One of these eggs come up from my free - ranging , glitch - eating , fair weather - do it Easter Egger chicken . Another egg came from organic , vegetarian - fed , batting cage - free chickens ( or so the carton said ) . And the last egg is standard - issue Grade AA betray under the supermarket ’s private recording label .
Can you guess which is which ?
The answer : The green eggs on the left is farmlette - fresh and laid just a hebdomad ago . Its egg yolk is pear-shaped , high and firm with a productive , viscous quality and a deep orange hue . The egg white is prissy and thick . Even the shell is perceptibly different — denser , harder to crack , and when it did break , it break aside flawlessly without the edges shattering into little pieces .
The blank egg in the eye is your run - of - the - mill commercial-grade egg , and the browned egg on the right is the so - call constitutive egg .
These other two eggs had thin yolks that were pale in color . The “ constituent ” ballock yolk was a shade darker than the regular nut , but was otherwise just as runny , despite being pumped up with all that extra vitamin E and omega-3 and whatnot .
( And by the way , chicken are not vegetarian by nature , so do n’t let the “ vegetarian - fed ” recording label fool you . Vegetarian - fed chickens imply industrial factory - farmed chickens fed a commixture of meretricious grains , like corn and soya bean , which do n’t offer any nutritionary value . Feeding superfluous edible corn does , however , boost the scandalmongering in yolk . )
But I ’m no egg snob . When I could n’t make it to the farmers ’ market place , I would buy the cheapest ballock on the supermarket shelf . According to thisorganic eggs scorecardfrom the Cornucopia Institute , there ’s no discernible difference between most organic eggs and regular eggs , peculiarly if the organic line is the entrepot ’s private recording label . Widely used term such as “ free - compass ” and “ cage - free ” are misleading , as there ’s no stock definition that indicates how healthy or humane those farms really are .
The best eggs do from pocket-sized family farm and backyards , where the hens are happy and the eggs are full of nutrients . If you ca n’t get your hands on those bluff orange yolks , do n’t just grease one’s palms the most expensive bollock at the marketplace . An unlabeled generic box of ballock is likely just as unspoilt as an over - label agio loge .
