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!

[Killahangilion]

Wow, I can’t believe that people spend so much money on eggs a week?

I have 6 lovely hens and get an average of 4 eggs a day and give most of my eggs away as we don’t get through them. I gave 20 away to a friend yesterday who has her grandchildren visiting.

DS won’t eat eggs regardless of how they’re cooked and DH can only tolerate eggs cooked in cakes and quiches, so he doesn’t eat them on their own either.

I have all different breeds and love my girls as pets so the eggs they give us are a bonus.

[MrsSkylerWhite]

BarbaraofSeville

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“

I don’t u derstand, either.
Pop them in a pain of cold water. If they don’t stand up or float, they’re fine.

[BarbaraofSeville]

Interesting that a lot of people are recommending the M&S 15 for £2 eggs.

Something else I read about eggs is the trend for large/very large eggs is bad for hen welfare, and we should be buying either medium eggs, or the categorised ones, possibly because they're just whatever is naturally produced. Perhaps the larger eggs are less common without some sort of intervention?

[C8H10N4O2]

Perhaps the larger eggs are less common without some sort of intervention?

Its a function of the age of the hen. Older hens produce fewer but larger, eggs.

Food dye will product lovely yellow yolks and has been used in that why by big egg producers who know that customers like brown shells and yellow yolks. Flavour of egg is not dependent on colour of yolk (or shell!).

[Poppins2016]

Like others have said, the most economical solution, if you have the space and inclination, is to just get your own hens!

The hens you near to obtain are known by the following names (depending on breeder):
Maran Cuivree / Copper Maran / Burford Brown / Suffolk Noir / Starlight

I keep my hens in a large fenced off area of my back garden (to avoid them trashing the rest of it!). I reckon 6 hens cost me approx. £40 a month when factoring in organic pellets and corn, wormer, grit and bedding etc. all obtained from a local farmers merchant. They're pretty easy, "no fuss" to keep in my opinion, just need a small amount of time in the morning and evening to sort fresh food and water and let them in/out of their coop. When we go away, whoever feeds our cats also sees to the chickens without issue.

[thecatsabsentcojones]

I’ve got chickens and the eggs are pretty good, but know what you mean about the Burford Browns. Having just googled it, they are Maran Cuivree chickens that lay those. I’ve got Marans but although they are good, beautiful eggs that aren’t quite as big as the BB’s. May have to get a couple of the Cuivree’s!

[BarbaraofSeville]

@Killahangilion

Wow, I can’t believe that people spend so much money on eggs a week?

I have 6 lovely hens and get an average of 4 eggs a day and give most of my eggs away as we don’t get through them. I gave 20 away to a friend yesterday who has her grandchildren visiting.

DS won’t eat eggs regardless of how they’re cooked and DH can only tolerate eggs cooked in cakes and quiches, so he doesn’t eat them on their own either.

I have all different breeds and love my girls as pets so the eggs they give us are a bonus.

I have thought about having chickens and we do have the space, but our neighbour lost all theirs to foxes, which put me off, also a relative lost hers to foxes or some other wildlife. I think I decided that the expense of providing a suitably fox proof enclosure would make it an expensive solution.

But even though we eat a lot of eggs, I don't think they're a particularly expensive food, even if you buy BBs like the OP. Two or three eggs is 90 p or £1.35, which isn't much to provide the main component of a decent meal, particularly as people who eat a lot of eggs probably eat less meat and fish than the average person.

[Weallloveted]

Can't believe the people saying that eating two eggs a day is excessive or not varied. Two eggs have about 140 calories in total so they're hardly the staple of the OP's diet. I'm sure they eat lots of other stuff too. Eggs are some of the most nutritionally balanced food that exists and they do not raise cholesterol. I'd like to see what the people saying this isn't healthy eat on an average day. Probably white toast and jam or something.
Oh and who ever made an omelette out of one egg?

[C8H10N4O2]

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

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

The OP talked about eggs for breakfast or lunch rather than both.

If you ended up constipated after eating eggs Its your diet which needs attention, not the OP's. Try wholemeal toast with it or some veg.

