Tasting expert Jack Bishop shares tips for buying eggs and answers our most commonly asked egg questions.
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It looks like all eggs are good. ….The diff is not much. …Someone said eggs r good for Diabetes. ..I hope so
Orange yolk is healthier than yellow yolk.👍
Free chicken raise in warehouses die after 3-5 minutes in direct sunlight so the free range label means nothing.
I buy pasture raised, free roaming eggs – they taste so much better!!
You missed unwashed Farm Fresh un-refrigerated Eggs in the US. Please tell us about them as well.
I buy these unwashed Fresh eggs directly from the local farm whenever I make Poached Eggs fro Eggs Benedict.
I save ALL of you videos! Everything I’ve tried has been delicious! I’m looking forward to trying that holiday ready Chuck Roast! That was so interesting!
thank you so much for the info
WOW that smile. Thanks I knew all of this but one point. That egg carton can say what ever it wants inspections a few if any at times, and 99% of time a date is set before an inspection. In the end profit and greed rule. This time around they price gauged all of us. God will judge them.
Didn't explain sizes, or what the codes "6" "12" "18" etc. mean.
What about pasture raised?
Is grading of eggs mandatory?
The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) grading service is voluntary; egg packers pay for it. The USDA grade shield at carton means eggs were graded for quality and checked for weight (size) under supervision of trained USDA grader. USDA monitors compliance, quality standards, grades, and weights. State agencies monitor egg packers compliance for egg packers who don't use USDA grading service. Cartons will bear a term such as Grade A on cartons without the USDA shield. There are three consumer grades for eggs: United States Grade AA, A and B. Grade is determined by interior quality of egg appearance and condition of egg shell. Eggs of any quality grade may differ in weight (size).
better question is where can I buy eggs?
This was useful. Thank you.
You can also do a "float test", and throw-out any eggs that rise to the surface in a glass of water.
What a joke. He quickly and without proper explanation makes free range, cage free, and organic sound like decent options. If you look closely you can see the puppet hand in action. All of those options are really misleading and absolutely factory farmed/tortured. “Everything you wanted to know” what a joke. He never tells you the best options and sells you on the worst (besides the completely lowest grade no one should buy)
I knew I could trust my gut on how long eggs are edible. The egg conspiracy is real.
The one you buy these days is the ones that are there if any.
Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh.
Get white eggs because they have less impact on climate change because they cost the chicken less feed to make.
Organic farms are not allowed to give their animals antibiotics. I once asked a large scale farmer in my home state his opinions about organic. He said that he would rather humanely help his animals when needed rather than let them suffer just to maintain the USDA organic certification. IMO pasture raised eggs, from responsible owners, are far superior to large scale commercial eggs in both taste, and texture.
So no groth hormons is used, no antibiotices were used, the chicks were fed natural food (worms,insect and grass etc). YOU HAVE ALOT TO LEARN AMERICA
Thank you. Valuable information
I tried two dozen brown eggs and half of them had brown or reddish flakes adjacent to the yolk. I suspect that brown shells interfere with the candling process or maybe foraging in the yards cause more inclusions in the eggs.
The cheapest.
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I can barely get a week out of a dozen eggs. I hard boil 6 for snacking. I kind of got hooked on squirting a little Huy Fong Siracha for every bite. The other six are either over easy soft-boiled or a french omelet if I am in an adventurous mood. That's a tough one, but like all things the more you do the better you get. Nothing like two soft-boiled eggs some siracha and a nice toasted English muffin to start the day with. Of course a couple of slices of bacon and maybe a light serving of home fries.
I used to raise chickens. I don’t miss washing the (bleep) off of them.
You say ALL eggs in the supermarket are Grade A. Costco's eggs are GRADE AA. Is there a difference?
GOOD JOB
LOL I got a great deal on eggs this week it only cost me $4 for a dozen.
Has anyone had luck finding pasteurized eggs in the shell for home use?
On fast attack submarines we didn’t have the space to refrigerate our eggs. We would secure cases of them and throughout the sub and they would last about 4 weeks un-refrigerated until they started to go bad. Then we would switch to powered eggs.
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Sorry, but I can't agree….some egg producers, use fish meal to feed their chickens, it's cheap, hence this is how they sell cheap. You can taste the fish meal in the eggs, just like anything else, otherwise we wouldn't have grass fed, silage fed, corn fed and so on. There is a difference. If you fed them a lot of garlic you would also taste it in the eggs.