Best tasting eggs.

[mangeorge]

I use Egglands Best cage free eggs. They do taste better (eggier, I guess) than other brands, which makes me suspicious. I wonder why they taste better. I read the label on the package, and the only differences they admit to are a vegetarian diet with no meat by-products and no hormones, etc. And they are cage-free, so the hens have access to bugs, etc. And the yolks are a little darker in color that the others.
I most often poach them in a Poachpod, so there’s not a lot of chance of interferring tastes.
Opinions?
Peace,
mangeorge, who expects a lot of “they taste the same as any others”.

[deball]

Well a shot in the dark (I love cage free eggs too) would be that the natural feed (read: bugs) adds to their flavor. I have no backing for this except that as a trout fisherman I’ve learned a few things. Native born trout who eats bugs and what-not their whole life have an absolute firmer and pinker flesh than stocked fish who have been fed pellets. If the stocker lives long enough to develop a taste for bugs and live off them for a while, it too will become much more flavorful. [/shot in the dark]

[BrassyPhrase]

A kinda oogy bit, for warning

I generally use cage free eggs too. Egglands best do taste good and the cage free non branded aren’t bad.

I mostly buy them b/c I don’t like thinking of the whole horrible pecking thing with caged birds.

Where I work used to be very in the country rather than suburban, and I’ve bought ‘yard eggs’ from coworkers and those were very tasty.

(I was very sure to make sure they didn’t have a rooster, b/c my mom tells a horror story from her childhood about breaking an egg and having a thing on its way to being a chicken come out.) <shudder>

[mangeorge]

@BrassyPhrase

A kinda oogy bit, for warning

I generally use cage free eggs too. Egglands best do taste good and the cage free non branded aren’t bad.

I mostly buy them b/c I don’t like thinking of the whole horrible pecking thing with caged birds.

Where I work used to be very in the country rather than suburban, and I’ve bought ‘yard eggs’ from coworkers and those were very tasty.

(I was very sure to make sure they didn’t have a rooster, b/c my mom tells a horror story from her childhood about breaking an egg and having a thing on its way to being a chicken come out.) <shudder>

We used to “candle” (using an electric lamp) our yard eggs when I was a kid.
For your edification:
Candling
In case you’ve never heard of such a thing.

[Shalmanese]

@mangeorge

I use Egglands Best cage free eggs. They do taste better (eggier, I guess) than other brands, which makes me suspicious. I wonder why they taste better. I read the label on the package, and the only differences they admit to are a vegetarian diet with no meat by-products and no hormones, etc. And they are cage-free, so the hens have access to bugs, etc. And the yolks are a little darker in color that the others.
I most often poach them in a Poachpod, so there’s not a lot of chance of interferring tastes.
Opinions?
Peace,
mangeorge, who expects a lot of “they taste the same as any others”.

Eggs are a natural product just like any other. Industrial, mass produced eggs emphasize producing the maximum amount of egg per dollar even at the expense of taste where as higher end brands will often spend more and sacrifice yield for an eggier egg.