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polly 10-08-2008 11:13
The Price of Eggs
 
Just been to our ' local caring' Co-op to buy eggs. 3.24 a dozen !!

Now ok I dont mind paying a bit more for Free Range but 3.24?

Out in the Ribble Valley earlier this week and I saw a farm advertising them for just 1.80 a dozen.

Anyone know where there is a uk list of local shopping prices? All I can find are American

Polly_45 10-08-2008 12:05
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
Wow thats pricey,i pay £1.00 a dozen from the corn mill at rising bridge

lancsdave 10-08-2008 12:14
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You can compare the prices of the major retailers at

mySupermarket - Compare Supermarket Prices – MySupermarket the supermarket comparison site

flashy 10-08-2008 12:17
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i tend to get my eggs from a farm in Ribchester, last time we went they where £2.50 for 36, which is damn good going compared to the supermarkets, the price may well have gone up now though, it is about 8 months since we last went for them

MargaretR 10-08-2008 12:45
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I get mine from an allotment next door - £2 a dozen -free range and very big, and often still warm from the hen.

jambutty 10-08-2008 13:06
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by [email protected] (Post 617310)
I get mine from an allotment next door - £2 a dozen -free range and very big, and often still warm from the hen.
Now there’s a thought.

If we could heat up the hens to about 65 degrees Celsius they would lay soft boiled eggs.

Did you know that science has determined that the temperature required to cook the white of an egg is about 5 degrees lower than that required to cook the yolk. You can prove it for yourself by observing an egg frying. The yolk is always the last to harden.

I can’t quite remember the actual temperatures but it is somewhere around 65 degree C for the white and 70 degrees C for the yolk. What science didn’t determine was how long it would take for a medium sized egg and of course the egg had to be a room temperature before being boiled.

Benipete 10-08-2008 13:12
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jambutty (Post 617313)
Now there’s a thought.

If we could heat up the hens to about 65 degrees Celsius they would lay soft boiled eggs.

Did you know that science has determined that the temperature required to cook the white of an egg is about 5 degrees lower than that required to cook the yolk. You can prove it for yourself by observing an egg frying. The yolk is always the last to harden.

I can’t quite remember the actual temperatures but it is somewhere around 65 degree C for the white and 70 degrees C for the yolk. What science didn’t determine was how long it would take for a medium sized egg and of course the egg had to be a room temperature before being boiled.
Get back in the watter:egged:

pipinfort 10-08-2008 13:16
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The farm shop at Shuttleworth Hall (Hapton) sells them at £1.80 a dozen, we got some free last night from a friends mother on the condition that we put them in for her last night........not the easiest thing after a couple of large reds.....!!!:D

Tin Monkey 10-08-2008 13:21
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A friend of mine bought some ex-battery hens and only paid around £2 for each hen. She's had loads of eggs from them. :D

emamum 10-08-2008 13:23
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my auntie did that,poor things were bald!

Less 10-08-2008 13:30
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tin Monkey (Post 617319)
A friend of mine bought some ex-battery hens and only paid around £2 for each hen. She's had loads of eggs from them. :D
Entwisi's already started a thread about £2.00 Chickens. http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies...animal0018.gif

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ens-36793.html

pipinfort 10-08-2008 13:32
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[quote=Tin Monkey;617319]A friend of mine bought some ex-battery hens and only paid around £2 for each hen. She's had loads of eggs from them. :D[/quote


My friends mums hens are ex battery........compared to what they looked like when they arrived they are looking really well now......and the eggs are gorgeous.

Benipete 10-08-2008 13:52
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
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Originally Posted by pipinfort (Post 617317)
The farm shop at Shuttleworth Hall (Hapton) sells them at £1.80 a dozen, we got some free last night from a friends mother on the condition that we put them in for her last night........not the easiest thing after a couple of large reds.....!!!:D
Where they Rhode Island Reds:hehetable

emamum 10-08-2008 13:54
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this isnt helping me stop thinking about soft boiled eggs :(

jambutty 10-08-2008 14:19
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Years ago after the war when eggs started to become plentiful again (during the war eggs were rationed to one egg per person, per week and sometime perhaps) and Cadbury’s Red Label Drinking Chocolate appeared, my mum would separate the yolk from the white and beat it up with a couple of spoonfuls of Cadbury’s Red Label Drinking Chocolate and a little sugar for us to eat.

