Egg Spots and New Frig

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:59:20 -0400, "mary" <[email hidden]>
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I bought a new fridge, and I noticed that there are no
spots to place your eggs out of the carton. I did not look
at alot of fridges when I purchased mine, but it is the
same size as the one I purchased twenty years ago. Have
they eliminated the "spots" because the common thought is
that if you take your eggs out of the carton they will take
on oders from the fridge or do people buy less eggs. Or
does salamalila have anything to do with it.

May have more to do with cost cutting than social trends.
Egg cartons work just as well, AFAICS.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret
had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had
been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very
good dinner." Duncan Hines

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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:59:20 -0400, "mary" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I bought a new fridge, and I noticed that there are no
spots to place your eggs out of the carton. I did not look
at alot of fridges when I purchased mine, but it is the
same size as the one I purchased twenty years ago. Have
they eliminated the "spots" because the common thought is
that if you take your eggs out of the carton they will take
on oders from the fridge or do people buy less eggs. Or
does salamalila have anything to do with it.

Egg divots are useless. Maybe if you have a few hens
out back, but otherwise what's the use? They just take
up valuable door space that can be designed to be of
better use.

Keep the eggs in the carton.

Butter compartments are another useless feature. The doors
don't keep out odors or serve any other useful purpose. If
you're using a butter dish, it should have a cover and can
be stored anywhere in the fridge.

-sw

mary said:

Have they eliminated the "spots" because the common thought
is that if you take your eggs out of the carton they will
take on oders from the fridge or do people buy less eggs.
Or does salamalila have anything to do with it.

Most egg producers now have recommended that eggs not be
stored in the door of the refrigerator because it's the
warmest place in the whole unit, being waved around in the
room air every time he door is opened. And most of the newer
refrigerator model makers have taken any legal
responsibility for salmonella, etc., off themselves by not
providing the egg trays.

From the American Egg Board: To guard against breakage
and odor absorption and to help prevent the loss of
carbon dioxide and moisture which lowers egg quality,
store raw shell eggs in their cartons. Place egg cartons
on a middle or lower shelf where the temperature will
fluctuate less than on the door. Refrigerated raw shell
eggs will keep without significant quality loss for about
4 to 5 weeks beyond the pack date or about 3 weeks after
you bring them home.

Connie
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Steve Wertz said:

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:59:20 -0400, "mary" <tombates@city-

net.com said:

I bought a new fridge, and I noticed that there are no
spots to place your eggs out of the carton. I did not look
at alot of fridges when I purchased mine, but it is the
same size as the one I purchased twenty years ago. Have
they eliminated the "spots" because the common thought is
that if you take your eggs out of the carton they will
take on oders from the fridge or do people buy less eggs.
Or does salamalila have anything to do with it.

Egg divots are useless. Maybe if you have a few hens
out back, but otherwise what's the use? They just take
up valuable door space that can be designed to be of
better use.

Keep the eggs in the carton.

Butter compartments are another useless feature. The doors
don't keep out odors or serve any other useful purpose. If
you're using a butter dish, it should have a cover and can
be stored anywhere in the fridge.

-sw

Butter compartments are in fact very useful.

Quoted message said:

Butter compartments are in fact very useful.

And you feel that way because......?

-sw

Quoted message said:

Butter compartments are in fact very useful.

I'm with George Carlin on this one... they're an example of
human folly. A warm box (butter warmer) - inside a cold box
(your fridge) - inside a warm box (your house).

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We use our butter compartment for our butter of course, but
it's also a good place to put a partial sliced onion or
tomato, as well as any of a number of small items that were
opened for partial use. The rest is just kept in the door or
a drawer in the fridge.

Eggs we tend to keep in the carton and on the lower shelf.
I've been looking for a better container, something along
the lines of a plastic box type of thing, with little luck.
We saw one once and did not pick it up --naturally, they're
nowhere to be found now. 🙂

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Steve Wertz said:

Quoted message said:

Butter compartments are in fact very useful.

And you feel that way because......?

-sw

Sorry, but I like them too. Not because they do anything
special for the butter, but just because I like to keep the
butter there so it makes it easy to find and it does not
waste space on the shelves. I don't use a butter dish since
I only use butter for cooking. I rarely eat bread. The
larger compartment next to the butter keeper is used to
store mostly cheese and small items that may get lost on the
shelves or in the doors.

