September 30, 2004

• actually that is very cool. i know what they're getting at here. for instance, yellow cakes are a richer tasting because they contain egg yolks, while white cakes contain only egg whites (or minimal yolks). so, theoretically, we'd be able to bake a white cake using these eggs, include the yolks, and have a Theoretically Richer White Cake! theoretically.
• Oh I can't wait to make grayish custard or grayish deviled eggs or greyish omelettes with asparagus.
• Interesting how diet affects yolk colour. The eggs of hens allowed to run freely about or fed on some greens have more richly orange-yellow yolks. Some years back, such yolks supposedly had higher vitamin/nutrional value. Would like to see how this lack of colour affects nutritional content of the yolks in these eggs.
• Bees: Ah yes, free range eggs. *moment of contemplative eggs-tacy Not only are they a beautiful orangy-yellow, but they taste fantastic, and they have character. The yokes hold together in the frying pan, and the whites aren't near as slimy and disgusting as store-bought. And an added bonus, you don't have to think of all the crud and antibiotics that goes into chicken feed. That's gotta be better for you! *misses her free range chickens
• White chicks for everyone! :-p
• Eggland's Best has cage-free. Me likey.
• don't forget quiche made from those delicious dark-yellow-yoked free range farm living chickens. yum-o!! nothing better...bok!
• Wait, I found a real article. They're not lower in cholesterol, apparently.
• BlueHorse is dead right. There is no better egg than a true free range egg. Most of the free-range eggs you buy in the shops are not true free-range. The birds are still fed the ordinary feed, just not kept in a big cage.
• Used to keep a few bantams for their eggs, but I don't miss cleaning the henhouse. They were phew but mighty!
• Well, I love my little chook, even though it does poop a lot, and has stopped laying. It has character.
• *scurries to dictionary, looks up "chook," finds nothing, remains confused*
• "chook"
• also, as long as i have all-knowing chicken people here in this thread: is it true that a chicken can get all "bound up" with eggs and die? kind of like fatal egg constipation?
• ah, aussie slang. of course.
• Yes, it's a potential problem with all female birds who are ill-nourished, though now less common with poultry than it once was, thanks to commercial feeds with mineral vitamin supplementation. A hen is said is said to be egg-bound when she tries but can't lay. Cage birds like canaries or parrots are more likely to suffer nowadays, I believe. Egg-bound birds require assistance.
• Ah, how do you assist them?
• Although I never had an egg-bound hen (a natural diet abounds in vites and minerals)I understand "assistance" involves mineral oil applied to the, ah, orifice* gentle stretching, and a finger. Not for the faint of heart. *cloacae Nostril: Glad to hear your little biddy-buddy is still cackling.
• No offense to you all, but I can't believe that anyone gives a crap what color egg yolks are.
• "...I can't believe that anyone gives a crap what color egg yolks are." Then you clearly are an oaf and a fool!!! Away with him!!!
• I may be a fool, but I'm no oaf, you buncha yolk-color crap-givers!
• Yea, Fes, see how you like green eggs with YOUR ham! Smack 'em with yer rubber chicken for me, willya Bees?
• Ach, BlueHorse, if they don't like your green eggs, let 'em eat porridge!