Butter!

ANYTHING! I'm a new fan of yours, but these types your videos are one of my absolute nerdy favorite!!

Can you do one on fresh vs bottled herbs and spices, and maybe a quick set of tests on a bunch of different ones. Off the top of my mind: pepper, garlic, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, dried herbs (basics like basil, oregano, rosemary, parsley), and so on.

Soy sauce :))

Yes, butter would be great!!

I agree!

That's a deeper topic than you can imagine.

​@@AsdayasmanThat's what makes it perfect for a Ethan Chlebowski video 🤣

Eggcelent idea! (sorry) lol.

and he should collab with uncle roger

Should try just raising your own chickens. I've had chickens for the last 7 years and they are the freshest, best quality eggs at the cheapest price around (when you spread the high initial cost of the coop out over several years). They don't require that much time to take care of them. When we started keeping chickens, we lived in a neighborhood on a 0.7 acre lot (now we have 55 acres and are only actually using about 2 of them lol). So as long as you have a decent back yard that isn't just taken up by sheds and/or a swimming pool, it's doable.

@@RobbyMaddoxthe backyard requirement is brutal 😭 I would love to raise chickens and eat delicious eggs but alas

@@luctisonae It's really not that bad. Set up a nice little chicken coop for them and let them out in your backyard every day for a few hours. They will thank you with delicious eggs. Taken straight from Google: "For lighter breeds, like the White Leghorn, chickens that are allowed to forage outside during the day should have at least 3 square feet per bird, so a 4′ x 8′ coop could house 10-11 birds." I think 4'x8' for a backyard is way more than enough, that's a relatively small surface area, which if you wanted to, you could expand upwards.

@@RobbyMaddox Somehow I doubt it's legal, per the town I live in, to raise chickens in your back yard - but I'll admit I've thought about it.

@@Sourwhatup oh no I mean I don't even have a backyard haha but thanks for the info!

Wow! Where do you live? So inexpensive!!

I know exactly what you mean. I was getting those same prices but switched to pasture raised after asking what feed they gave the chickens if any. They actually showed me and it was gmo corn which im desperately trying to stay away from...

Where. Do. You. Live!? Where I live, northern Virginia, it is very expensive

@@Gohad158. I live in farm country, NE Indiana, where Beef is $3.99/lb.

@@abav811 I live in farm country, NE Indiana, where Beef is $3.99/lb.

I remember a family friend telling me when I was about 12 that he added barley to his feed and he had the deepest orange yolks I've ever seen

So she basically dyed her butter. Literally a scam, legit butter is 100% Milk and salt.

@@02artiom yeah probably could have fed her cows a bunch of carrot and actually gain a similar effect without adulteration

@@xxdragonrenderxx That's literally how cheap cheddar cheese got that orange. In the olden days the orange came from the fresh grass that the cows grazed on (as opposed to some cheap feed), but now they just feed some carrots to the cow.

@@commenter4898 100% bullshit

On the opposite side of this, but still in support of your point, my grandma always raised her hens with full access to the garden, free to roam all day and fed with a verity of plants and grains. The only time eggs became less orange and more yellow was in the winter when the feed they got was mostly grains (very colorless). I think diet definitely counts a lot

Yeah, better quality eggs are way better tasting and even cook better

I’ve had the same thing happen to me. Countless cycles of loving eggs and then being unable to stomach them. If I ever get to a point of being able to stomach the high price of pasture raised I look forward to never having to go on an egg hiatus.

my take is that eggs behave like breast milk. what you produce is heavily influenced by diet, stress, environment, etc.

Placebo or mental illness.

​@@cuy50i bet you got 4 covid injections.

This sounds really interesting! If we really want to work to improve the accessibility of healthy food, we should be working to build a plant-based food system and the government should be subsidizing fruits and vegetables instead of animal agriculture!