To me, the most useless item in the 'frige are the veggie
drawers. :-P Talk about a waste of space! I use them only to
store medications for the livestock and pets.

K.

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Butter compartments are in fact very useful.

And you feel that way because......?

-sw

Well, at least that way it doesn't get buried in the back. I
store surplus butter in the freezer. That which we're using
I store in a water base butter keeper at room temperature.

Our last 2 refrigerators came with heavy clear plastic egg
boxes that hold 2-3 dozen eggs. It's handy, although I
usually just put the entire egg carton in the box.

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Reg said:

Quoted message said:

Butter compartments are in fact very useful.

I'm with George Carlin on this one... they're an example of
human folly. A warm box (butter warmer) - inside a cold box
(your fridge) - inside a warm box (your house).

Is that one of the theories behind the Butter Compartment -
it's supposed to be warmer?

-sw

Wayne said:

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Butter compartments are in fact very useful.

And you feel that way because......?

Well, at least that way it doesn't get buried in the back.
I store surplus butter in the freezer. That which we're
using I store in a water base butter keeper at room
temperature.

I use the cheese drawer to store butter - never have a
problem finding it. This saves space, considering the butter
compartment only fits 4 sticks of butter even though it's
twice the volume of a pound of butter. Plus the cheese
drawer is much more convenient the way it's placed under the
top shelf.

-sw

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Reg said:

Quoted message said:

Butter compartments are in fact very useful.

I'm with George Carlin on this one... they're an example
of human folly. A warm box (butter warmer) - inside a cold
box (your fridge) - inside a warm box (your house).

Is that one of the theories behind the Butter Compartment
- it's supposed to be warmer?

-sw

Yes, it's supposed to keep it at "spreading" temperature.
Mine is never warm enough for that.

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Steve Wertz said:

Is that one of the theories behind the Butter Compartment
- it's supposed to be warmer?

Butter warmers were a passing fad. Now they are simply
butter compartments... same temp as the rest of the box.

Sure made for good comedy material though 🙂

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Sorry, but I like them too. Not because they do anything
special for the butter, but just because I like to keep
the butter there so it makes it easy to find and it does
not waste space on the shelves.

I achieve the same effect by leaving the butter dish out
on the counter-top. This also pleasingly enhances
spreadability.

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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:31:07 GMT, [email hidden]
wrote:

>Butter compartments are in fact very useful.

And you feel that way because......?

Well, at least that way it doesn't get buried in the back.
I store surplus butter in the freezer. That which we're
using I store in a water base butter keeper at room
temperature.

I use the cheese drawer to store butter - never have a
problem finding it. This saves space, considering the
butter compartment only fits 4 sticks of butter even
though it's twice the volume of a pound of butter. Plus
the cheese drawer is much more convenient the way it's
placed under the top shelf.

-sw

I'd probably do that too, but I don't have a cheese drawer,
just 2 cripser drawers and they're full of produce.

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Quoted message said:

Sorry, but I like them too. Not because they do
anything special for the butter, but just because I
like to keep the butter there so it makes it easy to
find and it does not waste space on the shelves.

I achieve the same effect by leaving the butter dish out
on the counter-top. This also pleasingly enhances
spreadability.

Cats....... <lol> Can't do that. They LOVE butter!

Also since I rarely eat bread, I don't need my butter
spreadable. I use it mostly for cooking.

K.

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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:02:29 GMT, Wayne <[email hidden]> arranged
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Is that one of the theories behind the Butter Compartment
- it's supposed to be warmer?

-sw

Yes, it's supposed to keep it at "spreading" temperature.
Mine is never warm enough for that.

Even the whipped butter, stored in the door compartment, is
too hard to spread.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

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Googling with merely using plastic+egg+cartons comes up
with this site as a first of 21,800:
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I've hit a number of sites like that but it's not the one
I'm looking for -- these are mostly angled towards farmers
and the industry. The one I'm looking for is more like a
Tupperware style container.

Thanks for the thought though!

Like this? outdoorsuperstore.comoutdoorsuperstore.comOpen ↗
productDisplay.asp?productID=269757

They sell them in *mart stores, in the camping section.

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Like this?

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They sell them in *mart stores, in the camping section.

That's pretty close, yes. The one we want is kind of an
opaque/clear (a la Tupperware). I hadn't thought of looking
in the camping/sports supply sections. Thanks for the tip!