Originally Posted by tmac100

I July 2006 I would buy 6 eggs every so often when I went thru some small town in outback Australia and carry them in their container (wrapped in a towel) in my pannier for up to 6 days. If they were not cracked, I used them in cooking. I had a Coleman fuelled SVEA stove. I did not coat the eggs with oil nor did I worry about them "going bad" because as a kid in the 1950s I fetched eggs from under laying hens and put them into a 1 gal Prestone anti-freeze can in her farmhouse. She used those eggs as required, and there was NO spoilage. So I figured I would do the unrefrigerated egg thing during my bike trip along the "Savannah Way"

In 2011 I don't think eggs have changed, and the shells provide the same protection as they did in the 1950s. Locals in South Africa eat ostrich, etc., eggs they find in the wild, with no ill effects, and South Africa is pretty warm...