# What kind of eggs do you buy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308 "2012-11-27T20:53:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/1 "2012-11-27T20:53:15Z")
Just curious PTF ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/2 "2012-11-27T20:58:19Z")
I clicked large, but lately we’ve been buying large duck eggs. I can’t believe the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/3 "2012-11-27T20:58:55Z")
The generic egg container, either large or extra large. I don’t know why I never get mediums or smalls. It’s just never been eggs that put me over my grocery budget. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/4 "2012-11-27T20:59:12Z")
I don’t care too much about size or color… I tend to buy larger sizes, and buy “cage free” or organic, not because I think they’re really treating the birds that much better, but because I want them to know there is a market for eggs produced more humanely. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/5 "2012-11-27T21:03:00Z")
Cage free. StG ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/6 "2012-11-27T21:03:24Z")
My chickens lay brown eggs ranging in size from 1oz to 3.5oz double yolks. I have really happy chickens that love to be picked up and cuddled (not kidding, sometimes they’re positively needy). They’re free range on weekends but they stay in the run when we’re at work. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/7 "2012-11-27T21:04:10Z")
Usually jumbo, but extra large or large if the jumbo isn’t handy. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/8 "2012-11-27T21:08:49Z")
White and large, just like my … house. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/9 "2012-11-27T21:10:01Z")
Always free range, normally organic, generally size large (although we have Xlarge 66g ones in the fridge right now). Colour doesn’t matter, although I’ve only ever seen brown eggs here. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/10 "2012-11-27T21:26:54Z")
My GF makes us buy the large brown cage-free eggs, but on my own I’d buy the jumbo whites. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/11 "2012-11-27T21:29:14Z")
Large, brown, cage free eggs. But they still suck compared to the ones we get from our own hens 7 months out of the year. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/12 "2012-11-27T21:29:31Z")
X large, white shell. Nothing special, fancy, or snooty. ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/13 "2012-11-27T21:51:27Z")
I haven’t seen white eggs for sale in years. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/14 "2012-11-27T21:59:36Z")
You forgot the option for whatever’s cheapest. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/15 "2012-11-27T22:05:57Z")
Laying this thread over at Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/16 "2012-11-27T22:07:42Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > . I have really happy chickens that love to be picked up and cuddled (not kidding, sometimes they’re positively needy). I believe this, after years of taking my children to petting zoos and having the chickens just cuddle down and go to sleep in their arms. Cutie pies. ---
**Author:** ![Feyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/fbc32d/32.png) [@Feyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feyrat)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/17 "2012-11-27T22:08:53Z")
I get eggs from a local woman who raises her own chickens. They are extremely free-range - I’ve been to her place to ride horses and ‘catch’ eggs a number of times, so I know she’s not just calling them that while her chickens live in a pen - they literally have free run of the property, though there are nesting boxes all over and in a shed for them to lay in. They are AMAZING in size, yolk color and taste. Every time we run short and we have to pick up grocery eggs - even the Eggland’s Best, which I previously loved - it’s so disappointing how small and anemic they are. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/18 "2012-11-27T22:11:45Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Cage free. > > StG Yep, this is the important bit. Brown or white, I don’t care, though for some reason brown eggs are maybe 20 cents more expensive than white at Trader Joe’s, so I usually get white. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a carton of medium (or smaller) eggs at TJ’s. In any case, I get large since that’s what pretty much every baked good recipe calls for. I would totally raise my own chicken instead of buying eggs, but I don’t have the proper space for one. No private backyard/rooftop/whatever for it to run around in. And I don’t think chickens can be housebroken. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/19 "2012-11-27T23:03:00Z")
I picked other and other, size & color, cos I get them from a woman in the next town. the color is tannish (the lighter ones could pass for white and the darker ones for brown) and the size vary. I hope they are free range but I’ve never actually seen them. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/20 "2012-11-27T23:06:45Z")
I am large and white, I figure my eggs should be, too. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308.md?page=2)