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lack of bleaching force owners to keep high standard (hygiene and vaccinations)

If you wash your eggs before using them, you will never get salmonella.


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9dev02/20/2025

But you will get rotten eggs easily.

In thirty years in Europe, I’ve had a single incidence of salmonella infection when I handled egg shells badly while doing a Carbonara (which requires raw eggs to be spread right over the plate). This really, really isn’t a problem if you follow minimal hygiene when cooking (don’t touch food after touching shells without washing your hands in between.