Taste of organic eggs vs normal

[fivebigreds]

Flatly put, I haven't detected a drastic difference in taste. I 've tried, even doing side by side comparisons. .

If you don't give your birds access to grass and weeds and bugs then your eggs won't taste any different. dry chicken feed is the same to a big producer as us.​

 

[Featherland]

Awhile ago we were running short on eggs. My husband and kids all love eggs so I bought a carton from the grocery store. We still had a few "home laid eggs" so I cooked (fried) everyone a store bought and a home laid one. I didn't say anything to my family. They could all tell immediately by the taste. I tried the side by side taste test myself and what a difference! I didn't realize there could be such a big difference. I still remember how much the kids complained. Now we only eat "home laid eggs" except for hard boiled for egg salad.

 

[chickeepoo]

My kids know the difference in color and taste between the eggs we've been getting from our friend and store-bought eggs; I can crack a couple from each group and they play "name that yolk"! The orange, firm yolks from the "natural" free-range birds taste better and do cook up better (I think Rufus said it) than the way the pale-yolked store eggs cook. Besides better taste, does anyone know if we're getting more protein from the free-range ones?

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

There is a difference between Certified Organic and the free range/backyard eggs many of you are referencing in your responses. I would be surprised if there was a taste difference in STORE BOUGHT CERTIFIED ORGANIC eggs and conventional eggs since the diets fed to these birds are very similar.

I would definitely expect a difference in taste between a conventional egg and the eggs from free range hens allowed to eat greens.

Jim

 

[Bubs]

Before we "grew" our own eggs, my three year old would not eat hardboiled eggs for anything. Once our chickens started laying, I boiled a store bought and a "home grown", the first day I gave her the "home grown" egg, she scarfed it down. The next day I gave her the store bought one, she took one bite, said yuck, and down the disposal it went. That was enough for me.