Do Eggs From Happy Chickens Taste Better?
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Date: 2019-08-15
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Abraham Wilberforce
My parents have a dozend chickens at home living on around 200 square meters, they have a 3 by 3 meter old shed as shelter, aswell as a rooster (who only serves to make the henns happy, they do nit bread them. You may say he is the hennhouse gioggolo)The chickens are mostly fed by food scraps, hay from the garden and wheat. My family has fed thousands of them to hundreds of guests (which is a more scientif studie than two people and two eggs)and the conclusion was the Homegrown eggs taste better. I smoke cigarettes, so I probably do not have an extremely sharp taste, jet I can always tell the homegrown eggs from the cheap veriaty. Although our eggs may taste better than the university eggs due to the extreme diverse food pallet. I do not give a lot about animal welfare, I butchered some of the older henns for chicken soup, several times, so belive me I am not biased towards the chicken.
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My parents have a dozend chickens at home living on around 200 square meters, they have a 3 by 3 meter old shed as shelter, aswell as a rooster (who only serves to make the henns happy, they do nit bread them. You may say he is the hennhouse gioggolo)The chickens are mostly fed by food scraps, hay from the garden and wheat. My family has fed thousands of them to hundreds of guests (which is a more scientif studie than two people and two eggs)and the conclusion was the Homegrown eggs taste better. I smoke cigarettes, so I probably do not have an extremely sharp taste, jet I can always tell the homegrown eggs from the cheap veriaty. Although our eggs may taste better than the university eggs due to the extreme diverse food pallet. I do not give a lot about animal welfare, I butchered some of the older henns for chicken soup, several times, so belive me I am not biased towards the chicken.
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Mormodes
I mostly agree, but I will say that (for me at leat) the objective reality is important, if only for the simple fact that misinformation can be used to manipulate people. Overall I wouldn't buy local eggs based on taste, percieved or not, but because I could build a relationship with the farmers and know how the chickens themselves are raised. I think more people need to understand the truth about where their food comes from. We go to the store and get our food often without thinking at all about how it got to this specific location. The animal had to be killed, dressed, transported - likely at a massive scale. It's not a peachy reality, but definitely doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to be as humane as we reasonably can be until we grow to vegetarianism or synthetic meats.
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I mostly agree, but I will say that (for me at leat) the objective reality is important, if only for the simple fact that misinformation can be used to manipulate people. Overall I wouldn't buy local eggs based on taste, percieved or not, but because I could build a relationship with the farmers and know how the chickens themselves are raised. I think more people need to understand the truth about where their food comes from. We go to the store and get our food often without thinking at all about how it got to this specific location. The animal had to be killed, dressed, transported - likely at a massive scale. It's not a peachy reality, but definitely doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to be as humane as we reasonably can be until we grow to vegetarianism or synthetic meats.
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Northz
This is a dumb concept, people just wants to delude themselves into validating the importance of good welfare as it would offset the cruel reality of a farm. Alas the only thing that could affect taste would be the diet of the livestock, the emotional aspect is a non consequence. That's not to say I condone unnecessary suffering; it's impossible to ignore the emotional aspect of farming even if logic debates higher farming efficiency would lower food prices and by extension, lower starvation. Yes that's right, a comment that isn't a meme for once.
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This is a dumb concept, people just wants to delude themselves into validating the importance of good welfare as it would offset the cruel reality of a farm. Alas the only thing that could affect taste would be the diet of the livestock, the emotional aspect is a non consequence. That's not to say I condone unnecessary suffering; it's impossible to ignore the emotional aspect of farming even if logic debates higher farming efficiency would lower food prices and by extension, lower starvation. Yes that's right, a comment that isn't a meme for once.
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funkydiscoduck
for anyone reading, this is important and i didnt know it. if you want to get eggs that are actually raised humanely, you need to get PASTURE RAISED EGGS. not cage free. there is a difference. cage free chickens are still kept in large rooms with nearly no space to walk around. they are better than cages, but still these chickens are raised in a horrible environment and never see the outdoors. pasture raised chickens have space to roam and are indeed very happy chickens. thats what you need to look for on the box.