@@kimmycushman7418 Those metrics about growing nutrients directly to feed humans instead of growing them to feed animals who are harvested for meat are compelling, but they don't tell the entire story. Finn wrote about that in her grad student days as well; for instance, while grain-fed cattle and even grain-finished cattle lead to a significant amount of waste (she said multipliers of 6:1 and up, IIRC) purely grass-fed cattle take that down to about 2:1... and there are significant ranges of cattle grazeland which aren't fit for other agricultural use. Similarly, she had an interesting piece about nutritional efficiency of pigs raised as they largely were prior to the 20th century, on slops and stovers that would otherwise only be fit for compost. The larger point of her work, as I understand it, is that we conflate a lot of different things when we talk about food and food access, because we backpack in a lot of cultural, class, and ethical viewpoints, to the disservice of both discussions. There are also a lot of interesting questions like whether, in a more holistic sense, getting nutrients from locally sourced farm-raised eggs is a more ethically sound choice than eating fruit and nuts shipped in from areas that are either fighting drought or are halfway across the world because those products aren't available and in-season where we are. How do we balance carbon emissions vs the suffering of animals vs fair trade concerns vs other factors? There's so, so much to think about! It's hard for laymen like me to have informed discussion about how to balance it all. Ethan makes a really great point at the end of this video, which is that some of the more expensive eggs, especially the ones with deeper colored yolks, might be worth buying not because they outperform in blind taste tests but specifically because we _don't_ eat blindfolded, and much of eating, for good and for bad, is in our heads. How food makes us feel is important. I think there's room for people who care to keep eating animals and animal products to raise their ethical game while continuing to do so. I think there's room for people who care about eating organic, or eating wholly plant-based, to acknowledge that some of what's important to them about it are subjective factors like the ones Ethan identified in this video. It's really great that we're collectively all beginning to educate ourselves more about these things, and I think this channel is an incredibly smart and accessible way for us to go about doing that.

Same. I have about 70 chickens that are more like pets and eat like kings (queens). The eggs DEFINITELY taste better.

Funny story when we got the first egg from our chickens. I cracked it open and called my mother m saying the yolk was the wrong color. She laughed and said that is how they are supposed to look. Fried it and ex and I shared it. Best egg ever.

That's called placebo 👍🏻

​@moolipit It's an anecdotal observation. A placebo requires a preconceived expectation. An anecdotal report, or study, is about an experience that can be repeated by others and their comparative experience can be investigated further in order to create a proper experiment to garner causal or correlative data sets.

Likely the breed of hen has an effect on the taste. Those bred for the industrial production are probably not bred for the taste.

I can too, I believe its possible here that Ethan just had a fantastic batch of both.

@@mohitbhole6781Or maybe he just isn't an eggspert on eggs.

Same in the uk, so I imagine its the same in all European markets. EU kicking ass for consumers yet again.

Here in America we can't get a straight answer on our food supply.

The Netherlands also uses a code system. Traditional cages have become illegal several years ago and we also want to ban the ´large cages´. 3 is cage, free range is 2, pasture is 1 and organic is 0. Organic has certain strict rules about space, treatment and feed. But what is more indicative of the quality of their treatment and accommodation is the star grading which goes from 1 better life star up to 3 better life stars. 3 stars is indicative of the best living conditions. Whenever I visit my parents, I buy eggs at an organic farm where they have lots of open space and pasture to roam. Trees provide cover from predator birds. The past several years the livestock has had to sit in the spacious barn a lot of the time though because of bird flu regulations. One sick hen can shut down a farm for several months!

@@TheRealTMar Excellent!

@@TheRealTMar I'd have liked Ethan to say something about organic eggs - especially for flavour.

Why are male baby chickens killed without regard? Ugh.

Thanks for this info

​@@tolerbearALTII because they can't produce eggs

Same reason human babies are, duh. They're not wanted by some.@@tolerbearALTII

Rooster is mentioned in the Bible..

I was here with you my internet friend 😊

Oh my. God someone tell me what this says so I don't have to watch it. If you can get here in less than 30mins, I'd be happy

@@dudedavid522 conclusion starts at 34:36

I’m here waiting for the SuperBowl 😊

You posted this yesterday (my time) and it's now Sunday night where I am in Southern Ontario, Canada. So we are half a world apart. 🙂🙃😊

The taste can be better since some of those who care enough to go cage free also let the hens eat better, like pecking bugs that give the yolks a rich color. Not all producers do just the minimum required by law for the label. There is a spectrum between cage free and pastured.

@@popeyegordon I have a suspicion that the specific breed and time of year also matters... Less bugs, less foliage, and less willingness for those chickens to utilize their outdoor-access in the winter (or rainy) seasons.

@@Aubreykun When I kept birds I gave them more greens and scraps in winter but keep in mind that I had no day cycle lighting like the factories that adjust the day cycle for maximum production. Long winter nights means less eggs per month.

That's why I buy them, and for Hollandaise sauce. In Winco Foods, the pasture raised are only $2 more.

I remember Kenji Lopez-Alt claiming that the taste was more or less the same, but that high beta carotine eggs look better and that matters a lot for enjoyment.

And empathetic towards animals as well…they are living, breathing creatures with blood, nerves, emotions and feeling of pain.

I wish there would be an expose about food prices, who is committing the outrageous pricing, supplier or seller?

I will continue to buy humanely raised and organic eggs. Not because of the taste, but because of the way the hens are treated.

​@@tamarafigge8800 Me too.

​@@laars0001 Why not both?

