duck eggs..what to do with them?

[dieselgrl48]

I had 2 buyer's from my previous duck flock that took them for baking and cake's.The egg's I sold for eating were scrubbed down good.I have gotten stuck on pickled egg's here I haven't pickled any duck egg's as my new flock wont be laying for a couple more month's yet but will try a few anyway.DH LOVES deviled egg's so will see how they are deviled.Think we got a big run of hen's this time so.. Egg's Egg's

 

[Shady Orchard]

they are great in German Oven Pancakes! It doesn't deflate as fast.

 

[FenDruadin]

Anything you can do with a chicken egg, you can do with a duck egg--and it tastes better! I will never go back to sad, pale, runny little chicken eggs. Duck eggs rock.

 

[nettie]

Joe, aka Duck_feeder's mom took a flat from us yesterday (2.5 dozen). She's trying to make salted duck eggs (Which I guess involves putting them in a brine for an ungodly amount of time or something like that lol). She's done it with chicken eggs but wants to try the duck eggs. I was surprised she took them, she's the kind of person who won't eat the fish she caught. lol

 

[saxet]

I am not the sqeamish type, but when I found a nest of 12 eggs under a tree, I figured it had to be about 2 weeks worth of eggs and that to me was getting a bit old out in my Texas heat. The coons discovered the clutch the day or so after so the duck moved. Just found 4. The oldest egg might be four hot days. What do you think? Still fine or should I feed it to the animals?

 

[FenDruadin]

Well...... some parts of Asia they incubate eggs for the purpose of eating them partially incubated... and any that die between day 1 and day 7 they boil and eat anyway... so it's probably quite safe but...

There is the yuck factor.

Unless you're desperate to eat them, I would personally feed them to something less squeamish. But then, I was raised in a nation and time of refrigeration, so maybe I'm just too picky.

 

[saxet]

Yeah. I re-read my confusing post. I fed the 12 batch to the dogs. But I just found a 4 batch that would be 4 days old at the most, and nobody is setting. So make that into crittter food too then? (they will love me for it anyway)

YUK on the partially hatched stuff. No thanks. I am not brave enough for that.

 

[FenDruadin]

I would probably check the air cell on those four (which you can do by candling or by trying to float the eggs in water--if they don't float, the air cell is still small and the eggs are fresh). If they are fresh, personally I'd go ahead and stick them in the fridge to eat. I wouldn't use them for salting or any other room-temp preservation method though, because if they're fertile they will have already begun to develop a little (they'll start at 80 degrees) and then "died" (though the embryo is still too small to notice except as a bull's eye on the yolk), so they'll spoil more quickly. But they should do fine in the fridge. And I'm fairly unsqueamish, so I'd eat them myself, but probably not give them away as some people are more particular than I am. Which is kind of funny, though, because the things that happen to commercial eggs in the WEEKS before they hit store shelves are much worse than anything that happens to my eggs before they are eaten. But people are funny that way.

Enjoy.

 

[saxet]

Running off to float some eggs. BRB

BTW. I discover a new nest location. Leave one egg and take the rest, and the coons must track me because that same night, that remaining egg will be found as well. I will never find fresh eggs like this.

 

[LittleSquidgenHome]

I would TRY them fried, scrambled, poached, boiled, or otherwise cooked FIRST before I pass judgment, you may be surprised and really like them. I personally don't like them scrambled but fried, poached, or boiled they are delicious. And if you cook them and dont like them, the ducks will be more than happy to eat them however you cooked them, so really there is no loss but the small amount of time it took for you to cook and try them.

And USE them for baking, if for nothing else, they make EVERYTHING delicious; pancakes, muffins, cookies, cakes, bread, pie, you name it, duck eggs almost always make it better. The only thing I haven't had luck with is meringue and angel food cake. Something about duck egg whites not setting up as well, but I am not done experimenting with them.