September 16, 2002
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GRADE A EGGS
Thanks to everyone for your help on the fluffy omelettes! That was incredibly helpful… I’ll let you know tomorrow how it goes.
The next part of my egg-ducation is a three parter:
- What’s the difference between grade A, grade AA, and grade AAA eggs?
- Is there any reason to buy organic eggs besides the moral one?
- Sometimes it seems to me like I am getting a lot of double yolks – is this a sign of impending radiation death? Also, is it my imagination or are organic eggs more likely to be double yolks?
If you’re an eggs-pert, please let me know what you think!
- What’s the difference between grade A, grade AA, and grade AAA eggs?
Comments (17)
I’m no eggs-pert and I may not be eggs-exactly right but:
1. the price
2. you may be missing out on some of the stuff in laying mash, like antibiotics altho’ I don’t know how or if it is actually carried in the eggs, and battery cages are no fun for hens.
3. Double yolks are not unusual, but since the public is squeamish about them double yolk eggs are not usually sold in stores.–Like the brown/white shell they make no difference.
Yes! Yes! I know the answer to number 2! Well, sorta… are they organic eggs from free range chickens? I heard a lady on the radio (Artemis Simopolous, MD) who wrote a book based the diet of the peoples of the Greek Isles, called The Omega Diet. Eggs that come from free range chickens have a balanced amount of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids and eggs that are simply massed produced have a small amount of Omega-6 and a large amount of Omega-3, which is not a good thing. Something is not right there! When you have the proper amount of Omega fatty acids is not only heart smart, but helps diminish depression.
Double yolks are… twins?
So there ya are!
I don’t have any answers for you, but once the cashier at the grocery asked my wife a zillion questions about brown eggs. You’d think a cashier would be over that already. Sheesh.
I learn so much thru Xanga…thanks for posing the questions you always mean to ask someone as you’re standing in the grocery store, but there’s never anyone to ask
I don’t know if it’s my mind playing tricks on me, but I find that organic eggs taste better than the conventional ones. Same thing with organic milk. That’s the primary reason why I buy organic — things just taste fresher, more real if you like. Plus, in my area, buying organic doesn’t cost much more than buying conventional.
Free range eggs are fertile. Don’t try to impregnate them, though. It won’t work.
Duck eggs, BTW, are nice and happy and full of nifty nutrients that chickens apparently don’t put in their eggs. They taste a little gamey, but only a tiny bit. And they’re big.
“impending radiation death”?? “eggs-pert”??
Awww, you crack me up, John
The grades are supposed to be how firm the white is…Grade AAA being the firmest. I wonder how it is they are able to tell when you can’t see through the shell.
My sis had some Rhoad Island Reds that were ‘free range’ chickens. Their eggs were brown and double yolked, regular sized, and when cooked only needed 6 instead of 12 store bought eggs for the same volume of egg….. were really fluffy eggs.
Dude…..be really careful. When I cracked open an egg almost two years ago and it had a double yolk, my wife was pregnant that same week!
And I’m not sure what kind of chickens Maure has, but she can get $5000 per egg for them.
Oh wait…..ooooooh….nevermind.
I just buy those EgglandsBest eggs. Because at my grocery store those tend to get beat up less than the regular eggs. I did read in a few of my cookbooks though that most recipes call for large eggs. So if you used extra large you’d have too much egg in the recipe.
Eggspert….lol
The egg place near here used to separate out the double yolkers and sell them by the flat, if that is what you wanted. They tended to be very large. Can’t help you with the grade thing, an egg is an egg, isn’t it???
I know nothing about the diffrence in eggs. They all seem to taste the same to me. Plus, if company is good, you wont notice slight variation of taste anywho. heh
yolk on my friend
-Laura
I was eggcited to see these questions!
1- Answer to all your Egg-Grade questions here.
2- I think it’s due to hormones and chemicals that are fed to the “normal” chickens.. as compared to the Free Range feeding method that you get your organic eggs from. Martha Stewart, aka Satan, swears organic and FRESH eggs taste better, have larger yolks and are more healthy.
3- Double yolks aren’t that uncommon.. check here.
Wheeeeee… for Copernic!
did u know..if u hold a egg from the top to the bottom with one hand. its impossible to break it. i saw that once in “square one” or lamb chops… one of those pbs show that was on..back in the dayz.
- thesideproject
ok, i don’t know much about eggs, but i can answer thesideproject’s question: it was on the bloodhound gang, which was part of 3-2-1 contact. that show rocked!