o.k I'm done being childish.
On to the EGG TASTE TEST!!!
I decided for fun to have a little taste test with the help of my handy dandy egg testers.
I used one large size store bought non organic brown, and three of the different eggs I get from my very organic and pampered hens.
One is white, one is kinda greenish, and one is a tiny brown one.
When I cracked them open the size difference was the most obvious. The top left is the store bought. The yolk appears slightly darker than mine.
The shells on my eggs are SIGNIFICANTLY harder than the store bought. That is because to get large eggs the hen must be laying at least a year, and the older the hen the less calcium. Feeding the hens oyster shells helps. Mine get that AND they are young. So There!! take THAT factory farming.
I just let them cook on the pan at a low temp. I broke the yolks at the same time. Mine were darker on the INSIDE.
My trusty....handy dandy taste testers. Just so you know it was a blind study.
The results?
The store bought one was a hands down favorite of the four. All 3 of us completely agreed. The store bought was just....creamier. The egg yolks on our organic ones were Chewy. They still tasted fine...Just Chewier. Is that even a word?
Apparently if we leave the eggs in our fridge for a couple months they will taste just like the store bought ones. And the yolks will be similar as well.
I don't mind ours at all....and the fact that ours are ORGANIC and our hens are treated well I will choose ours over store bought any day.
So there.
oh....they all stick to the pan just the same.
7 comments:
Keep them in the fridge for MONTHS!!
Holy cow kid, you could hatch them by then.
Oh well, I know its fun and thats the whole point of it anyway.
Luv ya
Dad
Haha, that last line made me smile! (If I'd been awake longer when I read it, I probably would have laughed out loud, but I've only just started sipping my first cup of coffee...)
I was actually suprised to hear the store-bought egg was the hands-down favourite. Were you disappointed?
Wow! the store bought won the taste test! Hmm-m-m-m-m - weird. I remember in Italy, in the country, having eggs straight from the organic chickens, and the yolks definitely were chewy. Delicious, but chewy.
That's really interesting that you all preferred the store bought egg. I would have guessed that the fresh eggs would have tasted better. Who knew?
Ha- what an experiment!! I'd rather eggs in a pan than under the toybox any day!
Steph
I'm a fellow Canadian city-girl-turned-country, mom of three raising chickens. This is our first year with them and our 12th and final hen just started laying so we're inundated with a dozen eggs a day, despite the cold weather. They're huge too, so we must be doing something right :) One more benefit of the fresh eggs that we've discovered is that when they're dropped on the floor they don't splatter from one end of the kitchen to the other like the runny store-bought ones do. Here's a question: do you wash your eggs before storing them?
Lindsay
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Ha! I love the ending of that post! I had the most wonderful frying pan- it was a wedding gift, and everything just slid right off of it. But not so anymore! I hate cleaning burnt stuff off pans.
Ok- random comment over.. :)
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