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A neighbor gave me a couple dozen of homegrown eggs from a friends
backyard chickens. Great, I like free eggs! Tasted good but every
darn egg I broke the yolk also broke. GRRRRRRRRR

I wasn't rough with the eggs, I never am, but as soon as the shell
was cracked those yolks just gave up and ran everywhere. I was
looking forward to over medium eggs this morning. Buttered toast
was yummy even though the hen berries were a disappointment.

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On 10/12/2025 1:22 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:

A neighbor gave me a couple dozen of homegrown eggs from a friends
backyard chickens. Great, I like free eggs! Tasted good but every
darn egg I broke the yolk also broke. GRRRRRRRRR

I wasn't rough with the eggs, I never am, but as soon as the shell
was cracked those yolks just gave up and ran everywhere. I was
looking forward to over medium eggs this morning. Buttered toast
was yummy even though the hen berries were a disappointment.

~

Plan on a lot of scrambled eggs. Could be something with the age of the
eggs, age of the chickens or diet.
Next time, crack them into a bowl. If they stay intact, gently pour
into the pan, if not scramble.

Price getting reasonable again. This morning, 18 X-large was $4.55
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:47:01 -0400, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:

On 10/12/2025 1:22 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:

A neighbor gave me a couple dozen of homegrown eggs from a friends
backyard chickens. Great, I like free eggs! Tasted good but every
darn egg I broke the yolk also broke. GRRRRRRRRR

I wasn't rough with the eggs, I never am, but as soon as the shell
was cracked those yolks just gave up and ran everywhere. I was
looking forward to over medium eggs this morning. Buttered toast
was yummy even though the hen berries were a disappointment.

Plan on a lot of scrambled eggs. Could be something with the age of the >eggs, age of the chickens or diet.
Next time, crack them into a bowl. If they stay intact, gently pour
into the pan, if not scramble.

Price getting reasonable again. This morning, 18 X-large was $4.55

I have to hit supermarket eggs so hard to get through the shell that
it's difficult not to break the yolk as well. There must be a lot of
calcium in their diet. Not that a broken yolk ruins my day.
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Ed P <esp@snet.n> posted:

On 10/12/2025 1:22 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:

A neighbor gave me a couple dozen of homegrown eggs from a friends
backyard chickens. Great, I like free eggs!

Price getting reasonable again. This morning, 18 X-large was $4.55

I looked this past week at jumbo eggs at Walmart and they were
$2.93 per dozen. Meanwhile at Kroger they were $3.19 per dozen
jumbos. Medium, large, and extra large did not cross my mind.

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On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:30:17 GMT, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

Ed P <esp@snet.n> posted:

On 10/12/2025 1:22 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:

A neighbor gave me a couple dozen of homegrown eggs from a friends
backyard chickens. Great, I like free eggs!

Price getting reasonable again. This morning, 18 X-large was $4.55

I looked this past week at jumbo eggs at Walmart and they were
$2.93 per dozen. Meanwhile at Kroger they were $3.19 per dozen
jumbos. Medium, large, and extra large did not cross my mind.

Nor did cage, barn or free range?
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On 10/12/2025 1:22 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:

A neighbor gave me a couple dozen of homegrown eggs from a friends
backyard chickens. Great, I like free eggs! Tasted good but every
darn egg I broke the yolk also broke. GRRRRRRRRR

That's odd. I get free eggs from time to time but the yolks aren't particularly fragile. Perhaps it has something to do with what they're feeding the chickens, or the type of chickens.

I wasn't rough with the eggs, I never am, but as soon as the shell
was cracked those yolks just gave up and ran everywhere. I was
looking forward to over medium eggs this morning. Buttered toast
was yummy even though the hen berries were a disappointment.

~

Sorry to hear it. I guess you'd best plan on scrambled or omelets. ;)

Jill
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Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> posted:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:30:17 GMT, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

I looked this past week at jumbo eggs at Walmart and they were
$2.93 per dozen. Meanwhile at Kroger they were $3.19 per dozen
jumbos. Medium, large, and extra large did not cross my mind.

Nor did cage, barn or free range?

Priorities man, priorities. I can choose to buy those and forgo
a utility bill or I can buy 'factory' eggs and have money leftover
for other things.

