# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/41 "2012-11-28T04:11:17Z")
Cage-free/humanely raised, large because that’s the baking standard, as mentioned above. Don’t care about the color. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/42 "2012-11-28T04:48:39Z")
I’m drinking wine…soo…im buying large eggs in Styrofoam…prefer ostrich eggs for breakfast…but they all in boxes…too much mooving…blaaaa…why am I here?..Oh yea eggs…:smack: ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/43 "2012-11-28T06:13:58Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > 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. You seem to know your eggs, so lemme ask you (or anybody else) a question… What’s the deal with double-yolked eggs? The reason I ask is because I was buying jumbo eggs for a bit, and the fact that there were so many that were double-yolked turned me off. Not because of the taste or anything, but I imagined (wrongly, I’m guessing?) that they used hormones or something to make the eggs bigger, which also resulted in the twin yolks. So, I switched back to X-Large where I never come across twins, and have never really cared enough to seek out the straight dope, until this thread made me think about it. So what eggzactly _is_ the straight dope on twin yolks? ---
**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:** [November 28, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/44 "2012-11-28T06:39:29Z")
Most of the eggs here are white, so I generally get white eggs, either medium, large, extra-large, or (rarely) jumbo. The cage-free eggs are the only ones I see regularly brown here. However, I don’t buy cage free eggs as they’re three times the price, and taste exactly the same as the cheap factory farmed eggs. I wish I was a better person when it came to that, but I’m not. Now, free-range farm eggs, those I’ll pay a premium for. I just bought a dozen for five bucks last week, because they taste so damned good. Now, if those were regularly available at the local grocery, I’d buy those all the time, even though they’re 4-5 times the price of regular eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/45 "2012-11-28T07:29:55Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I clicked large, but lately we’ve been buying large duck eggs. I can’t believe the difference. What’s the difference? I’ve never had duck eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/46 "2012-11-28T12:44:45Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > What’s the difference? I’ve never had duck eggs. The best I can describe it, they taste “more eggy.” Like a stronger egg flavor, but still good. I had one at a restaurant recently - the chef was making a spaetzle appetizer served with sunny-side up quail eggs, but when I ordered a double portion as an entree, he opted to use a duck egg instead. ---
**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 28, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/47 "2012-11-28T12:52:08Z")
We have a pair of domestic geese on our pond. The hen makes a nest and lays each spring, so we watch for it and intervene. I usually feed them to our dogs, but my gf will have an occasional fried goose egg. The yolk is the size of a tennis ball. I’ve eaten chicken, turkey, quail, goose, and fish eggs. Other than the caviar, all eggs taste pretty much the same to me. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/48 "2012-11-28T14:06:07Z")
Whatever they have in the shop. Preferably free-range. Is that “other”? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/49 "2012-11-28T15:28:13Z")
Big ole white government-issued standard variety factory produced eggs. Ok, so maybe not government issued but you get the idea. My wife buys brown, cage free hippie eggs. While I understand there’s no reason why “healthy” and “environmental” have to be related, I’m always amused that her eggs come in elaborate plastic packaging whereas mine come in standard paperboard cartons. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/50 "2012-11-28T16:37:03Z")
I don’t have an option either, my chickens give me eggs, they are large and brown. So large that I have trouble closing the egg carton. ---
**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 28, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/51 "2012-11-28T17:38:32Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I thought you didn’t eat eggs? I don’t eat eggs that are fried, boiled, scrambled, quiched or omletted. I only eat eggs hidden in yummy baked goods like brownies. Once a year or so I get a hankering for French toast. I usually buy a dozen cage free every couple months and end up feeding most of them to the dogs. I have this hankering for chickens, but since I use so few eggs and could never kill them, it’s just not sensible. StG ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/52 "2012-11-28T18:23:27Z")
Surprised the poll concentrated on size and colour. In the UK it would be more about free-range, farm or battery and organic/non-organic than colour certainly. I buy mediums - they are more chicken friendly. To get hens large enough to produce extra-large eggs you need to pump up the poor wee hens with growth hormones. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/53 "2012-11-28T18:25:57Z")
Free range if possible; if not, medium. For some reason many of the free-range brands in Spain don’t separate by size but they’re usually medium-larges. ---
**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 28, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/54 "2012-11-28T20:46:52Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > So what eggzactly _is_ the straight dope on twin yolks? No tricks, sometimes you just get a double yolker. I’m not a scientist (or a woman for that matter) but considering eggs are basically chicken periods it makes some sense to me that there would be the chicken equivalent of a heavier flow (big eggs & little eggs) or multiple ovulation in a single cycle. But yeah, they’re fascinating and freaky at the same time. I try not to think about it too much. ---
**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 28, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/55 "2012-11-28T21:20:48Z")
I sort of surprised at the number of people here who have said they keep chickens, or know people that do. I know a few too. It’s a MOVEMENT. You might even call it a coop d’etat. 😛 ---
**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 28, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/56 "2012-11-28T22:59:08Z")
So close: coop t’eat dat ---
**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:** [November 28, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/57 "2012-11-28T22:59:59Z")
> [@notquitekarpov](#): > > Surprised the poll concentrated on size and colour. > > In the UK it would be more about free-range, farm or battery and organic/non-organic than colour certainly. I was surprised, too, and I expected the same type of poll as you. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/58 "2012-11-28T23:36:32Z")
What is a non-organic egg? ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/59 "2012-11-28T23:44:26Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > What is a non-organic egg? And egg laid by a hen who was fed partly or exclusively processed food products and dosed with growth hormones and antibiotics, mainly. The details would change by jurisdiction. Like so many others in this thread, I too know someone who raises chooks and she has to have everything certified before she can advertise as an organic producer. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308/60 "2012-11-29T00:00:21Z")
I used to buy free range extra large. Now I have my own chickens and I don’t have to concern myself about what “free range” really means - it means wandering around my backyard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eggs-do-you-buy/642308.md?page=4)