Egg Storage Experiment – Week 18 Results (the FINAL week!)

Here we are on the final week of this experiment and, to be honest, I’m glad it’s coming to an end. Here’s the egg (it didn’t float or smell weird):

And here it is cooking (the yolk/membrane broke down without me doing anything):

As with last week, I choose to eat it as an egg sandwich but I decided to make sure it was WELL cooked:

Yeah, it’s real done but some of the color is from a lot of Creole seasoning. Anyway, I didn’t get sick or die from eating it or any of the other eggs so I think I can safely say the experiment was a success. 🙂

Of course, things might be a little different if the eggs were subject to extreme heat rather than a constant and cozy room temperature. Regardless, this experiment clearly shows you can use mineral oil to coat eggs and store them without refrigeration.

In fact, I looked back at previous weeks and it was about week 4 where the control eggs (the ones without a mineral oil coating) started to float and be potentially bad. A little math says that using mineral oil to coat eggs can make them last 3 times as long and more than without coating. I think that’s really awesome.

As for a next experiment? I still haven’t a clue. I might end up taking Saturday’s off, we’ll see. Hopefully this experiment has helped to convince you that it can be done with success.