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On 2025-10-12 6:00 p.m., ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:

Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> posted:

Nor did cage, barn or free range?

Priorities man, priorities. I can choose to buy those and forgo
a utility bill or I can buy 'factory' eggs and have money leftover
for other things.

My wife insists on buying fresh eggs from our neighbour... $7 a dozen.
They are huge and they are excellent. The neighbour drops them off on
our doorstep around 7 am on Friday mornings. If we run low I pick up
some eggs at the grocery store for a lot less, but they are not as good.


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On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:00:51 GMT, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> posted:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:30:17 GMT, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
<user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

I looked this past week at jumbo eggs at Walmart and they were
$2.93 per dozen. Meanwhile at Kroger they were $3.19 per dozen
jumbos. Medium, large, and extra large did not cross my mind.

Nor did cage, barn or free range?

Priorities man, priorities. I can choose to buy those and forgo
a utility bill or I can buy 'factory' eggs and have money leftover
for other things.

Really? I guess animal welfare is at the bottom of your priority list.
We never ever buy cage eggs. I don't even know if I've seen them here
or in the EU. It's barn, free range or organic. Barn still sucks, of
course.
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On 10/12/2025 12:22 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:

A neighbor gave me a couple dozen of homegrown eggs from a friends
backyard chickens. Great, I like free eggs! Tasted good but every
darn egg I broke the yolk also broke. GRRRRRRRRR

I wasn't rough with the eggs, I never am, but as soon as the shell
was cracked those yolks just gave up and ran everywhere. I was
looking forward to over medium eggs this morning. Buttered toast
was yummy even though the hen berries were a disappointment.

I had egg problems this morning too. First, I forgot to pack oil, and
had to fry the potatoes in (unclarified) butter. Then, there was the
shitty, old non-stick pan that's now in the garbage. Still it was a spectacular excursion. Totally clear sky with no moon. The Milky Way
was very milky. When I got home, I ordered an 11" stainless skillet that
will live in the camping vehicle. A romantic evening under the stars at
the good ol' Sawdust Pile.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/8p63M7RGCkcR6YyF6
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Bryan Simmons <bryangsimmons@gmail.com> posted:

On 10/12/2025 12:22 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:

A neighbor gave me a couple dozen of homegrown eggs from a friends
backyard chickens. Great, I like free eggs! Tasted good but every
darn egg I broke the yolk also broke. GRRRRRRRRR

I had egg problems this morning too. First, I forgot to pack oil, and
had to fry the potatoes in (unclarified) butter. Then, there was the shitty, old non-stick pan that's now in the garbage. Still it was a spectacular excursion. Totally clear sky with no moon. The Milky Way
was very milky. When I got home, I ordered an 11" stainless skillet that will live in the camping vehicle. A romantic evening under the stars at
the good ol' Sawdust Pile.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/8p63M7RGCkcR6YyF6

Those eggs with the potatoes and toast looked about like mine.
No beautiful creamy yolks, but they were still good.

Tri-ply pan or one with tri-ply disk on the bottom?

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On 2025-10-12, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:00:51 GMT, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
<user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> posted:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:30:17 GMT, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
<user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

I looked this past week at jumbo eggs at Walmart and they were
$2.93 per dozen. Meanwhile at Kroger they were $3.19 per dozen
jumbos. Medium, large, and extra large did not cross my mind.

Nor did cage, barn or free range?

Priorities man, priorities. I can choose to buy those and forgo
a utility bill or I can buy 'factory' eggs and have money leftover
for other things.

Really? I guess animal welfare is at the bottom of your priority list.
We never ever buy cage eggs. I don't even know if I've seen them here
or in the EU. It's barn, free range or organic. Barn still sucks, of
course.

Ten states have passed laws eliminating cage eggs. Not the one where
Joan lives.

A few years before Michigan passed its law, the store where I shop
switched from cage eggs to barn eggs for its store-brand eggs. I
didn't notice an increase in price. Then again, I might not have
noticed an increase, since I pay very little attention to price.

The USDA defines only "cage-free" and "free-range". Pasture
eggs fall under "free-range". Caveat emptor.

Let's see. Not all the eggs are available in jumbo size, so we'll
just go with large.

