To understand why there are so many questions surrounding the great-egg-washing debacle, we need to go over the concerns surrounding egg-washing.
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I don't care for refrigerated eggs so I leave mine on the counter until I'm ready to use them or give them away. They're rarely more than a week old at that point anyway because as soon as I get a dozen I either run them across the road to the neighbors or I give them to whoever stops by for a visit.