baking with my chickens' eggs = bad smell of wet feathers

[CanaDawn]

I have trouble using my eggs because the smell puts me off, everyone else says they don't know what I am talking about, I don't smell it in store bought eggs, I think it's because they are fresher and haven't be sanitized and haven't sat long enough to lose that butt smell, but I think only some of us can smell it. So I feel for you, I suppose baking heats up the smell and spreads it.

hm....maybe because of the freshness, but I don't remember this smell in all the many farm fresh eggs I have eaten and baked with in my lifetime. I can't think how sanitizing as they do for commercial eggs would change the smell of the egg itself, but maybe the long sit, or perhaps it is something only some people can smell or only some chickens produce....very strange.

 

[CanaDawn]

Mind you, between two rounds of broodiness in my Silkie and the Seramas hiding their eggs in various spots and ignoring the nest boxes, I haven't had eggs in a while.....and I'm curious if it changes when they are not free range (perhaps I should close them in for a week or so just to get them using hte nest box and check on egg quality during that time.)

 

[aart]

Are you sure it's not another ingredient in your baking?

 

[CanaDawn]

Are you sure it's not another ingredient in your baking?

yes, I'm sure.

 

[DigMyChicks]

I notice it the most on waffles and I also make homemade cream pies and it comes out in the steam....sounds crazy but true!

 

[CanaDawn]

I notice it the most on waffles and I also make homemade cream pies and it comes out in the steam....sounds crazy but true!

EXACTLY!!!! It was waffles, and the steam from them that had me starting this thread!!!

 

[mommaofchickens]

I had the same issue with the waffles I thought I was crazy. Until I read this. I also smelt it in the steam. I thought it was the egg then I thought it was the batter that I used. I used a store brand. So I switched back to the other kind I usually use and no smell ever since.

 

[CanaDawn]

I had the same issue with the waffles I thought I was crazy. Until I read this. I also smelt it in the steam. I thought it was the egg then I thought it was the batter that I used. I used a store brand. So I switched back to the other kind I usually use and no smell ever since.

I don't use any mixes though, so the only thing different is the egg.

 

[DigMyChicks]

I make homemade Belgian waffles and I know it's the egg....doesn't matter if they are store bought or farm fresh.