No white eggs please

Are we talking white eggs like American white?

Or the normal colour we call eggs with Burford browns being the brown?

I bet you couldn't taste the difference if you did a blindfolded taste test.

I read that white eggs were more ethical (really can't remember why but a quick Google search will tell you). I truly don't believe there's a difference in taste. I buy them all the time and can't notice any difference. I think it's your mind playing tricks on you.

Your online picker would laugh and show all the other pickers of yet another example of customer bat-shittery. Buy Clarence Court of you want brown ones.

The egg industry is disgusting. Male chicks go straight in the mincer. All supermarket eggs are mixed up and not truly free range like they say. Stop eating eggs.

Unwashed eggs don’t need to be refrigerated but they do need a constant cool temperature. Supermarkets are climate-controlled and the temperature is therefore more consistent than a domestic kitchen. If you can guarantee a constant cool temperature in a larder or pantry then you can store your eggs there, but in most kitchens the most consistently temperature-controlled space is the fridge.

YAB wildly unreasonable. They taste the same. Be grateful for having food

I’ve never unstood eggs.

We had chickens for years and while it was lovely having them as pets (they would follow me around the garden and come into the house), our eggs worked out so expensive. Admittedly we probably fed them too well, what with the grain, corn and shell stuff. But I can honestly say, their eggs tasted the same as the supermarket ones.

Also, why do we generally keep them in the fridge when we buy them from the supermarket shelf?

The yolk colour depends on what the hen has been eating.

Nutritionally they are identical.

They taste eggactly the same

We’ve just been in the US and had white shelled free range eggs. No discernible difference in taste. The only white shelled eggs I’ve had in the U.K. came from the butchers in lockdown ( when they were out of stock in my local supermarket). I suspect they were European imports and were sadly probably not free range. Didn’t get those again.

I was going to post exactly the same. Since we stopped keeping hens and buy from the supermarket I think they're all a bit less tasty and colourful on the inside but that's quality rather than shell colour.

Get burford browns... beautiful but about £4 for half a dozen!

They also wash their eggs in the USA, which is banned here as it allows producers to disguise poor husbandry. This is also why the eggs are in the chiller cabinets in US supermarkets, as washing removes the protective bloom on the egg and means they have to be refrigerated.

Clarence court (the burford brown people) do a green box with pure white eggs

I prefer darker yolks but it's not linked to the shell colour. Some of the palsy shell colours can have deepest colour yolks, it mostly depends on the breed of the chook. From the Clarence court range most of their eggs have the deep orange yolks and they come in pure white, blue, green and brown shells.

IME, having specifically looked for them for an egg-dyeing Easter craft, it’s pretty difficult to find white-shelled eggs in the UK. They taste exactly the same.

The colour of the egg is just due to the breed of hen. I used to keep chickens and the eggs tasted much better than supermarket ones.

best supermarket ones are Clarence court but I’ve not bought them in a long time, they’re so expensive now! We get through about three dozen eggs a week so would cost a fortune 😩

Tesco free range eggs are white at the moment, they taste the same as the brown ones. It's a cultural thing, isn't it? We like brown eggs because they look more "natural", other nationalities (well, the US 😂) like white ones because they look pure. It's also what we/they are used to.

I've been getting the eggs from Tesco, never had a problem before

I had white eggs from Tesco for breakfast on Sunday. They absolutely did not have pale yolks or an insipid taste.

Clarence Court, both the blue and brown shelled eggs, have reliably tasty darker yolks.

Just make sure you pick free range

I buy white free-range eggs all the time.

Some people appear to think the difference between white and brown eggs is like the difference between white and brown bread or rice. It isn't. (And how do those people account for bluey-green eggs?)

The colour of the shell depends on the expression of pigment genes, which has nothing to do with the colour of the yolk or the taste of the egg. The OP's statement that "Brown eggs taste richer and the orange yolks look more appealing, white eggs yolks look pale and insipid and are tasteless" is just wrong.

https://poultrykeeper.com/keeping-chickens/chicken-eggshell-colours/

We used to keep chickens and for us, the taste and colour of the yolks was far superior to shop bought eggs (of any colour shell.) The colour of our egg shells could vary from off white to a deep, speckled brown, from Maran hens. The yolk colour didn't really change.
Maran hens' eggs did look very attractive in a white egg-cup but the taste was the same. We fed our hens a mixed grain diet with quite a bit of corn (maize) in it.
I really miss having our own eggs, even ones fron farm shops etc are not as good.

You need eggs from hens with non-white ear lobes OP