[fancypants]

I have read how you can tell if they are recently laid but I cannot perceive the real difference.


Are they smiling or not?

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by fancypants

I have read how you can tell if they are recently laid but I cannot perceive the real difference.


Are they smiling or not?

Now there's a thought.

[jblum315]

Did you know that the color of the egg shell is determined not by the color of the chicken but by the color of the chicken's ear lobe? Yes, chickens have ears apparently.

[JoeC1947]

Originally Posted by Patty55

I think it's the same as dogs, as long as you dress them alike you can have as many as you want.

Is that another chicken joke? (Laugh In)

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Here I am a much older person than I used to be and I don't think I can tell a fresh egg from a fresher egg and never once in my WHOLE life did I run into a rotten egg, (well maybe once, but he wasn't in a carton).

I have read how you can tell if they are recently laid but I cannot perceive the real difference.

I did not mean to minimize the OP or her valid post who I think is the cat's pajama's and I can't wait to meet her.

Now YOU are making ME spit coffee...

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by eweissenbach

Gracie there seems to be little about food and cooking that you don't know. However, there is a huge difference between the eggs you purchase at most supermarkets and those fresh from the right farm. We used to have chickens and the last few years have bought our eggs from an Amish farm. The yolks are usually a bright and dark orange and have so much more rich flavor that the difference is stark. When we have to buy typical supermarket eggs they are hard for me to accept. This is not one of those things where some people imagine that something is better - there is a huge difference.

eweissenbach, I agree with you about eggs coming from the right farm. If your Amish farm is around here, can you tell us where it is?

[eweissenbach]

Originally Posted by CFrance

eweissenbach, I agree with you about eggs coming from the right farm. If your Amish farm is around here, can you tell us where it is?

Sorry, it is in Northwest Missouri. I am not aware of any Amish in the Villages area. There was an earlier thread that mentioned some farms where one could buy eggs, and it was pasted into an earlier post on this thread.

[eweissenbach]

Okay; I will try to illustrate the point with a picture (I hope it works). I just took two eggs out of my refrigerator, one is an egg from a nearby farm the other is an egg from a supermarket. See if you can tell which is which!

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[Joaniesmom]

Nice picture, Ed.

I think there is a difference in peeling hard boiled eggs. I think older eggs peel easier than fresher ones. (Or it could be the other way around.) But I definitely find it more difficult to peel some hard boiled eggs than others!

[dkrhardy]

IMHO, you've all missed the real reason to buy farm eggs. If they are caged and fed feed, they may be fresher than the supermarket, but they are the same. IF you can find farm eggs from chickens that can roam the barnyard, THOSE are the eggs to get! It is the bugs and "stuff" that they eat that really changes the color and most importantly ...... the flavor. The egg taste is more pronounced. That is the real difference, again ... MHO.
Don

[eweissenbach]

Originally Posted by dkrhardy

IMHO, you've all missed the real reason to buy farm eggs. If they are caged and fed feed, they may be fresher than the supermarket, but they are the same. IF you can find farm eggs from chickens that can roam the barnyard, THOSE are the eggs to get! It is the bugs and "stuff" that they eat that really changes the color and most importantly ...... the flavor. The egg taste is more pronounced. That is the real difference, again ... MHO.
Don

All true, and not only that but they get excercise which makes them healthier and thus the eggs are healthier and more robust.