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

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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!

Have you tried the Waitrose Essential White Eggs. We have found them to be the best tasting. I think they are a £1 a box (half a dozen). DH often has poached egg in the morning, he is always disappointed if you have run out of white eggs.

Arlington Whites - you can get them through First Choice Produce online for £11.50 for 30. Absolutely the best eggs, the Burford Browns are my second choice when I can't be bothered ordering 30 just for me

We have six Warren hens and until they started to go off lay last week, we've had 9 months of 6 eggs daily, usually weighing about 75g each (size of a large supermarket egg).

My hens are in a massive cage in the garden - massive, you could have a party in there. I feed them pellets from Mole, corn daily, peck blocks, occasionally meal worms, all the weeds we pull up, bits of grass, leftover veg/fruit, and if they lay a soft shelled egg, they have that too (its good for them).

Our eggs are almost creamy. Bloody amazing. I eat two or three for breakfast or lunch most days and have to stop myself eating hard boiled eggs during the day. I worry about the cholesterol.

We give the extras to friend and family and neighbours.

But OP I agree Burfords are sensational.

@OlivePenderghast

If you want cheaper Burford Brown eggs you could buy your own hens. They’re very easy to look after and lovely pets. £45 each and they lay about 240 eggs per year so better value!

But op would need at least 10 so that’s £450 before she’s even bought the coop and run.

Point of lays are £15 round here and in my experience buying fancy breeds really does not affect the flavour.

@AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken

It’s funny how everyone on here who has had Burford Browns understands what OP means. The ones who haven’t had them think eggs are eggs, it’s in our heads and we couldn’t tell from a blind taste test.

No one so far has been on and said they’ve had them but they don’t find them all that special or different to any other egg.

Honestly I think that's because anyone that pays that much for a few eggs is going to want to believe they are the best no matter what 🙂 I think it's time for a blind taste test as others have said, I might be convinced then!

Trouble is because mine have quite a seasonal natural diet and aren't modern hybrids like all these 'fancy' egg producers they do have peaks and troughs in the quality of their eggs. They are really good at the minute as they are getting loads of greenery and insects from their garden patrols. When they start moulting shortly I will be lucky to get any eggs at all. Then if we have another winter bird flu lockdown the eggs will be deeply average, not that they lay much in the winter anyway as they don't have enough daylight and I won't light them artificially. I've got one hybrid so she will probably keep laying a bit longer as she has the genetics to do so but they mostly have a rest and recharge over winter and any eggs they do lay are pretty unspectacular because they haven't got the varied diet they have during the better months.

On my Ocado birthday which is admittedly weird they sent a little video and one of the things they included was that I bought the most burford brown eggs.

we are also a family of 5-can easily go through 10 a day!!

they are just so much nicer than other eggs and I def think worth every penny!

Total side note but there's been lots of PP saying two eggs a day is excessive and noises about cholesterol. There's lots of evidence dietary cholesterol doesn't raise cholesterol levels. Trans and saturated fats do, as do processed or simple carbohydrates (including fructose) as they increase your triglycerides. It's quite outdated now that dietary cholesterol = high cholesterol.

Two eggs a day is a good breakfast option compared to many - processed cereal, jam, white or processed bread, high sugar fruits such as bananas - all won't be doing anything good for cholesterol.

@Heyha
I do the food shopping. My husband always knows if I’ve used Burford Browns or not in our breakfast even if he hasn’t seen what I’ve bought in. That’s a blind test.
It’s silly to tell people who have tried something and rave about it that they’re all unanimously wrong and simple.

We go through 24 eggs a week.
In cornwall we have st ewe eggs which are delicious with a big orange yolk. Also really rate Aldi’s blue eggs.

I love how a lighthearted post about delicious eggs turns into a bashing about cholesterol and so on 😂 only on mumsnet

A quick Google suggests 3 eggs a day is fine

@AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken

It’s funny how everyone on here who has had Burford Browns understands what OP means. The ones who haven’t had them think eggs are eggs, it’s in our heads and we couldn’t tell from a blind taste test.