$2.39 store brand cage-free
$4.29 Eggland's Best cage-free
$5.49 Eggland's Best organic cage-free

$4.99 Nellie's free range
$5.79 Eggland's Best free range
$5.99 Pete & Gerry's organic free range
$5.99 Vital Farms pasture raised
$6.79 True Goodness organic pasture raised

I buy the second ones on the list because my husband like the flavor.
In a pinch, he'll settle for the ones at the top of the list, but
there's some mechanical difficulty. Thin shells, if memory serves.
Perhaps easily-broken yolks.

I can't imagine an extra couple of bucks would make Joan unable
to pay her utility bill, but I'm not privy to her finances. Perhaps
she buys an awful lot of eggs.
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:33:32 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2025-10-12, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:00:51 GMT, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net >><user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

Priorities man, priorities. I can choose to buy those and forgo
a utility bill or I can buy 'factory' eggs and have money leftover
for other things.

Really? I guess animal welfare is at the bottom of your priority list.
We never ever buy cage eggs. I don't even know if I've seen them here
or in the EU. It's barn, free range or organic. Barn still sucks, of
course.

Ten states have passed laws eliminating cage eggs. Not the one where
Joan lives.

A few years before Michigan passed its law, the store where I shop
switched from cage eggs to barn eggs for its store-brand eggs. I
didn't notice an increase in price. Then again, I might not have
noticed an increase, since I pay very little attention to price.

The USDA defines only "cage-free" and "free-range". Pasture
eggs fall under "free-range". Caveat emptor.

Let's see. Not all the eggs are available in jumbo size, so we'll
just go with large.

$2.39 store brand cage-free
$4.29 Eggland's Best cage-free
$5.49 Eggland's Best organic cage-free

$4.99 Nellie's free range
$5.79 Eggland's Best free range
$5.99 Pete & Gerry's organic free range
$5.99 Vital Farms pasture raised
$6.79 True Goodness organic pasture raised

I buy the second ones on the list because my husband like the flavor.
In a pinch, he'll settle for the ones at the top of the list, but
there's some mechanical difficulty. Thin shells, if memory serves.
Perhaps easily-broken yolks.

I can't imagine an extra couple of bucks would make Joan unable
to pay her utility bill, but I'm not privy to her finances. Perhaps
she buys an awful lot of eggs.

I don't think it would make her unable either. It mainly shows how
little she cares for the animals. If something fits in her pie hole,
all her requirements have been met. A lot of people from her
generation suffer from that form of sociopathy, and in some countries
even more so than in others.
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On 10/12/2025 7:56 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:

Bryan Simmons <bryangsimmons@gmail.com> posted:

On 10/12/2025 12:22 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:

A neighbor gave me a couple dozen of homegrown eggs from a friends
backyard chickens. Great, I like free eggs! Tasted good but every
darn egg I broke the yolk also broke. GRRRRRRRRR

>
I had egg problems this morning too. First, I forgot to pack oil, and
had to fry the potatoes in (unclarified) butter. Then, there was the
shitty, old non-stick pan that's now in the garbage. Still it was a
spectacular excursion. Totally clear sky with no moon. The Milky Way
was very milky. When I got home, I ordered an 11" stainless skillet that
will live in the camping vehicle. A romantic evening under the stars at
the good ol' Sawdust Pile.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/8p63M7RGCkcR6YyF6

Those eggs with the potatoes and toast looked about like mine.
No beautiful creamy yolks, but they were still good.

My wife is a philistine about egg yolks. She doesn't want them runny.
Because the butter wasn't clarified, I cooked the potatoes slowly, so as
not to scorch the butter. Plus, I usually parboil them. Ideally, I
would parboil cut up potato, toss it in oil, freeze it, and put it in
the cooler frozen before we leave the city. Since it'd be 20+ hours
before we cooked them, they'd be thawed by then, and ready to fry. I
also need to bring oil or *clarified* butter. We hadn't camped since
March because of our cat. She throws up occasionally, and often if we
don't feed her a bunch of tiny meals. When our son takes care of her, he
has to feed her more and less often. We've decided that the last trip
was so great that we'll just put up with cleaning up cat puke when we
get home, and go whenever the weather is nice. The weather here is
similar enough to where you are, so that means Labor Day through some
time in November, and late March through Memorial Day, with an
occasional not too hot summer day, or not too cold winter day.

