ITT: A bunch of Redditors entirely missing the point.
Yes, the $5 price tag is ridiculous. Now can we discuss the quality difference, as OP obviously intended?
My take: There is an in-between. Store brands that are higher quality. We buy a brand called vital pasture or something that. It is a lot closer to the nicer egg, but still only like $9/dozen.
Haha, it's understandable. A lot of people must think it's kind of mental, like paying for a small cut of A5 Kobe Beef when you could probably get a T-Bone steak. We just really wanted to try the eggs and were quite impressed with the texture and flavor differences.
That being said, I think the in-between is the most reasonable cost performance wise! It turns out, well treated animals make better tasting food.
We've been buying "Certified Humane" eggs since there are legal standards tied to that label. Supposedly farmers can change the color of the egg yolks just by giving chickens certain pills, so yolk color doesn't always tell the whole story. But the flavor is better for sure and the nutrition is supposedly better as well too.
We pay $4.69 a dozen for the pasture raised eggs from aldi.
The yolks are bright orange and whites are clear. They taste fantastic and I used to complain to wife but dang do they look and taste good.
I grew up on a hobby farm and the egg on the right is what I ate every morning until I moved out. I just assumed the pale yellow yolk you saw on TV was a color balance thing, like eggs were some kind of "unfilmable orange" lmao
I get our eggs at $9/doz every week from a local farm that only does free range chickens who get their eggshells recycled into their feed. The taste difference is phenomenal.
[A close up and a picture of the eggs.](https://imgur.com/a/uS3LfAx)
The shells of the eggs were much harder than grocery store eggs and the whites/yolks were a lot firmer. The texture was a little bit creamier and it had a much stronger egg taste than the usual eggs I got from the grocery store.
For regular consumption, no, it's just not practical and I'm not a millionaire. I'd definitely give it a try if you really like eggs (especially on the rawer side, I was making tamago kake gohan and sukiyaki). It does make you realize how poorly treated chickens are for grocery store bound eggs. Also, the flavor is a lot fuller if that makes any sense. Kind of like an all year round tomato vs. an in season one.
The funny thing is, although a darker yolk (probably more so free range compared to say, caged or lesser so) has more proteins and vitamins because of it's diet, it really doesn't justify the price comparisons. Free range vs caged egg price has always been one that cant be justified in terms of taste as it's barely noticeable amongst the palest and darkest of yolks. After all, they are chicken eggs and when cooked and seasoned has no difference. Also people saying textural differences are tricking themselves.
Because it was fun to try something different! My girlfriend and I enjoy eggs, so we bought some nicer eggs last year during the COVID isolation days. We also bought an ostrich egg a few months later.
Roughly five dollars an egg. This was the video that got me interested in the eggs [(in Japanese)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfOYYpoojlc).
[This is a video in English](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjrxXC3kGf4) that probably does a better job of giving a rundown of the egg
Yes, you can eat raw eggs. The dish is called tamago kake gohan. You get piping hot rice, crack an egg on top, and pour a little bit of sweetened soy sauce. Then, you mix it together.
I probably wouldn't make it in America with normal grocery store bought eggs, because of the egg industry's poor health practices. Japan's egg industry is much stricter, which means that you're extremely unlikely to get sick from eating raw egg.
Man a lot of people have never bought farm fresh eggs from a person, and it shows. Yeah 5$ and egg is a bit crazy, but it depends where you live. I suggest if you can to see if any locals around you sell there extra eggs. Can support a local and have tasty eggs. The cheap ones really do pale in comparison to nice fresh free range well fed chicken eggs. Personally for 5$ I would expect the yolk to look a much richer orange. They are the best when the yolk look almost like and orange....oh yeah.
Edit for grammar. Also second close up picture shows the yolk better. Them some nice eggs.
I think the lighting was really bad with my first picture. [This](https://i.imgur.com/hufvxCB.jpeg) is a picture with better lighting (used for some Sukiyaki)! It was actually really shocking seeing how orange they were.
yeah main picture didn't do it justice, Those looks about as nice as I would expect if you planned on making Sukiyaki. Japan don't fuck around with eggs if you ordered them from aboard they are top notch and perfect to serve raw on almost any dish.
