Brown or White?

MrsCurtisinTX
MrsCurtisinTX Posts: 88 Member
edited October 5 in Food and Nutrition
I was wondering which do you prefer white or brown eggs?

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  • catwrangler
    catwrangler Posts: 918 Member
    Brown eggs are usually more local and fresher.
  • melizerd
    melizerd Posts: 870 Member
    Whatever color the farmer gives us. I tend to get mine locally and it just depends, there are many more brown eggs but there's a white one in there too. They all taste the same from the same farmer.
  • MrsCurtisinTX
    MrsCurtisinTX Posts: 88 Member
    I like the taste of brown better...I think they make better omelettes and scrambled eggs for sure.
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    I'm a big fan of vegetarian fed free range eggs (usually brown). They cook better and taste better.
  • krypt5
    krypt5 Posts: 243 Member
    I like the taste of brown better...I think they make better omelettes and scrambled eggs for sure.

    Wholeheartedly agree!
  • liftingheavy
    liftingheavy Posts: 551 Member
    Brown for sure, really good boiled
  • catcrazy
    catcrazy Posts: 1,740 Member
    For the most part there is no difference between white and brown eggs. the colour of the eggs comes down to what colour ears and feathers the hen has. If you take a red eared bird and a white eared bird and feed them the same diet the eggs will be the same nutritionally although you will have brown and white eggs.

    Once upon a time there was most probably a difference in taste when small holdings, back garden hen keepers and free range farmers favoured red eared birds (generally thought to be better layers). These birds were fed better food and had access to bugs, grass etc. Commercial egg suppliers favoured white birds and they were fed the cheapest generic feed available.

    Free range eggs are better all round for flavour which is down to the birds diet...not the colour
  • summertime_girl
    summertime_girl Posts: 3,945 Member
    Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh!

    (Anyone else from New England remember that commercial from the 80s!?)
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    edit because i dont read so good lol
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    A friend of mine has her own hens that lay eggs in shades of blue, aqua and green. :heart:

    I don't have sensitive enough taste buds to tell the difference, so I just get plain white.
  • catcrazy
    catcrazy Posts: 1,740 Member
    A friend of mine has her own hens that lay eggs in shades of blue, aqua and green. :heart:

    I don't have sensitive enough taste buds to tell the difference, so I just get plain white.

    Shes probably got araucanas or cream legbar chucks (or cross breeds of these) I had a friend that had lots of different types of hen, boxes of eggs from her were a real treat to see, blue, white, green, olive, dark brown and technicolour speckled eggs...they all tasted the same due to them eating the same diet
  • havalinaaa
    havalinaaa Posts: 333 Member
    There is no difference between brown and white eggs, but there is often a difference in the way the chickens are fed/treated. Most factory farm eggs are white and small farm eggs are usually brown. The difference in taste is really a difference in chicken diet.
  • wamaverick
    wamaverick Posts: 68 Member
    The color of the egg has no bearing on the taste, its the difference in the bred of chicken. Variations in taste has to do with what the hens are fed.

    I prefer farm fresh eggs, as I use to have 15 Rhode Island Red Hens and they lay brown eggs, that being said I won't pay extra for the brown eggs at the grocery store.
  • catwrangler
    catwrangler Posts: 918 Member
    Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh!

    (Anyone else from New England remember that commercial from the 80s!?)
    Yes I do! What a blast from the past :flowerforyou:
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