I have to agree. My chicken eggs looked darker and more orange when we allowed them to run around and forage for bugs rather than eat a lot of corn and grain.

@@jim73challenger Ethan was right that the egg white will taste exactly the same, but the egg yolk will have a deeper flavor if they're foraging for themselves instead of being force-fed one type of feed.

The post menopausal hens is hilarious.

OK, I'm feeding my fucking chickens frogs.

Buy dry insects for your hens 😊👍

especially for animal products, quality can really be tasted and is also reflected in the nutritional value. I always pay extra for "happy cows"/eggs etc.

Agreed. VITAL Farms' PASTURE raised are THE way to go. If it were only for ethics I would BUT they really do look and taste better also. 🥚 🐔 😊 🙏

Just got back to the US from Spain. In the US, scrambled and fried eggs have always been barely palatable but in Spain it was great

Yes, this is one of my favorite brands, and I believe it’s called the happy hen company brand. Those are my two go too.

Egg yolks are naturally a light yellow. If you have a dark yellow or even orange yolk it is because the chickens get fed colorings.

@@eily_b This is from the Times of India and seems right. Eggs with a dark orange yolk are mostly laid by pasture-raised hens. The colour of the yolk is influenced by a healthy and well balanced diet. Pasture-raised hens are allowed to roam on outdoor pastures, where their diet is supplemented by fresh grass and nutritious omnivorous foods like worms, beetles, grasshoppers, and spiders. This diet is rich in carotenoids, which gives living organisms a red or orange colour, therefore causing the dark orange yolk colour. However, a hen doesn’t have to be pasture-raised to lay an egg with a dark orange yolk. Any hen can lay such an egg if fed nutritious food.

MEE MAW SHOWED NO MERCY

@@ShmoopDooper ...Which is why Mee Maw would be just fine during some apocalyptic disaster and millions of city slicker consumers would discover how useless, savage and feeble they really are and how thin their veneer of civility actually was. Talk about 'social constructs', woah.

My wife can tell with our 40 hens, but they will “live out their lives here forever” because they have names and we love them. “How would you feel if you couldn’t work anymore so we murdered you!?!” 😂

One of my elderly customers is extreeeemly wealthy. They've build a very nice chicken house. I guess its one of those things that transcends. As a child in the 60's we had chickens and I wish the kids today would go outside and touch the grass.

@@Yensen2020 Probably wouldn't feel anything if you're dead.

hit us with some bubba shrimp vibes. all the things you can do with eggs! they really are a great food & so versatile.

I definitely can tell the difference in taste of eggs, I normally get the best eggs I can get, got a couple of favourites. In between I would try out other eggs, just for experiment & also to see if I can find any tasty eggs at lower prices (eg farmers just starting etc). Only this week I did that with a new brand, it’s cheaper by half the normal price I paid, and it tasted half of my normal tasty eggs. After the first egg, I know I will only use it for baking etc, rather than have them as fried for my toasted egg sandwich lunch.

Eggs from Home grown chikens that feed on actual food they find outside/ bugs and my leftovers but not on commercial chiken food taste 10 times better than any grain feed egg ever.@@H_A_L_7

FYI, some years ago, the Canadian consumer TV show "Marketplace" did a taste test and also chemical analysis by an independent lab. The taste testers were farmers from commercial, organic and free-range farms, as well as a couple of regular folk, egg lovers. Taste testers chose the pasture raised, and the lab confirmed that organic eggs have more Omega 3 and other nutrients. I thought you would enjoy hearing that. Take care. Oh, and a big YES on the unwashed and room temperature. I'm lucky to get farm eggs from a local grocer that has hens. Not organic, but fresh and at least they are outdoors. We do the best we can, right? Eggs are $10/dz and up for organic.

​@@jennifermarlow.Dang, I sell my organic pasture-raised eggs for $8 a dozen, but then again, people don't appreciate it much out here

Farmers charge $10 a dozen for organic eggs here in CA. You got a great deal.

From experience with having my own chickens, farm fresh/small farm/home chicken eggs are much firmer. They usually have the best possible living conditions and are able to be individually treated for issues. You can get them on average $3-5 per dozen, in fun colours. The egg shells are thicker from being able to forage for more varied foods, food scraps, and a feed supplimented diet. Obviously how people raise their own chickens will vary by individual but IMHO If you dont want to pay $10 a dozen for certifications for how kindly they are raised, go find a local farmer. You wont be dissapointed. They are also almost always fresh, and if they dont wash them they can be counter stable for a month or more stored roughly like squashes and the like (cool, dry). Depending on how they are collected there may be some small amount of poop on the shell which can be washed off, but worth noting for people who are severely immunocomrpomised or who have small kids who may be prone to it (I think concerns end around age 3 but dont take my word for it exactly, I dont have kids just know its a thing)

Oh, and the males are usually not killed after hatching, they tend to be raised to make more babies, or turned into cooking chicken, and slaughtered as humanely as possible. While its again varied farm to farm, still a win IMHO

I would like to see a video comparing month old unwashed eggs not refrigerated vs washed and refrigerated eggs.

