Eggs

[nathanbforrest45]

The shell on eggs today are so thin, that they almost crack when you take them out of the carton, just the lightest taps and the crack open. Jumbo eggs get smaller and smaller it seems.

Many years ago I would buy jumbo eggs and they were 100 calories each, today I think they are 70 calories each and the shells were far thicker.

Used to get huge brown eggs even at supermarkets, now what they do have are half the size.

What the hell happened to eggs

Cages. Plus note the color of the yolk. A free range organic egg has a thick deep yellow, almost orange yolk. Factory egg yolks and whites are thin and watery and pale yellow and tasteless.

I also try to get free range eggs but even then that may or may not actually mean they are what I call "yard eggs" but simply eggs where the hens are not in cages but still in small enclosures. When I lived in TN I would get my eggs from my neighbors (everyone but us it seems had chickens) who always let their chickens run free. (I had one neighbor who's chickens actually roosted in the trees around his house.

[jigglepete]

There is a chicken farmer that comes down out of the hills once every couple of months and brings a few dozen cartons of eggs to the bar and gives them away, she has multiple breeds of chickens so the eggs are all different colors, sizes, and flavors, best eggs I've ever had! She recently found a buyer for her entire stock, and that was sad, sad news indeed...

[Cotton1]

People that can cook well have my admiration. People who not only cook but take it to an art form amaze me. A lot of qualities have to present. Preparation, patience, organization etc and then it goes into the flames of hell inside or on top of stove and as a metaphor loaded dream , reappears as the sum of many parts. " parts" that ate not all just ingrediants, but a human skill. I would enjoy the creative part of cooking but without the aforementioned twould be a recipe for disaster. Pardon me for having so little sense to add to the thread but..at least twas not nonsense. I am man , see me roar then call in for chinese. " Chinese " food, not people

[Mister D]

The shell on eggs today are so thin, that they almost crack when you take them out of the carton, just the lightest taps and the crack open. Jumbo eggs get smaller and smaller it seems.

Many years ago I would buy jumbo eggs and they were 100 calories each, today I think they are 70 calories each and the shells were far thicker.

Used to get huge brown eggs even at supermarkets, now what they do have are half the size.

What the hell happened to eggs

Very Large eggs have 80 calories. Large eggs have 70. I rarely see Jumbo eggs but I think I know what you're talking about. I haven't noticed any change in shell thickness but I was surprised by how thick the shells on duck eggs are. Speaking of which, that's what I reach for when I want Jumbo eggs.

[Mister D]

I have a carton of freerange brown organic eggs in the fridge, I looked at the carton all it says organically fed and humanely raised and the name of the farm but it has a commercial feel for some reason

It should. The market has grown considerably over the last decade or so. That said, "organic" and humanely raised" mean nothing when it's just the producer saying so. I always look for independent certification. The Wholefoods animal welfare scale is also very helpful.