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Eggsistential angst innit.
My issue with eggs is, if whilst eating them, I remember that I'm eating a chicken embryo. Puts me right off.😐
Probs the same chap who saw road kill and thought that looks nice and ate the flesh
Why is it I like my yolk runny yet if the white is not fully cooked and firm it gives me the boak and will chuck it away ?
I've recently found a solution for this [presuming fried eggs] - cook egg in pan as usual but after a couple of mins get a blowtorch to cook the top of the egg white and blow over the yolk so that it's not too runny.
Perfect eggs every time - for me.
If I did that then they’d be overcooked.
see what happens when skimp on the lard 😕
I wonder who first observed a chicken having its period and thought “mmmm, tasty”?
Given that all sorts of animals eat eggs of all kinds going back to pretty primitive life forms I think that the eating of eggs predates thinking about eating eggs by half a billion years or so.
I remember that I’m eating a chicken embryo.
Unlikely, if you buy supermarket eggs as they won't have been fertilised. It is a game of Russian roulette we play though, as we have 10 hens and one cockerel. Though 'embryo' is at most an almost invisible red speck as they get lifted within an hour of being laid and we never let the chooks sit on them.
Agree with the OP though, runny yolk, firm white all the way.
100%, although I have recently taken to eating scrambled eggs cooked in a little bit of butter and they are lovely.
They’re even better in a bit more butter. 😉
I have recently taken to eating scrambled eggs cooked in a little bit of butter
Have you just invented this recipe?
I had such a shock the other day, when I paid £2.49 for half a doz large eggs in a local green grocer. 18 months ago these were £1.69 – Oeuf (ough).
We charge a pound a box for ours and we give that to the British Hen Welfare Trust. Shop eggs are often a week or two old when you buy them (legally up to 30 days). Ours are a day or two old, have incredibly bright yellow/orange yolks and taste night and day better than shop eggs. Commercial laying hens have a crap existence. Buy from a local hen keeper for a better, cheaper, higher welfare egg.
@sharkbait you're over thinking this, if you make sure there is enough oil in the pan, all you do is use your spatula to scoop the hot oil on the top of the white bit and the hot oil will cook the white leaving the yoke completely 'pop-able'.
My issue with eggs is, if whilst eating them, I remember that I’m eating a chicken embryo. Puts me right off.
You wouldn't want to meet my friend who likes to point out what milk actually is.
@blokeuptheroad - I love your hen (not cock 🐓 s****).
Yes we normally buy our eggs from a local farm, but I can't cycle atm to get there. The farm eggs are £3 per doz.
Blokeuptheroad wearing a t- shirt of the hens most feared enemy
Gordon k-----d Ramsay version of scrambled or fried are pretty good but he's still a k--b
You wouldn’t want to meet my friend who likes to point out what milk actually is.
...And yet loads of folks continue to eat meat?
Is wearing a T shirt with the word FOX completely appropriate when considering hen welfare ? 😱
@robertajob lol! Probably not 😆
I wonder who first observed a chicken having its period and thought “mmmm, tasty”?
Reminded me of the thread from 10 years or so back when the guy who raised chickens was distraught about one of his birds being sick and then gave a very detailed description of fingering their aperture to check on their health. Up there with the Pixolax thread in my memory of the legends.
What kind of cooking are we talking here - fried, boiled, poached?
100%, although I have recently taken to eating scrambled eggs cooked in a little bit of butter and they are lovely.
What else would you cook scrambled egg in?
Poach them in water with a little vinegar in it.
i'll just leave this here
Pinking is the terminology…
What do you think a chicken would think if it saw you cooking its freshly laid egg then eating it right in front of it?
I'm not vegan, I like eggs, just an interesting thought I once read.
Pinking is the terminology…
I've never been able to look at a chicken the same since.
Yep, there is something about eating eggs from your own chickens that have the run of a large garden to forage around in and get fed nice mix of food rather than crappy layers pellets. The eggs taste better.
Plus it is nice to have them around the garden.
there is something about eating eggs from your own chickens that have the run of a large garden to forage around in and get fed nice mix of food rather than crappy layers pellets. The eggs taste better.
What always gets me is the colour of the yolks - much deeper yellow than the pale yolks of battery hens.
What do you think a chicken would think if it saw you cooking its freshly laid egg then eating it right in front of it?
I’m not vegan, I like eggs, just an interesting thought I once read.
I doubt it would be that bothered, they sometimes eat their own if you don't gather them up soon enough. For most of the time to they are completely uninterested in their eggs unless they go 'broody'. Then they will sit on them for days at a time if you let them. This only happens very occasionally and only with some breeds.
What always gets me is the colour of the yolks – much deeper yellow than the pale yolks of battery hens.
Guessing that is down to being fed the cheapest pellets possible versus eating the corn, insects, seeds, fruit and even sardines that we feed them.
Has anyone else noticed supermarket eggs nowadays are more often white instead of brown? What's that about, are they using different breeds of hen or are they doing the bad American thing where they strip off the outer protective coating?
Different breads. When I were a lad… we had a variety of breads at home, and they laid different colours… brown, white, blue, green… and spotted and variegated variations between them.
EDIT: thinking back… I think one laid eggs that were almost mahogany brown. Not seen an egg that dark for decades… research time…
EDIT: Googling suggests a Maran.
Has anyone else noticed supermarket eggs nowadays are more often white instead of brown?
Interesting(ish)…
Prior to the first national lockdown in 2020, the majority of white eggs were used by a very large restaurant chain, when the pandemic caused that chain of restaurants to close, the eggs which had been intended for restaurant use made their way to supermarket shelves.
https://www.rspcaassured.org.uk/rspca-assured-foods/free-range-eggs/do-white-hens-lay-white-eggs/
Another cool thing about keeping your own hens. Different breeds do indeed lay different coloured eggs. We get blues, olive green, light and dark brown. The only common colour we don't get is white.
Random factoid of the day, you can often tell what colour eggs a chicken will lay from the colour of it's ear lobes. Yes, really! The really dark brown egg in the pic is from a Maran cross and the blues from our Legbars. Our ex commercial layer rescue hens lay various shades of light brown.
Our rescues also lay very large eggs compared to their body size. Due to selective breeding because apparently this is what customers want. It does however take a toll. They do seem to suffer more discomfort when laying them than our other hens and they are far more likely to suffer from ailments related to egg production which are usually fatal.
If you must buy eggs from the supermarket, avoiding 'large' eggs is a small thing you can do for animal welfare.
Wow that's actually super interesting, I didn't know about that restaurant chain. Thanks for the info! I wonder who it was though, what chain uses so many eggs?
I'd love to get some chickens of my own at some point, even if they're too old to lay eggs they're just such pleasant creatures.
they’re just such pleasant creatures
For relatives of T. rex. We’d love to have them but it’s something else to look after and M. Reynard is a worry locally.
Is it true they’ve got a real taste for slugs?
Why do the French only have one egg for breakfast?
Because un ouef is enough!