Have you noticed that organic eggs have a less 'sulfury' taste? [if you've tried them]?

Question

I stopped buying the 'other kind' and started buying organic eggs for a few months now.

They taste way better!just trying to notice exactly how.

I friggin swear the organic eggs have less of a sulfury taste to my taste buds.

and yours?

Answer 1

Organic eggs are no better than non-organic eggs...for the chicken or you!  I think you are just imagining the difference in taste...When I used to eat eggs I didn't eat organic.  They didn't taste like sulfur.

Answer 2

Yes I have tried it too.

Answer 3

I agree, and I am a former chef and have eaten may different types of eggs from chickens to ducks even ostrich and emu ones.

The organic and free range hens have a different diet and are less stressed than those cooped up in egg factory's, and this contentment is alot of the reason for the milder and fresher taste, like Dawn said try local ones and see, sometime the store bought egg can be a bit on the old side, as a chef order 15 dozen size boxes had packing dates on them, and the grocery store one can be 7-14 days old by the time they reach or hit the shelve, they have a 30 day life span and those not sold are used for pet foods and dried into non food related product, I also worked for a short while as a corporate chef for a seafood chain in grocery stores.

Answer 4

No, I haven't. I don't think any eggs have a sulfur taste. It sounds more like a problem with what you cook them in or old eggs.

Answer 5

Any "sulfury" taste has to do with freshness and not with whether the eggs are organic or not. Check the pull date.

Answer 6

I'm glad you've made a switch that you feel is right.

I regret to tell you that organic systems are hardly any better for the chickens, though.

I recently rescued (lawfully) over 300 hens from an 'organic' egg farm. The group I was with saved over 10,000 throughout the week! It was an almost pitch black barn, the floor was made of bars, the hens were packed in and the ones in the middle had pale and limp combs - they'd hardly seen the daylight. There was an outdoors pen but I think it must have been for the benefit of the inspectors alone. While these chickens were in far better health than battery or caged hens, they would have still been killed without our intervention. Also, male chicks are macerated (ground down alive) or gassed or just chucked out, as they're of no use to the egg farmer.

There's a full story about the rescue on my blog:

http://www.animalrightscommunity.com/blo...

Thank you for caring about the animals, but I hope this information will help you see that all exploitation is wrong. The supermarkets are gits when it comes to bending the truth about how animals are treated.

Dawn:

If you care to read my article, you'll see the pictures from an actual organic farm itself. How can you deny that it is bad for the animals? And the best it gets is hens being looked after without being exploited and eventually murdered. There's no need to eat eggs, but if you feel you must, there's always the option of looking after rescued hens. We could do with some more homes for next years rescue!

Also, there is no such thing as 'free-range organic' - organic is supposed to be the step above free-range, hence it is 'free-range' with slightly better conditions.