No one so far has been on and said they’ve had them but they don’t find them all that special or different to any other egg.

I've never eaten Burford, eggs do taste different, quite often local farm eggs are crap because they are fed on cheaper layers and kept in shitty cages with no access to grass.

@DepressedDD

I wonder if Buford add something to their eggs to make them taste nicer…..like McDonald’s adding msg or whatever they add to their food. I’m going to have to try some.

I’m happy with feeding scraps to my chickens. Like I said we have no meat in our kitchen. Ok, so I slipped up with the pad Thai…..I wouldn’t purposefully feed them egg. Saying that chickens will happily peck their own eggs and eat them so I can’t get too excited about that. If I drop one on the floor they’re all over it.

I think the main risk is with big professional units and feeding them animal derived food which rightly is banned. As a kid on a farm I remember the cow feeders getting chocked up with feathers……that was from the animal feed/cow feed that was bought. Back in the 80s I guess cattle feed was a high content of mashed up chicken.

Then you are completely and utterly selfish and irresponsible, as a pp said your choices have high stake consequences

The only difference I can discern is that Burfords have a very orange yolk, which is actually because the chickens have beta carotene added to their feed, not because they have a radically different lifestyle to other free range hens.

Waitrose Longstock Gold have a similar yolk and pale green shells so are very beautiful. Perhaps slightly cheaper than Burfords, I'm not sure.

Had some blue eggs a few weeks ago, can’t remember the name but from Aldi I think. They were lovely.

We also love Burford Browns and also Cotswold Legbar, I buy these for us to eat but ordinary organic ones for cooking and baking

I've just clicked out of this thread to add Burford eggs to this week's Tesco order.....

I've eaten them. They taste nice. But if i thought I was spending too much on them I'd just switch to another egg. Though after reading this thread I will make sure I think about it before buying them from farm gates/Gardens as seems not everyone knows you can't feed them kitchen scraps.

@Dixiechickonhols

Not original poster but we eat a lot of eggs. 2 a day per person sounds normal to me. Scrambled egg, fried or sweet omelette breakfast. Hardboiled in a salad. Omelette lunch. Homemade quiche. Scotch eggs. Yorkshire pudding or in baking. I do eat eggs most days. I’ve only had burfords when reduced and found them ok but not as nice as free range ones off milkman. I also buy from two local farms. They do vary. Keep trying until you find some you love.

OMG what in the name of all that is holy is a “sweet omelette”?

@clickychicky

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.

I wouldn't consider making an omelette with only one egg, unless it was for a small child.

@DepressedDD

I wonder if Buford add something to their eggs to make them taste nicer…..like McDonald’s adding msg or whatever they add to their food. I’m going to have to try some.

I’m happy with feeding scraps to my chickens. Like I said we have no meat in our kitchen. Ok, so I slipped up with the pad Thai…..I wouldn’t purposefully feed them egg. Saying that chickens will happily peck their own eggs and eat them so I can’t get too excited about that. If I drop one on the floor they’re all over it.

I think the main risk is with big professional units and feeding them animal derived food which rightly is banned. As a kid on a farm I remember the cow feeders getting chocked up with feathers……that was from the animal feed/cow feed that was bought. Back in the 80s I guess cattle feed was a high content of mashed up chicken.

This is how virus and disease spreads

I often find the Aldi blue eggs reduced. For reasons I don't understand, it is illegal to sell eggs with less than a week before the best before date, so seeing as we will easily use 6/12 or even 18 eggs in a week, I get those if I see them.

@DietrichandDiMaggio
Fair enough. I only have 1 egg omelettes.

Anyway M&S do some nice ones.

I agree they are the nicest and like you op we get through loads, i seem to always be buying eggs cos we all love them. I can eat 4 or more a day! They make a nice snack wrapped in thin ham, added to a salad, fried egg sandwich, in a curry, omelette, scrambled, quiche, so versatile i get quite panicked when we are running out 😁