Homegrown vs store bought

[AinaWGSD]

Probably the best way to describe it, especially for someone who has only had store-bought, commercially mass-produced eggs, is rich and creamy. They do taste almost like you've added salt and butter even without adding any spices at all. I can hardly wait for my chicks to start laying (it'll probably be January, or worse yet next spring, before they do) but at the same time I'm sure that eggs will be another thing to add to my "snobbery" list (I can't stand/won't eat store-bought cakes/cookies unless it's a really good locally owned and operated bakery).

 

[Zoomom]

The fresh backyard grown eggs have a darker, yellow to orange yolk, the white is firmer unless they are 2 weeks old or more, and they actually taste like something! Now if I have no homegrown eggs and can't get farm eggs from a friend, and sadly resort to grocery store eggs or I eat restaurant-cooked eggs, it is so boring. You have to disguise the fact there is no flavour with extra salt, pepper or mayo or something!

 

[Zoomom]

Yes, rich and creamy is a good description for "real eggs" as I now call them.

 

[Mervin]

AinaWGSD

Don't think of it as snobbery, think of it as the reclamation of traditional American agriculture. My wife and I moved away from home and fell victim to "IdonthavetimeIwillpickitupatwalmart-itis". When we moved back, I declared that, under no circumstances, was she to buy eggs, meat, milk, or vegetables (in season) at the grocery store. Initially she was kind of peeved. Once she thought about it, she realized that all of that stuff was a five minute stop right on the way home. Yes, I have to stop 4 place to get those items but I don't feel like a steer on a feed lot at the local butcher shop, dairy, or Amish produce/baked goods stand. We really don't spend anymore than we would at the Megalomart and it's going in a local's pocket to boot. I just wish the Amish did Sourdough and baguettes.

 

[DianeS]

There is a big difference in taste to me. I never used to care for eggs, they were just "there" to hold the fixings together in the omelette! But one day a friend's relative was selling her backyard chicken eggs and I bought six intending to just support her. But when I cracked the eggs into a cake bowl later, they actually had a smell to them - and it smelled GOOD. I had never noticed a store bought egg having a smell. So when the cake was done, and it tasted good, I cracked the remaining eggs into a skillet and scrambled them... and they were delicious. Just plain. No cheese, peppers, or even salt and pepper. Just plain eggs, and I ate them all. Like the difference between milk and water. Or butter and margarine. Or fresh sourdough bread and plain white bread. It's hard to explain, but there is definately a difference to me.

 

[Hillsvale]

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then why raise laying hens if you don't like the eggs... I don't get it?

 

[Taylor]

i absolutely love the taste of fresh eggs!!! the ones you get in the store taste like the feed they feed them, fresh eggs taste more like an egg is supposed to taste like. to me brown eggs have a meatier taste than ordinary white eggs

 

[shesaredroan]

When I was a kid, my Mom got our eggs from a friend (Tennie Baxter) who sold farm fresh.
Because I grew up on these eggs I didn't appreciate the taste, as far as I was concerned ALL eggs tasted like Tennie's eggs , but when we lost our egg lady, (her family moved away)............from then on our eggs became bland and dull (store bought). The wonderful taste of Tennie's eggs was forever lost, ......I believed her eggs were magic and only she could make eggs taste SO good.
Then ...........many years later I ate an egg that reminded me of Tennie's eggs, turned out it was a home grown egg. This was when I realized the taste of farm fresh free range eggs had been embedded deeply within my taste buds.

Once you know the taste your heart will pine for them when you can't get them.

 

[mchl]

oh i cant wait for my girls to start earning their keep.. you are making my mouth water

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Store Bought eggs make me sick!

Store Bought egg yolks are smaller and they're pale yellow which I think is nasty!

Plus they don't free range their chickens, they keep them locked up in a wire cage all their lives which I think is very cruel!

Homegrown eggs are so much more healthier for you! You know just what your chickens are eating and their yolks are huge and yummy. And they're a deep orange color! Not a pale, sickly yellow color!
Me votes for HOMEGROWN EGGS!