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Where do you buy your eggs? White or brown?

Dancing Fire

Dancing Fire

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We buy brown eggs from Costco. IMO, brown eggs taste much better than white eggs.
 
I get my eggs from the farmer down the lane. Completely free range & organic. Their chicken house is actually an old Gypsey Caravan that he's attached a ramp to so they can get up in there easily. They are the happiest chickens I know! They lay brown eggs.
 
What came first, the chicken on the egg ?
Im pretty sure its the variety of hen that dictates colour and consumers have a preference for brown eggs
 
We like Pete and Gerry's eggs from Whole Foods. The yolk is consistently orange (not yellow) and the yolks stay nice and round. When I crack one in to my ramen, the egg whites stay together and I get a good solid piece of egg instead of the egg whites floating all over in bits. I would love to buy direct from http://happy-hens.com/ if it were an option, but they're pickup only and way too far.

The best eggs are probably fresh from someone's yard. My friend has some free range chickens who are fed amazing organic veggie scraps and peck for grubs all day long, and when they have extra eggs she shares. They're teeny tiny eggs though, so I need like 5 in a bowl of ramen lol
 
Whatever the supermarkets have on offer, usually brown ones, don't see many white eggs in UK.

DK :))
 
i get mine at the grocery store, hubby only likes the white eggs...me I dont eat much eggs just use them to bake for the most part so i dont care one way or the other
 
Do they taste different?

We only have brown here. I buy free range or if in a real pinch cage free.
 
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Carol's pasture raised humane treatment, etc. The yolks are a rich orange and do taste different IMO.
 
Last time I used white eggs, the shells were paper thin.
I purchase free range and brown shell as much as possible.
 
We shop at Whole Foods only, we always buy brown, organic, pasture grazed and hand collected local eggs. Yummy!
 
I normally buy Nellies, which happen to be brown. However thanks to the link @missy posted, and some additional digging, I have now switched to Pete & Gerry's. It's the best of the brands my grocery store carries.

There are a lot of folks with chickens where I live. Whenever we see a cooler with eggs for sale at the end of a driveway, we try to buy from them. In that case we end up with all colors - white, brown, blue, green. All sizes too!
 
Free range brown only. My neighbour used to keep chickens and we'd get all sorts of shapes and different coloured eggs!
 
We eat local pastured duck eggs, the couple who raises them treat all their animals and their land very very well-both things are super important to us. Duck eggs make fabulous baked goods!
 
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We eat a lot of eggs, but usually used in baking, so I tend to buy in bulk at Costco or 18 count grocery store generic brands. Usually I buy white, have not noticed difference in taste because I have never tried white and brown eggs side by side.
 
stepcutnut said:
We eat local pastured duck eggs, the couple who raises them treat all their animals and their land very very well-both things are super important to us. Duck eggs make fabulous baked goods!
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We buy duck eggs to make salted duck eggs. I love salted duck eggs. An Asian thing...;))
 
I always buy free-range eggs, usually they are a mix of colours although not as dramatic as shown in @winnietucker post. I don't notice a difference in taste as such but still prefer brown eggs for some weird reason.... :think:

I recall in the middle east you could buy reeeeeally white eggs and i thought they must be bleached or something, it looked so unnatural!
 
I even avoid racism in chickens, so I just buy whichever color is cheaper.
 
ForteKitty said:
We like Pete and Gerry's eggs from Whole Foods. The yolk is consistently orange (not yellow) and the yolks stay nice and round. When I crack one in to my ramen, the egg whites stay together and I get a good solid piece of egg instead of the egg whites floating all over in bits. I would love to buy direct from http://happy-hens.com/ if it were an option, but they're pickup only and way too far.

The best eggs are probably fresh from someone's yard. My friend has some free range chickens who are fed amazing organic veggie scraps and peck for grubs all day long, and when they have extra eggs she shares. They're teeny tiny eggs though, so I need like 5 in a bowl of ramen lol
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I am always reminiscing about my childhod best friend's chocks
She had pet bantoms and her dad kept big chickens, black ones and white one and one speckled one
they had a really big and high run on a big hen house with the nesting boxes accessed from the dad's shed
they used to get let out to run around the back yard and they used to get alot of silver beet
Sometimes they snuck inside and ate the meat out of the cat's dish

When other kids made mud pies my friend and i would make mash pies decorated with silver beet

her bantoms we would dress up in dolls clothes and push them around in a doll's push chair

Mum used to buy the eggs from Mrs Crooks
they were brown and white
but always with a bright orange yoke
and they were sooooo fresh

i have never had a poached egg as good as my mum made and after years of trying i now know it was down to freshness of the egg

and maybe also happiness of the hens

Dad uses to get the old chook poo from Mr Crooks for the garden but unfortunately we got stinging nettle with the poo
But the gladdy bulbs used to huge !
 