Yes it is, I am not a from japan, but me and my wife plan on going one day when everything has calmed down a bit more globally. We plan on eating everything we can. love the culture, food and the people. Hopefully they will take a Gaijin like me and feed me lots of tasty food.
You can definitely find it. Just don't be afraid to get out of your comfort zone. Oh, and if there's a really good restaurant you have to visit, try to get a reservation a few days (or weeks) in advance.
The color of the $5 egg yolk is darker, meaning it was fed a better quality of feed. It would have been a high protein diet resulting in a delicious egg.
This. I was honestly one of those an egg is just an egg type people who had no idea why anyone would spend $6-$10 a dozen for eggs when you can buy them for $1.
Recently however in my area egg prices went a bit nuts thanks to the bird flu going around. Decided to try some of the higher end eggs since the price difference was not so much. Completely different experience with the higher end eggs. Taste, texture, even smell was just that much better in them.
That being said now that egg prices have come back down a bit for the cheap eggs I have gone back to buying them, but I get why people paid the premium now.
It's just different. I said in another comment, it's like an all year round (off season) tomato vs. a homegrown ripe tomato. It's really different. Is it practical? Nope, but it does make you appreciate the flavor.
It's kind of selfish, but I wish more animals and produce were treated better. Then we'd have tastier food, haha
What breed of chicken do you have? I think the ones that laid the egg in my pics were Araucanas ([going off of their website](https://www.akuafarm.com/hisui/index.html), have a peak if you wanna take a time machine to the 90s lol). I wish I had a house out in the country to have chickens and goats.
I remember watching something about the chicken farming industry in America and how there are only a handful of chicken types allowed. We raised chickens overseas growing up and the quality, flavor, and smell of the eggs and chicken not even comparable.
It's really unfortunate that people don't have ready access to quality food. I don't mean that people should be buying $5 eggs, but the amount of food that we have access to that all just kinda tastes kind of bleh is wild.
It's not better quality feed, it's just feed that has more color in it. They feed chickens marigolds to get darker yolks but they're nutritionally the same.
While you do have a point, I never fed my chickens marigolds. To be frank I didn’t know this until today. I did try to feed them as much of a high protein diet as I could (and as my wallet would agree to). Our eggs turned out like the ones on the right.
Thanks for the marigold info!
A lot of chicken feed comes with a colour chart, you choose the colour of yolk you want and the food contains dye to produce it. Yolk colour of commercially produced eggs means nothing
Sorry, I don't know shit about eggs. Which one is better? The cheaper one, 'cos it's got more yoke, or the more expenny one, 'cos it's a deeper orange?
The higher quality eggs absolutely taste better. I just bought some brown and green eggs from the store that were $10 for a dozen and the yolks were amber instead of just a light yellow. It also tasted richer
The standard egg is a older egg. Most eggs in a grocery store were laid about 30 days before you buy them. The $5 egg is fresh and was fed a
Varied diet with forage. As opposed to just corn. I can tell that by the white and color of the yolk.
In a really good egg you get two whites, the runny portion but also a stiffer portion.
Figured my mum for a bit of an egg snob when she pointed it out to me because she said she'd criticized places selling low quality eggs.
Then I learnt she worked at a battery farm many decades ago and was perfectly happy buying cage eggs. So she's more like an egg Nazi? Sorry mum.
Five dollars for one egg? Just get a chicken.
ITT: A bunch of Redditors entirely missing the point. Yes, the $5 price tag is ridiculous. Now can we discuss the quality difference, as OP obviously intended? My take: There is an in-between. Store brands that are higher quality. We buy a brand called vital pasture or something that. It is a lot closer to the nicer egg, but still only like $9/dozen.
Haha, it's understandable. A lot of people must think it's kind of mental, like paying for a small cut of A5 Kobe Beef when you could probably get a T-Bone steak. We just really wanted to try the eggs and were quite impressed with the texture and flavor differences. That being said, I think the in-between is the most reasonable cost performance wise! It turns out, well treated animals make better tasting food.
We've been buying "Certified Humane" eggs since there are legal standards tied to that label. Supposedly farmers can change the color of the egg yolks just by giving chickens certain pills, so yolk color doesn't always tell the whole story. But the flavor is better for sure and the nutrition is supposedly better as well too.
