Any Home Bakers Here?

[pennyJo1960]

Me too sound yum love shortbread cookies

 

[igorsMistress]

I've never heard of "nest run" eggs. I looked it up, says the eggs are as they came from the production facility without being washed, sized or candled for quality.

That would also describe my eggs.

OK, I found this for Arizona:
"Nest Run Egg Producers: These small producers of eggs, by statute, are limited to 750 dozens of nest run eggs (unwashed and ungraded) per year. They are required to register with the Department of Agriculture(link is external). There is no fee for this. In addition to registering, they are required to properly label their eggs and keep them under refrigeration at 45 degrees F or less. Nest Run Producers are prohibited from using trademarked or trade name cartons belonging to other companies."

I don't think that means you are precluded from describing the housing and life your hens live. There are people who will pay more for eggs from humanely raised hens. I figure anyone from PETA would have one heck of a time claiming my spoiled butt chickens are not being raised ethically.

The statutes specifically say I can't say local or fresh. Free range or organic might be ok I suppose.

 

[N F C]

A big round of applause to all for the great looking homemade food yesterday! I enjoyed seeing all the pictures!

@rjohns39 thanks for including the videos, those are helpful when trying a new recipe.

 

[Kusanar]

The statues specifically say I can't say local or fresh. Free range or organic might be ok I suppose.

You could probably get around that without using those keywords. For example, I would put something like "Eggs laid right here in the Roanoke valley by chickens who only eat the best organic feeds and are let out of their spacious coop and predator proof run daily to enjoy 10 acres of pasture with shade trees to rest beneath"

This is NOT saying that the eggs are organic but that the feed that you buy is certified organic. NOT saying that they are LOCAL but stating where they are from and letting the buyer decide that 5 miles away is local. It is also not saying that they are free range but describing their care in such a way that anyone would know that they were free range without using those words. I'm sure you could add in there that the eggs are collected every day and put a time limit on what the oldest eggs would be "Eggs are collected from comfortable straw lined nest boxes daily and no egg that is sold is older than 1 week from being laid" or something similar.

 

[igorsMistress]

You could probably get around that without using those keywords. For example, I would put something like "Eggs laid right here in the Roanoke valley by chickens who only eat the best organic feeds and are let out of their spacious coop and predator proof run daily to enjoy 10 acres of pasture with shade trees to rest beneath"

This is NOT saying that the eggs are organic but that the feed that you buy is certified organic. NOT saying that they are LOCAL but stating where they are from and letting the buyer decide that 5 miles away is local. It is also not saying that they are free range but describing their care in such a way that anyone would know that they were free range without using those words. I'm sure you could add in there that the eggs are collected every day and put a time limit on what the oldest eggs would be "Eggs are collected from comfortable straw lined nest boxes daily and no egg that is sold is older than 1 week from being laid" or something similar.

Yes, I believe that would be fine.

 

[Kusanar]

Yes, I believe that would be fine.

Using something like that might get you the business that saying that they are "fresh, organic local free range eggs" would but not get you in any sort of legal pickle with having used any of those key words that they like to regulate.

 

[ThreeOfSeven]

My second Pullman Loaf bread. Shape is much nicer than the first, more the iconic square shape. I used the whole batch of the master dough recipe (5-min a day recipe) with my 13-inch Pullman loaf pan.

 

[ValerieJ]

My second Pullman Loaf bread. Shape is much nicer than the first, more the iconic square shape. I used the whole batch of the master dough recipe (5-min a day recipe) with my 13-inch Pullman loaf pan.

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That is a perfect sandwich loaf!

 

[ronott1]

My second Pullman Loaf bread. Shape is much nicer than the first, more the iconic square shape. I used the whole batch of the master dough recipe (5-min a day recipe) with my 13-inch Pullman loaf pan.

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Was it hard to figure out how much of the dough to use? Did you weigh it?

I made three loaves of Sourdough olive bread yesterday and each one was about 780Grams

 

[blackandtan]

I did it! I baked two beautiful loaves! I followed the recipe from my kitchen aid stand mixer TO THE LETTER, and I took care to punch it down completely after the first rise...voila! Bread perfection! I wish I could show you the whole thing, but we’re savages and couldn’t wait to crack it open.....