I have a relative who keeps chickens, and honestly their eggs tasted really good compared to the grocery store eggs. They tasted a lot richer and more savory.

I would say you will see a difference, as everyone I know that either gets fresh eggs or sells them says they see a huge difference. From the reading I have done before this video, the majority of eggs we are buying in the grocery store are four to six months old if you can believe that! Absolutely must degenerate quality

Totally agree!

i also had Chickens as well and we gave em kitchen scraps as well and leftovers that we didnt eat and the eggs was more flavorful and the yolks more vibrant. dont have any chickens now tho since it can get expensive...... i miss the chickens

Our chickens eat well too, but when I did a blind test with store bought ones, I could detect no difference in flavor whatsoever that wouldn't be drowned out by a tiny amount of salt.

The only store bought eggs that taste different to me are Vital Source. They’re as close to backyard chicken eggs as you can buy.

Just trying to figure out if they are actually healthier to eat than store bought eggs or if the difference in health is negligible.

I wish he had included a farmers market egg in this shootout, rather than all store-bought. I’m convinced the results would have been different. My own experience is that supermarket eggs taste very similar, whereas farmers market eggs have better yolks.

I've tried both. Local farmers market eggs and Top-shelf pasture raised eggs look and taste exactly the same. No difference.@@sub-jec-tiv

@@sub-jec-tiv I think that's mostly down to the difference in breed. Small-farm hens aren't bred to lay the biggest eggs at the fastest rate possible, and their eggs taste noticably different (and are usually smaller too).

Wonder what the omega 3-6-9 profile and other inflammatory markers look like.

That's good those chickens got to run around in the sun. Majority of the poor chickens are stuck in cramped factories. The food industry is out of control. It can't be healthy to consume animals who do not have natural living conditions. Sad

depends what you buy, I normally buy free range, but once i bought shitty standard farmed wal-mart eggs... I could barely finish the carton, they were just so flavourless and kinda gross.

Very true, okay for cooking, but I'd rather support a farm that is free range@@Jordonzo

We had free range chickens for 30 years, it's a difference like night and day. I sometimes have to deal with that industrial whole egg stuff out of the bag/tetra pack and just the smell makes me gag uncontrollably. I couldn't eat that.

See my post above, "A historical fact..."

cow eggs?

​@@7jcjg A lot of places sell dairy products and chicken eggs near each other. So it's not unusual for me to hear this in a comment.

@@ArtisChroniclesThank you. I was so confused. Yes, I work at a place where the eggs are in the same cooler as the milk. Sometimes, I am again reminded that the inter-webs ARE a global phenomenon.

Indeed! 100% difference in Taste.. So much better..😂..Seriously..

did you make a test like this? tasting both kind of eggs in the same situation? how can you be sure you're not just biased?

There's a Canadian TV show, Marketplace, that is a consumer watchdog. They did a panel, and had farm owners of all kinds (organic, free range and caged), and regular consumers. They all blind taste-tested the eggs. And the organic eggs won for best taste. Also, they had the eggs tested by an independent lab, and much more Omega 3 in the organics. I sometimes get organic from a farmer friend, and hell yeah, they taste better! That show should be on youtube, btw, unless they took it down. I don't have TV. :)

Eat both

​@@marcopinchetti5872 Exactly. I would have to prove it to myself because I know I can easily fool myself into believing something. Although most people are perfectly happy being biased, and love to tell others about it, because they like the idea of the thing they are biased about.

Most eggs you get at the store are already two to three months old, and the pointiest side of the egg should be pointed downwards so the air sac is on the top side of the egg, help preserving it better.

With the egg salad, the biggest difference could WELL be what she makes the egg salid WITH, re dressing, spices, etc.

our family farm in now-Zimbabwe, yes. Warm eggs right from the hen's bottom and you could not beat the taste. When I was young nobody was commercially selling eggs, because what is the point when raising them is free money and taste so good?

I like the eggs at the store better than my own farm fresh eggs. I find free range eggs to taste bad whether they are my own or from someone else.