Absolutely deliscious!

Benipete 10-08-2008 17:34
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jambutty (Post 617340)
Years ago after the war when eggs started to become plentiful again (during the war eggs were rationed to one egg per person, per week and sometime perhaps) and Cadbury’s Red Label Drinking Chocolate appeared, my mum would separate the yolk from the white and beat it up with a couple of spoonfuls of Cadbury’s Red Label Drinking Chocolate and a little sugar for us to eat.

Absolutely deliscious!
All very well but now we have curtains and cupboards and us posh people have oilcloth on the floor and donkey stones for the door step.

Got to go now the slop stone needs cleaning and the tipplers jammed up again.:theband:

panther 10-08-2008 17:36
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
88p for 6...Asda smart price:D

And there is NOWT wrong with em!

Benipete 10-08-2008 17:46
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Quote:
Originally Posted by panther (Post 617395)
88p for 6...Asda smart price:D

And there is NOWT wrong with em!
The yolkes on you they are £1-50 for 15.:dancedog:at Asda

panther 10-08-2008 17:48
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yeh i know, but i dont need 15...they will go off...;)

Benipete 10-08-2008 18:01
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Originally Posted by panther (Post 617402)
yeh i know, but i dont need 15...they will go off...;)
Store them in a cold dark place.Ossy should do fine:tongueout

Lilly 10-08-2008 20:24
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
Blimey, £3.24 is steep! :eek:

I get mine from Sainsbury's...don't know the exact cost for 12 but know it's in the region of £2.50

jaysay 11-08-2008 09:23
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Benipete (Post 617414)
Store them in a cold dark place.Ossy should do fine:tongueout
Guna get you at playtime Beni:D

Mick 11-08-2008 09:32
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jambutty (Post 617313)
Now there’s a thought.

If we could heat up the hens to about 65 degrees Celsius they would lay soft boiled eggs.

Did you know that science has determined that the temperature required to cook the white of an egg is about 5 degrees lower than that required to cook the yolk. You can prove it for yourself by observing an egg frying. The yolk is always the last to harden.

I can’t quite remember the actual temperatures but it is somewhere around 65 degree C for the white and 70 degrees C for the yolk. What science didn’t determine was how long it would take for a medium sized egg and of course the egg had to be a room temperature before being boiled.
And whats this got to do with the price of eggs:confused::D

jambutty 11-08-2008 12:36
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Originally Posted by mick (Post 617664)
And whats this got to do with the price of eggs:confused::D
Why pick on my post?

There are other posts that have nothing to do with the price of eggs.

flashy 11-08-2008 12:41
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Originally Posted by jambutty (Post 617736)
Why pick on my post?

There are other posts that have nothing to do with the price of eggs.


you pratt

jambutty 11-08-2008 13:34
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Originally Posted by flashytart (Post 617738)
you pratt
Is that the best that you can do - to resort to name calling?

It takes one to know one.

So that makes you a pratess.:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

pipinfort 11-08-2008 13:37
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by panther (Post 617395)
88p for 6...Asda smart price:D

And there is NOWT wrong with em!

The thing wrong with them is that they are not Free Range. Tut Tut

vicky1 11-08-2008 13:54
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only £1.25 at Iceland for 15, now thats good value

panther 12-08-2008 19:04
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Originally Posted by pipinfort (Post 617754)
The thing wrong with them is that they are not Free Range. Tut Tut
An eggs an egg:tongueout

pipinfort 12-08-2008 19:15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by panther (Post 618272)
An eggs an egg:tongueout
How dare you...........;)

jaysay 13-08-2008 09:48
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Just a little wander, I went to hospital last year and was in the office arranging a date for a small Op when I spotted a screen saver, I nearly fell of the chair with laughing. It showed a fried egg, and a chicken is stood looking at it, a speech bubble was coming from its mouth it just said, Jimmy Speak to me, classic

entwisi 13-08-2008 10:48
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Quote:
Originally Posted by panther (Post 618272)
An eggs an egg:tongueout
No way, I'm no food snob but eggs are probably the best example of where cheapness shows, Asda smart price have weak, insipid yolks, good eggs are vibrant orange and full of taste.

pipinfort 13-08-2008 12:45
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 618516)
No way, I'm no food snob but eggs are probably the best example of where cheapness shows, Asda smart price have weak, insipid yolks, good eggs are vibrant orange and full of taste.
Got to agree with you on that.........

