missing egg taste and aroma

[PirateGirl]

someone mentioned changing taste buds... this is a scientific thing as we age and our sense of taste can be very different from when were younger... there are many interesting articles online that a quick google search will pull up, so yes, it's possible the eggs are the same and your sense of taste is different! (probably a bit of both)

 

[aart]

someone mentioned changing taste buds... this is a scientific thing as we age and our sense of taste can be very different from when were younger... there are many interesting articles online that a quick google search will pull up, so yes, it's possible the eggs are the same and your sense of taste is different! (probably a bit of both)

Like when I thought a can of spaghetti o's would be nice comfort food treat...Gahhhh!!!

 

[PirateGirl]

Like when I thought a can of spaghetti o's would be nice comfort food treat...Gahhhh!!!

Yes! I also think this explains why kids are pickier eaters than adults, the foods actually taste different to them! I think perhaps it's also why we might like or be able to tolerate the taste of spicier and/or hotter food as we get older that we would have thought was too hot when we were younger.

 

[PouleChick]

I was a little nervous at first, reasons unknown, I guess trying any new food can be intimidating once you are an adult and set in your dietary habits also I knew my duck eggs were fertile and my chicken eggs were not...

I think I'm worried that they will be really strong or something! My sister had one when I was in the UK the other week and I should have been brave and eaten it!

 

[PirateGirl]

I think I'm worried that they will be really strong or something! My sister had one when I was in the UK the other week and I should have been brave and eaten it!

I think it makes a difference if the ducks forage on a pond or natural body of water. As we've been discussing on this thread, what a chicken or duck eats can certainly impact what the eggs taste like. My chickens and ducks eat crumble from the same bag so their eggs are similar.

 

[chickens really]

@chickens really I'm surprised you don't eat duck eggs! I have to say I was a bit skeptical at first, but my ducks have proven to be better layers than my chickens so we always seem to have duck eggs available, even now, the first start up laying again for spring was a duck. Now I'm hooked and when I have both available tend to go for the duck eggs first.

I hatch my Duck eggs or toss to my Dogs..
I seriously can't get the fork past my teeth.

 

[PouleChick]

I seriously can't get the fork past my teeth.

What is it that does that? Do you eat chicken eggs?

 

[CanadaEh]

someone mentioned changing taste buds... this is a scientific thing as we age and our sense of taste can be very different from when were younger... there are many interesting articles online that a quick google search will pull up, so yes, it's possible the eggs are the same and your sense of taste is different! (probably a bit of both)

Ok, I will have to accept that could be why they were so nostalgically good.

But still, should we be able to tell the difference between store bought and home-raised egg taste-wise? This was our main reason of getting the chickens - to get the real tasting eggs. Also when we compared farmed (although not free ranged) vs. store bought we did not found much difference other than being smaller, firmer and more yellow yolk - but nothing you can smell/taste in a blind test.

Does anybody have any observation as to how different feed items would manifest into the egg? E.g:
lots of grass -> orange yolk (people say so but have not seen it yet myself)
lots of fish scraps -> "omega" (fishy?) taste?
lots of red wigglers -> ???
lots of garlic -> ???
something else -> ???

May be egg taste could be fine tuned as a beer brewing recipe?

 

[aart]

But still, should we be able to tell the difference between store bought and home-raised egg taste-wise?

Some folks swear they do, some I think it's just psychosomatic.
But I've never done a side by side blind taste test...nor bought store eggs in 5 years.
Breakfast out....hash browns trump egg taste.

 

[chickens really]

What is it that does that? Do you eat chicken eggs?

Yes I do. I don't like the consistency of Duck eggs. I can't really explain it but I won't eat them.