Asscherhalo_lover said:
Carol's pasture raised humane treatment, etc. The yolks are a rich orange and do taste different IMO.
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Yes! I try to do pasture raised whenever possible. The inside looks so different. I can’t go back to yellow yolk

Right now I buy white eggs because the pasture raised eggs at my local store happen to be white.

My friend has a bunch of chickens that just roam around her yard. They seem to produce brown eggs. I trade her beer for eggs.

Big orange yolks are the best.
 
www.bestfoodfacts.org

Food Facts: What is the difference between white and brown eggs? | BestFoodFacts.org

The difference is all about the chicken. White and brown eggs have no nutritional difference; however, they do have a noticeable price variance on store shelves.
www.bestfoodfacts.org www.bestfoodfacts.org

Is there a nutritional difference between white and brown eggs?

Actually, no. The difference is all about the chicken. White and brown eggs have no nutritional difference; however, they do have a noticeable price variance on store shelves. Brown eggs are more expensive than white eggs because of the difference in the hens that lay them. White eggs are laid by chickens with white feathers and white ear lobes, while brown eggs are laid by red-feathered chickens with red ear lobes. Chickens with red feathers are larger in body size and require more feed which is why brown eggs are more expensive on store shelves

I could not tell you the last time i saw a white shelled egg
 
Daisys and Diamonds said:
www.bestfoodfacts.org

Food Facts: What is the difference between white and brown eggs? | BestFoodFacts.org

The difference is all about the chicken. White and brown eggs have no nutritional difference; however, they do have a noticeable price variance on store shelves.
www.bestfoodfacts.org www.bestfoodfacts.org

Is there a nutritional difference between white and brown eggs?

Actually, no. The difference is all about the chicken. White and brown eggs have no nutritional difference; however, they do have a noticeable price variance on store shelves. Brown eggs are more expensive than white eggs because of the difference in the hens that lay them. White eggs are laid by chickens with white feathers and white ear lobes, while brown eggs are laid by red-feathered chickens with red ear lobes. Chickens with red feathers are larger in body size and require more feed which is why brown eggs are more expensive on store shelves
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Exactly ... racism.
 
I just buy whatever is on sale at Whole Foods or Trader Joe's. I put so much spice and hot sauce on my eggs that I can't tell any difference in taste between brown, red, white, green, etc. Or organic, caged, pastured, free range, happy or depressed chickens. I used to eat baby eggs (fertilized eggs....) but that I believe is completely different than these eggs.

Salted duck eggs are so good in rice congee! With pickled mustard greens, so good!

I also like stewed quail eggs. My friend made me a cake with emu eggs and it honestly just taste like regular cake.

So hungry now.
 
kenny said:
Exactly ... racism.
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I love quail eggs
They are so beautiful
i once made a Christmas day salad using them but of course when you peel them they are just like any other egg

i wonder if people subconsciously think brown is healthier because of brown bread and brown rice etc being better than white
 
dizzyakira said:
I just buy whatever is on sale at Whole Foods or Trader Joe's. I put so much spice and hot sauce on my eggs that I can't tell any difference in taste between brown, red, white, green, etc. Or organic, caged, pastured, free range, happy or depressed chickens. I used to eat baby eggs (fertilized eggs....) but that I believe is completely different than these eggs.

Salted duck eggs are so good in rice congee! With pickled mustard greens, so good!

I also like stewed quail eggs. My friend made me a cake with emu eggs and it honestly just taste like regular cake.

So hungry now.
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I 1595219047837500630563.jpgi made xmas cake one year with an emu egg
The shell is so lovelly i want to do something with it ....???
 
My friend just had hers on a shelf? It is very pretty. I'm thankful she made a cake instead of an omelet, I don't think I could have handled that much egg! Lol
 
dizzyakira said:
My friend just had hers on a shelf? It is very pretty. I'm thankful she made a cake instead of an omelet, I don't think I could have handled that much egg! Lol
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That would have been a big omlete
I remember it was quite an effort to make the hole in the shell to blow the egg

Emu meat is delicouse
Very lean
good steak taste
 
both
When we buy them its whatever is on sale in large or ex-large which are always white.
When we are gifted a couple dozen farm fresh free-range eggs which happens often they are about 3/4 brown and the rest white because that is what her chickens lay.
 
Daisys and Diamonds said:
i wonder if people subconsciously think brown is healthier because of brown bread and brown rice etc being better than white
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I grew up with only brown eggs, never saw a single white until I came to the USA. Gosh, this sounds so racist. :lol-2:
 
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