Posted: Tue May 16, 06 2:21 pm Post subject: pickled eggs
I've bought a lot of eggs from Iceland as they were on offer this week, fifteen for a quid... I usually buy free range eggs and pickle them.
Are these 'factory' produced shop eggs OK for pickling ?
Anything in particular I should be aware of ?
I usually age the free range eggs for around ten days before pickling, but will halve this for the shop eggs.
Cheers.
judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
Posted: Tue May 16, 06 2:42 pm Post subject:
Apart from the fact that they will probably be older than your free range eggs - which you've already taken into account - I can't see that they will pickle up any differently. Any difference in flavour will be more than counterbalanced by the vinegar IMO.
Judith (who rather agrees with your picture caption where eggs are concerned )
Silas
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 6848 Location: Staffordshire
Posted: Tue May 16, 06 4:20 pm Post subject:
Pretty brave of you to admit to buying battery eggs. Something that I would never do, no matter how desperate fop an egg I was or how cheap they may be.
I have real trouble peeling the shell off our own hens eggs - could it be that they're too fresh?
Interesting. We used to have big problems in peeling our "free-range" eggs when we were feeding them on pellets. All they get nowadays is corn, maize and what they forage from the meadow. I assumed that this was the reason they peel better now. Could be the age of egg though. We have been more careful with eating order of the eggs since the bird flu propaganda
Stacey wrote:
*wonders if any other downsizers realise how demoralising it is to see at least 50% of the white coming off on the shell of a boiled egg )
Yep, well annoying!
Silas wrote:
Pretty brave of you to admit to buying battery eggs. Something that I would never do, no matter how desperate fop an egg I was or how cheap they may be.
I was thinking the same thing. Battery farmed eggs are a definate no go area. If you can't afford free-range then don't have egg.
S
Nick
Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 34535 Location: Hereford
Posted: Wed May 17, 06 8:15 am Post subject:
mrutty wrote:
Blind testing and science show no difference in battery v free range in eggs, meat or anything else. If it makes you happier then treat differently.
You suggest the anitbiotic, hormone and drug residues found in battery eggs/intensively produced food are anomalies, and not related to their production methods? Great! I'll start buying factory foods again. Cheers!
Posted: Wed May 17, 06 8:54 am Post subject: Re: pickled eggs
I forgot to ask in my original post - do any of you picklers add interesting things like chilli pepper to your pickling jar ? I've tried one or two chilli peppers and the eggs tasted fine with an extra bite. What else could one use ?