How To Buy Eggs

When buying eggs it is important to pay attention to the expiration date. Eggs are at their best when they are less than 25 days old. Open the egg carton to make sure that that none of the shells have cracks or dirty fecal matter on them. Don't be surprised this does happen so it's better to check.

How can you tell if eggs are old?
Place eggs in a bowl of fresh cold water. If the eggs floats or stands up on its side they are old, if they sink to the bottom of the bowl they are fresh. As eggs age they start to break down and release gas this increases buoyancy so old eggs float. Eggs that float to the very top of the bowl are extremely old and should not be used.

Egg Prices

Most Expensive: Organic egg layers are fed a diet of organic produce and ranged on organic land. Organic eggs contain more vitamins and minerals and do not contain pesticides or herbicides.

Moderately Priced: Free-range are allowed to roam freely during the day and eat outside vegetation. At night they stay in low density hen houses or barns; they are not confined in cages.

Average Price: Cage-free egg layers are high density houses with an attached yard pen outside. Cage-free eggs are modeled after the factory farm system without the cages.

Cheapest Price: Factory farmed eggs are raised for production, animals are confined to cages, exposed to 24-hour-a-day-lighting, injected with hormones to increase egg production, fed corn sprayed with antibiotics and fed the cheapest food that makes them produce faster and larger quantities. They are fed genetically modified organisms (GMO) and animal derived byproducts.

Different Types of Eggs

Chicken (hens)
Duck - pale blue egg shells, strong flavor
Goose -large eggs (1 goose egg equals 3 hens eggs)
Ostrich - Largest egg laid by birds (small cantaloupe size)
Quail - tiny speckled eggs
Turkey - large eggs (1 turkey egg equals 3 hens eggs)

Eggs Contain The Following Nutrients:

Biotin
Folate
Iron
Iodine
Pantothenic acid
Phosphorus
Protein
Riboflavin
Selenium
Tryptophan
Vitamin A
Vitamin B12
Vitamin D

Fat and Calorie Content of Eggs

Chicken egg   70 Calories     4 grams fat
Duck egg      130 Calories      9.5 grams fat
Goose egg    280 Calories    19 grams fat
Quail egg      42 Calories        3 grams fat
Turkey egg    135 Calories     9.5 grams fat

Deviled Eggs Recipe

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