They have dates on each individual egg as well as the carton. They could be 2 months old but they aren't. There is a date on your carton that says when it was packed. They are washed and packed pretty much immediately at any egg plant of size. Maybe the brown eggs nobody buys or places that don't sell much eggs. No real grocery store will have that problem. As an example, my current eggs, from Walmart, were packed on 017(1/17), I bought them almost a week ago. They were literally packed only days before I bought them. No egg plant is letting eggs sit around unprocessed for a month though 30 days is legal from my understanding. They go pretty much directly to wash and packaging. I have farm fresh free range eggs from my chickens, I don't enjoy them fried though. I can tolerate them as an ingredient or even scrambled but I find the yolks to be gamey when over medium. @@allouttabubblegum1984

YES!!! That’s a HUGE part and I’m surprised this man didn’t elaborate on that major part of information!

I was looking for this part, too! I would like to know if he would notice a difference between hormone-free eggs vs cage eggs.

I was looking for this part plus, a quantitative chemical analysis of the trace minerals and vitamins in the eggs.

This is my main reason for getting the more expensive eggs

Do more expensive eggs contain less antibiotics or other potentially harmful ingredients(like chemicals) for long term consumption, especially for kids? This is the main point my wife insist on buying the most expensive eggs she can find, and I was hoping this video can confirm or deny that argument. :(

Eggs have a thin film on the exterior, when laid. It comes off when they are washed. Eggs sold in store have, of course, been washed of this film. But, not washing that film off extends the freshness further. So, anyone that raises chickens for personal use should benefit from delaying on the washing, as well as refrigerating asap.

I was amazed he talked about age of eggs without talking about the dates on the side of the cartoons. I noticed at the Sprouts, the other expensive grocery in Arizona, all the organic and free-range eggs were 1 1/2 to 2 weeks older than the cheapest eggs. In NH/MA Pete and Gerry's (NH grown) eggs are about a week newer than other national brand organic eggs.

@@rogelioortiz3003 Unwashed eggs that still have the bloom do not require refrigeration.

Exactly, age is the bigger factor with eggs taste. If you can get freshly laid eggs from a caged/cage free commercial operation like Purdue or Tyson they taste just as good as local producers. Because they're weeks fresher than anything on store shelves.

I agree. You really can taste the difference.

I switch back and forth from backyard raised to the nicer grocery store eggs all the time... i can definitely tell a visual difference but after they are cooked the difference is subtle to me. I'd bet money the backyard eggs are going to be healthier in the long run however.

I'm pretty sure if you regularly eat one type of egg, you would easily taste the difference. You won't see much if you start with low quality to high quality but you will notice it way more from high quality to low.

So basically like all the industrialised crap they vomit on us. I could say the same for the Edible Styrofoam that is sold to the people. My bad, I meant "bread".

@@Steinmetal4Doesn’t get any fresher.

I think in the taste test he couldn't tell a difference because he kept tasting his mustache and not the eggs. 😄

KZfaq is digital library with all types levels of education and horror 😅 it's the beast of knowledge. This digital library can easily be taken down by cutting cable in the ocean. That's why we have spaceX . Unfortunately all space junk needs to be clean up to protect internet. We are doing better than anyone in 1920s . We have more knowledge for better or worse.

@@threewishes777 Yes God bless the navy for guarding the undersea cables. One of our ships was attacked by the Chinese a while back while on guard. The navy covered it up by court martialing the captain of our ship. The Chinese ship first covered its ID ping with the ID of an oil tanker. Then used an EMP weapon to put our ship dead in the water and blind and make the weapons system useless. Also no communications? No excuse for that there should have been a radio on board hardened for that I used to fix that type in the Army. Then boarded our vessel and shot at sailors. There were wounded. I hope we learned from the incident and closed up the vulnerabilities. We cannot always count on satellite communications. Ever had satellite tv (DISH) or internet? Have a good day.

Source?@@JoyPeace-ej2uv

Oyster shells are a wonderful source of calcium for chickens. Add some live grub worms and it’s a great snack for them and gives the egg shells more density, keeping them from cracking as easily.

Is this west of Eugene on the way to Florence? I may have to check it out if so

@@sharpcookie791 yup! It's Morning Glory Farm & Espresso.

Most chicken feed has oyster shells in them. Adds zero taste, is just for shell production.

@@quengafarm could be something else, I'm not sure. All I know is there is something qualitatively different about them.

I guess that might be like buying two different brands of heavy cream that both tastes similar but one is just richer and creamier. For a certain dishes or occasions that sounds justifiable to me

It also sounds like you have a strong connection to them, which is naturally going to be a confounding varaible. You love them, so they will taste better to you no matter what. Similar to how darker yellow/orange yolks make people think an egg tastes better when it doesn't.

