Relevant XKCD : https://xkcd.com/2408/
Even after something like ~15 years of exposure to XKCD, I still get one of 10 thousand’d
I guess I’m neutral good when it comes to eggs.
Always eggs in the middle. Because when I pick it up I always want the center of the weight to be in the same place. If all the weight is to one side and I grab the opposite side I’m more likely to drop it. Yes this is how I live my life, by overanalyzing everything.
You at least have to keep it symetrical.
That’s the same reason that I do the opposite - I take an equal number from each end, so the remaining eggs are centered in the carton, so I’m never surprised by a carton that’s unbalanced in an unexpected direction.
I think we do the same thing. I meant I leave eggs in the middle I pull from the outside edges.
Ah… yeah… I see it now. I took it wrong.
And yeah.
I also over analyze everything, which is why I always remove my eggs from the right side of the carton.
The left side of the carton is always towards me in the refrigerator, and I also always have the left side towards me on the counter.
As a result my first grab out of the fridge is always the most stable grab possible.
The way I figure it is, the most dangerous time is pulling it out of the fridge when I don’t always remember where the eggs are and where I have to grab it from one end. I don’t want to be surprised by it being heavy away from me.
Once I have it safely in my hand, I no longer have to consciously think about how to hold it, as that can all be done unconsciously.
I have a wife and kid so I can’t guarantee it goes back in how I want it to. But it’s good you have a system.
Nice
Almost out, picking up three more cartons tomorrow from my supplier of eggs from free range, grass fed, goat harassed happy hens.
The cartons are usually whatever my supplier happen to have there and then. Pretty standard egg cartons as sold at the store.
I usually use pairs as it’s fastest to mentally intuit how many eggs remain that way.
Lol “goat harassed”, time stamped and everything lmao
A couple of goats share the same forest as the hens. And knowing goats, there’s bound to be some harassment involved.
Amateurs.
(90-packs due to two bodybuilder household – amateurs, as in not professional :)
Currently full, but I work my way in from the outside corners to the inside by the hinge so it is balanced when I pick it up one handed. It might be slightly lopsided because I always pull multiple eggs next to each other with one hand, but mostly centered.
So it frequently looks something like this:
This is the way.
Normally, I work from one side to the other in pairs like below:
XX
OO
OO
OO
OO
OO
I face the heavier side toward the door so that I will have the majority of the weight in my hand as I pick it up.
Exactly the same, except the reason is that the eggs at the back can freeze if the carton is pushed back in the fridge, so I work from the far end to near
I remove eggs opposite each other (front right, rear left and so on) so that it remains level for weight and balance. My partner doesn’t subscribe to my logic and just sprays a machine gun of bullets around the carton, grabbing whatever like she’s blindfolded. It’s not a hill I wanna die on, so I don’t say anything.
That is a hill I died on, and luckily everyone else in the household got in line so I didn’t actually die. I do most of the baking, we’re keeping that box balanced for me otherwise no more cookies damnit.
Normally like this, but we ate them all yesterday.Any particular reason for the markers on the eggshell?
It’s the dates they’re laid!
Id be cautious about using sharpies on eggs. The shell is pourous. It looks like you’re using a regular pen. You’re probably fine but we avoid out of an abundance of caution
pencil would probably work
We use this thing instead of the carton.
Mine is chaos. I purposely grab them at random.
Monster.
All beauty is born in chaos.
I normally eat scrambled eggs for breakfast so I always grab two at a time. So next time I make breakfast I’ll grab the next eggs from the right side.
but you grabbed 3?
Guilty, your honor!
In my defence, I was super hungry.
Checkerboard! Keeps it level if I keep the pattern.
I did once replaced half the brown eggs with white eggs and visa versa to screw with my partner. It didn’t work. I was just weird.
I don’t use eggs like that, but my housemate does. Looks like they take em from the carton one row at a time, the carton currently looks like:
1 1 1 1 1 1
0 0 0 0 0 0I always remove the eggs in the Fibonacci sequence first until I run out of indices, and then I remove them in order by index.