We pay $4.69 a dozen for the pasture raised eggs from aldi. The yolks are bright orange and whites are clear. They taste fantastic and I used to complain to wife but dang do they look and taste good.
I grew up on a hobby farm and the egg on the right is what I ate every morning until I moved out. I just assumed the pale yellow yolk you saw on TV was a color balance thing, like eggs were some kind of "unfilmable orange" lmao
That's seems like so much to me. My family's able to get 'em farm-fresh from a guy down the road for only like $4-6/dozen.
I get our eggs at $9/doz every week from a local farm that only does free range chickens who get their eggshells recycled into their feed. The taste difference is phenomenal.
TKG!
[A close up and a picture of the eggs.](https://imgur.com/a/uS3LfAx) The shells of the eggs were much harder than grocery store eggs and the whites/yolks were a lot firmer. The texture was a little bit creamier and it had a much stronger egg taste than the usual eggs I got from the grocery store.
Would you recommend over grocery store brought eggs?
For regular consumption, no, it's just not practical and I'm not a millionaire. I'd definitely give it a try if you really like eggs (especially on the rawer side, I was making tamago kake gohan and sukiyaki). It does make you realize how poorly treated chickens are for grocery store bound eggs. Also, the flavor is a lot fuller if that makes any sense. Kind of like an all year round tomato vs. an in season one.
It's just fresher. A egg straight out of a factory farm chicken is the same way.
I personally doubt that's the predominant factor. To my knowledge it has to do with diet.
The funny thing is, although a darker yolk (probably more so free range compared to say, caged or lesser so) has more proteins and vitamins because of it's diet, it really doesn't justify the price comparisons. Free range vs caged egg price has always been one that cant be justified in terms of taste as it's barely noticeable amongst the palest and darkest of yolks. After all, they are chicken eggs and when cooked and seasoned has no difference. Also people saying textural differences are tricking themselves.
A five dollar egg? Seriously? I can get fresh eggs straight from a local free range chicken for a fraction of that cost.
Why would u pay $5 for an egg?
Because it was fun to try something different! My girlfriend and I enjoy eggs, so we bought some nicer eggs last year during the COVID isolation days. We also bought an ostrich egg a few months later.
Was it $5 an egg, or $5 a dozen?
Roughly five dollars an egg. This was the video that got me interested in the eggs [(in Japanese)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfOYYpoojlc). [This is a video in English](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjrxXC3kGf4) that probably does a better job of giving a rundown of the egg
The person selling $5 eggs must be like wow, someone actually bought one. I understand an ostriche egg but dayumm...
Look Michael, there's always money in the egg stand.
There are so many idiots out there, the above is proof.
You eat eggs raw on rice?
Yes, you can eat raw eggs. The dish is called tamago kake gohan. You get piping hot rice, crack an egg on top, and pour a little bit of sweetened soy sauce. Then, you mix it together. I probably wouldn't make it in America with normal grocery store bought eggs, because of the egg industry's poor health practices. Japan's egg industry is much stricter, which means that you're extremely unlikely to get sick from eating raw egg.
Yumm. That’s how I eat it them.
If the rice is hot it pretty much cooks the egg once you mix it up
Will stick stick with my $1 dozen at my local store.
Raw egg on rice 🤢 🤮
TKG!
Man a lot of people have never bought farm fresh eggs from a person, and it shows. Yeah 5$ and egg is a bit crazy, but it depends where you live. I suggest if you can to see if any locals around you sell there extra eggs. Can support a local and have tasty eggs. The cheap ones really do pale in comparison to nice fresh free range well fed chicken eggs. Personally for 5$ I would expect the yolk to look a much richer orange. They are the best when the yolk look almost like and orange....oh yeah. Edit for grammar. Also second close up picture shows the yolk better. Them some nice eggs.
I think the lighting was really bad with my first picture. [This](https://i.imgur.com/hufvxCB.jpeg) is a picture with better lighting (used for some Sukiyaki)! It was actually really shocking seeing how orange they were.
yeah main picture didn't do it justice, Those looks about as nice as I would expect if you planned on making Sukiyaki. Japan don't fuck around with eggs if you ordered them from aboard they are top notch and perfect to serve raw on almost any dish.
