Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts??

Re:Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (claracamille)

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:08:36 GMT

The color of the shell doesn't effect the taste of the egg. It is the color of the yolk that is important. I am on a constant search for bright orange yolks just like the White Leghorn eggs that my grandmother's chickens produced. I have found eggs like this a couple times in central Indiana, but not recently. On my grandmother's farm we always ate the pullet eggs(smaller than hens eggs). My grandmother saved the largest & best eggs for her paying customers.

Re:Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Twinwillow)

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:22:31 GMT

Those are most likely from Araucana chickens as I mentioned above. Delicious eggs!

Re:Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Davydd)

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:47:19 GMT

How about some green eggs?

Re:Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Filetofish)

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:34:10 GMT

When hard boiling brown eggs, they are difficult to peel. No difference otherwise that I can tell.

Re:Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (californyguy)

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:34:35 GMT

ANOTHER VOTE FOR CANNOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE(EXCEPT IN MY WALLET)

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Foodbme)

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:07:51 GMT

Adjudicator,
Thanx for reminding me about MrBreakfast.com.
I had forgotten about it. It's a great site.
171 Recipes for French Toast???
146 Recipes for Waffles???
Nirvana!!

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Twinwillow)

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:55:30 GMT

wanderingjew has a point. This really is an old thread!

Personally, I buy the organic, free roaming, pasture raised brown eggs that have fairly thick shells from my local Wholefoods. They come from local farms within a hundred miles from Dallas. They're delicious!

The eggs that are very light blue, green, and tan in color usually come from Araucana chickens which are smaller, "scrawny" looking birds. They're the same kind of chickens Martha Stewart raises. IMHO, they're the best tasting but, also the hardest to come by. You have to do a little work trying to find someone raising them.

Deep orange yolks (as found in Europe) are a result of Marigolds fed to the chickens.

Adjudicator: Many thanks for the helpful link.

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (DougS)

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:39:05 GMT

There is a difference in taste between Farm Fresh (brown or white) and super market eggs. Super Market eggs are usually storage eggs and do lose the fresh taste.

A fresh egg boiled, isn't great for peeling (shells are hard to get off).
Darker yokes are usually found in Free Range chickens but feed with lots of greens; thrown in the chicken run will also result in dark yokes.
Grit (fine gravel) is also a feed requirement otherwise you may end up with undigested feed spots in a egg.
Ducks are one of the best birds to have around a farm to keep the flies and bugs down. I just can't bring myself to eating a duck egg.

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Foodbme)

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:21:40 GMT

All I know is out here in AZ, the stores charge more for Brown Eggs than White Eggs AND, when you watch the cooking shows on Food Network, they all use brown eggs!

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (wanderingjew)

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:16:02 GMT

Samsummers

Brown farm raised is the way to go

Samsummers

I'm curious- how do you find these remote extraneous threads that have been buried for years?

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Samsummers)

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:57:33 GMT

Brown farm raised is the way to go

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Jimeats)

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:56:49 GMT

Most Asian grocers sell fresh duck eggs. Chow Jim

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (mland520)

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:38:00 GMT

Blue eggs, green eggs, brown or white- no difference in taste if the hens have all been given the same feed
but duck eggs are the best eggs for using when you are baking! I didn't think I would like them- but WOW whatever you are making and baking comes out great. All of that was a long time ago for me- when we lived in upstate NY.
But here in Dallas- kind of hard to find fresh duck eggs.
We did raise a goose once, here, though.......

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (ernieson)

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:44:52 GMT

There is absolutely no difference in the taste of brown and white eggs. I know some people will argue this point, but it is an illusory correlation. In other words, because they look different people assume the MUST taste different and then they perceive a difference that really isn't there.

If you don't believe me, I suggest you do a double-blind taste test. Buy white and brown eggs -taking care that they are the same freshness. Have a person break them each into a bowl out of sight of the cook and the taster. The cook should cook them exactly the same as much as possible and serve them the same as much as possible.

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Rusty246)

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:59:05 GMT

My chicken egg gitten person said this: "The Rhode Island Reds and the Bard Rocks lay brown eggs. The arreconas lay blue and green. They can also lay pink but none of their's have yet."

