Questions about duck eggs

[Magnolia Ducks]

Even fresh eggs can be easy to peel if you use an egg punch before you boil. I bought a $15 egg cooker on Amazon and I use it all the time. If you boil eggs often it's well worth it. punch each egg, fill the measuring cup with water to desired doneness and push the button. When the buzzer goes off peel and enjoy.

 

[Loopeend]

Just to give you a range of choices, unless extremely dirty, I wipe any crud off with a dry paper towel and place in the fridge. I wash before cracking if needed. They keep a very long time if you leave the bloom on. I learned this before my ducks when I lived in the UK. I was curious as to why eggs in the supermarket there were just on the shelf and not refrigerated. In the US eggs are washed before going to market, hence you find them cold. So if you wash first, in the fridge they go. Unwashed can be cold or countertop to your preference.

Ha. I never understood why our fridges came with an egg-tray? Eggs aren't supposed to be in the fridge? =/ But later on (age 26) I learned our fridges are U.S. made The eggs here in stores are not washed, not in the refrigerator/freezer, and you can find some feathers and poo on them. I sometimes wonder if this 'washing eggs' is actually for more 'safety and hygene' or just a marketing trick so eggs last shorter and people thus need to buy more often Kaching! Or is it truely just to present perfect clean eggs and people won't buy 'dirty' eggs? I prefer the EU I think. The amount of silly questions I get about eggs I get...often sounds that people don't even know where eggs come from =/ A feather/some poo on it might work as an reminder

 

[Loopeend]

Even fresh eggs can be easy to peel if you use an egg punch before you boil. I bought a $15 egg cooker on Amazon and I use it all the time. If you boil eggs often it's well worth it. punch each egg, fill the measuring cup with water to desired doneness and push the button. When the buzzer goes off peel and enjoy.

I had to look up what that was, never heard of it.
It sounds usefull!
At this moment we have too many eggs often; so we allways have old enough eggs for easy-peeling. But I think I will put this on my 'santa-list' for the times we have less Thanks!

 

[Jpat]

The norm here is everything needs to be imaculate. spotless, Clean, and no mistakes

If someone had a vein in their egg here theyd demand money back and go after the company

Its why every store has hand sanitation stations with alcohal hand cleaners

Even all natural products need to be pasturized (basicaly cooked)

Cheese has to be treated. No such thing as real cheese here

People sue water bottling companies because a bottle had a dead fly in it and it caused them mental trauma.


People are very happy to except lower quality items for items that appear cleaner


No ones going to have an immune system

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I think it is mostly marketing, but there is also salmonella hysteria. People wrongly think shiny clean eggs are less likely to have it, when it's really the other way around. Also, most eggs are mass produced in an automated fashion like a chicken conveyor belt.

 

[Loopeend]

1.
I noticed my free range eggs have a more fart-smell then eggs from the store. The eggs from the store have a light yellow yoke; this is because these chickens have a boring only-grain diët and often lack some nutritiens they need. You could see it a bit as malnurished/non-stop light form of anemia.
I can imagine, the more nutritiens the more the smell. If you would only live on water and cucumbers you probably will smell less too; because everything you secrete is just watered down and has not much in it.
I'm not sure if this makes sence with my non-English mother-tongue. :')

But I wouldn't worry about the fart-smell. Rotten is a whole different kind of smell.

 

[Jpat]

Rotten is a whole different kind of smell.

Thats why i crack into a bowl instead of directly into what iam cooking! You KNOW when its rotten!

Lucifer couldnt make something as bad as rotten egg

 

[Loopeend]

The norm here is everything needs to be imaculate. spotless, Clean, and no mistakes

If someone had a vein in their egg here theyd demand money back and go after the company

Its why every store has hand sanitation stations with alcohal hand cleaners

Even all natural products need to be pasturized (basicaly cooked)

Cheese has to be treated. No such thing as real cheese here

People sue water bottling companies because a bottle had a dead fly in it and it caused them mental trauma.


People are very happy to except lower quality items for items that appear cleaner


No ones going to have an immune system

Oh wow, thanks for the interesting information. I didn't know it was thát bad. Are there even fresh vegetables for sale? I mean.. I have to think about every leak here in store that just hás dirt between the leaves because you can't wash it out without ripping the whole thing apart =/

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

The norm here is everything needs to be imaculate. spotless, Clean, and no mistakes

If someone had a vein in their egg here theyd demand money back and go after the company

Its why every store has hand sanitation stations with alcohal hand cleaners

Even all natural products need to be pasturized (basicaly cooked)

Cheese has to be treated. No such thing as real cheese here

People sue water bottling companies because a bottle had a dead fly in it and it caused them mental trauma.


People are very happy to except lower quality items for items that appear cleaner


No ones going to have an immune system

The cheese, did you HAVE to mention the cheese? so disappointing to return to the wax blocks that resemble cheese.

 

[Jpat]

Oh wow, thanks for the interesting information. I didn't know it was thát bad. Are there even fresh vegetables for sale? I mean.. I have to think about every leak here in store that just hás dirt between the leaves because you can't wash it out without ripping the whole thing apart =/

So vegitables are different

If they are local to NS they dont need to be washed, you get lettuce with dirt on it and roots and stuff. But no bugs because of pesticides (very legal here)


But vegitables from outside canada are ruled by Border Customs and they are pasturized, cleaned, and sealed with a food grade wax.

Its cleaned because of the possibility of introducing invasive species

The wax is intended to be eaten, its their so the fruit looks fresher

The cheese, did you HAVE to mention the cheese? so disappointing to return to the wax blocks that resemble cheese.

Ive had homemade cheese from special little hobby farms and its amazing compared to plastic blocks!