➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Mysimplewyominglife]

Are duck eggs nice? Lol love the egg colors @PirateGirl

 

[Mysimplewyominglife]

Are duck eggs nice? Lol love the egg colors @PirateGirl

Well ya know the duck eggs that aint live and wiggling lol

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Ugh @RUNuts ...

And just yesterday I was in a debate/discussion with a co-worker from England and I am American about oats/oatmeal vs porridge vs granola vs muesli and I don't think we ever got it sorted (didn't even get into grits or cream of wheat). She just couldn't understand why overnight oats are soggy and not crunchy (because it's oatmeal and oatmeal is soggy) and I couldn't understand why she would expect it to be crunchy. And then she asked if oatmeal is like porridge and I have no idea because I live in the US and we don't make porridge and I don't really know what it is!

Think oatmeal. I always thought of porridge as a British thing due to many references to it in nursery rhymes of old. Loosely, porridge could be any starchy grain cooked in water or milk or combination thereof. Oats, wheat, corn, barley, rice, buckwheat. I imagine even millet and quinoa can be used. Polenta and grits are other examples.

Thanks.
I am curious if anyone around the world can find live/fresh balut in a grocery type store.
Some major hatcheries sell and ship balut.
I'm wanting people to check the local stores and see if they can spot balut.
Keep an eye out for an Asian grocery store near you and if you ever see balut let me know.
I'm making a map of balutties!

Shipped balut would be DOA.
We have 20 places that fit the category "Asian Grocery Stores". Every one I've shopped at carries balut eggs. However, I doubt they all do. Some are too small and others don't cater to that market like the Indian and Pakistan grocers.

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Yeah, I never really thought Balut would be at a Mexican market, that's just all we have other than a box standard American chain grocery store. I am however going to the city Monday... hmm...

I love me some South Park/Fairplay, CO.
Denver has a bunch of them. Little Saigon, Viet Hoa and Tay Do may have baluts, but don't expect them to hatch.

The Man is going to text me when this coming week's eggs arrive!!!

Where are they coming from?

I'm not worried so much about bringing the flashlight into the store anymore.

I know that ducks and geese sometimes spend more time off the nest than chickens but you can candle and incubate all you want. Grocery store balut eggs will never hatch.
I refer back to my original post on this thread.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ght-balut-eggs.1229923/page-136#post-19743228
"I'm confused here. Can someone on this busiest of threads tell me how it is possible to hatch balut eggs? I mean, after all, who would incubate their duck eggs from the start for 15-20 days, pull them out of the incubator, put them in the refrigerator for a week or more, warm them up again and expect the embryo to still be alive?"

Cook in milk, add egg, sugar, vanilla and you have rice pudding, great breakfast!!

I love that. We had it a lot when I was growing up.

I wanted to candle a chicken balut egg about a month ago at the grocery store but I knew my husband wouldn’t let me hatch it in our condo and couldnt accept the fact that the possibly moving baby chick would be boiled probably alive so I just walked off to the ice cream section

Unless you are actually IN SE Asia, they won't still be alive when boiled.

 

[PirateGirl]

Are duck eggs nice? Lol love the egg colors @PirateGirl

Haha... so this whole balut hatching started over the taste test of comparing chicken eggs to duck eggs. Honestly, I can't tell much difference. They are bigger, but my smallest duck eggs and largest chicken eggs are pretty close in size. They have more yolk and less white. I suspect that the reason my duck eggs and chicken eggs taste so similar is that they all eat the same food and treats. I have only been getting duck eggs about 2 weeks and haven't tried baking anything yet. Baking at high altitude can be challenging and honestly I'm hoping that using duck eggs instead of chicken eggs will help overcome some of those challenges! (@KikisGirls I see another experiment coming, baking the exact same items on the same day with duck eggs and chicken eggs and seeing if there's really a difference in how they turn out!)

 

[Kiki]

Haha... so this whole balut hatching started over the taste test of comparing chicken eggs to duck eggs. Honestly, I can't tell much difference. They are bigger, but my smallest duck eggs and largest chicken eggs are pretty close in size. They have more yolk and less white. I suspect that the reason my duck eggs and chicken eggs taste so similar is that they all eat the same food and treats. I have only been getting duck eggs about 2 weeks and haven't tried baking anything yet. Baking at high altitude can be challenging and honestly I'm hoping that using duck eggs instead of chicken eggs will help overcome some of those challenges! (@KikisGirls I see another experiment coming, baking the exact same items on the same day with duck eggs and chicken eggs and seeing if there's really a difference in how they turn out!)

I'm ready for it!
I love love love experiments!

 

[Kiki]

I'm thinking I will be baking a box cake!
Kiki is not a baker!

 

[PirateGirl]

I'm thinking I will be baking a box cake!
Kiki is not a baker!

Honestly, I was thinking a cake, even a box cake, would be really good for this experiment. Supposedly duck eggs will make it moister and help it rise I believe, and in a cake, these things would be easier to observe. In something like cookies, even in the same batch, there is already a lot of variance from one cookie to the next (at least for me with my skill set).

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Haha... so this whole balut hatching started over the taste test of comparing chicken eggs to duck eggs. Honestly, I can't tell much difference. They are bigger, but my smallest duck eggs and largest chicken eggs are pretty close in size. They have more yolk and less white. I suspect that the reason my duck eggs and chicken eggs taste so similar is that they all eat the same food and treats. I have only been getting duck eggs about 2 weeks and haven't tried baking anything yet. Baking at high altitude can be challenging and honestly I'm hoping that using duck eggs instead of chicken eggs will help overcome some of those challenges! (@KikisGirls I see another experiment coming, baking the exact same items on the same day with duck eggs and chicken eggs and seeing if there's really a difference in how they turn out!)

I surmise the yolk is bigger to sustain the embryo through a longer incubation.
You are high elevation. Not just baking but also incubation is challenging at high elevation. That's even home to the world's highest dispensary.

 

[PirateGirl]

I surmise the yolk is bigger to sustain the embryo through a longer incubation.
You are high elevation. Not just baking but also incubation is challenging at high elevation. That's even home to the world's highest dispensary.

I feel like every business in the Colorado Rockies claims to be the world's highest something or other. My house is at almost exactly 10,000 feet and I'm on the park, not on the mountainside. The thing that complicates baking/cooking/etc. has to do with the lower boiling point of water (probably other factors too). Cooking rice has never been so hard! I have never incubated, though this thread is inspiring. I will definitely chat with other CO peeps before undertaking it. It is sooooo dry here too, humidity is also an issue. Interesting theory about the yolk size; that makes total sense. Ok, now I'm rambling, I'm stopping now.

 

[Ladybird CA]

The ones Kiki bought from the grocery store were alive, it could’ve been someone in my family as most of are Vietnamese and sadly boil it alive like they do with seafood