The Eggstraordinary Fortress
That egg was totally still edible, even if you pierce it for the cooking, it should be good for at least a few days. If you do it right, it can be weeks. In Germany you can buy cooked eggs in the super market and they are not refrigerated.
Lots of thinking, from someone apparently experienced with lab testing of anti-germ precautiuons. Zero testing.
Disappointing. He actually has the lab equipment to measure some of his theories about denatured proteins et al.
A little off topic, but: we who have chickens know that fresh eggs last for weeks if left unwashed.
So one of those egg council creeps got to you too, huh? [0,1]
[0] https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E12/-1x9jGk4guJdUb76ZrC2FbPyug...
It would be safe overnight.
Any food can be poison including if it's sealed before a use-by, it's about a percentage which a overnight boiled egg would be lower than for the English word 'safe'.
The claim is cooked eggs don't last as long as normal eggs, what is interesting is what is the percentage/graph?
Boiled Easter eggs are a tradition. You don't hear about mass deaths around Easter unlike rice that's been left out at pre-wedding to wedding parties etc.
Eggs really don't go bad quickly. It is common knowledge that due to different washing techniques it's safer in Europe than in North America to keep them unrefrigerated (raw), but let's just say a certain spouse of mine is pretty callous about that - a tray of 30 of them from Costco doesn't fit in the fridge right now so it sits around for a few days - and we've had exactly zero issues from all that. And hardboiled eggs don't spoil very fast either. If it had been sitting out for a week, I'd take a careful sniff at it before consuming but overnight is nothing. Edit all this assumes the raw eggs are going to be cooked, of course.