I’ve never paid attention to eggs. When I was  a kid I collected them from the chicken coop, but I never thought about how long they’d last.

The most consideration I ever gave an egg was when I was about 6-years-old and I tried to rescue and hatch an egg from the eggs mom had purchased from Safeway and stored in the fridge. Alas, mom discovered the aging egg nestled in a sock bed over my heater vent, and the experiment was over!

Here in Afghanistan I’ve opened, and a subsequently tossed, quite a few suspect eggs before I finally learned a trick. Eggs that are turning bad, float while fresh eggs, sink. At least I hope that’s true! I’m only eating the sinking eggs!

Bad egg up. Good egg down! ...despite expiry dates printed on the shells, one still has to check.