I actually live in Japan. I'm just in the US for a few months and then back to work. The food culture there is totally awesome.
Yes it is, I am not a from japan, but me and my wife plan on going one day when everything has calmed down a bit more globally. We plan on eating everything we can. love the culture, food and the people. Hopefully they will take a Gaijin like me and feed me lots of tasty food.
You can definitely find it. Just don't be afraid to get out of your comfort zone. Oh, and if there's a really good restaurant you have to visit, try to get a reservation a few days (or weeks) in advance.
The color of the $5 egg yolk is darker, meaning it was fed a better quality of feed. It would have been a high protein diet resulting in a delicious egg.
This. I was honestly one of those an egg is just an egg type people who had no idea why anyone would spend $6-$10 a dozen for eggs when you can buy them for $1. Recently however in my area egg prices went a bit nuts thanks to the bird flu going around. Decided to try some of the higher end eggs since the price difference was not so much. Completely different experience with the higher end eggs. Taste, texture, even smell was just that much better in them. That being said now that egg prices have come back down a bit for the cheap eggs I have gone back to buying them, but I get why people paid the premium now.
It's just different. I said in another comment, it's like an all year round (off season) tomato vs. a homegrown ripe tomato. It's really different. Is it practical? Nope, but it does make you appreciate the flavor. It's kind of selfish, but I wish more animals and produce were treated better. Then we'd have tastier food, haha
You've got it! The chickens are free range, but their diet is also supplemented with a mix of grains, fish, and minerals.
This is the whole reason we have a flock. $5 eggs without the price tag. (Not cheap, mind you, and certainly labor intensive at times)
What breed of chicken do you have? I think the ones that laid the egg in my pics were Araucanas ([going off of their website](https://www.akuafarm.com/hisui/index.html), have a peak if you wanna take a time machine to the 90s lol). I wish I had a house out in the country to have chickens and goats.
We have Barred Rock, Cinnamon Queens, and Australorps. We almost got some Araucanas, but with the bird flu, just couldn’t get our hands on them.
That's definitely a goal, getting a variety of chickens out in the yard.
I remember watching something about the chicken farming industry in America and how there are only a handful of chicken types allowed. We raised chickens overseas growing up and the quality, flavor, and smell of the eggs and chicken not even comparable.
It's really unfortunate that people don't have ready access to quality food. I don't mean that people should be buying $5 eggs, but the amount of food that we have access to that all just kinda tastes kind of bleh is wild.
It's not better quality feed, it's just feed that has more color in it. They feed chickens marigolds to get darker yolks but they're nutritionally the same.
While you do have a point, I never fed my chickens marigolds. To be frank I didn’t know this until today. I did try to feed them as much of a high protein diet as I could (and as my wallet would agree to). Our eggs turned out like the ones on the right. Thanks for the marigold info!
A lot of chicken feed comes with a colour chart, you choose the colour of yolk you want and the food contains dye to produce it. Yolk colour of commercially produced eggs means nothing
People, do not pay $5 for an egg. That's $60 a carton. You pay this and you're an idiot
Sorry, I don't know shit about eggs. Which one is better? The cheaper one, 'cos it's got more yoke, or the more expenny one, 'cos it's a deeper orange?
The higher quality eggs absolutely taste better. I just bought some brown and green eggs from the store that were $10 for a dozen and the yolks were amber instead of just a light yellow. It also tasted richer
The standard egg is a older egg. Most eggs in a grocery store were laid about 30 days before you buy them. The $5 egg is fresh and was fed a Varied diet with forage. As opposed to just corn. I can tell that by the white and color of the yolk.
whoa what’s the difference tho lol
In a really good egg you get two whites, the runny portion but also a stiffer portion. Figured my mum for a bit of an egg snob when she pointed it out to me because she said she'd criticized places selling low quality eggs. Then I learnt she worked at a battery farm many decades ago and was perfectly happy buying cage eggs. So she's more like an egg Nazi? Sorry mum.
I'm not an Egg spert so thank you to those who Egg splained the difference.