Tasty eggs... WHERE??

KxMx

Directly from local small farm or find out the local shops that farm supplies. 

joedenise

bouicca21 said:

It’s mostly down to how fresh they are. Whilst others on this thread have recommended Lidl, I find that eggs from my local Lidl aren’t all that tasty and are quite old - you can tell because the whites are very runny and don’t form a mound.

Agree they need to be fresh but it sounds as though your local Lidl don't have the turnover that my and PIP's local ones do as I find my local one always have very fresh eggs.

YoungBlueEyes

A while ago when the shops were short I bought (dearer!) eggs from our butchers. I can't say they were anything special tbh, so I went back to sm when they got stock back in.

One thing that does irk me though is labeling them free range and charging extra for them, when the restrictions have meant no birds have been outside for a long time. I'm not sure if the restrictions been lifted recently so that is possibly not a right-up-to-date comment. 

kempiejon

Emmia said:

M&S golden yolk or the St Ewe Rich Yolk.

I also really like duck eggs if I'm just having them boiled.

Another fan of the duck here. I keep them as a treat, tastier and richer coloured yolk. They are a bit bigger than hens' my 3 egg omelette with ducks' ova is too much breakfast.  

MrsStepford

I wouldn't buy eggs from a roadside stall, you really don't know where they are from. If you can get eggs from a friend or neighbour , hopefully they would be better.

Stonegate Estate, Clarence Court and many supermarket free range eggs, come from Stonegate.

Non-organic chickens can be fed GMO grains and corn. 

We buy Sainsbury's large organic eggs. They're okay. I prefer Riverford but they only do mixed weight eggs now. 

DullGreyGuy

Emmia said:

M&S golden yolk or the St Ewe Rich Yolk.

Had some of the other St Ewe options and they were also good... it's funny if you make a cake with them or such as they colour it so strongly. 

Other thing is to remember to season the eggs properly!

goldfinches

kempiejon said:

Emmia said:

M&S golden yolk or the St Ewe Rich Yolk.

I also really like duck eggs if I'm just having them boiled.

Another fan of the duck here. I keep them as a treat, tastier and richer coloured yolk. They are a bit bigger than hens' my 3 egg omelette with ducks' ova is too much breakfast.  

Another vote for duck eggs here too. I buy mine from M*rks and Spencer and they are very pricey but worth it in my opinion and make wonderful biscuits and cakes too.
My mother kept chickens, bantams and geese for decades and I've never found any to match the flavour of their eggs, even the Clarence Court ones don't live up to them.
I can only suggest you ask around locally to find someone to buy them from or get your own chickens.
You might find Chris van Tulleken's Fed series on BBC Sounds an interesting listen as it explains how their feed affects the chickens and how you might rear your own among other things. 

RainbowsInTheSpray

Thanks to all for the comments. I keep seeing freshness and food being mentioned as the major factors in taste... and I strongly suspect it's the latter which packs the most wallop.

How on earth you can judge from an egg what's been fed to the hens mystifies me... but for a racing certainty you can bet that the companies supplying supermarkets won't have been too fussy.

As with all products - the supermarkets' overriding concern is homogeneity and above all appearance. It doesn't matter that tomatoes are tasteless so long as they look nice, red and shiny and fit well into the box rows...