If you’re planning to dye eggs for Easter – buy them now!

Fresh eggs are great – unless you’re planning to hard-boil them... 

Eggs that are 1 to 2 weeks old are much easier to peel than fresh. Now is the time to buy them if you’re planning to dye eggs for Easter. Gourmet.com says you can see how old an egg is with a simple water test. Fill a pan with cold water, submerge the egg and watch how it behaves:

• Stays on its side on the bottom: 3 to 6 days old

• Stays on bottom with wider end tilted up slightly: a bit more than 1 week old.

• Stands on its narrow end: 2 to 3 weeks old.

• Floats at the top: toss it out – it’s rotten.

The egg turnover in supermarkets is highest right before Easter – and there’s a good chance they’ll be fresher and harder to peel. If you wait too long – there could even be a white-shell shortage – and you’ll be stuck trying to dye the brown ones.