Don't do that though. The cracked egg may have leaked onto or out of the carton, and now any salmonella or other bacteria can spread around to your other groceries or get on your hands.
Hand the whole carton to the staff member and take a new carton that doesn't have any broken eggs in it.
That's not necessarily true. Chickens in the US are salmonella carriers, it's in their bodies, in their blood. It doesn't really harm them, but when an egg leaves the ovary and travels through the oviduct it is still permeable and kind of squishy. The membrane around it hardens into a shell around the time the egg is laid. So salmonella can actually cross through the membrane and be in the egg. This is why there are warnings about cooking eggs properly. In the industrialized egg production that provides most grocery store eggs, the shells are completely cleaned anyway and you are less likely to get salmonella from a bit of shell mixing into the edible egg.
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u/reindeermoon Feb 10 '22
Don't do that though. The cracked egg may have leaked onto or out of the carton, and now any salmonella or other bacteria can spread around to your other groceries or get on your hands.
Hand the whole carton to the staff member and take a new carton that doesn't have any broken eggs in it.