Even in spite of few persons staying away from the eggs as a food in their living, it is used widely as a source of food in different forms by the Americans. The basic reason being that the eggs can be sourced a by a common man at most economical price. Eggs happen to be highly nutritious food and can be easily cooked in a variety of ways either alone or in combination with other foods like chicken or vegetables.

With so much good about eggs, it can get spoiled due to faulty storage conditions. The eggs should be stored in cold storage conditions, otherwise embryo development starts taking place, which can not grow beyond certain stage and the embryo dies within the egg shell producing foul smell and attracting growth of bacterial infection.

Precautions in Cooking Eggs:

The eggs require thorough cooking by boiling it or frying it before it can be consumed as a food safe to be taken:

Preparing Scrambled Eggs:

The cooking should continue till it takes a firm consistency and should not be consumed if it has semisolid consistency.

Preparing Fried, Poached, Boiled, or Baked Egg:

Continue the cooking till the white albumen and the yellow yolk both achieve firmness.

Egg mixtures, such as casseroles:

The cooking should be continued till at the center of the mixture the temperature of 160 °F is attained, best to be checked with a food thermometer.

Steps for Playing It Safe in Egg Based Recipes:

The home made ice cream and the eggnog become safe in case one of the following actions is performed:

- Only use cooked egg-milk mixture. Continue heating it at low temperature till the temperature can be confirmed by a food thermometer to be 160 °F. Now stop heating and let it cool.

- Make use of the pasteurized eggs or egg products available in the market.

Adaptation in the Recipes:

In case the recipe requires uncooked eggs, one can practice safety by proceeding by selecting one of following procedures:

- Heat the eggs along with any of the recipe's liquid constituent using low heat with continuous stirring, till mixture attains temperature of 160 °F. Afterwards mix with other ingredients and complete the recipe as per further directions, alternatively make use of pasteurized eggs or egg product.

- Foods which are prepared by combination of hot sugar syrup along with the egg whites, it is recommended to keep them away from icing recipes requiring use of uncooked eggs or egg whites.

- Egg food, which is baked at temperature of 350 °F exposure for nearly 15 minutes are safe for consumption.

Making Use of Pasteurized eggs or egg product:

Egg products, in the form of liquid or frozen egg substitute, are already pasteurized; therefore it becomes safe for using them in desired recipes not requiring cooking. Nevertheless, it is recommended that used egg products in a recipe a recipe which shall be cooked, more particularly if the food is prepared for a pregnant woman, babies, young children, elderly persons, and persons having weak immunity.