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for anyone reading, this is important and i didnt know it. if you want to get eggs that are actually raised humanely, you need to get PASTURE RAISED EGGS. not cage free. there is a difference. cage free chickens are still kept in large rooms with nearly no space to walk around. they are better than cages, but still these chickens are raised in a horrible environment and never see the outdoors. pasture raised chickens have space to roam and are indeed very happy chickens. thats what you need to look for on the box.
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X
I'm fine with barn raised chickens that have plenty of room to move around (basically, enough room so you could comfortable walk through the barn) I wont buy caged because thats wrong, and free ranged are too expensivebut I did watch a video where people blind tasted free range and caged eggs, and they all agreed the free ranged tasted better, granted the free range also looked better, so their decision might've been biased (blind taste test as in, not knowing which is which, not literally blindfolded)
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I'm fine with barn raised chickens that have plenty of room to move around (basically, enough room so you could comfortable walk through the barn) I wont buy caged because thats wrong, and free ranged are too expensivebut I did watch a video where people blind tasted free range and caged eggs, and they all agreed the free ranged tasted better, granted the free range also looked better, so their decision might've been biased (blind taste test as in, not knowing which is which, not literally blindfolded)
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Marcin Kowalonek
Actually, I would have to disagree. I get fresh farm eggs from my mother's in law colegue, but when I run out - I get some off the shelf. Sometimes I tend to mix them up in the fridge; I don't know which ones I make my scrabled eggs with. I immediately find out when I taste them - the fresh ones don't really require salt to taste great. It also may be the fact that store bought eggs are quite lousy where I live.
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Actually, I would have to disagree. I get fresh farm eggs from my mother's in law colegue, but when I run out - I get some off the shelf. Sometimes I tend to mix them up in the fridge; I don't know which ones I make my scrabled eggs with. I immediately find out when I taste them - the fresh ones don't really require salt to taste great. It also may be the fact that store bought eggs are quite lousy where I live.
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Bronze the Sling
Great point. Best meal I ever had was a mushroom pizza with a glass of red wine under an arbour with my grandparents while listening to Dean Martin sing romantically. Is Italian pizza objectively the best? Duh. But I've had other great Italian pizza since, and it never came close. There are so many more things influencing how good food tastes besides its flavour. Atmosphere is definitely one of them.
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Great point. Best meal I ever had was a mushroom pizza with a glass of red wine under an arbour with my grandparents while listening to Dean Martin sing romantically. Is Italian pizza objectively the best? Duh. But I've had other great Italian pizza since, and it never came close. There are so many more things influencing how good food tastes besides its flavour. Atmosphere is definitely one of them.
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wassollderscheiss33
I totally sign up to your values. Buuut. what I learned from this video is that I can have conventional eggs and enjoy them as if they were eggs from handfed happy chickens jumping around in the (domesticated) wild eating delicious bug. BTW: Here in germany we have four categories of eggs (Bio, free range, cage free and caged) with an optional male chickens not killed and beaks not cut.
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I totally sign up to your values. Buuut. what I learned from this video is that I can have conventional eggs and enjoy them as if they were eggs from handfed happy chickens jumping around in the (domesticated) wild eating delicious bug. BTW: Here in germany we have four categories of eggs (Bio, free range, cage free and caged) with an optional male chickens not killed and beaks not cut.
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Wayne Hong
This is a really important idea. As cooks we are story tellers, sometimes the power of a good story is more important for your diner than the objective truth of what is on their plates. Did your mother really make that blueberry pie filled with her love or are you just tasting 3 sticks of butter and a super flaky pie crust. Does it matter which it is if you enjoy it?
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This is a really important idea. As cooks we are story tellers, sometimes the power of a good story is more important for your diner than the objective truth of what is on their plates. Did your mother really make that blueberry pie filled with her love or are you just tasting 3 sticks of butter and a super flaky pie crust. Does it matter which it is if you enjoy it?
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Saosaq Ii
The answer: The free range egg are more nutritious but the taste is similar to caged chicken egg. The color of yolk is more orange than an yellow cage chicken egg (more orange the better because more nutrients) There might be actually more flavor to an free range chicken egg but it can be entirely placebo cause of their more expensive pricing and status as better
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The answer: The free range egg are more nutritious but the taste is similar to caged chicken egg. The color of yolk is more orange than an yellow cage chicken egg (more orange the better because more nutrients) There might be actually more flavor to an free range chicken egg but it can be entirely placebo cause of their more expensive pricing and status as better
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