# How Many Different Types of Eggs Have You Eaten? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [February 16, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371 "2025-02-16T02:41:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/21 "2025-02-16T16:51:19Z")
Brown. White. Fish. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/22 "2025-02-16T17:12:56Z")
Chicken. I didn’t want to be left out. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/23 "2025-02-16T18:00:05Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I think Uni is gonads even though it is erroneously referred to as roe. Yes, that’s why I didn’t include it on my list. (For the record, it would have been in the first half, “cooked with it.” Uni custard. Delicious.) ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/24 "2025-02-16T18:02:33Z")
I’m not very egg-venturous. I think I’ve only had chicken and a few times fish eggs on sushi, although I don’t like the latter. But once when I was a kid, my pet parakeet laid some (unfertilized) eggs. My father fried one of them, but as I recall, nobody ate it. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/25 "2025-02-16T18:25:38Z")
Chicken, duck, goose, guinea fowl, quail, pheasant, pigeon, shad, redfish. Plus a few other fish when I find roe sets as I fillet them. I have had sturgeon roe/caviar but it don’t like it, or almost anything that’s salt cured. Maybe if I had a fresh sturgeon and could saute the roe with a little butter like shad roe…mmm. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/26 "2025-02-16T20:55:00Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > The most amusing egg dish I’ve ever made was one time, when I was catering a dinner, I went to the trouble of making teeny-tiny deviled quail eggs. It was a huge pain in the ass, but they were so cute. I made deviled quail eggs once too. Once! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/27 "2025-02-16T22:10:07Z")
I have crazy respect for anyone who makes deviled quail eggs. It’s a lot of work just to make them with chicken eggs (though worth it in my opinion, I love them). Were they just like normal deviled eggs, just smaller? Or did they taste very different? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/28 "2025-02-16T22:21:29Z")
Taste was more or less the same. The hard part was _peeling_ them after boiling. The shell is paper thin and fragments easily. The second hardest part was cooking several test eggs first to nail down the time. As small as they are, they overcook fast. So I made a range of versions _and then had to peel all those to check them,_ knowing they would likely be tossed despite the work. Really fun on the plate, though. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/29 "2025-02-16T22:43:02Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I think Uni is gonads even though it is erroneously referred to as roe. If it’s the gonads of a female urchin, it contains roe. Nothing erroneous about it. Many of the fish whose eggs I’ve eaten, were in the form of roe sacs, just like urchins. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/30 "2025-02-16T22:48:45Z")
When I want to use quail eggs for presentation or salads, I use [jarred pickled ones](https://www.woolworths.co.za/prod/_/A-6009173222244). Saves a lot of hassle. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/31 "2025-02-16T22:48:49Z")
For the unusual (i.e. not poultry) eggs you’ve had that are big enough to crack and cook in a pan, how were they prepared? And which ones were most memorable? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/32 "2025-02-16T22:53:57Z")
Both brown- and white-shelled chicken eggs. Tobiko (flying-fish eggs). ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/33 "2025-02-16T22:57:28Z")
Scrambled, mostly, in restaurants near where the relevant animals were farmed. However, I have had (part of) a fried ostrich egg, once. Ostrich - fried- was the most memorable, just for the shear size and the presentation. It was on the centre of a platter, surrounded by strips of ostrich steak and links of ostrich sausage. Quite the breakfast (for 3). Scrambled ostrich egg, which I’ve had plenty of times, is just scrambled eggs. Same for crocodile. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/34 "2025-02-16T23:01:37Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > If it’s the gonads of a female urchin, it contains roe. Nothing erroneous about it. Uni can be male or female in a sushi joint, so you may have roe, you may not. “Sea urchin gonads” is typically how I’ve seen it referred to in cooking literature with often a note that it may be translated euphemistically as “roe.” ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371/35 "2025-02-16T23:21:27Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Uni can be male or female in a sushi joint, so you may have roe, you may not. I’ve had it often enough that I’ve definitely had roe. I’m gonna count it, and anyone who wants to “Um, Actually…” that can take it elsewhere. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371.md?page=1)