We have a mixed flock of copper Marans, lavender orpingtons and Americaunas. The Marans lay beautiful dark brown and speckled eggs, the orpingtons are light brown and the Americaunas lay a pastel blue shade. I don't believe that I save any money by owning chickens, but I do believe that they are more nutritious than the alternative, which when I'm shopping I go for the cheapest. I also appreciate that my children get to experience this relationship with animals. They enjoy our table scraps, we enjoy their eggs, there by we are mutually benefitting each other. My kids have the memories of buying them as chicks, building the coup, holding them and watching them grow. I'll pay extra for that.

@@taylorsessions4143 That's the spirit! Awesome and a great lesson for your children

They absolutely are better texture! When I first got my chickens and scrambled one I was surprised it came together like “a real scrambled egg” - imagine a French omelette type mixture, rather than the clumpy half mixed scramble I was used to.

I do bit I do intermittent fasting, I skip lunch

yeah expensive eggs aree about sustainable and morale farming not this mechanized hell food production. Now the FDA is being deregulated and defunded like many other gov agencies so the rich can get rich while the peasants eat tainted food!

Yeah, this is very typical still around the world. In most parts of the western worlds standards have increased a bit, but its still horrid in those facillities. The thing is though, for your personal consumption, you can easily buy the "mid" tier priced eggs without losing too much money and you're still going to to do a lot for the animals. Here in germany you're going to pay 1.80-2.00€ for the cheapest eggs (10 pieces), just paying like 0.40-0.60€ more will guarantee free ranging chickens. That's something everyone can pay, eventhose with minimum wage imo. Atleast I can.

In the near future, humans will be eating bugs for protein. This canned food sounds awesome in comparison.

wow! i've been vegan for over 40 years, but stiull, it's good/horrific to read a first hand account.

A friend of mine worked at a small chicken farm in the '90's and the stories she tells are just sickening. I always shop for eggs marked "certified humane." I hope those birds have a better life.

should be good as long as the eggs are chilled without ice crystals forming within the cells resulting in protein degradation etc. Consistency varies according to egg temp during use. varying temperatures may cause a rupture/microtears to the membrane separating the liquid from the shell due to thermal contraction/expansion which could affect the taste because the shell is semipermeable. refrigerated eggs experience less degradation and oxidation because the shell becomes less semipermeable due to thermal contraction.

We used to have eggs growing up. Just a couple, but enough that all the eggs we ate came from them. One thing I noticed that while I was used to eating "our" eggs the store bought eggs tasted slightly metallic and strange to me. But going the other way, from being used to store bought and eating "our" eggs I couldn't tell the difference. Have you noticed anything like that?

spittin facts! thanks for the info @@BxBxProductions

I do the same thing. Eggs are one of the main sources of protein for me, and knowing the hens are treated well and personally knowing the farmer is good to them is a little piece of mind. yes they are a bit more expensive, but I don't really buy meat, so that money I save, I am more than happy to put towards high-quality eggs and supporting local businesses

Yeah agreed - I do it for the ethics

I feel so nauseated seeing so many chickens crammed indoors in terrible condition 😢😢 and the male baby chicks.. why are humans like this

I raise hens - and let me tell you - they have acres to roam - they eat bugs - they jump in the air to catch flies - they barely touch their feed until the snow covers the ground - this tells you a lot about what grocery hens eat eh? Mine eat clover, flowers, worms - a factory hen usually lives 2-3 years ..... My head rooster is 7 years old !!!!! and I have many 6 year old hens .... Please buy directly from a farmers market from someone who brags about their hens - some of the farmers are still old school and don't really free range but just have a dirt fenced in yard - the nutrition difference is huge

@@bookswithatwist-vanvelzerp9262 that sounds amazing! I definitely must look closer. And hopefully have my own chickens some day

It’s not as good as Happy eggs. And, not as expensive as Happy eggs. 😂 Happy is the only brand that does not trigger my Hashimoto’s problems.

​@@AnotherWorld_DeepRestLove Happy eggs, but, no joke, I wish the yolks were runnier. But are they delicious !🎉

@ Hashimoto comment… I’m gonna give that a try. I know organic (in everything else) has made a difference for me, as well as increasing my “healthy” fat consumption.

Eggs kill hens and male chicks. None of it's humane where a female animal's reproductive system is exploited for profit. Disgusting.

@@r0nea Wanna give you a hug. Hashimoto’s literally makes us live in a different dimension. 😂

that could be a point

I have backyard hens that eat layer pellets and as much grass, bugs and garden produce as they want. Their eggs are comparable to the pasture raised ones at the stores. It's the beta carotene in the plants that really makes difference. In my opinion, pasture raised eggs are worth it, but cage free tastes the same as the cheapest eggs.

That may be true but its also not useful information for a lot of people because the extra cost and living situation can easily make it impossible to get fresh eggs at a reasonable price

It probably varies from farm to farm and time of year. I definitely notice with my parents chickens that the eggs have a deeper orange yolk in spring/summer when they are out foraging for bugs and weeds and such versus winter when they are eating more layer pellet feed and spending more time indoors (chickens prefer heated barn to snow and ice on ground).

