Taste Test: eggs from different fowl, participation encouraged

[OF65]

Love turkey, and chicken eggs. I like Khaki kamel duck eggs but not Pekin.

 

[PirateGirl]

Love turkey, and chicken eggs. I like Khaki kamel duck eggs but not Pekin.

So you can tell the difference between two different kinds of ducks' eggs? Interesting.

 

[Kiki]

Sadly, no ... my hunger got the best of me.

Tomorrow!

 

[OF65]

So you can tell the difference between two different kinds of ducks' eggs? Interesting.

I certainly could. The Pekin tasted fishy but they did ok without the taste in pound cakes! 6 was all we used and it fabulous.

 

[PirateGirl]

I certainly could. The Pekin tasted fishy but they did ok without the taste in pound cakes! 6 was all we used and it fabulous.

Did they have access to a pond or water source where they could eat algae and minnows and snails and the like?

 

[OF65]

Yes they had a large spring fed pond. One made a nest in a brush pile and hatched her brood. The other one laid her eggs where ever. I would collect the egg as soon as she laid it very early in the morning. She sometimes laid it in the water at the ponds edge.

 

[happyhens1972]

Despite having kept chickens for years, I don't eat eggs. They make me sick for some reason. I can eat them baked into stuff like cakes, biscuits, pastries etc and I eat mayonnaise by the ton but I can't eat eggs as eggs! My hubby, however, is a keen egg eater and he says that the blue legbar eggs taste richer and somehow sweeter than normal brown eggs. He said quail eggs taste pretty much the same as the brown eggs. He also says our home-grown eggs taste considerably better than any store bought egg, regardless of which of our hens laid it.

 

[PirateGirl]

Blue Swedish duck egg left. Delaware (or SLW, their eggs are really hard to tell apart) egg on the right. I cooked two of each.

The duck eggs in the pan first pic then the chicken eggs In the pan, second pic. The duck eggs had substantially larger yolks, but the color was virtually identical. Not sure if it makes a difference, but the duck eggs may be fertile.

Ok. So my husband and I both ate our first duck eggs side by side with our chicken eggs. I have never had a duck egg in my life. All my chickens and ducks have the same diet, except on occasion the ducks get peas and cheerios. I chose medium chicken eggs, not my largest, not my smallest (no idea if this makes a difference).

Conclusion:

If ducks and chickens have the same diet, their eggs taste virtually identical.

I could actually tell more difference in the white than the yolk flavor, but couldn't pin point it. Honestly if I didn't know that they came from two different kinds of birds, I wouldn't have guessed that. I wouldn't be able to tell, they were so similar. I thought the differences in flavor would be more obvious.

My husband asked me not to tell him which was which so after tasting both he could guess. Well, he guessed wrong. He couldn't really tell the difference either.

So all in all this is probably good for our house because it means anyone will eat any eggs, but a little disappointing.

Who else has tried 2 differed eggs lately? What did you find?

 

[Kiki]

I just got my tester products!!!!

 

[PirateGirl]

I just got my tester products!!!!View attachment 1307870

Oooo quail eggs. So you will compare quail, duck, and chicken then? This should be good. Do people generally eat quail eggs on their own or cook them into something? I don't even know!