This quick and easy water test will tell you how fresh your eggs are.
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How to Tell if an Egg is Fresh – Delia's How to Cook – BBC Food
There is a simple and smart way to test if your eggs are still fresh without relying on the date on the packaging or the number on the packaging: do the float test!
The process is as simple as it sounds: fill a bowl or glass with cold water and gently submerge the egg you want to test into it.
This clever test works because as eggs age their shells become more porous allowing more air to flow through them. The more air that flows through the shell the larger the air pocket inside the egg (known as the air cell which is between the membrane and the shell at the bottom of the egg) becomes.
