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This is from a difference in food. If you don’t give your chickens grass and other natural foods and just give them grain their yolks will be pale yellow instead of the deep orange color.
The whites also tend to be thicker and shells harder and sometimes the membrane needs to be cut open
My store eggs come in many different colours, and they also come from farms.
I miss having chickens and ducks. Not only is the color different, the flavor is richer, and the yolk consistency is thicker and more sticky. The egg shells aren't paper thin and don't shatter into the bowl...
I like city life, but miss being able to have fresh eggs from my own animals.
If you have a yard in many cases you can have chickens. Apartment/condo living makes that a little more difficult though lol.
Man, I wish I could have chickens. I legally could (Even in urban Seattle), but I just wouldn't have the energy to care for them every day.
Not true.
I literally have 2 confirmed direct neighbors who have home chickens...I'm in the middle of a city with a 300k population....
What isn't true, that many times you can have chickens if you have a yard living in a city? I have several friends in Denver that have back yard chickens. Another that has a bee hive. Want to use more words to make whatever your point is so I can understand it?
I don't know where you live, and haven't taken advantage of it, but farmers markets sometimes have eggs that are likely closer to what you're missing.
Seattle. The farmers markets here are so insanely priced. Farm to table means 5x pricing.
Hello, fellow Seattlite! Just tuning in to say that you are so right. You can get some very tasty food from the farmers markets, but the prices are completely insane. Just not worth it.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who feels this way. Also, nice to see another Seattle homie.
I'll have to check the eggs next time. Pasture raised eggs can be pretty damn expensive in the supermarket. I don't think our farmers market could possibly be double that, but you never know.
I usually only buy fruit, veg, and sometimes cheese and beef. It's more expensive, but not 5X or even 2X, though it might be close.
It's absurdly priced, if you ask me. Farm to table is intended to skip the middle man, i.e. supermarkets and shipping... it used to be that you get higher quality and support farms directly at a similar if not lower price. Now, farmers' markets cater to Pumpkin Spice drinking, puffy-vested people who put up potpourri wreaths for every season. Eggs, fruit, veg, and meats are sold alongside housing window replacements and insurance renewals.
In other words, farmers' markets in big metros have become co-opted by business. :(
I once read a post saying that yolk color is very easy to control by adding or removing "red" food.
The food itself isn’t necessarily red, but there are certain nutrients that will make the yolk redder. Factory farms can adjust their feed to tailor the yolk color for different markets. pasture raised eggs will very in color seasonally and regionally with what food is available to them.
Kenji did a blind taste testing once with eggs of different colored yolks. The yolk color is based on the feed of the chicken, but from his testing, people didn't notice a taste difference but did prefer the more orange colored yolk when they could see the egg.
In my experience the yolk color can vary a lot both in store and farm eggs. However, I think there's often a difference in the white's consistency. The store bought are usually more runny.