Eating farm eggs vs. store eggs over easy

[cymbaline]

Oh this makes me nervous now!!! I was so excited to start using our eggs..... Do any of you who have started having reactions have other allergies???

I, too, have had other people eat the same eggs with no problem. I have never had a reaction like that to any food - I think that's why it took me so long to figure it out. It is possible that they were not fully cooked each time (the middle of the omelet, inside the bread of the french toast, and obviously the brownie batter, lol), so maybe I could eat them if I was positive they were fully cooked. I have since eaten chicken eggs cooked into cookies and cakes and such with no problem. Oh, and I ate the brownies after they were cooked! (I think that was before I put the pattern together)

 

[blshanatic]

I also have the same issue with duck eggs vs chicken eggs. I can bake with them with no problems but if I fry them up and eat them I get very very sick. I don't undercook them, I just become very sick.

 

[TracyLovesDucks]

Oh no, I'm sorry to hear your friend got sick! After reading through this thread, it sounds like some people have an allergy to duck eggs... maybe that's his problem. Because it doesn't really sound like salmonella poisoning... from WebMD: Symptoms of salmonellosis include diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps. They develop 12 to 72 hours after infection, and the illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days.

We've been eating organic store-bought chicken eggs over-easy for many years and haven't gotten sick yet. Our ducks are too young to produce eggs yet, but I ate a duck egg from a friend (intended to cook it over easy, but it was totally undercooked because I was used to cooking little chicken eggs)... anyways I ate it without getting sick.

The risk of salmonella in eggs is much lower for pastured birds (yours) than battery farm birds (the grocery store's). I recently read this article (if you google "Empowered Sustenance raw eggs" you'll find it) which says that if you eat a battery farm egg raw, you have a 24% chance of getting salmonella. If you eat a pastured egg raw, you have a 4% chance of getting salmonella.

 

[cymbaline]

Oh no, I'm sorry to hear your friend got sick! After reading through this thread, it sounds like some people have an allergy to duck eggs... maybe that's his problem. Because it doesn't really sound like salmonella poisoning... from WebMD: Symptoms of salmonellosis include diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps. They develop 12 to 72 hours after infection, and the illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days.

We've been eating organic store-bought chicken eggs over-easy for many years and haven't gotten sick yet. Our ducks are too young to produce eggs yet, but I ate a duck egg from a friend (intended to cook it over easy, but it was totally undercooked because I was used to cooking little chicken eggs)... anyways I ate it without getting sick.

The risk of salmonella in eggs is much lower for pastured birds (yours) than battery farm birds (the grocery store's). I recently read this article (if you google "Empowered Sustenance raw eggs" you'll find it) which says that if you eat a battery farm egg raw, you have a 24% chance of getting salmonella. If you eat a pastured egg raw, you have a 4% chance of getting salmonella.

Yeah, I'm quite sure mine wasn't any kind of virus/bacteria or anything like that. One time I started to feel sick within 15-20 minutes, almost as soon as it hit my stomach. And it was always completely gone in about 6 hours, with no other symptoms.

 

[casportpony]

We eat almost all of our eggs over easy and knock wood, haven't been sick.

-Kathy

 

[NEduckgirl]

I have eaten our duck's eggs for over 6 months now and had no issues whatsoever. We eat them sunny side up, over easy, etc. I also sell to local restaurants and no one has ever complained. I have occasionally had chicken eggs in the past that have upset my stomach, but never any reaction from duck eggs.

 

[SueBobConn]

Eating a fried egg with a runny yolk isn't any different than eating a medium or rare steak. Eggs do not contain natural Salmonella any more than meat does. Adults can develop an allergic reaction to eggs even though it is more common in children. Some people can tolerate chicken eggs but not duck or quail eggs and vise versa. Most reactions are from the whites not the yolks, in most cases. Undercooking an egg such as a water poached egg which always has a runny yolk has been served in 5 star restaurants for decades. What do you think people were eating before the discovery of fire ? And you are far better off eating Farm raised eggs than store bought. Store bought eggs are produced in filthy conditions and then washed and sprayed with a chemical. This is why fresh farm eggs can last for months just sitting in a basket on the counter as long as they are not washed and refrigerated. As long as the Bloom is intact no bacteria can penetrate the shell of an egg. It sounds to me even though some of you are raising your own hens and ducks that you are still quite inexperienced. Being in my 80's what I have read is all about an allergy to eggs, not the eggs themselves, and dont worry about a runny egg, thats hog wash.