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Oh yay I get to post the relevant XKCD! https://xkcd.com/2408/
Chaotic good
Hey you have a latcher over by the eggs! You can just cut the empty part off.
I could but that's only a day or two of eggs and the shelf is just for eggs.
Lol.
So close! But pretty good balance!
I expected it to be worse, tbh.
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I don't have any right now but I typically take them out on opposite corners, then work towards the middle. Like this.
(1) (5) (9) (12) (8) (4)
(3) (7) (11) (10) (6) (2)
If you reverse your order, the carton will feel more stable in your hands as you use up your eggs. This is because the carton's mass density moves towards the outer edges, increasing the moment of inertia.
I'm fun at parties, I swear.
I disagree. I think you want to keep a small MOI because that allows you to control a tipping carton with the least amount of torque. At least that's how I've been justifying by method of taking from the outsides, in.
It's much harder to control a stick with weights in the ends, ESPECIALLY if the weights are unbalanced (which they will be unless you're only using even numbers of eggs. )
- We should hang out at parties.
- None of this matters in my real life because my wife is a chaos goblin who just grabs eggs from WHEREVER she pleases, almost like she's not even considering the mass moment of inertia at all!
Can't take a picture. Egg prices quadrupled where I am so I haven't bought them in months. But it could have looked something like this:
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I also take from the ends. It balances the carton better for me when taking it out of the fridge
I can't afford eggs right now but what i usually did was immediately hard boil half of them, eat two of those and put the rest back in the carton. the hard boiled half always stayed on the right half of the carton, because with the layout of my kitchen, that is the side closer to my oven, so i would know which half are hard boiled.
My wife insists on an even distribution pull from the center. Can't take a photo at the moment. She insists that an imbalance in the carton makes her more likely to drop it in the morning
I do this.
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Chaos. I grab eggs at random, without consideration for symmetry!
I don't eat eggs anymore but I used to checkerboard them
Same: haven't had egg in years.
I always pulled them from one size so that it was a precarious activity to pull the cartoon from the fridge: you got either the heavy end, which was Ok, or the light end, which was awkward, or the middle, which was totally unbalanced and prone to dropping.
It's the little, everyday excitements that makes life fun.
I haven't purchased eggs in years.
Every time I do, they always go bad before I can use them all, so I stopped buying them. I wish stores would let you buy individual eggs.
How long did you keep the eggs for? I've never had one go bad in my entire life. Where I live, eggs can be bought in boxes of 6, 8 or 10.
I toss them after they start to float in water, usually after a month.
We have 6 packs available but they cost more than the 12-pk so I don't buy them. Regardless, even a 6-pk is too many. There are only two people in my house and one of us doesn't eat eggs.
Ok, then I understand. In my household we sometimes need 4 eggs for scrambled eggs or pancakes a week. And I never do the floating test, I just pay attention to how the egg smells.
It depends how I shove the tray back in. I add eggs to them more often than I take them out.
Currently I’m sorting my quail eggs between small and large because I’m going to use the small ones for chive blossom pickled eggs, and the large for a big batch of cookies, but usually they just end up wherever they fit, one tray at a time.
My chickens are going to be another month or two before they start laying.
Can't seem to upload photos for some reason :\ but slots 1 and 6 are empty
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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