Is it safe to eat expired eggs?

Is it safe to eat expired eggs?
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answer:If an egg is spoiled and unsafe to eat, once its cracked open, there will be no question in anybody’s mind. The stench is unmistakable. As eggs get older they tend to lose moisture since the shell is a permeable membrane. So absent that spoiled smell, the worst thing that can happen would be that it’s more dried. As they get older eggs lose quality but don’t usually spoil. If you are making sunnyside with older eggs, the yolks won’t stand up quite as well and if you’re poaching them the whites will tend to disperse all over the water because they’re less cohesive. But those are all quality issues NOT safety issues. Your friend will be fine. You had very careful and cautious parents who discarded a lot of unnecessary eggs :) But to each his own. There are worse things they could have done :)
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