Sydney Acres
Songster
I boiled eggs for thanksgiving lastnight. I have Rhode Island Red hens and we let our eggs stay out of the fridge at room temp. Theese eggs had only been sitting out for appx. 3 days. When we peeled them the egg whites were tinted brown and the yoke was very dark and able to be seen underneath. We are new to brown eggs so is this normal for fresh brown eggs ?
No, brown eggs are only brown on the outside. What's inside should be no different than white eggs. Also, leaving them out of the refrigerator for 3 days shouldn't cause that either. I'm not sure what is going on with your eggs. The only thing that comes to mind regarding the yolk is that it will be darker if they are free range eggs and the chickens are eating lots of grass (mine have yolks that are dark pumpkin orange), or that maybe the yolk was close to the shell in one area (not perfectly centered in the egg, which is common) so there was less white on the side you were looking at, so it could easily be seen. Regarding the egg whites being tinted brown, was it just the outside perimeter of the egg white, like the brown color leached through the membrane and tinted the white while boiling? Or was it brown all the way through, affecting all of the white? Did it occur with every egg, or just some of them? Was the water that you boiled them in tinted brown after boiling? Do you find that the white of the egg is tinted when you break open the egg and fry it, or only with boiling? I guess it is possible for the brown color to leach through with boiling and tint the white, but I've never had it happen with mine, and have never heard of it happening. But every line of hens, or individual hen, is different, so maybe the color components from your hens leaches out?? Anyone else have a better theory?