A Good Egg
No surprise, Cook's Illustrated finds farm fresh eggs are tastier than standard supermarket eggs. If you can't farm fresh, organic eggs are the next best thing and "worth the premium." [via Baking Bites]
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Farm fresh or organic eggs are great in dishes where you actually taste the eggs...but around here, they're at least twice the price of decent grade AA branded eggs (possibly more, depending on where you shop). And if you're really frugal, you can find eggs at a third of the price or less.
If you're planning on using the eggs for a custard or a fritatta or basic fried, scrambled or poached eggs, the farm fresh might be worth the extra price because the egg is a big part of the dish.
But if you're using eggs as a binder in meatloaf or baked goods, you aren't going to taste the eggs, so that consideration goes out the window. Whether it's worth the extra money for any health benefits or ethical considerations is another factor, but in the end, there's still the cost. Is that egg worth three times the price of another one, or would that extra money be better spent on upgrading some other item in the shopping cart?
dbcurrie at 2:45PM on 04/01/08
Good point, dbcurrie. For me (someone who really loves eggs), if it's an egg-centric dish it's definitely worth the cost to upgrade to farm fresh or organic.
Alaina Browne at 3:29PM on 04/01/08
dbcurrie, you're definitely right about the cost. However, I would argue that since the farm eggs are so much larger and fluffier than their factory-farmed counterparts, the cost-per-egg volume (does that make sense?) is the same. Taste-wise, though, there is no contest.
My husband and I have a couple chickens and we keep their eggs in cartons donated by relatives. When we have more than a few eggs in there, we can't even close the lids. We actually did a tongue-in-cheek science experiment testing our chickens' eggs against organic store eggs and regular store eggs--our relatives had a load of eggs hanging around during Easter, and we were bored :P
I totally agree with you about using regular ol' eggs in meatloafs and things like that, though.
chapstickmeg at 5:23PM on 04/01/08