What’s the obsession over egg shell color?

[AccidentalFarm]

It's amazing how hard it is to give away.. My fridge gets taken over in spring through summer. Have people who would really appreciate them and always have, but a one hundred mile round trip.. 10 dozen plus at a time.. no more.

Pressure canning was a bit intimidating the first time.. Have since become a nonissue. If you are a bit paranoid type, like myself. Just change out your gauge every season.. keep it out of water when cleaning. That'll do em'. About $15 replacement cost.. A good rubber seal and an unplugged vent is your only concern. maintenance, maintenance, maintenance. Don't be afraid, just do it as with all things in life.

Speaking of jerky.. Just cleared out the freezer to fridge to process to make room. Found a fair amount of venison.. Today will marinate and oven dry this time, as time is of the essence. As I am busier then a one arm one legged well digger and only half the energy and drive.. Age creeps up on you..

Weston 28-0501-W Steel Alloy 24-Rack Food Dehydrator with Glass Door - 1600W
Large capacity with (24) 21 1/2" x 16" metal drying racks; 56 sq. ft. of drying space..

Cabinet fits approximately 40 lb. raw jerky at one time

160 degrees Fahrenheit max with digital temperature control and automatic shut-off timer. 'Food safety is at 165 degrees'

Got it from WebstaurantStore: You can buy from there too..

Have a pizza shop.. Just shy of an industrial model and a 10K purchase price. Cost about $450.. About the size of a apartment fridge counter top high. There is a half size exactly the same.. which is a better choice.

As I am an avid gardener.. I thought I need the space! I bit off more then I can chew.. but have learned to successfully fill it now.

Just as a heads up.. You can dehydrate cooked eggs such as scrambled.. but only 'freeze dry' raw egg.

Sounds like a heck of a dehydrator!
I've never dehydrated eggs at all. I freeze dry them raw, sometimes I separate the whites and yolks, most times I don't. I have loads of powdered eggs put away.

 

[Karalyn]

White eggs are easier to candle and remove ones with meat spots or internal defects. It is likely why the grocery stores have mainly white eggs.

As to store eggs all tasting like store eggs, I do not find that to be true.

We eat with our eyes first.
The super cheap eggs are pale and watery. That is unappealing to those who have farm fresh eggs.
I personally have difficulties eating them. Not from the looks but from a physical reaction. I get intense abdominal pain from most store eggs.
I went a decade after moving back into town not eating a single egg. As soon as chickens were made legal here I was on it!
This year my hens are taking a full break. I had to buy eggs. The only ones in the stores here before Thanksgiving were the cheaper eggs. I bought them, made deviled eggs, ate ONE and spent 4 days in pain.
There definitely are differences between eggs of different brands, "free range" vs cage kept.

Going forward I will make certain I have a couple young birds going into every winter.

As to color preferences many people just like all the variety of colors readily available now.

Edited to add: I DID find one brand of store egg I can eat without a reaction. Not cheap at all but certainly superior to other in store eggs.

I have a co-worker who buys eggs from me, because he can’t eat store bought eggs. It causes his eczema to flair up for some reason. He can only eat free range eggs.

 

[writerskramp]

Sounds like a heck of a dehydrator!
I've never dehydrated eggs at all. I freeze dry them raw, sometimes I separate the whites and yolks, most times I don't. I have loads of powdered eggs put away.

Me too.. but you can dehydrate most anything, which is a plus. As that freeze dryer goes on for days not hours.. Though recently did some shredded cheddar.. Only 22 hours.. I was impressed. Old Boy Scout Motto: Prepare for the worst and hope for the best, but that was long ago.

 

[writerskramp]

I have a co-worker who buys eggs from me, because he can’t eat store bought eggs. It causes his eczema to flair up for some reason. He can only eat free range eggs.

Interesting..

 

[SPedigrees]

Here in New England, supermarket eggs as well as farm eggs always were brown because of the predominance of Rhode Island and NH reds and barred (Plymouth) rock chickens here in the former British colonies. It has only been in recent years that some white eggs have hit the shelves here.

 

[writerskramp]

Here in New England, supermarket eggs as well as farm eggs always were brown because of the predominance of Rhode Island and NH reds and barred (Plymouth) rock chickens here in the former British colonies. It has only been in recent years that some white eggs have hit the shelves here.

Consider yourself lucky..

 

[silkielover64]

...don’t they all taste the same?

growing up...i am 41...we always had brown eggs and that was “weird” to my friends. they would question eating an egg that had a brown shell...now it’s common place in the grocery store as if it’s better than a white egg.

What’s the obsession over egg shell color?

I have 2 easter eggers. They lay green eggs. The yellow yolk is very rich tasting. Also my other hens lay brown eggs. You cannot buy the same brown eggs in the store. Mine taste way better. It's how you feed and take care of your birds

 

[silkielover64]

...don’t they all taste the same?

growing up...i am 41...we always had brown eggs and that was “weird” to my friends. they would question eating an egg that had a brown shell...now it’s common place in the grocery store as if it’s better than a white egg.

What’s the obsession over egg shell color?

Also my silkie eggs may be small but yes taste wonderful.

 

[sailrnest]

It may be incorrect now, but it wasn’t when I was a kid. Stores carried exclusively white eggs. And it was a status symbol in elementary school: if you could go to the store and spend money on white eggs, you must be “rich” or “upper class”. The rest of us just had those icky brown ones from our home chickens, so we were “poor” and “low class”. I remember begging to buy white eggs just once so a friend coming over would think we were posh. Yep I was that ridiculous.

Now brown eggs are in every store — and more expensive than white. And “cage free” hikes the price up even more (pretty much everybirdy was cage free on home farms). Funny how it’s all reversed now.

I think that is funny, we were the opposite. We had store bought white eggs and the brown ones were more expensive. I remember asking my mom if we could buy the pretty brown ones and was told no they are almost a dollar more! That was back when the household budget was counted to the penny.

 

[sailrnest]

I have been getting 10-12 eggs per day from my girls since Nov, Dec from 16 girls. I was getting 14-15 Sept and Oct. These are 2 days plus the 4 in the crate are from this morning when I went to feed them. I will collect the rest when I turn them out to free range about noon. I rotated the egg spiral so you can see the colors.