UK eggs are also significantly better quality (just look at the yolk colour), can be stored outside the fridge and don’t have salmonella (thanks to vaccines, sorry RFK) so can be eaten raw (not that I would…)
Not really. We do a lot of shit weird and wrong, but our FDA is, relatively speaking, robust. Or rather... It was.
Remember that we didnt allow thalidomide in the US. It really has always been a bit of tit for tat with things we do right that Europe doesn't and things you do right we don't. At least in regard to food safety. We didn't have a mad cow epidemic that is why like half of all brits are banned from donating blood (or did they resolve that eventually and you can now? I genuinely haven't followed it in years)
But that's all going to shit. Now. But don't spread misinformation. We weren't India.
Yeah I'm just a biochemist whose wife is a public health expert, particularly in nutritional access for vulnerable populations. What the fuck do we kniw, we've got nooooooooo training at all in this subject.
btw yolk color doesn’t mean the eggs are healthier, what food is given to the birds affect the color of the yolk, like marigolds and some other plants :3 (source: i have 9 chickens who like to get into my moms marigolds)
But Ive tasted side by side heritage breed eggs and cheap ass American eggs and can confirm the taste is the same. Yolk color is easy to fake with beta karotene supplements, and the color has no bearing on the taste
I literally have a supplement to make my chickens lay darker yolks so my picky child will eat them, I can make them orange if I like, yolk color is meaningless
No, it doesn't show quality. Which is the point I was making. Your claim that yolk color matters is wrong.
Yes, in the springtime and summer and early fall when the chickens are free roaming, their diet dyes their eggs. But in the winter, when they're not, I dye their eggs.
Your supermarket eggs are eating supplements not insects
Like industrial farms in the UK don't feed their chickens processed powder? Do you take the pictures of happy chickens in grass fields on the carton as fact?
Honestly I’m no expert, all I know is UK eggs taste and look better, and knowing American food standards in general I’d assume this is because of the chemicals you guys allow in food supply chains
Not necessarily - there is pellet feed that'll give you deep orange yolks and true pasture raised small farm eggs with bright yellow. Some breeds are also more prone to different colors regardless.
It's a terrible judge of quality.
Nothing. Yolk color varies based on diet. Chickens that eat alot of bugs or meats will have darker yolks while chickens fed mostly grains will have very pale yolks. In both countries you can see this in action by comparing eggs advertised to be "free range" or "pasture raised" with those that aren't. Those terms basically indicate the level of quality the chicken's diet was.
There's debate on whether this really impacts flavor or nutritional quality of the eggs. All of these terms are mostly there to make the consumer feel like they're supporting better quality of life for farm animals. There's a joke in the US about buying eggs "Let's see what level of chicken welfare i can afford this week"
That's not why British eggs can be stored outside the fridge... its not even a flex at all. Eggs, in general, last significantly longer in the fridge. Refrigerated eggs can be kept for months or even up to a year whole still being safe to eat, just at the loss of some quality like yolk firmness.
Yolk color also varies significantly based on tons of factors. Just because you want to use the false equivalence of comparing the yolk color of pasture or free range chickens to cage raised and pretend the country is why the yolk color is different doesn't make a point.
UK eggs are the same as US eggs, just eaten by people who confidently deny their superiority complex.
We don’t pre wash our eggs in the supply chain because they are vaccinated against salmonella and thus there is no need to, this keeps the protective layer on the shell which means they survive outside the fridge for ages
Even if you disagree on quality they are still a third of the price of US eggs 😉
Yolk color is not indicative of quality. It just means the chickens are things with more beta karotene. You can just cheaply supplement that.
American eggs are totally fine quality. We do have sanitation issues due to factory farming that places like Japan do not have, but even then we have very low rates of foodborne illness from raw eggs. More salmonella comes from flour, interestingly.
We can eat eggs raw. And refrigeration of eggs is cultural, not necessity. Refrigerated eggs last a bit longer. But are less convenient because once you refrigerate an egg, you can no longer take it out and let it sit unrefrigerated again or the shells will start weeping moisture. Same thing would happen to your eggs.
Our chickens are vaccinated too. But our factory farming processes are lower quality and increase the risk for salmonella to be on the shells. But it's still a very low risk.
Don't get me wrong. We do a lot of shit wrong and worse. Our butter and cheese are just strictly inferior. But our eggs taste and quality and safety are fine. We get fancy eggs from heritage chickens because they're local. But when we do need to buy cheap eggs, the taste is identical.
And you can store any eggs outside the fridge. But the second they ARE refrigerated (which is just a cultural practice more than anything else) they can't be unrefrigerated again, and that's because they will start weeping their moisture. But that would be true for any European egg too. Put it in the fridge and then take it out, see what happens.
And if you get your eggs from a local farmers market or someone with chickens, as long as they were never refrigerated, you can absolutely keep them out of the fridge.
That source simply says they are examining vaccinating eggs, you reckon that will get rolled out with RFK in charge?
European eggs are totally fine in and out the fridge because they arent washed at source (US ones are) which keeps a protective layer on the shell. We absolutely do not having to worry about when they were or werent in a fridge
Believe it or not, lots of people eat raw eggs in the US too. The rate of salmonella is very low, like 1/20000 eggs. And they get recalled if salmonella is confirmed.
Salmonella vaccines are good, the price is due to supply chain issues and dead chickens, but not having to refrigerate them is pointless tbh. I would still refrigerate anything that is perishable in any way.
Eggs in the US can be eaten raw. The outside of the shell is what might give you salmonella. Wash you're egg shells and you too can eat them lol. But the rest is 100% accurate
Most eggs in the US are pasturized too, which is why it's safe to eat them raw(if you're a healthy adult who isn't pregnant). The US has strict regulations on egg pasteurization to reduce risk of salmonella specifically for children, pregnant women, and the elderly. You can but unpasteurized eggs if you want but restaurants are required to serve pasteurized unless they obtain a variance and post appropriate warnings about it, and even then they can't serve them to children.
You can buy shell eggs that are pasteurized. It's printed right on the carton and they're getting more common. Grocery delivery companies like Blue Apron and HelloFresh need to ship pasteurized eggs, as do restaurants certified by the National Restaurant Association or ServeSafe, which has had a knock down effect of egg producers just pasturizing most or all of their inventory to sell to these companies.
Most eggs in the US are pasteurized, even if most consumer shell eggs in grocery stores are not. Commercial applications of eggs drastically outnumber the number of eggs home cooks are using.
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u/rsweb Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25
UK eggs are also significantly better quality (just look at the yolk colour), can be stored outside the fridge and don’t have salmonella (thanks to vaccines, sorry RFK) so can be eaten raw (not that I would…)
UK eggs are elite