Author Topic: What's over-running your fridge?  (Read 12957 times)

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #15 on: April 30, 2013, 10:13:29 pm »
eggs ....
chicken eggs, duck eggs, turkey eggs, occasional quail egg,

then milk,

then air!
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tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
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Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #16 on: May 01, 2013, 08:00:47 am »
Didn't I read somewhere that you should not keep eggs in fridges ?  :thinking:

Backinwellies

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Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2013, 08:21:00 am »
cold eggs don't make good cakes but otherwise I don't think there is a problem.... unless you know different?

in my fridge  ......  well out of date fruit juice .... bought on sunny day before weather turned back to coffee weather!     soggy salad (same reason)   almost empty milk carton .... got any spare Anke?   yogurts (need eating... but choc cake to finish first!  Oh and some liver .... to feed the local wild Buzzard which pops along for breakfast most days..
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Rosemary

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Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #18 on: May 01, 2013, 08:38:39 am »
Didn't I read somewhere that you should not keep eggs in fridges ?  :thinking:

My understanding is that you should BUT you should allow them to come to room temperature before using them. I'm going to have to start freezing them soon.

We bought 20 pol and they are laying like mad but the eggs are still too small to sell to the public. In some ways it's great, 'cos demand is such that we don't often get eggs (only chipped and dirty ones  ;D )

happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #19 on: May 01, 2013, 10:13:56 am »
We do not keep our eggs in the fridge either, , mind you, with 4 chickens we do not get too many, when we have a load I make cake and give the dogs scrambled eggs, they love that.
Certainly made me think if we do need a fridge, we used to survive with pantries and stone slabs, there are lots of nice cool places in our house but some modern houses would be far too warm...... ::)

Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #20 on: May 01, 2013, 10:44:28 am »
Don't keep eggs in the fridge either.
Ours seems to be full of half full/empty bottles & jars of various condiments, Stella Artois & white wine  :innocent: and various lumps of cured pig!
mandy :pig:

john and helen

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Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #21 on: May 01, 2013, 12:06:49 pm »
Eggs in a fridge is a question i have often wondered about  (sheltered life) so i asked my dear wife who use to run the dairy department in a supermarket.... her reply was..they are better off in a cool area but not a fridge as it effects  cooking... thats why supermarkets keep them on the shelf ....

so why does fridges come with an egg holder  :thinking: ...gimick

better off in the larder ....

anyway ! to answer the question, cheese, ham, sausages, bacon, milk, white wine, ketchup

Clarebelle

  • Joined Jan 2013
  • Orkney
Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #22 on: May 01, 2013, 12:17:41 pm »
i always thought you weren't supposed to keep eggs in the fridge because the shell is permeable and there is a chance that the egg will take on a 'taint' from strong smelling foods. I still keep mine in the fridge though and they have never smelt funny!

happygolucky

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Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #23 on: May 01, 2013, 12:18:34 pm »
All this wine in the fridge. ;) .....no way will I keep wine in our fridge, its totally against my principles.........I just have to drink it all :innocent:

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #24 on: May 01, 2013, 01:02:06 pm »
All this wine in the fridge. ;) .....no way will I keep wine in our fridge, its totally against my principles.........I just have to drink it all :innocent:
Now that is definatly my way of thinking !
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luckylady

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Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #25 on: May 01, 2013, 06:08:04 pm »
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315863/Big-brother-switch-fridge-Power-giants-make-millions--pay-sinister-technology.html
 
Food for thought, fridgewise.  Soon won't even be able to open our fridge doors without big brother having a panic attack!  :rant:
I have in my fridge at the moment two gala melons rolling about on the shelf and a never ending supply of value prawns for our poorly cat - its all she'll eat just now.
Doing that swan thing - cool and calm on the surface but paddling like crazy beneath.

Lesley Silvester

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Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #26 on: May 02, 2013, 10:38:02 pm »
We have the remains of my stewed fruits of the forest that mostly I collected last year and added some 10p  blueberries, then loads of cheese, I love cheese but do not eat much of it anymore, it was bought for cooking etc but I did not end up using it all, so now its getting used slowly, also some plain yogurt otherwise its usually salad stuff, thinking back, my parents never had fridges and I dare say we could go without!!!

Sandy, when I first read that I thought you had added the blueberries and cheese to your stewed fruit.  :roflanim:

I don't keep wine in the fridge. I only drink red.  ;)

ellied

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Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #27 on: May 03, 2013, 02:39:53 pm »
I am overrun with eggs too, I don't keep them in the fridge but they sit on top of it, trays, boxes, stacks of the damn things ::)  I am getting around 12-14 a day and some weeks only sell a couple dozen, others it's double that but I don't have anywhere near enough clients buying regularly enough to avoid eating 3 almost every day myself and  that's my limit, I'm sick of eggs already and it's only May!

I also have 3 huge jars of pickled eggs on the worktop beside the fridge, half a dozen quiches in the freezer and have just bought some lemons to make lemon curd, I gave a dozen with some flowers from the garden to a neighbour on her birthday and then another dozen to someone that just stopped to ask for directions but commented on the hens and said she had 5 hungry kids at home, just one in the car but I was glad to get shot of a few!

IN the fridge there is a salad drawer full of bottles of Stella I got as a bargain box, to feed the neighbour that chainsawed a tree for me but he's more to do and I keep him company shifting logs and burning debris so we both get one every Saturday more or less and if a couple disappear other nights well that's just how it is  ;)

There are 4 or 5 jars of mayo  ::) a 4 pint milk bottle, 2 blocks of butter because I was considering baking to use up a few eggs.. a bag of carrots for the  mare who just foaled on Tuesday and I think that's it.

The egg glut is getting me down a bit - if I spent the £10 a week from layers pellets on shopping my diet would have greater diversity than it does on an egg based diet, let alone the corn, flubenvet feed, grit, shavings etc I put into the hens every month, and if they were all laying every day I'd get 2 dozen and be moving into the garage by now but that means half are slacking yet and eating for nothing  ???
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Ina

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Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #28 on: May 03, 2013, 04:48:55 pm »
If you all have so much trouble getting rid of eggs, won't any of the food banks I keep hearing about be happy to take some - or places like the Cyrenians in Aberdeen, where they cook food for homeless people? Plenty of folks out there who can't afford to buy eggs, let alone decent eggs...

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: What's over-running your fridge?
« Reply #29 on: May 06, 2013, 10:10:30 pm »
Cheese ! we seem to be on a mission to have a piece of every  cheese you can ever buy  in our fridge  :roflanim:
Graham

 

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