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Posted on 05/04/2008 5:27:46 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
Can't remember if an egg is fresh or hard boiled? Just spin the egg. If it wobbles, it's raw. If it spins easily, it's hard boiled.
A fresh egg will sink in water, a stale one will float.
Eggs contain all the essential protein, minerals and vitamins, except Vitamin C. But egg yolks are one of few foods that naturally contain Vitamin D.
The colour of the egg shell is not related to quality, nutrients, flavour or cooking characteristics. White-shelled eggs are produced by hens with white feathers and white ear lobes.
Brown-shelled eggs are produced by hens with red feathers and red ear lobes. Brown egg layers usually are slightly larger and require more food, thus brown eggs usually cost more than white eggs.
China produces the most eggs, at about 160 billion per year. In the US, about 260 million hens produce more than 65 billion eggs per year. A hen can lay about 250 eggs per year.
An egg shell has as many as 17,000 pores over its surface.
There are 150 species of chicken. Chicken are descendants of the red jungle fowl (gallus gallus spadiceus) that lives in Asia.
The chicken is one of the first domestic animals, appearing in China around 1400 BC.
But still unanswered: What came first?
In just a year they've increased in price by an average of $1.25/ dozen.
Here is one I bet you don’t know. You know you have enough salt in your brine water for curing hams when an egg will float in it.
A little Sunday morning trivia......
Trivia is eggsactly right.
We eat brown eggs but I know the color of the egg is just a shell game. Doesn’t really matter.
The signals given off by dietitians regarding the nutritional benefits of eggs are a little scrambled these days. Good or bad?
If you don’t spin test your eggs before you buy them you might get a raw deal. Buyer beware.
Well, that’s it for me. Criticize me if you will for being punny but I’m a pretty hard boiled type.
The Bactrian Camel was domesticated in SW Asia around 7500 BC - even before the horse.
Learned that one the hard way while making Easter eggs.
You know you have enough salt in your brine water for curing hams when an egg will float in it.
Using what? A boiled, raw, or stale egg as an indicator.
So are the grain fed, cage free, omega 3-filled, brown eggs a come-on?
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Love the trivia, thanks JACK, will check eggs before breakfast.
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A fresh raw egg. Grandma would have a big wooden barrell filled with water and would add salt untill an egg would float. Then they would put in the fresh hams after butchering and let them soak up the brine water before hanging them in the smoke house.
same for white cows/ white milk, brown cows/chocolate milk?
The color of shell is a factor of diet. You can change the color by changing the diet.
Can someone please post a picture of a chicken. I want to see what a chicken’s ear looks like.
I've never tried in a crockpot, but it should work if you can get water to boil.
I have chickens more or less for fun. I have about 10 different breeds. The French Favorelles and the sweetest innately tame little twits I have. They are six toed, smallish and very pretty. I get about 15-20 eggs a day and give them away to neighbors and friends.
I have an Andalusian Rooster who is constantly on the attack. He has punched a few holes in my leg. To discourage sneak attacks,I have to beat him every morning as it is the only way I can safely feed the horses.
I get a kick out of my chickens! and eggs too!
...and the reason the chicken crossed the road was to prove to the squirrel that it could be done.
the reason the chicken crossed the road was that he was a typical white person
When our kids were younger we let them raise some "fancy" chickens for 4-H (we mainly had black australorps). We had one little bantam rooster (can't remember what variety) that tried to terrorize everyone. It took several times of me kicking him through the goal posts before he backed off and gave us some space. Don't know if he got wise (doubt it), or I just rang his bell hard enough that he lost interest.
An easy way to peel hard boiled eggs is to put the pan with the eggs in it into the sink, tip the hot water out, pour in water as cold as you can, wait a couple of minutes (or three), and the shell comes off in large pieces. The cold water breaks the membrane between the egg and the shell.
“The color of shell is a factor of diet. You can change the color by changing the diet.”
The color of chicken eggs is genetically determined. You may get slight changes by changing the diet. A white egg may be off-white but will never be brown; and brown, blue and green eggs will always be shades of those colors.
Try using a coffee maker instead. Results are eggcellent! There's no discoloration to the yolks caused by boiling and the whites are more delicate and gourmet. You can cook up to 12 eggs at a time in a 12 cup coffee maker. Target sells a cheap 12 cup-er for $9.50.
