Re:When Refrigeration Was Controversial
by metafunctor on Sunday August 21, 2016 @04:48AM
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As far as I know, in Denmark, eggs are produced unwashed and salmonella free. Supermarkets (unnecessarily) refrigerate them because customers expect that.
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Re:When Refrigeration Was Controversial
by semi-extrinsic on Sunday August 21, 2016 @05:14AM
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Also true in Norway and Sweden. The funniest part is that IIRC, the "best before" date is based on storage at room temperature, due to EU regulations, but everyone in the Nordic countries keeps them refrigerated.
But I thought Denmark had more of an issue with egg salmonella than Sweden and Norway? I've seen Danish cooking shows where they take care to use pasteurised eggs/yolks whenever they're not cooked in a recipe (like for mayonnaise), but never in Norway or Sweden.
In Finland, some stores might stash eggs in refridgerated sections but overwhelmingly they're kept in room temperature. Salmonella is virtually non-existent in Finland. Eggs can generally be consumed even raw. That is because of a special stricter-than-usual control of poultry and egg production which effectively means that only Swedish and Danish eggs meet the import standards. Yet no eggs are imported to Finland anyway and the country is actually a net exporter.
Plenty of eggs are sold in room temperature in both Norway and Sweden. And neither country utilizes refrigerated transports, so there is no unbroken cold chain.
Isn't there natural refrigeration in those countries most of the year?
Re:When Refrigeration Was Controversial
by brianwawok on Sunday August 21, 2016 @09:37PM
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You can't put eggs outside in winter, frozen eggs crack