pipinfort 13-08-2008 13:33
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Originally Posted by pipinfort (Post 618530)
Got to agree with you on that.........
as well as from a cruelty point of view...............:mad:

Benipete 13-08-2008 15:05
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 618516)
No way, I'm no food snob but eggs are probably the best example of where cheapness shows, Asda smart price have weak, insipid yolks, good eggs are vibrant orange and full of taste.
What do you expect from a £2 chicken Who's only aim in life is to end up on a paupers plate accompanied by a few Asda frozen chips and a tin of Mushy peas.:egged:

Less 13-08-2008 15:59
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pipinfort (Post 618535)
as well as from a cruelty point of view...............:mad:
Give it a few days of trucks not able to deliver the homogenised free range never been touched by a chickens bum, eggs and other such over-priced 'organic' foods then we will probably all queue up to buy rats testicles if that's all that's on offer with no questions asked as to how the rats were raised.

These chickens know no different, better that they are there to feed the nation than we end up with kids suffering rickets or worse because we are soft hearted on animals and hard hearted on the people that can't afford to pay twice as much for an M&S conscience free meal.

:cook38:

MargaretR 13-08-2008 16:07
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An egg is only worth eating if it provides your body with nutrition

If your only reason for eating is to stave off hunger then by all means eat the cheap ones, where the hens have fed off junk.
If you care about nourishing your body, it matters what that hen ate.

What that hen ate can affect whether the egg is worth cooking and eating
For detailed facts see here-
http://ressources.ciheam.org/om/pdf/c37/99600038.pdf

blazey 13-08-2008 16:22
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
Is it better to eat a soft boiled egg or a hard boiled egg? Which is more nutritionally valuable?

I like my eggs runny, but is that good for me or bad :p

Less 13-08-2008 16:24
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by [email protected] (Post 618570)
An egg is only worth eating if it provides your body with nutrition

If your only reason for eating is to stave off hunger then by all means eat the cheap ones, where the hens have fed off junk.
If you care about nourishing your body, it matters what that hen ate.

What that hen ate can affect whether the egg is worth cooking and eating
For detailed facts see here-
http://ressources.ciheam.org/om/pdf/c37/99600038.pdf

Better people than us have got it wrong about what is good and nutritious. Pay extra if you wish, I find I can eat over twice as many eggs if I buy the ones produced with those energiser triple AAA's and then I can go to the same store a week later and buy the eggs mother pre-cooked at a very reasonable price probably knowing that I will live longer because I fret less about what I'm shoving down my throat.:D

MargaretR 13-08-2008 16:30
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by blazey (Post 618572)
Is it better to eat a soft boiled egg or a hard boiled egg? Which is more nutritionally valuable?

I like my eggs runny, but is that good for me or bad :p
I can't see that the cooking method can alter the nutritional value, but what you cook it in may well do.
Avoid frying in processed oils and fats (trans fats/hydrogenated oils and fats)
If you eat the cheap ones it would be wise to have a set, not runny, yolk because the extra heat it has been exposed to will have had more chance of killing salmonella bacteria which is prevalent in intensively reared flocks.

MargaretR 13-08-2008 16:42
Re: The Price of Eggs
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Less (Post 618574)
Better people than us have got it wrong about what is good and nutritious. Pay extra if you wish, I find I can eat over twice as many eggs if I buy the ones produced with those energiser triple AAA's and then I can go to the same store a week later and buy the eggs mother pre-cooked at a very reasonable price probably knowing that I will live longer because I fret less about what I'm shoving down my throat.:D
Despite being older than you, I think that I will outlive you
if the picture on your profile page is anything to go by :D

Less 13-08-2008 16:54
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Quote:
Originally Posted by [email protected] (Post 618580)
Despite being older than you, I think that I will outlive you
if the picture on your profile page is anything to go by :D
If that picture is to be believed then I am a member of the undead so as long as there is plenty of iron in the egg I'm eating I may not out live but I should outlast yo...............................

Arghh left arm, pins and needles, chest in vi...ce like grip.....

speech now impaired....

dush dish meayne de eynd?

Or should I just put it down to lack of salt in the diet and cramps?

Damn the lettuce on my ham & tomato butty I had with my regular 8 dinner time pints,
I knew a healthy diet would be the death of me!
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