Eating Duck Eggs for breakfast-First time Eating Them!!!

[chikky]

Duck eggs (mine are call eggs, so smallish) make EXCELLENT Butterscotch Pie! So yummy and creamy! Sounds like a good project this weekend.

 

[T Hi]

I am so excited!!! My runners are about 16 weeks old and I am anxiously awaiting my turn for a first egg! I love the pics! It makes me want them even more!!!

 

[Jeeper1540]

I want more too!!!
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[chicksbestfriend]

I remember the first time I ate my first duck eggs, ( a muscovy egg) I was so excited because they were so big! I cracked them open and cooked them sunny side up. First, I had to smell it, smelled like an egg! I dipped my toast inside............ tasted like an egg, I was pretty impressed until about 1/2 hour after eating it, it left a really bad after taste in my mouth, wasnt sure if I had just eaten an egg or licked the bottom of a chicken coop, but the after taste was nasty! I was determined to get the best out of the eggs, I use them for baking and cooking all the tim, love um that way, also "salted". I get about 1/2 dozen of them a day, so the excess that I have, I sell, people are willing to pay $10 a dozen fresh, or $20 a dozen salted.

 

[dumb_cluck]

Anyone else have an after taste eating duck eggs?

 

[Kansaseq]

I love duck eggs, too. I've never experienced an after taste, but I do feel uncomfortably full after eating them. I think they are just so rich they make me a little over full or something. They are wonderful in egg salad, cakes, fried, scrambled. Never tried them in cornbread, but I do LOVE cornbread, so will have to try that.

 

[Jeeper1540]

i had a little of an after taste but it wasnt bad.

 

[FenDruadin]

The proteins in duck eggs are different from chicken eggs. It's rare, but some folks who can eat chicken eggs just fine are allergic to duck eggs (and vice versa)--is it possible that the "overfull" feeling or the aftertaste is a slight allergic reaction to the proteins?

 

[dumb_cluck]

Do different breed duck eggs taste different? Example, do pekin eggs taste better or worse than mallard?

 

[Kansaseq]

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Interesteing. I've kinda wondered that myself

I like duck eggs. Wonder how you find out, short of an allergy test?

Edited to ad, I just did a quick search. From what I'm reading, it's possible to have an intolerance rather than a true allergy to them, which might cause the slightly sick feeling. Of course, this is not from the mouth of a Dr., so who knows. Sounds plausible, though.

And Saxony and Silver Appleyard duck eggs taste the same to me, but can't speak for other breeds yet.