Start with eggs warmed in running hot tap water for 5 minutes. Pour half the water out then let the coffee maker refill it. This steps the heat up gradually preventing thermal shock which will crack the eggs. As the eggs absorb heat from the hot water the water will lose temperature. The hot plate is not powerful enough to increase the temperature so periodically pour half the water out and let the coffee maker refill with fresh hot water. Try to fill the reservoir with a measured amount to prevent overflows. The time from hot tap water to ready to eat is 35 minutes.
I'm searching for a way to make the eggs easy to peel. Egg shells seem too thin these days. Re-heating a cold egg in hot tap water sometimes helps but not always.
I swear FR is the most educational site on the net.
I honestly didn’t know that chickens had ear lobes.
“I have an Andalusian Rooster who is constantly on the attack”
I had a Golden Polish rooster like that...hadda carry a bamboo cane to go in to feed and, even then, he was the master of sneak attacks. I was kinda glad when the bobcats had him for dinner.
Thanks! Learned something new today.
Why a crock pot? Put eggs in pot of cold water (to cover), bring to boil, turn off heat, set timer for 12 minutes. Oh, I didn’t know chickens had earlobes, did you?
Also interesting, I use a potato.
See #26 on how to peel hard boiled eggs quickly and easily.
I’ll add what I forgot before, and that’s to peel the eggs immediately after doing what I said in #26.
I remember back in the 40’s we used to preserve eggs in a slimy solution of water glass (sodium silicate) in a crock in a cool cellar. I hated to stick my young arm in that thing to fetch a few eggs. That was in the days of food rationing. Anyone remember the stamp books and the little tokens needed to buy meat, etc?
When staying in a hotel there’s usually no stove but sometimes a microwave or coffee maker. Hard cooked eggs are a great way to avoid a high-carb diet when traveling. The coffee maker method works best but a microwave can be used to heat water for a similar indirect process. Just don’t put uncracked eggs into a microwave to boil directly as they explode.
There may be several ways but this one is sure-fire.
Place eggs in a pan and cover with one inch of water.
Put a lid on the pan and put the pan on a stove element or burner. (I like to allow the water to come to near room temperature before heating)
Bring to a rapid boil.(I like to do this slowly)
Remove from the heat.
Leave alone and covered for 12 min (10-15).
Immediately run cold water over the eggs for several minutes to stop the cooking.
Dry and refrigerate the eggs.
About two months ago, the eggs I normally purchase had a price spike up to $2.34 per dozen (Jumbo size). Yesterday, these same size eggs were $1.64 a dozen. I asked the grocer why the spike in price but he could not say. I surmised it might be due to the gasoline price increase, but with gasoline even higher now what could account for the drop in the price of eggs?
Thank you very much for this. I'll try it.
I very rarely buy a single-purpose gadget, but I use this puppy nearly everyday:
Hasn’t exploded an egg yet, and made in the US to boot! I know eggs are easy to cook on the stove, but this requires no watching to make perfect hard-boiled eggs- a necessary requirement with toddlers in the house.
Eggs drop in price in the Spring. More light triggers the laying function in chickens.
Where do you live? I pay $1.98 for jumbos in SW WI. The price has remained steady for at least a year.
That rooster is the only chicken we let ‘free range’ during the day. We pen him at night along with 5 guineas. We had about 20 free range roosters and this guy is the only survivor. We had 15 guineas...only 5 left. These 6 have survived for about a year and a half, free ranging.
I kind of enjoy the challenge from this guy each feeding. I like it that he has survived. Though I expect one day he will evaporate.
We have coyotes, foxes, owls and hawks. There is a big puma/cat that ranges in about every 90 days. I have seen his huge foot prints. My neighbor has eyeballed him/her.
After living my adult life in the big city, all of this has been fascinating and a real pleasure to encounter each day. Keeps me busy for sure!
Fresh eggs are a bear to peel no matter what you do. You’re better off eating them sunny-side-up. With older eggs, the inner membrane shrinks away from the shell slightly making them much easier to peel.
Does it have anything to do with the color of their teeth?
I have two of those gadgets. They work great! Bought the first one for 4 bucks and the second one for $1. I saw them in Wal-Mart last week for six or seven bucks.
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