Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Where do you poach them from, if you don’t mind me asking?
Fried eggs?
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Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
Waitrose, natch....
Chromatic
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
I remember the days when Wafflycat was the resident chicken grower.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Was she the person who had battery rescue chickens?
Big knob of butter, let it brown over a medium high flame, drop in an egg, when white sufficiently set, carefully toss and after a few seconds serve = Eggy perfection.
Chromatic
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Yes, I believe she was.
Sunny side down - anti-Instagram egg
ozboz
Guru
- Location
- Richmond ,Surrey
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
A few weeks ago there were no "normal" eggs left in the supermarket, so I had to get all that was left which was 6 (longbar or something) eggs for £2.60. I didn't notice much of a difference apart from a more orange yolk. My son said he didn't like them in pancakes, probably becasue they were too eggy.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Had one of those this morning... but mine wasn't quite so cute.
Had my first fried eggs for god knows how long on my Full English yesterday. I usually poach but the eggs were too old. I wish i'd scrambled them instead. I'm going to be controversial now... but I feel that fried is the lowest form of egg.
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Then you are more to be pitied than scolded.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Agreed. A nicely fried egg is a thing of epicurean beauty.
Ridgeway
Veteran
- Location
- Lausanne, Switzerland
Freshness is one thing and then the hens diet is another main contributor. Our hens are now firing on all cylinders so we're at full capacity although that's not much as they're all getting on a bit now. The difference between a free range home egg vs a typical supermarket egg is significant and probably one of the greatest differences you can find in the food world, supermarket eggs are a shadow of their free range cousin although a lot cheaper and easy to find.
Most of ours are consumed the day they are laid, often within a few hours. The yolks sit very proud in the frying pan and are hard to pop, the colour is almost orange and the white has a distinctive bloom to it.
I would certainly look out for someone selling eggs at the roadside, we used to sell about 1.5dzn a day when we were in the UK just with an honesty box (we had around 30 hens then)
Most of ours are consumed the day they are laid, often within a few hours. The yolks sit very proud in the frying pan and are hard to pop, the colour is almost orange and the white has a distinctive bloom to it.
I would certainly look out for someone selling eggs at the roadside, we used to sell about 1.5dzn a day when we were in the UK just with an honesty box (we had around 30 hens then)
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Not a patch on a nicely poached egg.
When you say 'supermarket' do you mean 'battery farmed'?
Friends of mine used to keep chickens. Apparently they were ex battery hens that were sold off because they weren't laying as many when they got older. I always went home with loads of eggs when i visited them. Great tasting eggs, but i did find them too rich at first, being used to mass produced supermarket eggs.
Also, I remember my mate saying he purged the hens for a while before eating the eggs, to get all the drugs and supplements out the system of the hens.
Also, I remember my mate saying he purged the hens for a while before eating the eggs, to get all the drugs and supplements out the system of the hens.