I start my eggs in cold water, then set the timer for 10 minutes after the bubbles start to form on the bottom of the pan. I boil them at medium heat to avoid overcooking, because I have 75 year old memories of Mom's boiled eggs with the khaki lining on the yolks. I thought then that it was because she bought them at the Army PX.

I use the ATK method of steaming - cold from the fridge - eggs and then the ice bath. Steaming prevents overcooking which I like a lot.

That pinhole method is how all those hard boiled egg makers at stores work. I pop in 7 of them and they are ready in like 2 min.

@@uli3119 I’ve never seen those things. I learned the pinhole method many years ago. What’s nice is the eggs are perfectly formed for deviled eggs.

@@chezmoi42 This is all about controlling your variables: starting egg and water temperature, water and egg volume, applied heat, and time. My tap water temperature fluctuates a lot, so boiling is nice because it's always the same - but 15 seconds makes a big difference when aiming for a ramen egg.

I hated eggs until I moved to Europe. Even the store bought ones here are just a level above what I could get in Florida.

You should post a blinded test of you eating them and consistently identifying those eggs over store-bought ones then!

I have hens. I was really against it, but my mom decided that she really wants to have good quality eggs. I never was a fan of egg dishes, but goddamn, the difference is big. The yolk is very yellow, not orange, the taste is much richer. I actually eat much more eggs now.@@SuperMrgentleman

@@FilipFromNM Yeah go ahead and post a blinded video where you taste the difference

Do a blind test. You will fail, exactly as presented on the video.

Your Dad was right! the colour of the yoke is decided by the diet. Free range hens roam and eat green plants which make the yoke a richer deeper yellow. Hens that are not free are fed on gains which make the yoke more pale. Free range hens also can find grit and eat as much as they like this forms the shell . Battery hens have to be fed it. The way we treat animals affects the quality of the food they produce as well as their quality of life. They are not separate they are part of the same thing.

Some children are born with intelligent/entrepreneurial dads.

I will ticket my friends truely free range eggs from coco morans and other heritage breed chickens. The only ones you tested are all hybrid breeds. But a good video packed with useful info thanks.

Ticket should read stick to.

Why are male baby chickens killed without regard?

The taste is drastic.

Same. Honestly before I got chickens I thought eggs were meh. After eating my own backyard eggs I can’t get enough of them. I’m replacing 2 dinners a night with eggs as it is and the whole family loves it. We eat so many eggs now days, they are so much better than store bought.

Yes! 💯

I used to have 6 chickens (now it's down to 3) and I'm an egg addict. The taste is slightly different but in no way "better". And they also vary a lot while store bought caged eggs are consistent. The only advantage is that my chickens make way bigger eggs. You people clearly have a bias that doesn't have anything to do with taste. You could pick the ones you own but only because you are used to the taste (leaving aside salt and pepper). Cuz I could. But give me free range eggs from other chickens and it's a zero from me. And I'm VERY picky with my eggs. I used to eat an unhealthy amount cuz we were swimming in them. Once we had over 80 eggs and they kept laying them, so we gave 40 away and cooked a bunch of them in all kinds of ways and recipes, eating 6-8 eggs a day (and I'm not a fat american)

I have an orange tree and can definitely say my oranges taste better than store-bought. Same goes with my eggplants, broccoli, etc.. I am sure an outsider may or may not agree. As proven in this video, there is a very big psychological aspect to taste. Your eggs taste better to you, no doubt about it. You raised them, you know what your chicken eat, you care for them, etc etc.

Amen! I finally bought 5 chickens last yr and now have fresh eggs daily....I'll never go back to the flavorless store eggs.

Yes. I used to buy both kinds of eggs. I would add one or two "fancy" eggs for cooking up egg dishes and use the cheaper eggs for any recipe that just required eggs. Prices have gone up enough that I'm out of the habit of buying both though.

The difference is drastic, I can't go back lol.The best eggs are the pasture raised eggs.. not a fan of vegan fed chickens, no matter if they're organic..

So why did Ethan f this up then? I do agree, there's a MAJOR difference to me.

