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[Daphne]

I had a nice eggy experience yesterday - another neighbour to whom I give eggs made her husband reverse up the hill as they had just shot past me just so she could say thank you for the last delivery I left on her doorstep! She's made her way to No1 in my list of eggees (I've just made that word up - it people to whom you give eggs)

 

However, as I am also drowning in eggs I will shortly be forced to make Claret's chocolate cake which involves 6 of them. When I asked OH yesterday if he liked the sound of it, he made us go into a supermarket just to buy the ingredients, so no excuses!

[ValerieR]

Eggees!

Love it.

I will start using that word too!

[Space Chick]

I have a list of eggees* as long as my arm. In fact even with 15 girls supply can't keep up with demand I even have some people offering to pay an extra 50p a box to guarantee their supply

 

Rach - I agree about staying away and having eggs for breakfast, even in places where I know they are free range they still taste substandard.

 

* ANH can you add to the Omlet English Dictionary

[Cranfield Kate]

on on of the threads on here recently (I think it was "things I have learned since owning chickens") someone made the comment that it's sad to see shelves and shelves of battery eggs in the supermarket: "all that effort totally not appreciated".

 

It makes me sad to think of an egg being thrown away. the poor hen has just passed something three times the size of her head so that we can have a perfect serving of dietary protein, and someone rejects it for being "too eggy", "too yellow", "too blue" or just "icky".

 

sad.

 

I think it's part of the whole trend of distancing ourselves from our food. once people really think about where things come from (egg = chicken's bum), they don't want it because it's not nice and neat and clean.

 

okay rant over.

 

oh, and as for Valerie R's sister avoiding yoghurt, that reminds me of a South African friend of mine who refers to yoghurt as "that gone off milk muck you people eat" ha ha ha!

[rachael_farnsworth]

Sometimes I weep for the state of humanity... box or no box, eggs still come out exactly the same way!

 

Egg whites in particular freeze beautifully and are great for meringues - which keep for ages and are dead useful for emergency Eton Mess - and yolks make lovely lemon curd. I can't wait for my girls to start laying!

[Seagazer]

Sometimes I weep for the state of humanity... box or no box, eggs still come out exactly the same way!

 

Egg whites in particular freeze beautifully and are great for meringues - which keep for ages and are dead useful for emergency Eton Mess - and yolks make lovely lemon curd. I can't wait for my girls to start laying!

 

How long do egg whites freeze for by the way?

[rachael_farnsworth]

I guess the proper answer is "around 6 months" but my speaking-only-for-myself answer is... I've had them kicking around for longer than that before and there wasn't a problem... ooh - there's another use for egg yolks - ice cream.

[txswanie]

Is it just the white that can be frozen? Someone told me today that you could crack the eggs into a tupperware and freeze the whole thing, not sure if I believe that. Will have to do some research. I've have never heard of freezing eggs, it would be very handy if true.

[rachael_farnsworth]

If you want to freeze whole eggs you have to beat them a little (like for an omelette) but other than that, they're fine. I don't know if you can freeze just yolks - I imagine you have to break the membrane first.

[Raina]

We've not had anyone turn down our eggs lol

 

We don't sell our eggs either, we give them away,We did wake up one morning though and got a small letter from the man over the road saying thankyou for the 4 eggs we gave him and he gave us £5 to help with the feed

 

and my nan & Grandad love the eggs, my grandad says he likes to see the dirt on the eggs it means they're fresh

 

We only have 2 hens and am over-run with eggs (we can't eat the eggs we found ourselves forcing the eggs down i can't eat egg at all now but my mum still buy's free-range eggs)

 

I cooked 18 eggs yesterday and fed them to all of the pets...well not the fish and the tortoises

[Chucky Mama]

Is it just the white that can be frozen? Someone told me today that you could crack the eggs into a tupperware and freeze the whole thing, not sure if I believe that. Will have to do some research. I've have never heard of freezing eggs, it would be very handy if true.

 

I often freeze the whites when I need to only use yolks and use them to make meringue when I have enough.

[BocBoc]

Gosh! Aren't people silly. We had the same last year when we took some boiled eggs on a group picnic. One of the chaps took a bite and spat it out shouting "eugh! what have you put in these eggs, they shouldn't be that colour".

 

We only have three girls laying eggs at the moment and I can't keep up with the demand of my co-workers. They all love our free range eggs and I have two regular orders for a box each and lots of other people wanting spares!! Plus there's friends and family to remember....and us!

[Mollie333]

Hi

Thats a bit wierd.. I would rather (by far) eat garden fresh free range eggs than battery ones.

the eggs are much tastier, i would go mad if someone complianed- i give mine away for free, if they dont like 'em, dont ask for them..

Im gobsmacked at how rude people can be now a days.

 

*fox just ran past my window as i was writing this

[Patricia W]

My sister won't eat my original's girls eggs " because she knows them"- but she will eat the eggs from our new ex-bat's because she's never met them!!! I'll have to hide them away when she comes so they never meet!

 

Tricia

[DebC]

I stayed at a b&b last year and the egg that came with breakfast was so pale it made me feel sick and I couldn't touch it

 

 

When we were on holiday I hardly ate any eggs - it felt like I was cheating on my Girls!

[docsquid]

"Ooops, word censored!"ody has turned down eggs from our lovely girls. We have enough with three chickens, all laying, for ourselves, my brother-in-law, mother-in-law and occasional gifts for friends. I also sell a box every now and then to a colleague of DH. I'm sure we could sell eggs regularly if we had more chickens.

 

I've not eaten eggs anywhere else since we got the chickens - ours are more eggy and much more lovely in every way because I know where they came from, and how the chickens are cared for.

[grracee]

I hardly have any eggs to spare off my 5 girls, they are always on demand. At the start I had a few people question the blue eggs but once you explain that they are actually a chicken egg and that no, the egg is not going to be blue inside they really like them as they are unusual! The money I get for my eggs vary from £1 - £2 half a dozen depending on who buys them off me and it all goes into a money box to save up for their food/corn etc.

I can't believe how strange some people are, i'd choose free range eggs anyday!

 

on one of the threads on here recently (I think it was "things I have learned since owning chickens") someone made the comment that it's sad to see shelves and shelves of battery eggs in the supermarket: "all that effort totally not appreciated".

 

It makes me sad to think of an egg being thrown away. the poor hen has just passed something three times the size of her head so that we can have a perfect serving of dietary protein, and someone rejects it for being "too eggy", "too yellow", "too blue" or just "icky".

 

I know what you mean, a couple of times by mistake I have dropped a couple of my girls eggs and I feel terrible Sounds stupid I know but when you keep hens yourself you actually know how much work goes into them laying the eggs etc!

[Tony]

Never had anyone refusing our eggs, not that we ever got that many spare with 9 of us in the house. My allotment manager got so upset that I didn't have enough to spare every week, she divided one of her plots in half and bought half a dozen of her own chooks.