaks (especially acidic drinks - cola).
Bottled drinks: indefinitely. Anything in jars will generally last as long as canned goods (technically theyāre canned too).
Canned goods are indefinite, except acidic things like tomatoes. Over time the acid will degrade the lining, then the can. Though Iāve gone past two years with tomatoes, and no problems yet.
Of course, all this is stored in a cool, dry, dark location (no sunlight, lights are OK, just keep them off). Anything under 75f is OK, the cooler the better.
There are canned goods over 100 years old (salvaged from shipwrecks) that get tested occasionally. Still safe to eat (even if maybe you wouldnāt want to).
I love making huge batches of breakfast wraps (scrambled eggs, veggies, cheese in a tortilla) and freezing them in ziplocks for when I am hungry and too lazy to cook
Eggs, salsa or picante sauce, tortilla chips, Mexican blend or other preferred cheese, butter or oil, tortillas if youāre feeling sassy.
Heat your cooking surface to medium high, slap on the butter or oil, smash them eggs in and get to scrambling. When the eggs first start to congeal, crush some tortilla chips and toss them in like confetti. Scramble until nearly done and then smother that shit in salsa. Scramble briefly some more and then cut off the heat. Add the cheese as you please and cover just long enough for the cheese to meltāI usually just put the plate Iām gonna use over the pan.
From start to cleanup, if this recipe takes you longer than 10-15 minutes, youāre getting too fancy.
Yeah, I had a bunch of eggs that got cracked from a dropped carton or something. Made a couple of quiches and froze one. Still great when reheated later on.
Separate the whites and yolks. Make a sponge cake or something out of the whites.
In a tupperware container, put down a thick layer of salt. Then place the yolks close but not touching on that layer of salt. Cover everything with salt. Leave it out at room temperature covered but with the ability to breathe. The yolks will harden and dehydrate. You can now use them as a Parmesan substitute in salads, pastas and other things.
If you want to step things up a little bit make sense and cray powder or chili powder (American Curry powder) with the salt to impart some flavor to the yolks.
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Thereās nothing wrong with a hard egg sandwich. Little bit of mayo. A little bit of mustard. Maybe a tiny bit of horseradish and some dill. Put that on two slices of bread.
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You can make ice cream. Egg sugar, salt, cream.
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If you donāt anticipate running into another surplus then you can get some food grade lime and waterglass the eggs for long-term storage as long as they are not washed. If you bought them from a store In America then do not do this. Only do this with farm fresh unwashed eggs.
I run a hard surplus on eggs so I do not do this because I know there will always be more so Iām not looking for ways to save them but ways to you use them.
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Never underestimate the tastiness of shakshuka.
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Breakfast burritos.
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Do you have any urine and wood ash? Maybe itās time to bury some eggs in the backyard.
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