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (rouxdog)

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:28:59 GMT

I can speak concerning "blue" eggs. My wife decided a few years back to get some young chicks to produce a few eggs. After considerable research she chose Aracuna chickens because they have very colorful feathers. They lay "blue greenish" eggs, an added bonus, she said........ She ordered 50 of those things!! Did we ever have eggs! Gave them to everyone who didn't run when they saw us coming...... We are now retired egg growers and our friends no longer run. Gave those chickens away! And, this is a true story.
rouxdog

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Sundancer7)

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:03:09 GMT

I reside on the Tennessee River in Knoxville, TN. We have several thousand resident Canada Geese. The nest all along my property. If you have the garbenzo's to get one of the eggs, they are white and huge and fertile. Probably make a killer omlet???

It is that time of year as they are honking all night long singing love songs I guess and they will be nesting in a few weeks.

If you have the garbenzo's again, try to extract one of their eggs. I have tried it before without success.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (jparis)

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:41:59 GMT

My family grew up eating green egges (My dad had a fancy for raising chickens) I now eat the white eggs in the store...can't tell a lick of difference.

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (porkchopexpress)

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:35:12 GMT

I never could tell a difference

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Greyghost)

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:28:24 GMT

There is no difference in white Vs brown, just another breed of chicken as has been stated.

The blue eggs are a different matter. These are diet eggs. You will lose weight eating them as they are very tiny and you will have to climb many trees to get enough even for a small omelet while fighting off angry robins every step of the way.

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (PepperPhil)

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:34:34 GMT

Personally we have brown egg layers here on our farm.... i really enjoy the taste of a brown egg over store bought white ones....

Now can we talk about blue eggs?

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (JRPfeff)

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:05:30 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by V960

No difference what so ever. I have chickens and prefer the bantam eggs myself. Bit of salad...a fried bantam egg (slightly larger than a quail egg)...mustard vingarette...glass of wine and my wife of twenty five years across the table...IT GETS BETTER THAN THIS?

Now duck eggs are a whole new idea...richer...more flavorful and better for you.

"IT GETS BETTER THAN THIS?"
Only in the summer, when the chickens feed on the bugs in the manure pile. Those yolks get really dark and rich.

We had bantams, too, until something started killing them off. If anyone is wondering, bantam eggs are about half the volume of a large size egg. They make a great 5 egg omelet.

Our bantams produced brown, green and blue eggs - they all taste the same.

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (GCD1962)

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:36:10 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by tiki

Thick shells are an indication of high in minerals diet for the chickens---and shell color is determined by the type of chicken you get your eggshells---chickens that lay white eggs and get to scratch for bugs---and have a little crushed oyster shell added to their scratch--will have shells as thick as any brown egg--and will taste just as good--i still buy brown eggs because i too, grew up with Rhode Islands Reds.

Correct, thick shells are a function of the feed, etc. I live in a house that is over 210 years old and at one time was a chicken farm. Almost every place I dig in the yard I find oyster shells.

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Rusty246)

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:13:22 GMT

I have a dozen brown and green on my desk. Been ages since I've had brown eggs as I buy mine from the grocer mostly as well. My co-workers that brought them to me said the girls finally quit molting so they're laying again...just what does that have to do with anything?? Don't answer I'll search for myself. Any rate can't wait to try them.

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (V960)

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:40:29 GMT

No difference what so ever. I have chickens and prefer the bantam eggs myself. Bit of salad...a fried bantam egg (slightly larger than a quail egg)...mustard vingarette...glass of wine and my wife of twenty five years across the table...IT GETS BETTER THAN THIS?

Now duck eggs are a whole new idea...richer...more flavorful and better for you.

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Ashphalt)

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:44:52 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by Adjudicator

http://www.mrbreakfast.com/ask.asp?askid=23

Growing up in brown egg territory, I knew most of this, except for the part about the earlobes. I never thought of chickens having earlobes. Now I'm wondering, posts or clip-ons?

I was taught that you buy the eggs that are most common where you are, because they'll be the freshest (i.e. other than at Easter, white eggs don't move as fast in New England). But sometimes when I'm out of the area I'm still a little surprised by white eggs.

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (Sundancer7)

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:27:08 GMT

I believe I have seen some that were rufous red.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (tiki)

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:02:20 GMT

and BLuE and GREEN too!

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (MikeS.)

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:06:03 GMT

Eggs can be brown???

MikeS.

RE: Brown eggs V White eggs ---Your Thoughts?? (tiki)

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:00:31 GMT

Thick shells are an indication of high in minerals diet for the chickens---and shell color is determined by the type of chicken you get your eggshells---chickens that lay white eggs and get to scratch for bugs---and have a little crushed oyster shell added to their scratch--will have shells as thick as any brown egg--and will taste just as good--i still buy brown eggs because i too, grew up with Rhode Islands Reds.