SC - Egg shell colours

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

hi all from Anne-Marie

Ras Sez:
>Simply make 2 sponge cakes, one with white eggs, one with brown eggs. 
>Scientific or not, the proof is in the pudding, or in this case, in the
cake. 
>:-) 
>
>Many people also think brown eggs are more flavorful than white eggs. There 
>is perpetual disagreement between the 'experts' and those with 'experience' 
>about whether brown eggs are better than white eggs. I am in the latter 
>group. :-) 
>

I wonder how much of that is artifactual, ie brown eggs taste better/raise
cakes better/etc because brown egged chickens tend to be fed better, housed
better, treated better than your generic million-in-little-cages,
fed-god-knows-what-ground-up commerically raised white egged chicken?

so if my theory is correct, its not the color of the shell that makes 'em
better, but the lifestyle of the chicken. So, free range white shelled eggs
would have the same results as your brown shelled eggs?

When I took french cooking classes the chef swore by free range eggs, and
would buy the araconda eggs with the green and yellow and pink shells. And
his cakes and custards were indeed to die for...he always said its the bugs
that made the difference (the bugs the chickens ate, one assumes...)

anyone wanna volunteer to do a side by side controlled experiment? :)

- --AM, your resident science geek :D

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