Fried eggs?

[Smudge]

I always used think that better quality eggs had a more yellow yolk, then i found out its just that some chicken farms add something to the feed to make the eggs have a brighter colour yolk.

 

[Eziemnaik]

Eggs age and as they do that they become more alkaline (loss of water and co2) protein matrices inside lose their properties.
Also while not exactly always working, usually buying organic helps
https://www.foodsafetyguru.co.uk/whats-written-on-your-egg/
Also eggs dont like temp variations

 

[Eziemnaik]

Also, about the only always working tip for easy peeling boiled eggs is to use....old eggs as proteins lose their properties they do not adhere to the shell with the same forces as fresh ones

 

[slowmotion]

I experimented with making mayonnaise a while ago. For that, you need really fresh eggs. The best I could find (in a city) were at the back of the Waitrose egg shelves as fellow parishioners have pointed out.

 

[MontyVeda]

If you're stuck with a poorer quality egg, try frying it in a cookie cutter to hold it together. If you don’t have one you could use a small can of tuna, just cut the top and the bottom off and wash it.

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WRONG!

Poor (old) eggs are best reserved for omelettes, scrambling or eggy bread.

 

[MontyVeda]

Also, about the only always working tip for easy peeling boiled eggs is to use....old eggs as proteins lose their properties they do not adhere to the shell with the same forces as fresh ones

now that is a top tip!

 

[PK99]

I'm often disappointed with eggs purchased from a supermarket and have struggled to find some that don't spread that watery white all over the pan. A consistent good egg isn't really something you get at the average supermarket.
local farm eggs would be one source of quality eggs I guess but that's not really an option...any sources of consistently good eggs ,? I'm considering trying some from Waitrose or similar.

any egg consists of Yolk, Tight White and Loose White. As it ages the tight white loses moisture into the loose white.

A trick is to put the egg into a Tea strainer, the loose white will pass through and the strainer will retain the yolk and Tight White

 

[slowmotion]

It's probably not a test that you should attempt in a supermarket......

https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/egg-float-test/

 

[glasgowcyclist]

WRONG!

How very dare you!

 

[cyberknight]

eggs
cant stand the smell of them so i dont et them as is but i will eat them in things when you can smell em

 

[MontyVeda]

How very dare you!

Deep down... you know I'm right

 

[Deafie]

Waitrose do the Duchy range so as Charles is such a great advocate of organics should be good.
I read the other day we should be eating white eggs as they come from less aggressive hens so don't need their beaks clipping. Anyone know if that's true?

I believe that the colour of the shell is determined by the chickens diet. A free roaming chicken will consume dirt with their food as they eat randomly from the ground, whereas a factory chicken will have it's diet carefully controlled to ensure the desired colour of eggshell that the customer specifies.The shell is made of the dirt, gravel, rocks, boulders, etc' that the chickens consume.
Aren't there some chicken growers on here?

 

[slowmotion]

I believe that the colour of the shell is determined by the chickens diet. A free roaming chicken will consume dirt with their food as they eat randomly from the ground, whereas a factory chicken will have it's diet carefully controlled to ensure the desired colour of eggshell that the customer specifies.The shell is made of the dirt, gravel, rocks, boulders, etc' that the chickens consume.
Aren't there some chicken growers on here?

@mudsticks has some.

 

[raleighnut]

I believe that the colour of the shell is determined by the chickens diet. A free roaming chicken will consume dirt with their food as they eat randomly from the ground, whereas a factory chicken will have it's diet carefully controlled to ensure the desired colour of eggshell that the customer specifies.The shell is made of the dirt, gravel, rocks, boulders, etc' that the chickens consume.
Aren't there some chicken growers on here?

I'd always believed that the colour of the Chicken determined the colour of the Egg, white Chickens produce white Eggs as for gravel I thought every bird needed some to digest it's food. Oh and eggshell is Calcium not 'dirt'

 

[Deafie]

I'd always believed that the colour of the Chicken determined the colour of the Egg, white Chickens produce white Eggs as for gravel I thought every bird needed some to digest it's food. Oh and eggshell is Calcium not 'dirt'

That sounds way more plausible, somebody probably told me that about the dirt thing when I was 7 and I've believed it ever since.