Fresh Eggs and Leftover Biscuits

[N4sir]

Know what's good about making too many biscuits for dinner? You have some leftover for breakfast the next day!
I went outside this morning to check on the chickens and give them their usual morning snack and picked up some nice fresh eggs. One was so big I'll have to write a separate post about it. I went inside and sliced a biscuit open, put it in the toaster to warm and cooked those two other fresh eggs over easy. The only thing that would have made it better would be a couple of slices of bacon. Oh, I didn't get a picture of the fresh squeezed Blood Orange juice.

 

[Gus McCrae]

I likes me some biscuits. Stick a fried porkchop in it.

 

[Ijaw]

Egg question. My wife remarked, if its store bought it goes in the frige, if its fresh from the farm - I need to store it at room temperature. I do not agree but, what's your opinion on egg ethics 101?

 

[Nomad.2nd]

Egg question. My wife remarked, if its store bought it goes in the frige, if its fresh from the farm - I need to store it at room temperature. I do not agree but, what's your opinion on egg ethics 101?

If you don't clean them off (Wipe off some preservative layer I disremember what it is) our looking at nearly a month (In a typical house) IIRC.

'Farm fresh' you CAN put in the fridge.

The Eggs you buy are about a month old.

 

[SigArmed1]

Egg question. My wife remarked, if its store bought it goes in the frige, if its fresh from the farm - I need to store it at room temperature. I do not agree but, what's your opinion on egg ethics 101?

You can probably get by with leaving a farm fresh egg out for a day or two, but after that they need to be refrigerated below 40 degrees to retard the growth of any salmonella bacteria that "may" be inside. Also, a little fact that most people are not aware of is, due to the way the regulations are written, commercially produced store bought eggs can legally be up to 4 months old and still be sold to the (unwitting) public. yuck! Fresh is the way to go if you can get them easily.

 

[N4sir]

There's lots of opinions on this. An egg unwashed will last the longest. That said, who wants to bring eggs with dirt and poop on them and put them on the counter or in the fridge? Now you can just wipe off the biggest excess stuff and keep them out. or you can wash them and refrigerate them like store bought. Me, Ibring them in and rinse 'em with fresh cold water and let them sit on the counter and if they don't get used withinh a week or so they go into the fridge.
Yes, store bought eggs are already a couple or three weeks old and that dependes on how long they sit in the store.

The way you can tell if an egg is really fresh is if when you break it open and in a pan or on a flat surface the yolk sits up high and holds it's round shape. If it lays really flat like and old flabby boob(lol...)it's an old egg.

 

[SigArmed1]

The way you can tell if an egg is really fresh is if when you break it open and in a pan or on a flat surface the yolk sits up high and holds it's round shape. If it lays really flat like and old flabby boob(lol...)it's an old egg.

Very true! Thanks, I forgot to mention that! Now, for the important stuff ...Does anybody know an easy way to peel a fresh hard boiled egg? I've tried several of the old wives tales but I haven't found anything that works consistently yet.

 

[N4sir]

Very true! Thanks, I forgot to mention that! Now, for the important stuff ...Does anybody know an easy way to peel a fresh hard boiled egg? I've tried several of the old wives tales but I haven't found anything that works consistently yet.

Try this.... Use cold water with the eggs and bring it to a boil slowly and don't overboil them too long. Remove from fire and add cold running water but peel them while the eggs are still warm under warm running water. This I found seems to work best.

 

[JNieman]

Try this.... Use cold water with the eggs and bring it to a boil slowly and don't overboil them too long. Remove from fire and add cold running water but peel them while the eggs are still warm under warm running water. This I found seems to work best.

The shock of the cold water seems to cause a lot of cracks, for me, and often separates the 'skin' of the shell from the egg. Using that method, I can usually just peel the shell off in one to three large pieces that hold together. Rolling it on the counter to crunch up the shell can help stubborn ones too, though not so hard that you smash the egg. Just enough to get the shell all shattered up. It'll peel right off, then, in my experience.