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Mort7 said:
Beware if you're buying eggs from (for example) farm shops where they are in trays, and make a point of checking the codes stamped on the eggs. From memory 0=organic, 1= free range, 2= barn hens, 3= caged.
A good few years ago I checked eggs that were in trays at a farm shop associated with a garden centre, where you chose your own and put them in boxes. The implication was that they were farm eggs, but they were stamped with code 3.
Same with everything else in a farm shop!!A good few years ago I checked eggs that were in trays at a farm shop associated with a garden centre, where you chose your own and put them in boxes. The implication was that they were farm eggs, but they were stamped with code 3.
red_slr said:
I am not averse to the mud and have a large free range egg farm in spitting distance but I don't rate them either.
I have just found this year its all gone very tasteless dont know if its the weather or perhaps the farms are using cheaper feed due to Brexit I dunno. I will hunt down some from a back yard type place.
Your last point nails it. I have just found this year its all gone very tasteless dont know if its the weather or perhaps the farms are using cheaper feed due to Brexit I dunno. I will hunt down some from a back yard type place.
The "farm shop" you mentioned earlier, isn't.
We have chickens so get decent eggs. Large amount of corn in the diet of ours.
You cannot beat decent eggs from known good chickens.
Only hassle is between the birds not always laying and the cost of decent feed (which is nowt to do with feckin Brexit) they're not cheap
hyphen said:
I find frying them in tons of butter makes normal free range eggs taste fine 
And then when you add toast, spinach avacado etc, not sure I will be able to tell the difference.
Butter makes many things taste better.And then when you add toast, spinach avacado etc, not sure I will be able to tell the difference.
BUT the taste of a decent yolk should be lifting any dish. If you've never noticed this, you've likely never had a decent egg
we rescued 2 ex battery hens from 'Freshstartforhens'.
We get 2 eggs a day. They're proper free range and loving life, and their eggs are great. They're real characters too, and it's been great to see them go from skinny featherless scrawny chickens to fat, glossy plumaged hens.
They do s
t everywhere though.
We get 2 eggs a day. They're proper free range and loving life, and their eggs are great. They're real characters too, and it's been great to see them go from skinny featherless scrawny chickens to fat, glossy plumaged hens.
They do s
t everywhere though. JeremyH5 said:
irocfan said:
try duck eggs
Agree, they’re fabulous!DUCK EGGS.
you can eat as many fancy pant hen eggs as you want costing £10 per egg or you neighbour does a cesarean section on the bird and delivers a hens egg covered in gold leaf.....It still ain't going to taste as good as a duck egg.
end of story.
A duck egg tastes like full fat jersey milk whereas any hens egg tastes like semi skimmed.
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