Some of the everbearing blackberries we planted have gotten huge since
March. I ate the one ripe berry Saturday, and there should be several
more of the go back out there weekend after next. https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZzGc5CrZ4nU1jbhY9

Tri-ply pan or one with tri-ply disk on the bottom?

This is going to be strictly a camping pan, and will be used on a
Coleman propane stove, so I found this on Sierra. By signing up for
emails, I got free shipping.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/hnn8477VW1j4uceC9

We ordered a new table that's only 40"x20" that will fit easily across
the back seat.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/MS-20X40IN-TABLE-GRY/14354308672
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Bryan Simmons <bryangsimmons@gmail.com> posted:

On 10/12/2025 7:56 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net wrote:

Bryan Simmons <bryangsimmons@gmail.com> posted:

Then, there was the

shitty, old non-stick pan that's now in the garbage. When I got home,
I ordered an 11" stainless skillet that
will live in the camping vehicle.

Tri-ply pan or one with tri-ply disk on the bottom?

This is going to be strictly a camping pan, and will be used on a
Coleman propane stove, so I found this on Sierra. By signing up for
emails, I got free shipping.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/hnn8477VW1j4uceC9

It looks like it has the tri-ply disk on the bottom. Let us know
how you like it.

We ordered a new table that's only 40"x20" that will fit easily across
the back seat.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/MS-20X40IN-TABLE-GRY/14354308672

That will come in quite handy. No trying to balance everything on
top of a cooler or with the trunk lid raised and trying to spread
things out there.

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Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com> posted:

Ten states have passed laws eliminating cage eggs. Not the one where
Joan lives.

Let's see. Not all the eggs are available in jumbo size, so we'll
just go with large.

$2.39 store brand cage-free
$4.29 Eggland's Best cage-free
$5.49 Eggland's Best organic cage-free

$4.99 Nellie's free range
$5.79 Eggland's Best free range
$5.99 Pete & Gerry's organic free range
$5.99 Vital Farms pasture raised
$6.79 True Goodness organic pasture raised

This is what Kroger offers in natural/cage-free/organic eggs.

$4.29 Simple Truthrao Natural Cage Free Grade A Large Brown Eggs
(Simple Truth is Kroger's organic brand) 1 dozen

$5.29 Simple Truth Organicrao Cage Free Grade A Large Brown Eggs, 1 dozen (What the difference in Natural and plain Cage Free is, I don't know.)

$4.99 Eggland's Best Cage Free Large Brown Eggs, 1 dozen

$6.99 Pete & Gerry's Organic Free Range Large Eggs, 1 dozen

$7.49 Happy Egg Co.-< Organic Free Range Large Brown Eggs

$7.19 Pete and Gerry's-< Pasture Raised Large Eggs

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On 2025-10-13, ItsJoanNotJoAnn webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com> posted:

Ten states have passed laws eliminating cage eggs. Not the one where
Joan lives.

Let's see. Not all the eggs are available in jumbo size, so we'll
just go with large.

$2.39 store brand cage-free
$4.29 Eggland's Best cage-free
$5.49 Eggland's Best organic cage-free

$4.99 Nellie's free range
$5.79 Eggland's Best free range
$5.99 Pete & Gerry's organic free range
$5.99 Vital Farms pasture raised
$6.79 True Goodness organic pasture raised

This is what Kroger offers in natural/cage-free/organic eggs.

$4.29 Simple Truthrao Natural Cage Free Grade A Large Brown Eggs
(Simple Truth is Kroger's organic brand) 1 dozen

$5.29 Simple Truth Organicrao Cage Free Grade A Large Brown Eggs, 1 dozen (What the difference in Natural and plain Cage Free is, I don't know.)

$4.99 Eggland's Best Cage Free Large Brown Eggs, 1 dozen

$6.99 Pete & Gerry's Organic Free Range Large Eggs, 1 dozen

$7.49 Happy Egg Co.-< Organic Free Range Large Brown Eggs

$7.19 Pete and Gerry's-< Pasture Raised Large Eggs

My local Kroger has cage-free large eggs for $2.89/dozen. Not
organic.
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