Duck Eggs

iammumtoone

A local independent shop has started selling duck eggs :T

I love fried duck eggs on toast or in a sandwich.

Does anyone else buy them and how do you eat/use yours?

Purple_kitten

Absolutely love them, DH introduced me to them and they taste like I remember eggs tasting.

I tend to fry or boil for egg mayo, or part of a salad.

I've only ever found them for sale of honesty boxes and a welsh farm. Down south I've only ever seen them in C0stco as "posh eggs" and they don't cut it as the same..

iammumtoone

I can't believe my luck that I have found somewhere local to get them, previously I only saw them occasionally when out and about on travels.

To me they have much more flavour and I love the huge yolks.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Scrambled in a frying pan with just butter and then salt and pepper.

They're available during the Summer from supermarkets as well as smaller places because Ducks don't go in for that battery cage nonsense or fall for the artificial day length trick that chickens do, so go off lay when Nature dictates it.

iammumtoone

I've never seen them in the supermarkets around here.

Prinzessilein

Duck eggs are the BEST for pastry!

Mum makes the shortest, richest melt-in-the-mouthiest pastry for mince pies with duck eggs!

dandy-candy

DH and I love them and used to get them as a treat from Waitrose. However we cooked one for DS1 a few months back and he went into anaphylactic shock, which has never happened with a chicken egg :eek: I have no idea what's in them that's different, but I won't buy them anymore.

t14cy_t

im lucky enough that I have fresh duck eggs as I still have 2 lovely old gals, one of whom still lays, even though they are now 15!! use duck eggs in the same way as hens...they are much richer though so savour!! xx

bertiewhite

We used to keep runner ducks and their eggs were brilliant for baking, presumably due to a higher fat content than hen eggs, so I've been told.

trailingspouse

Our local shop has them regularly. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of eggs myself, but OH swears by them.

You can basically do anything that you would do with a hens egg - we've had them fried, boiled and scrambled. I don't poach them as they would be too big to fit the holes in my poaching pan, but there's no reason why you can't poach them direct in boiling water (just never a technique I've mastered). And I see no reason why you shouldn't use them for baking, provided you used a recipe that went by the weight of the eggs rather than the number.

A word of warning though - my step-daughter had them for the first time when she came to visit and she was plagued with *ahem* wind for the rest of the day...

Gloomendoom

We have duck eggs as often as we have hens eggs: fried, scrambled, poached, boiled. Never used them for baking though. We get them from the farm down the road.

My wife recently pickled a few. I haven't tried them yet.

I saw these for sale in a market in Australia. Might need a bigger egg cup.