I plan on keeping my girls till the day I die...they make great company as well as great eggs! @@esm1817

Yes. Also caged birds kept by the thousands/millions are excellent breeding grounds for diseases that can jump to humans, e.g. bird flu. $2/dozen eggs, and the diseases that breed, end up costing us collectively quite a lot.

yeah I've definitely had the cheap eggs from Aldi and then pasture raised eggs and noticed a difference in taste Thou that could be because the Aldi eggs aren't as fresh? I do wonder how their produce can go bad so quick and it often looks questionable in the stores lol so maybe the same is true for their eggs.

you expect the pasteurized to taste better, so it does.

confirmation bias

@@brewtalityk if ur from the UK then i spose Aldi is on the sort of lower end. caged Aldi eggs vs, say, Tesco "free range" - decent difference in taste! not toooo much price difference. you will end up paying more. I'm feckin obsessed with eggs. I swear that if the hens are fed better, it just "tastes more right". I get through so many eggs I thought it was placebo. It's really not - but with that said No point seeking eggs that have marketing gimmicks on them, like overdesigned packaging is also a decent indicator that the eggs are... average. We still macerate our male chicks in the UK, quite often :/ When you start getting into the fancy "I live in a six bedroom house in Devon" eggs, delivered online from Ocado or something, they all taste the same even when they are mega expensive. Some expensive brands taste worse than cheaper ones! they're just ripping us off sometimes.

​​​@@goldenant9450no and no. It seems people don't understand the meaning of bias. 1. It's not the same in everyone, just as if every person puts exactly +2 on the taste. In this case it might be the opposite, expecting no difference and decreasing taste sensitivity. 2. the existence of bias does not deny the existence of difference, as in this case taste/aroma difference. If you actually want to bring in scientific terms, you should also add these: randomization and n=30. Meaning, one person does not give a conclusive result, in fact even as scientific this test appereared it is statistically pointless. It may have dozens of reasons why one individual can/cannot taste the difference and condensing all of these into a bias can by itself be confirmation bias, trying rationalize your own believe and lack of understanding In the end: ignoring empiric data of people who have differing experience is bad scientific practice

Just in your head.

I switched to brown eggs because the white egg shells were thinner and kept cracking when I boiled/steamed them. I get the cheapest brown eggs which are about 2x more expensive than the cheapest white. Still like $3 though…

I find the size of the egg is a much greater factor in consistency of behavior between specimens. Large eggs have a bit of variation, while XL and jumbo are wildly inconsistent. Similarly, small and medium eggs are very easy to get consistent results with.

My chickens butt nuggets need to rest for about a week or be put into the fridge before I can fry one without breaking the yolk. If I try and eat same day, the yolk almost always breaks when flipped.

​@@lamebear1000I'm having the opposite experience lol always buy white shells and last week bought brown by accident and yesterday it took 4 attempts to successfully boil an egg. They all kept cracking immediately

Agree! I still remember what eggs were like when I was little. My grandma used to raise hens and my egg source were mostly from those hens. They were very aromatic and yolks were quite orange. I thought those delicious eggs were long gone in my life. Then I found Happy eggs. I love their medium sized eggs in blue package. My boyfriend used get cheaper eggs from other brands so I get to compare those brands. Happy eggs in blue package are a lot better. Plus, I have Hashimoto’s so bad/average quality eggs gives me inflammation. But I usually don’t feel bad after eating Happy eggs. So, I’m gonna stick with this brand. 😊

Are you sure about the 'feeding red color' statement? While I know that the chicken's diet will affect the colour, if it were as simple as using something obscenely cheap like red food colouring, it seems to me that every major manufacturer would be doing this, since it's almost universally agreed that a more colourful yolk is more appealing to the customer?

True. I buy my eggs from a farmer and the egg yolk more of an orange color. Her chickens have a big area to run and be happy and I support that!

@@ph0end I know that farmed salmon are naturally near colorless and turned pink by supplementing their feed with ingredients like astaxanthin, so i wouldn't be surprised at all if a similar practice was used for eggs. Edit: I looked it up, and yup, they do use exactly the same thing to make a richly colored egg!

I like Happy Eggs too. Blue and brown ones and also regular white or brown ones. And they're a reasonable price.

Yeah, now I know what that squiggly thing is called! That makes separating eggs hard when I'm trying to remove that chalaza from the yolk.

Meanwhile I'm over here eating sardines with the entire spine and rib cage included. You gotta toughen up if that's enough to make you physically sick.

Lol you're adorable, I work in construction and am doing just fine.@@GruppeSechs

Lol you're adorable, I work in construction and am very confident in my 'toughness' but I'll for sure reach out if I need any help in eating whole sardines.@@GruppeSechs

@@CarlaQuattlebaum the simplest way to separate the eggs is to empty the shell into the palm of your hand over a bowl. Let the whites run through your fingers, and when you get the chalaza at the end squeeze it between your fingers and transfer the yolk to your other hand. It will separate from the yolk easily. My grandma showed me this when I was a child and it's easier and I rarely break a yolk with this technique. I hope this made sense. (I'm sure there's a video showing this, lol.)