To have my own eggs?

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DH asked for eggs with some other bits so he could cook.
I ordered them from co op. Anyway he's cooking now and he's taken my Burford browns. AIBU to say he should leave mine alone and crack on with the co op free range ones?

His excuse he saw them and they looked better and I can get some another time. But he isn't actually going to go to the shops for them.

In my defence I do share them with my toddler.

Holy fuck this thread leaves the question as to why any of you egg hoarders are in a relationship

Haven't you got anything more important to post about? Eggs? Ffs!

Her husband asked for eggs, he got eggs. If he wanted Burford Browns he should have asked for them.

Pathetic that you see someone trying a new recipe as ‘can’t cook’, says a lot about you.

I'm with you OP, you shouldn't have to shell out for more eggs...

You'll be pleased to know that all 3 remaining burford browns were overboiled and served one each on the side of dinner.

The other eggs will be used in a cake for the whole family. Equality at last.

Thanks to pp's for suggestions. I will hide future purchases under bags of salad etc.

I'd buy different eggs even if it was just me in the house. We get fancy ones for having soft-boiled with toast, and bog-standard ones for stuff like doing a quick omelette or glazing a crust or breadmaking. I wouldn't waste the fancy eggs on mundane stuff, and if I was the only person in the house who liked soft-boiled eggs, I wouldn't like it if someone else used them up on mundane stuff either. Maybe some people can afford to just buy fancy eggs and use them for everything that needs an egg — I can't, but I can afford to get nice eggs just for soft-boiling.

To be honest, this thread demonstrates that some people don't know the difference between a good egg and a basic egg.

The cooking chocolate/artisanal chocolate thread is an excellent example.

Or if your going to squirt your egg with brown sauce or ketchup, it doesn't matter what kind of egg it is.

Your Burford is for poaching or frying, and serving with great bread and real butter! Damn, I feel hungry now!

I've no idea where to get Burfords. He was inconsiderate.

Exactly!

Agreed.

And Waitrose has BBs

I am delighted to discover my tribe of fellow egg-lovers who also believe in an egg hierarchy.

DP knows which eggs are lined up ready to make scrambled eggs and which ones must be reserved for the glory that is soft, runny poached eggs on brioche.

Also, there's nothing like an XL egg for poaching. Absolute heaven.

It's not just eggs, there's loads of stuff where we buy a cheaper version for general use, and a more expensive one for restricted use because one or more of us has a particular reason to want it.

Yoghurt, for example. We mostly get reasonably-priced Greek-style yoghurt that DP seems to eat by the gallon with jam or honey and that also goes in curries and dips and marinades. In addition to that I sometimes buy a tub of Finest/TTD/Fage Greek yoghurt that I like to have with berries or something as a dessert occasionally. When I do have it I share with DP, but he knows it's something I've bought to have as a treat, and wouldn't go to the fridge, say "Ooh that looks nicer for my marinade/massive yoghurt-eating session/curry" and use it all up. His personal yoghurt habit alone would ruin us if we only bought fancy yoghurt in an effort to be egalitarian

They are just eggs. Different coloured barn reared eggs - no free range atm due to avian flu. They feed them special feed for golden yolks and then everyone thinks they taste better. www.shorefieldssupplies.co.uk/dpt/feed/argo-golden-yolk-layers-pellets-20kg__23876?currency=GBP&chosenAttribute=529356

For a good egg find a local chicken keeper and get them on the day of lay then eat within 4 days. That is a special egg.

@ExhaustedFlamingo can you come round and train mine up. He's still adamant he's done nothing wrong.

Hiding places are your friend here OP.

Different foodstuff, but just as irritating ; one Christmas after having spent time setting the Christmas table and put out softened nice butter, my DSD20 wandered down around 1pm just as I was up to my neck in Christmas dinner prep. He decided today was the day he cooked himself scrambled eggs and went to grab the softened butter off the table. When I suggested he use the hard butter in the fridge he had the biggest strop - marched out of the house and refused to talk to me for months!

I am with all the people here who believes the OPs husband should be able to use the egg he wants for cooking and cake. Equality and no hoarding!

I use wine in cooking. Hope you all will come and defend me when I open a bottle of expensive (well, £12) wine for my sauce instead of the cheap Tesco stuff. It does look nicer 😀.

I’ve been reflecting on this as I caffeinate and while I don’t personally ‘get it’ because I only buy nice eggs and probably (in your eyes) waste them making omelettes/scrambled eggs, I think I’m reconsidering my earlier thoughts.

For one of you egg aficionados, is this like using an expensive bottle of barolo to cook instead of a cheap red wine?

Never cook with wine you wouldn't drink. Also you need those leftovers to help along the cooking process.

I can't believe people can't get their heads around different levels and qualities of food product. You could put icing sugar in your tea and it would taste the same (if you bought Silver Spoon anyway) but it would cost a lot more than granulated for no discernible benefit. Same with oils. I have a cupboard full for different uses.

Ok so the thought I had that was bringing me round to the idea of separate eggs has been shot down as I typed my last post. So I’m back to thinking you’re all meanies. 😂

Justice for the husbands!

Get your own hens!

I can't believe people can't get their heads around different levels and qualities of food product.

People in the UK only discovered nice food in the last 20-30 years and the population is still getting used to it

You can afford to buy expensive eggs for everything. For me that would be an extravagance, so it's either separate eggs and use the nice ones when it'll matter most (i.e. not random cooking where only "eggs" was specified), or use cheaper eggs for everything, and miss out on sometimes having nice eggs. I'm not meaner than you, I'm just less wealthy than you.

You have separate food?

I don't think there's any hope. Feed him to the hens.

Food that's for different purposes, yes. Got some lovely butter in the fridge, and some cheap butter. The lovely butter is used for something where the butter is a focus point — spreading on toast or putting on a baked potato. The cheap butter is for cooking or baking or quick sandwiches with strong-flavoured ingredients. And if it happened that only one of us ate the kind of things that we use the lovely butter for, then I guess it would look like that person's butter. But it's not — it's by purpose, not person.

There's also sometimes situations where one person in the family gets through a lot of something and doesn't mind if it's the cheaper stuff, while the other person likes it occasionally and strongly prefers the more expensive stuff, or one person can taste a quality difference while the other can't, and sometimes in these situations, where money isn't unlimited, it makes sense to buy the cheaper version for one person and the nice version for the other person. It means that everyone still gets some nice things without spending money unnecessarily on more expensive versions of things for people who don't mind either way. As long as everyone's on the same page and not a dick about stuff It all evens out in the end IMO.