The theory goes - and it may be part urban myth - is that you should not refrigerate eggs if the shops in your country don't. There'll have been no refrigeration at any point in the supply chain. Frost free fridges are extremely dry and will shorten the fresh lifespan of the eggs as the shell isn't perfectly air tight, and supposedly - this may be the part that's urban myth - can also damage the natural protective coating.

Certainly we've never had problems with eggs staying fresh in the cupboard for months, and would never put them in the fridge. Course it's not common to get that old, but we often go past the 2 weeks best before date. First thing to do with a new fridge is throw away the pointless egg tray. :)

Ditto in Finland. Eggs are stored on shelves, unrefrigerated.

The eggs from the chickens my wife and I raise on the farm can be stored for about 4 weeks at room temperatures. Probably more, but we usually use the eggs or trade them away long before that.

Putting a six-pack of eggs in the refrigerator is one thing though. If you have larger quantities than that, it's rather unpractical (and unnecessary) to store them in a refrigerator.

Off topic: I think the OTOH idiom is for weighing opposing facts. You aren't doing that here: the lack of store refrigeration and the room temp purchase are equivalent. Being mentioned is the opposite, but that was in a distant clause.

I won't say the usage is definitely wrong (being English, after all), but it struck me as interesting.

I'm in Norway: All of the eggs are refrigerated in the stores around here. Oddly enough, I asked my soon-to-be Norwegian spouse about this before I moved here from the US just because I read a similar article.

In Denmark eggs in supermarkets are in fridges with the milk etc., and people usually keep eggs in their fridges at home as well.

Danish supermarkets refrigerate eggs, but the eggs are also unwashed. It's probably the same in Sweden :)

Huh, weird. The Woolies, Coles and IGA near me all have them refridgerated. We don't bother keeping them in the fridge when we get home but that's because a dozen will only last a few days.

I stopped refrigerating eggs, when i found out I can make better fried eggs if they're at room temperature. :)

"if you keep your eggs in the fridge, then you should let them come to room temperature before cooking – if you start with a cold egg, then you're more likely to end up overcooking the yolk trying to get the white to set."

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/no...

I'm in Queensland. At the Coles I go to, they are definitely refrigerated. I have been to NSW ones where they aren't. Maybe in Queensland it is policy. That seems plausible.