Related to my previous post on eating pasture-fed chickens, I have also eaten those chicken’s eggs. Wowsers. These eggs are awesome. I mean really, we are all missing out if we don’t have a source.
What does a super fresh, pasture-fed chicken egg look like? For sure, they are different from grocery found eggs. Ever notice, that a hard-boiled grocery egg has a pale yellow color yolk? The eggs that I ate have orange color yolks. The color is orange yellow, very vibrant compared to the pale yellow. The egg shells of pasture-fed are also thicker. Grocery eggs typically have very thin shells.
What the chicken eats will determine the kind of eggs she lays. Better taste and perhaps better nutrients come from diets that that include other things besides corn.
Freshness is also a factor. I have been guilty of eating overdue, old eggs. They don’t seem to go bad, but now I have noticed, that after you hard-boil old eggs, there is a big divot on one of the ends. Really fresh eggs don’t have this air pocket that forms when boiled.
I looked around online, and there is a buoyancy test for the freshness of your eggs. This is the same concept as the air pocket discovery, except the test lets you know before you cook. Basically, if your raw egg sinks to the bottom in a bowl of water, it is fresh (no air pocket has formed in the egg). If the raw egg lies on its side in the water or kind of bobs, the egg is not as fresh. If the egg floats on the surface of the water, then it should be discarded.
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