Sep 16, 2013 12:06 PM By Lizette Borreli @lizcelineb. The age-old debate of whether eggs need to be refrigerated or stored at room temperature has been cracked by British scientists.StaraBlazkova, CC BY-SA 3.0.There is no advantage in keeping the eggs refrigerated as opposed to storing them at ambient room temperature,â said Jay Tolley, the operations and quality manager at FoodTest.