I’d say 90% of the eggs at our local Safeway our white.
Brown, because they taste better than white as long as I know what color the egg was.
Large, Larger, Largerer, and up. Because why not? I don’t recall ever needing a tiny egg. The grocery once had 3 dozen extra small eggs for 99 cents once, so I bought them. Just more eggs to crack to make anything.
I walk to the farmer’s market on Saturday morning and buy large brown eggs. I know nothing else about them. But I do like that my $2.50 goes directly to the farmer.
Another one who hasn’t done the poll, buys free range eggs and doesn’t care about the colour. During the summer my eggs come from a city farm and taste gorgeous, in winter I get them from the supermarket.
I buy large eggs because I figured out thta three large makes a perfect sized omelet for me.
Speaking of which i may have solved dinner tonight.
White eggs are readily available year-round here (Maine).
We buy eggs from a friend who keeps cage-free chickens. In a dozen eggs, the shell color ranges from dark to light brown to pale greenish blue to beautifully speckled. Most are large; some are medium, and a few are so jumbo I wince for the poor hen. They are delicious.
$2.00 a dozen. ![]()
Liquid
I didn’t vote because the options don’t really work for me.
I buy bulk chicken eggs from my co-op. The are from organically-raised, free-range chickens. The eggs come in all colors and sizes. The really huge ones are often double-yolked and are too big for using in recipes. When I can, I get duck eggs. For fancy event cooking, I sometimes buy quail eggs.
I love eggs!
Nowadays, I get my eggs from my mom’s chickens she keeps in the garage. They’re not exactly free-range, but they are cage-free, and eat pretty well. They’re usually brown, and often larger than any chicken eggs you can buy from the grocery store (she once got one that was over four ounces).
There are kinds of eggs?
You don’t have an option there for “cheapest” or “first ones that I see” or “the ones with the colourful boxes.” Or, indeed, “free range” or “cage”. Not that I’d trust their assurances either way.
BTW, there’s no difference between brown or white eggs.
They’re different colors.
Reservoir-tip, ribbed.
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oh, sorry, wrong poll.
Older daughter works at a farm (she is assistant barn manager and riding instructor) which has several chickens wandering aimlessly around the grounds. We always get a dozen or so extremely varied, most excellent eggs when we visit with her. Rarely buy eggs otherwise.
That’s an illusion, caused by the fresnel effect.
I’m not an egg racist. Color doesn’t matter, but cage free and organic does. I normally buy large or extra large. I didn’t vote in the poll because I’m not consistent one way or the other.
I get my eggs from my parents chickens as well. They’re a mixture of brown, white, blue, eggs. They’re just as varied in size as well. Though, when I was buying my own eggs, I usually just went for whatever was cheapest.
Large white eggs. When a baking recipe calls for an egg, it means a large egg, so that’s the size I buy.
There’s a supermarket in the area that I don’t often go to which sells brown eggs at the same price as white ones. I buy them when I’m there… but it’s an inferior store in general so I don’t often go. I do like to use brown eggs, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
I thought you didn’t eat eggs?
As for the poll questions, I didn’t click. I mostly buy white, but I’m willing to buy brown. And the size I get depends on what I plan to use them for. For most purposes, I’ll use anything from large to jumbo. If I’m making a recipe for the first time, I try to use extra large eggs, because that’s usually what the recipe was made for. If I’m making deviled eggs, then I go for the medium eggs. I’ve never seen eggs for sale that were smaller than medium. I think that that size gets powdered, or put into liquid eggs, or used in commercial bakeries.
I think that large eggs are just a bit too large to make good deviled eggs, whereas medium eggs make a nicer size. Plus medium eggs are usually cheaper, so you don’t mind quite so much when your deadbeat brother-in-law scarfs up a dozen without blinking at the family gathering.
I picked brown, because that’s the colour most often in the cage free (SPCA approved) eggs that I always buy. If I ever forgot to check the SPCA approval, the kid would remind me.
I don’t care about the size or color, cage free is what’s important to me.