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.
It makes the carton easier to handle and less likely to tear and drop.
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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
So you always have to take a multiple of two eggs? Well it’s unarguably visually pleasing
Symmeggrical
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.
I remember my sister dropping the last of the eggs casue one side was heavy. She was so upset.
Why do this.
I usually create checkered patterns to keep a consistent weight balance and keep box strength strength against external force evenly spread.
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
- ooxoxx
- ooooxx
You'll bring chaos into your house rumba!
I have a teen and a tween, we are at max entropy already
I always take them out symmetrically and front row first, if possible.
I take supplements in the evening and it got so boring taking out the pills from top to bottom, left to right. So now I'm doing various patterns, usually symmetric.
Thanks, now I feel not quite so absurd.
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.
For me I have to take them out in an even number otherwise I will have a feeling that is going to hang onto me until I rectify it ASAP.
Also they must be taken out from one specific side and not the other. The balance must be maintained!
I keep the eggs away from the corners, most likely to get damaged imo
The other day, in another thread about eggs (damn we talk a lot about eggs lately!) someone mentioned a 15 egg pack. WTF is wrong with your countries!! The natural egg set is 12. a dozen! because, 12 is the logical... Because 12 eggs is... Hmmm. we don't have twelve fingers, or toes... Why dafuq do we use dozens? I mean, even decimal months make more sense
EVEN NUMBERS ONLY! 15? Are you fucking kidding me? They come in 6, 12, or 18, or those big 30 squares. EVEN NUMBERS!
Who packs them in odd must suffer the wrath of the gods of the autists!
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.
OMG, I do this too!
I kind of have both, just learn to enjoy the beauty of symmetry.
Perhaps this person would be better employed as a tanker mate; that's bang-on distribution to avoid hogging or sagging.
Apparently seating on aircraft is allocated similarly.
I do this all the time but for some reason don’t feel compelled to drag the entire internet through my process to make me feel better every time…
Is ADHD supposed to be a social coping mechanism?
This whole sub is just bunch of folks complaining about habits…
Why is this an ADHD thing? Other folks have habits yet spare the world from suffering their internal mechanisms… Is ADHD just forcing others to hear your habits?