AIBU...Burford Brown Eggs...what else compares?

[TwinsandTrifle]

Please help. We get through so many eggs and the only ones we've found and loved are the Burford Browns which are £4.50 for ten. We use at least a box a day (5 of us.) We've tried all local recommendations of "oh the most wonderful eggs from the farm shop/at the side of the road" and honestly, they've all been crap in comparison.

On the basis that (unless you live next door to us and don't want to give location away in case outing) local recommendations aren't really of any help, has anyone found nationally available eggs that are as good or surpass Burfords? Must be some way to get our eggs for less than £35 a week!

There’s nothing! I got this the other day from Banquist. Their chefs recommend these eggs above all others. They really are the absolute best!

M&S eggs are nice, £2 for 15 in a yellow box. Nice dark yellow yolks.

If you want to keep your own I recommend the eglu, easy to clean and no danger of red mites as plastic.
I would recommend almost anything else! They are okay in the "meets the minimum standards" sense, but far from ideal in terms of perch height, space etc. The runs are also far too small although obviously you don't have to use one.

Oh @newfluff I love a mixed box too! I've only got white, normal and dark brown (Mrs Welsummer) now but did enjoy looking at the Cream Legbar eggs (didn't enjoy the hens though so never replaced them, little nutters). I had an olive egger that I only lost recently as a grand old lady. I kept trying to get hold of a Langshan as I believe they can lay a pinky brown egg but they are so super-rare in general I haven't managed to find any. The flock is quite young and settled at the moment so it will be standard colours here for a while I think but I definitely get the visual appeal aspect. I agree though, I can't tell you who's laid my omlette if I don't look at the shell first. Unless it's a double yoker in which case it's the weird white hybrid hen that somebody dumped in my garden!

Once you've had them, there's no going back OP.

Best eggs in the world for poaching and baking.

www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/clarence-court-free-range-large-burford-browns/842409-712451-712452

Greenfrog and Solway make excellent plastic houses (from recylced farm plastic waste!) but you do need to sort your own run/fencing. I've had both and there's not much to choose between them, I thought they were both excellent.

OP, you’re eating too many eggs and you need to have more variety in your diet.

Eggs for both breakfast and lunch sounds dull as well as unhealthy.

Honestly, don't worry about our diet, we're all fine

I admit defeat, it seems the Burfords won't be beaten!

Well they're £3.50 in Morrisons, so that will save you 7 quid.

Queeniescroft, my girls were only kept in the run when I was at work to keep them safe from foxes, as soon as I was home they were let out to free range. They lived to a ripe old age of at least 8 years old and still laid up til a few months before they died so they certainly seemed happy in their eglu cube & put themselves to bed in it as soon as it was dusk!

They’re the nicest eggs. It costs a lot because you’re eating so many. Want to spend less? Either eat less eggs or buy less nice eggs.

Sadly, nothing compares to them.

I wish I’d never tried them and could poo poo them like these other posters. Ignorance is bliss (and cheaper)

I feel like I'm missing out.I thought eggs were eggs.Do they really taste that much better?

Good gracious your family’s cholesterol must be through the roof!

@FogHornInTheAttic

I feel like I'm missing out.I thought eggs were eggs.Do they really taste that much better?

Don’t do it. It’s a slippery slope into egg debt.

@AngeloMysterioso

Good gracious your family’s cholesterol must be through the roof!

Been thoroughly debunked.

If the yolks being super yellow isn't what makes them taste so good, then what is it?

And if it's so easy to achieve, why doesn't everyone do it?

I’ve never heard of these eggs. Don’t understand why you wouldn’t just find a local farm that sells eggs. Can probably buy eggs at 5 local farms/cottages within 2 miles radius of my house.

One egg for breakfast with toast and one egg for lunch as omelette with salad that just leaves dinner to sort out - that's what I meant by not needing much more food.

£35 a week on eggs, bloody hell, how the other half live

@Ihopeyourcakeisshit

£35 a week on eggs, bloody hell, how the other half live

I thought that but it's pretty much all they eat apart from dinner by the looks of it. But yes there are much cheaper eggs.

I agree with others, either you can afford it or you can't, but you've already decided they are the only eggs you like so if you want to spend less, eat something different.

You sound a bit stuck in a food rut, but that's ok, I have phases where I eat the same thing a lot.

£35/week on eggs is pretty extreme though, no doubt about that.

Cacklebean eggs are delicious too OP!

Eating 2 eggs per person every day & having eggs be the main feature of two of your three meals a day is a diet pretty lacking in variety if you ask me. Also I ate two eggs a day for a week on a holiday once and got terribly constipated which is common. Too many eggs isnt recommended for cholesterol levels either

I like Burford Brown's and Old Cotswolds Legbar, haven't found any that match them but you could try Waitrose Blacktail eggs. My mum also gets the ones from the milkman which aren't too bad.