Questions about duck eggs

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.

Thanks for the advice! I honestly never thought of using a dry paper towel to take the poo off!! If they’re poopy I just wash them and put them in the fridge. We use a lot of eggs but occasionally we go through a spell where we don’t use eggs and the fridge carton will get full and I’ll keep unwashed eggs on the counter. My aunt has chickens so I’m aware of the protective layer. I try not to wash the ones on the counter but I never really figured out how to get poo off of them without rinsing them! So thank you!
 
3. Washing them keeps them fresh shorter. You are also washing the protective layer on it away making it more porous. Washed eggs needs to be in the fridge due to this reason.

Non-washed can last longer and can be stored outside of the fridge. You can also put them in the fridge anyway to éven last longer (I think mine last 3 months with this method).

I let it depend on the egg; laid in mud or poo; washed and in fridge.
Clean dry eggs outside the fridge.

In moments like now where they lay less eggs; none get washed or in the fridge because they will be eaten in max 2 days. So it also depends on the amount of eggs and how much and fast you eat them :)

Both I wash again right before use. To clean them for extra safety; but also to see how fresh they are. When the lie on the botton of a pan filled with water; they are fresh, hard to peel, and excellent for fried eggs or using in baking stuff or meatballs.
When they stand up but still touch the botton of the pan; they are a bit older, still edible, more easy to peel for cooked egges :)
Not touching the bottom of the pan at all (floating); not edible.

Great tips!! Thanks!! I didn’t know about the freshness test!! Definitely good to know!!
 
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.:drool


I’ll have to look that up on amazon!!
 
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




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

Ah, hence the popularity of farmer's markets?

I hope to visit the U.S.A. some day. It's fascinating how something seemingly simple as food-stores can be so different around the world :) How it all evolved different.

Some apple-breeds put wax on their apples here too, to make them look more delicious. But it is not really working, not getting on. Everyone remembers the apples from grandma's apple-tree still. And they didn't shine. So we want non-shining apples out of habit. A good apple-pie just needs those red-yellow small, non-perfect, non-shiny apples.
But pre-cut and washed vegetables is gaining more popularity over here too, and more people not knowing where food comes from, so maybe the next generation will like those shiny waxed apples ;)
 
Ah, hence the popularity of farmer's markets?

I hope to visit the U.S.A. some day. It's fascinating how something seemingly simple as food-stores can be so different around the world :) How it all evolved different.

Some apple-breeds put wax on their apples here too, to make them look more delicious. But it is not really working, not getting on. Everyone remembers the apples from grandma's apple-tree still. And they didn't shine. So we want non-shining apples out of habit. A good apple-pie just needs those red-yellow small, non-perfect, non-shiny apples.
But pre-cut and washed vegetables is gaining more popularity over here too, and more people not knowing where food comes from, so maybe the next generation will like those shiny waxed apples ;)

Yes! The farmers markets here are very popular, Except the closer to the city they are the more branded, fake, and over priced they are!


Those pre packages vegitables are actualy not a bad deal here. Here you buy vegitables by weight, so your paying for the parts you dont use (Like carrot tops) and the vegitables

where the packaged stuff your only paying for the parts you eat. Certain times its a good deal



My grandmother maked apples out of ugly apples and it was the best haha
 
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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.

Lol I understand where you are coming from! I’m new to duck eggs, I was just seeing if it was normal or something I was doing wrong. I used to get my eggs from my aunt (she has chickens). So switching from chicken to duck eggs has been quite the experience ☺️. I have not bought from a store in a very long time. Most people in my area buy from local farmers or have their own production of eggs. I’m surrounded by farms and countryside. You see A LOT of people selling chicken eggs. Seeing brightly white eggs in stores seems so foreign now. And they are bright, very bright white lol. It is crazy. My ducks lay white eggs and it’s not nearly as bright white as store eggs. It’s like they bleach them or something lol.
 
Yes! The farmers markets here are very popular, Except the closer to the city they are the more branded, fake, and over priced they are!


Those pre packages vegitables are actualy not a bad deal here. Here you buy vegitables by weight, so your paying for the parts you dont use (Like carrot tops) and the vegitables

where the packaged stuff your only paying for the parts you eat. Certain times its a good deal



My grandmother maked apples out of ugly apples and it was the best haha

But I need carrot tops! For carrot-top soup! :O (allthough it is flavourfull; not the flava flav carrot top, it's not named after him).
 
we definitly dont use carrot tops in NS haha

We are sooooo moving towards that. I'm a special snowflake on that subject by the way; not a reseprentative of the Dutch community. Friends give me their 'gross' cauli-flower leafs and sterns because the only want the small white rose-parts... and their carrot leafs..and their tomatoes/apples with one rotten spot, or potatoes with some sprouting.. or their jam/beer/coca-cola/canned goods/etc. because the date says 'useable untill 31 march 2019; and it is the 1st op april now!'. Mmkay. I tell them it is still edible.. but they don't trust it and want to throw it out.. well, more free food for me I guess =/ (or the ducks).
 
i always find fresh boiled eggs smell like farts but i never notice the duck eggs worse than chicken eggs

treats are nice and keeps them coming to you and liking you!


If theres a chunk of poop on it i wash that off with wet paper towel, But only wash the area. And i store at room temperature away from direct sunlight. No ones going to be impressed with poopy eggs

My poor understanding is the egg is hatched with delicate layer that keeps the egg protected from oxygen and backteria and washing them takes the layer off.

I date all mine and if iam using 5 today i scrub 5 eggs with wet paper towel and use them the same day
I'm going to add to Jpat's comment. I read recently that you're supposed to use warm water to wash them because cold water somehow makes the poo, dirt or whatever is on them go deeper into the pores of the egg. I can't remember where I read that.
 

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