Well, I've given you the whole weekend to hem and haw over the answer to the question I posed last Friday. Which egg is fresh?
I should probably take this opportunity to apologize to you from the bottom of my egg basket for any sleep you may have lost. I too lost sleep. Of course, mine was due to a brain exploding migraine that caused me to cry tears of blood, but ... still ... I lost some sleep.
To recap, let's have another look shall we? Was the fresh egg ...
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This one ...
Or this one???
The Answer:
The egg on the left came from my coop. It was probably 3 days old when I took the picture. The yolk is high and round and orange. There are 2 distinct whites, one that surrounds the yolk and one further out from that. My chickens are fed pellets, a scoop of chicken scratch, some kitchen scraps and a cob of corn every day. They love their daily cob of corn.
The egg on the right was a store bought egg I grabbed out of my fridge. The yolk was flat and a pale yellow. There was only one egg white and it was quite thin. It was the very best egg money can buy at a grocery store. An organic egg that came from a free range chicken that was allowed access to outdoors whenever it wanted. (at least that's what the package said) At the time the picture was taken the egg was still 3 weeks away from the expiry date on the carton.
As soon as I had finished photographing it, I made a scrambled egg out of my coop fresh egg. And I will describe that scrambled egg to you now. It was the creamiest, richest, most flavourful egg I've ever eaten. It tasted as though cream had been added to it. In short, it was the most delicious thing ever eaten by anyone on any planet in any solar system. Ever. It was pretty good.
I'm not suggesting you all go out and start raising chickens. That would be stupid. For one thing, those of you in small apartments would have an especially difficult time with the amount of hours chickens spend hogging the bathroom.
I am suggesting if you have the chance, the inclination or the opportunity, you should search out farm fresh eggs. And then you should eat them. (Unless you find out the address of whoever invented migraines, in which case you should throw them at their house)
Ooh! Challah made with fresh eggs! I haven't had that since we moved away from my Jewish relatives. Do you ship?
(oh, and sorry about the migraine - I got Botox injections for mine cause they're so frequent)
Amy - Where do they inject the botox for migraines? ~ k
I guessed right too Karen only because of the color...so the eggs all start out looking like yours and then after they sit for weeks in shipping and in the stores they lose their color and flavor??? There are a lot of farms around here..I will look for one nearby that puts their fresh eggs out for sale.
sorry I guess it is "colour" and "flavour" up your way..LOL
Nancy - Yes it is. It's also airplane and ketchup. ~ karen
Nancy - From what I understand, the eggs do pale and get watery as time goes by but the colour of the yolk is determined a lot by what the chicken eats. ~ karen
sorry to hear about your migraine. my daughter swears by something called frova which you take at the onset. it's expensive but always works for her.
Have you ever baked with fresh eggs? They give such an amazing yellow color to whatever you bake. Makes anything baked with store bought eggs look pale and bland in comparison.
Not yet! I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do for a challah. (egg bread). - karen!
Is there a reason your egg has a double white? I've never noticed it before, maybe because my eggs are store bought. But not for long! Ima gonna look for them at the farmer's market.
p.s. Thanks for the tips on migraine meds, everyone. Ima also gonna ask my doc about them.
I guessed right woot!
I would LOVE to see an egg vending machine. Karen go find one or better yet you can build one.
I also suffer from migraines. I can feel your pain. I use a staple gun to my cranium and it seems to keep it at bay for awhile :P
hey karen last week was a vicious one for migraine sufferers, i too had a nasty one, thank god for imitrex, couldnt survive without it! glad the egg was so awesome. tried the gordon ramsay scrambled eggs at the cottage last weekend! delish!! xo
Your chickens make really nice looking eggs.
My thoughts eggs-actly (sorry) "Egg vending machine?" Search on that last phrase and sure enough...There is a cute one shaped like a chicken with a picture on it of a hen with an egg rolling out of it's butt. One with actual HENS IN it!
Then a few that you open a door and retrieve cartons/bags of eggs. Seems the Japanese have caught on...
I say get one.
I am going to egg my Mom's house tonight. She didn't invent them, but they're hereditary, so I'm blaming her! Imitrex nasal spray works wonders for mine. Within an hour or so, I'm usually back up on my feet, feeling nothing more than a typical headache (which is bearable). Glad your feeling better.
Oh Karen! I hate migraines! I get them every once in awhile preceded by an "aura" which would be cool if the pain/nausea/confusion didn't follow right after! I've tried a lot of prescribed meds and found nothing worked. I was reading an article about how zinc lozenges helped. And do they ever! Gets rid of them straight away! And I totally agree about the farm fresh egg thing! My girls have just started laying too! LOVE how creamy they taste! You are so right!
Oh Karen! I hate migraines! I get them every once in awhile preceded by an "aura" which would be cool if the pain/nausea/comfusion didn't follow right after! I've tried a lot of prescribed meds and found nothing worked. I was reading an article about how zinc lozenges helped. And do they ever! Gets rid of them straight away! And I totally agree about the farm fresh egg thing! My girls have just started laying too! LOVE how creamy they taste! You are so right!
I cannot wait until my coop is up and my hens are here. They are waiting patiently at a friend's coop. Eggs and all.
Glad you are over the migraine. No fun.
I only cook farm fresh eggs if I can help it. The same will hold true for you now, from now until the end of time! Mwahh haha! Store eggs now seem so gross. Same goes for veggies and meats.
My sister in law has a farm and just added 30 hens to roam the 86 acres which means lots of free eggs for me...I have to say the blue ones through me off. I made an omelet for my Nephew and he was shocked how orange looking it was....I explained how healthy this would be for him in place of the store bought factory kept and hormone fed chickens he's use too getting eggs from. I have seen what my sister in law feeds her hens...Fresh from the garden watermelon, veggies, grain, a bug or two I'm sure. Nothing Bad for them and ultimately making their eggs healthier for our family. Now I want two hens for my 1/2 acre...lol
You should get some. :) A half acre could fit plenty of hens. ~ karen!
Yes!I knew it!! :D
OR...you could build a stand, as pretty as your coop, and sell your eggs at the bottom of your drive way. I'm sure the neighbours wouldn't mind...
Oh, Karen, sorry about the migraine. Those are horrid!
I have been on a chicken campaign (as in, I must have your chicken coop NOW) sort of thing. Once I show my husband the egg, he might be on board. Good food always works.
There's an egg vending machine just down the road from my house, the eggs from there are DE-licious!! And, I'm assuming, fresh from the chicken's butt.
Really?! An egg vending machine?? ~ karen
HA! I WAS RIGHT!!!! Hurray!
Um, sorry if you have a migraine? Has it progressed to vomiting yet? If so, cold compress until you can keep something down and then Excedrin.
The above works so much better than full-on head amputation. Which is also effective, but sorta... messy.
Marti - I take either Axert or Relpax. BEST inventions ever. Work 90% of the time. I had a vomiting headache just a few weeks ago! My mom had to come over with some anti-nauseant which knocked me out for 5 hours. They were 5 blissful hours. ~ karen
Really? Who knew you were such a delicate flower of (chicken-coop-making, yogurt-tamponing) femininity and all such?
I wonder if there is a difference in taste between a grain feed chicken egg and a grass fed chicken egg. Got any lawn, Karen?
No m'am. Not for the chickens. Most chickens, even free range are given grain. It has all the stuff they need. ~ k!
They're supposed to eat bugs and grubs too right?