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The price of eggs is going up very rapidly around me, and likely all over in the US right now. This is in large part a direct result from the tens of millions of production birds lost this spring to HPAI. This will last a while. It will last at least as long as it took production companies to acquire and hatch new stock.
In the meantime, remember there are a lot of people who started raising chickens in urban settings when COVID began. There may be people local to you that are selling farm fresh eggs from well-cared-for chickens, and likely selling them for less than the grocery stores. The standard price around me for farm fresh eggs has always been about $3. I’m seeing $8+ for a dozen and a half here at the store.
A lot of folks put a sign by the road announcing they have fresh eggs. But you can try things like asking on Nextdoor or checking Craigslist, or Facebook marketplace etc. You can get eggs cheaper and help local folks out as well.
Thought exercise. You are me, you are hungry, you want to make my world famous pancake recipe. This recipe needs four eggs. You have three eggs. Do you:
a) go to the store. yes you have a cold, but you could be in and out fast. then again you could run into someone you know. embarrassing.
b) go across the street to your grandparent’s house and ask to borrow an egg. you may or may not get a lecture about not being at church. is it worth it.
c) use two of the raw eggs and two hard-boiled eggs. surely this will work out fine
if you picked c, congratulations, you correctly picked my thought process. i have committed an affront to god and my tummy hurts so badly
actually oddly enough the pancakes tasted fine, despite all of the bits of whole egg falling out of them, which is where the affront to god kicks in
anyway if this ever happens again i’m just gonna go to the store. experiment failed, we’ll get ‘em next time
i didn’t….i didn’t even think to do that
I could’ve…used other ingredients……?
actually you know what in fairness to me i’ve been on a lot of cold medicine this week while battling a virus. from now on i’m only making sandwiches
i’m no longer on ungodly amounts of cold medicine! i wish i could tell you i have no memory of making this post, and by extension the pancakes, but unfortunately i do!
can u guys rb this n add how you crack your eggs in the tags? i thought cracking them in the sinks’s edge is universal until i saw my friend cracking an egg on the counter instead and it was so pervese and diabolical
If you crack them by tapping them against a clean, flat surface, you are less likely to break the yolk or get shards of shell in your eggs.
Scrolling down this photo set I’m thinking “These are nice little egg decorations. Are they metal or plastic or..HOLY SHIT, They’re carved eggs? Mind blowing.”