The cholesterol myth is nonsense.

[C8H10N4O2]

Can't believe the people saying that eating two eggs a day is excessive or not varied. Two eggs have about 140 calories in total so they're hardly the staple of the OP's diet

Ah yes but this is MN where competitive under eating claims are an Olympic class sport.

[clickychicky]

Oh and who ever made an omelette out of one egg?

Me

[Warmduscher]

@Sammysquiz

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

The OP asked for egg recommendations, not an opinion on her diet

OP - have you tried the M&S ones which a previous poster mentioned? I find they’re the ones closest to the BB taste.

Hate to break it to you, but people are free to post what they like on here provided they keep within talk guidelines.

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Plenty of one egg omelettes eaten here as well, mainly by the kids.

[sandgrown]

My friend had the most spoilt chickens in the world (she even cooks for them)but they lay fantastic eggs . I think it must be in the quality of the food.

[Newfluff]

@sandgrown

My friend had the most spoilt chickens in the world (she even cooks for them)but they lay fantastic eggs . I think it must be in the quality of the food.

Another feeding them illegally then. And don't get me started on those that feed meal worms, also illegal as they are grown on excrement including human

[EmmaGrundyForPM]

@sandgrown

My friend had the most spoilt chickens in the world (she even cooks for them)but they lay fantastic eggs . I think it must be in the quality of the food.

unless she is a vegan, she can't feed them anything from her kitchen. It's illegal.

[morningteaisthebest]

I regularly have 3 eggs a day, they're good healthy snacks full of protein.

No idea why it would mess up your digestion, but then, any change can do that in the short term I suppose.

[DobbyTheHouseElk]

Lots of corn gives a bright yellow yolk.
Cheap feed will give a pale yolk.

This is most probably a marketing thread for the Burford Browns which are my go to egg if I can’t get local corn fed eggs. Nothing IMO compares to corn fed local eggs.

[BigSandyBalls2015]

Oh look it's descended into another competitive eating thread .

I hate cereal, fruit and yoghurt and I'm trying to cut down on carbs so toast is out ..... i have a two egg omelette every morning. No constipation and cholesterol is perfect .

[Mummaminnie]

We eat BBs here too although it's mostly DH who has two for breakfast practically every day. DD and I don't eat eggs every day and I probably eat a few more than she does.

I used to buy the blue Legbar hens eggs but can't get them in my Sainsbury's online shop or locally so switched to BBs. Anyway, they are such great eggs and buy maybe a couple of dozen per week. I usually buy Sainsbury's golden yolks for baking.

Pre lockdown, a colleague used to bring in eggs from his small holding and I thought they were excellent too. There would always be a scramble (pun wasn't intended 😁) for a box or two of his eggs.

[BarbaraofSeville]

I sometimes make a one egg omelette, but it's to put in a wrap with quorn cocktail sausages and a potato waffle as a fake McDonalds breakfast wrap because you can't get them any more because covid.

[MagicSummer]

All you lucky people who can eat eggs as eggs! I've never been able to face one since eating one which had gone off as a child! I can eat them cooked in cakes, soufflees, etc., but not boiled, fried, scrambled or hard-boiled and I always fancy them so much! Would I notice a difference in flavour if I used Burford Browns in cakes and stuff?

[dottiedodah]

You seem to be consuming an awful lot of eggs! I think that Happy Eggs (£2.75 for 10 large ones ) seem very nice to me .I think maybe M and S or Waitrose? I would have thought home chickens would have a nicer taste personally .

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

@MagicSummer

All you lucky people who can eat eggs as eggs! I've never been able to face one since eating one which had gone off as a child! I can eat them cooked in cakes, soufflees, etc., but not boiled, fried, scrambled or hard-boiled and I always fancy them so much! Would I notice a difference in flavour if I used Burford Browns in cakes and stuff?

Yes, you can taste good eggs in cakes.

[QueeniesCroft]

@Mossstitch

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!

I didn't say they weren't adequate. They meet the minimum standards.