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This is a real thing I do. It feels weird if the weight of the carton isn’t evenly balanced when I take it from the fridge.
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I first heard of this a couple years ago on a reddit post. It had never occurred to me to think that an egg carton should be balanced, or to expect an egg carton to be balanced when I pick it up.
I still don’t worry about the balance, but I get it.
I don’t even take them out of the same lateral side of the carton, just pick at random
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You’ll bring chaos into your house rumba!
I have a teen and a tween, we are at max entropy already
When I eat grapes, I like to eat two at a time, and end with an even number. I throw away the last grape if it’s not an even number. Why? #JustAutieThings.
How are you going to rearrange the eggs when you take out the next egg?
Start from the corners one at a time.
you take out another egg
I do that all the time. The eggs MUST BE balanced.
T’was the tism m’lord
I do this because the weight distribution is even so i don’t drop the carton when grabbing it out of the fridge again
Or you just put the heavy end facing the door of the refrigerator so you always are picking up the heavy end and not the empty end. It should be that way anyways if you’re putting the eggs in the fridge because you’d also want to be holding the stable end of the carton and not the empty side.
I used to do it that way but other people in the house dont so I’ve switched to spreading it out
But what if all the ends are stable and there is no empty side?
Then you don’t have teenagers that are taking eggs from the carton to make scrambled eggs at 10pm. They happen to put the eggs back in correctly because they need the sturdy side to handle them. I don’t need to teach them fractal patterns to take eggs out.
Lol yeah… I’m sure it was hard enough to get them to do it this way 😅
So you always have to take a multiple of two eggs? Well it’s unarguably visually pleasing
I’m positive there is a correlation between ocd and autism. This seems like it’s hinting at a more ocd thing. Still it’s not entirely irrational itself.
Balance is everything, I don’t want the carton to flip on me cause the eggs are placed randomly
I guess a three-egg omelette is out of the question then
it’s just sensible. if you take from one end, you run the risk of unexpectedly grabbing the ‘light end’ and accidentally dropping the partial carton on the floor next time you take it out of the fridge.
This is why I do it. It’s not necessarily symmetrical, just roughly even weight distribution to prevent a heavy side.
Oh my god. This is beautiful.
Thank you, fellow lemites. I have assimilated this autism into my own.
Bam. Right here. It’s all about that weight distribution, simple as. First time I grabbed a carton by the light end, my stomach dropped. Not having that, no way.
So always put the heavy (short, not long) end facing the door, so you always grab the heavy end, and never have this problem.
exactly, set yourself up for success
Symmeggrical
I kind of have both, just learn to enjoy the beauty of symmetry.
Whoa look at Mr moneybags here, flexing with an 18 eggs container
Per egg it is cheaper than buying the dozen.
buys the entire US egg industry
technically cheaper than buying cartons
For regular commodity eggs, the cost per egg is exactly the same between 12 and 18 packs (at least at my grocery store). However, with eggs being so expensive, I’ve started treating them as a luxury good, and so I took a look and noticed that the prices of the fancy eggs haven’t increased nearly as much (on a percentage basis) as the basic commodity eggs. I’ve also noticed that with the fancy eggs, you actually do get a small volume discount for buying 18 instead of 12. Therefore, the skyrocketing egg prices have actually caused me to buy fancier eggs and more of them at a time, LOL!
Before:
- 12 normal eggs: $1
- 18 normal eggs: $1.50
- 12 fancy eggs: $4+ ( 4x “normal,” too much of a price premium)
Now:
- 12 normal eggs: $5
- 18 normal eggs: $7.50
- 18 fancy eggs: $10 (1.33x “normal,” a small enough premium to say “might as well get the better quality”)
Huh, maybe I should give it a try……
