How long? Does it change the concistency or taste?

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This begs the question: should you?

    A freshly-fried egg will be of vastly superior quality over one that is cold or must be reheated. Raw, uncracked eggs will last reasonably longer in the refrigerator, so it’s preferable to keep them in that state instead.

    I have a feeling that you’ve truly got a different problem that needs to be solved, rather than the one that you’ve asked here. Why are you feeling the need to pre-fry eggs?

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    A day or two at most.

    Shouldn’t really affect the taste/consistency but it depends on how you heat it up. If you microwave it, it will definitely change.

    If you just quickly re-fry it in a pan, you should be good.

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      1 year ago

      I agree with day or two tops, but the microwave/pan thing I see completely the opposite way. Microwave is ok to heat up eggs, while refrying in a pan you are likely to dry them up and it just can’t be the same the 2nd time.

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        1 year ago

        Egg yolk cooks disproportionately quickly in the microwave. For runnier yolks, other methods will be closer to desired results.

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        1 year ago

        If you have an air fryer, or a toaster oven with an “air fry” setting, that might be worth a try for reheating.

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    Probably about as long as any other leftovers, maybe a week or two tops. The texture will probably change more based on how you reheat them. And they will certainly be different from fresh cooked. If your thinking long term storage as an ingredient in something else I’ve had great luck making a big batch of scrambled eggs with a bunch of veg and cheese and meal prepping a bunch of frozen breakfast burritos.

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      1 year ago

      A week or two for leftovers? How are you not dead of salmonella. Eggs are good for maybe 2 days in a fridge.

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        1 year ago

        I mean, there shouldn’t be any salmonella on fried eggs in the first place. And once dead it won’t come back just from being stored in the fridge.

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          1 year ago

          Right, salmonella isn’t the thing to worry about cooked food. But other things are if you keep leftovers for a week or two.

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            1 year ago

            Sure. In my experience a week is absolutely no problem and usually cooked food goes bad in a detectable way (mold or tasting off). Personally I never had a problem but I guess it also depends on the fridge temperature and whether it really was cooked/fried all the way through.

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              1 year ago

              also how you cool the food, if you put the food in a well sealed cleaned container while over 75°C and keep covered while cooling and only open once you will consume the food will stay good for a lot longer than if you put it in a container when it’s already room temperature.

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                1 year ago

                I’ve actually wondered about this. If you take a sealed container, freeze and thaw it again, shouldn’t it be sterile? So basically good for as long as the seal remains tight?

                With some exceptions of course, the seal might not be tight at low temperatures, some bacteria can survive frost etc.

      • kingludd@lemmy.basedcount.com
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        1 year ago

        Fried eggs last 2 weeks in the fridge easy. Maybe turn your fridge temp down? Or just try it; you might be surprised how long you survive.

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        1 year ago

        Because people are overly afraid of food spoiling. You’ll also be surprised that milk can usually stay good for a couple weeks after the best by date and that fresh eggs last for months in the fridge.

        Now, the longer things sit in the fridge the worse the texture usually gets. Rice may be fine to eat 2 weeks later but I’d rather just toss it. It’s going to be hard from drying out in the fridge and trying to fix that means you get either mushy rice or rice that just breaks apart.