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Why are some egg yolks so orange?

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Re: Why are some egg yolks so orange?

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tastyfreeze wrote: post #244
the_af wrote: post #241

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To be honest, I would also pay attention to the experience. Were you predisposed towards liking your friend's eggs? Were you having a great time? Those things matter -- haven't you ever found yourself enjoying your food because of the mood or your companions? I think in order to make the comparison fairer, you should do a blind tasting of the two kinds of eggs at your home, in the same sitting, and under the same con…

Ok, fair enough. Human perception is subject to all kinds of bias. My perception is that store bought eggs are vastly inferior to home grown. Whether that is just perception or truth matters little to me. Store bought eggs are older, have the protective mucus coating removed, are washed with chemicals and come from chickens inundated with medication and fed the cheapest feed possible. If you think that none of those…

I don't know if those things actually affect taste. Maybe they do. But do they?

There's a bunch of benefits to eating home grown eggs (or free range eggs): the hens are treated better, and you won't get all those nasty chemicals.

Re: Why are some egg yolks so orange?

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Post by andrewnicolalde »

bencollier49 wrote: post #40
andrewnicolalde wrote: post #39

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Yes! I completely agree. The yolks of Clarence Court-alikes just don’t feel as “rich”, whatever that means, and I can readily tell the difference when having yolk-heavy food like egg soldiers, for example.

English contingent on HN here going peak middle-class. :-) Speaking as one of them!

Yes well I'm actually American :P

Re: Why are some egg yolks so orange?

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Post by jjeaff »

pegasus wrote: post #248
jjeaff wrote: post #162

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That is not in line with the blind taste tests I have seen. The vast majority of people not only can't pick out the more expensive wine, they also tend to prefer the cheaper wines.

I think he's talking about wine-lovers - not the vast majority of people by a large margin.

The blind taste tests I have seen were of self proclaimed wine lovers.

Re: Why are some egg yolks so orange?

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Post by tekknik »

azizsaya wrote: post #82
tekknik wrote: post #34

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did you just research someone’s profile in an attempt to nit pick something they said? There’s definitely a problem online these days, when people take 5 pages to state 2 sentences worth of points, and it’s not the TLDR people…

did you just waste a min of your time by stating the obvious and trying to add some fuel to fire? article and discussion is about Eggs! you are free to click and comment on something else if you find it pointless.

> did you just waste a min of your time by stating the obvious and trying to add some fuel to fire?

How is correcting or calling out someone’s sketch behavior wasting time?

> article and discussion is about Eggs! you are free to click and comment on something else if you find it pointless.

Yes and I found it interesting. What gave you the idea that I don’t? Perhaps maybe I don’t talk much on this site and read more articles and comments than you think?

And as far as adding more fuel to the fire, what exactly are you doing?

Re: Why are some egg yolks so orange?

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Post by andrekandre »

h2odragon wrote: post #259
andrekandre wrote: post #258

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> If i feed my chickens non-medicated feed, I'm able to enjoy their eggs. If i get them the feed with amoxicillin in it, headaches. wow, i also get headaches when eating eggs... if its not amoxicillin itself, then what could it be?

I assume the chicken metabolizes some of it (or some other ingredient) into something that triggers that reaction in me. My family aren't affected by it, including my daughter. Its apparently not common. I dunno how likely that is; the egg shouldn't have more than trace amounts of any contaminants in the chicken; the egg is filtered a step further than the meat is. I found that salt enhanced the headache potential a…

  > I found that salt enhanced the headache potential a lot
wow, same here, i really wonder what it could be

  > so perhaps its a trained sensitivity?
interesting...i grew up in basically suburb, so not sure, but perhaps there are some other reasons... it would be a great research subject for sure
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