Quote: (01-20-2013 01:00 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:
So which eggs do you guys recommend?
Are the organic ones from Whole foods legit?
Or should I go farmers market?
Some brand from the regular grocery store?
Which?
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Also, how long can they stay in your fridge where you can still eat them raw?
Just get the best you can out of accessibility/costs. If your near farmers markets - get the local farm stuff. If a WF is close to - you go there. Unless your big on trying to eat local and such I don't stress to go travel miles and miles for local foods like some granola types do.
The edge that a Farmers Market has is that you can ask the Farmer dude to hook you up and just buy a shit ton in one swoop. He will sell you a crate or two of 24/32 and you can just pack them in the fridge.
Eggs can stay in your fridge for a long time. I've never heard of a egg going "bad" in a fridge if kept consistently cold. They do turn stale like lets say bread in the fridge, as you can smell it on the shell. The egg just has a flat smell to it and when you crack it the yolk looks very weak and bland, but nothing to the point of it being rancid (you would know, it would smell like funk). My parents rarely eat eggs and sometimes a carton sits in their fridge for 2 months if I am not around and I never had a issue with them.
This is what happens with mass-farm-market eggs they sit in refrigeration/warehouse for my guess close to a month before you get it from store into your stomach. Farmer Market eggs cuts that transport/warehouse period down considerably and you end up getting a way fresher more healthy product.
Just like fresh Fish or Meat smell and touch your food you can tell when things are off., everything should always have a nice clean smell and feel to it.
For brands its all location specific. Stores in different regions will source their eggs from different spots as it makes no sense to truck eggs from Vermont to Texas. States may have stupid laws too, in Ontario only mass-farm eggs are allowed to be sold in stores for instance.
Here is a list of a bunch of farms and where they are sourced this should lead you in the right direction:
http://www.cornucopia.org/organic-egg-scorecard/