oso0960
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Shell Eggs from Farm to Table
You can't pasteurize eggs at home. What is the testing procedure? (See page 4 of attached document above)
I buy them pasteurized in the shell and crack them into all kinds of blended drinks.
"The equipment to pasteurize shell eggs isn't available for home use, and it is not possible to pasteurize shell eggs at home without cooking the contents of the egg."
I take it you are referring to that? (My computer just scrolls so I don't know where the 4th page starts.) The government loves wording their shit effectively. They are not 'wrong', hell..it seems they are never wrong! lol But they are misleading. Just like many other political issues.
I haven't looked into it, but they say the equipment to pasteurize is not available for home use, so I'll take their word for it.
Being that you can't have equipment to pasteurize eggs at home, then it is impossible to pasteurize eggs at home without cooking the contents of the egg, like the statement says.
Now if you cook the contents of the egg, it basically pasteurizes it right? Well certainly, since all the bacteria are dead.
But now say you cook the egg, but the cooking temperature is low enough to stop the egg from coagulating and hot enough to be effective for pasteurizing. Thus the 'cooked' egg looks like it hasn't been cooked at all and is now pasteurized.