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.
not autistic but I picked up a very unbalanced egg carton once and realized we shouldn’t have unbalanced egg cartons. it’s just sensible.
Huh… I do this too. I like the box to be balanced when I take it outta the fridge.
Huh, maybe I should give it a try……
I guess a three-egg omelette is out of the question then
Apparently seating on aircraft is allocated similarly.
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.
I do this too for weight distribution, but I don’t make sure it’s symmetrical. I’m worried someone in my family will be surprised by the uneven weight of the carton when they pull it off the shelf and drop it.
I do also balance the carton. Not always absolute symmetry but don’t want someone to drop them.
I only buy boxes of 2x2. I suppose the only way is to get all four out at the same time.
I’ve never seen a pack smaller than 2x3. I buy at least two dozen a week. I make sure partial cartons are weight balanced though.
Well, now you have :)
I have! I’d have to buy three of them though just to cook a small breakfast for the people sleeping in my house tonight. I’m usually making breakfast for six.
now kick your egg balancing autism into high gear to start balancing electrons on atoms to discover new elements.
or balance the number of molecules to create a new type of crystal that cures cancer.
or…you get the picture.
They clearly don’t get any other picture. No one balances eggs… EVER
I balance eggs…
Tend to get eggs in a box of six: front corners first, then the rear corners and then the centre eggs.
I’m not in America so my eggs can live outside the fridge, it’s mostly about making sure someone doesn’t knock the box and crack an egg accidentally.
Balance is everything, I don’t want the carton to flip on me cause the eggs are placed randomly
How are you going to rearrange the eggs when you take out the next egg?
you take out another egg
Start from the corners one at a time.
Whoa look at Mr moneybags here, flexing with an 18 eggs container
Per egg it is cheaper than buying the dozen.
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”)
buys the entire US egg industry
technically cheaper than buying cartons
