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  1. A huge website, more there than you'd ever want to know about eggs. Tons and
    tons of recipes, including a low-carb section,
    http://www.aeb.org/Recipes/LowCarb.htm .

    They even address the question of "which came first". They did a damn poor
    job of answering the question, unfortunately. We all know, of course, that
    the Chicken came first! (It says so right in the Bible.)
    http://www.aeb.org/KidsAndFamily/answers_to_fascinating_egg_facts.htm

    On that same page they say that Grade A eggs are better for hard boiling
    than AA because they have larger "air cells" (the air in the egg). AA's are
    better for frying and poaching. Apparently, the size of the air cell is a
    part of the grading criteria. Interesting! I don't know that I've ever seen
    anything other than AA eggs in the store, but I'll take a look-see.

    From the website:

    Learn More About Eggs

    Find out virtually everything there is to know about eggs! Whether it is egg
    safety, nutritional information or egg trivia, you can click on the topics
    on the left for answers to everything that you have wanted to know about The
    incredible edible eggT.

    http://www.aeb.org/LearnMore/

    Late, late, late. Gotta go.

    Mike

  2. em said:

    A huge website, more there than you'd ever want to know about eggs.
    Tons and tons of recipes, including a low-carb section,
    http://www.aeb.org/Recipes/LowCarb.htm .

    They even address the question of "which came first". They did a damn
    poor job of answering the question, unfortunately. We all know, of
    course, that the Chicken came first! (It says so right in the Bible.)
    http://www.aeb.org/KidsAndFamily/answers_to_fascinating_egg_facts.htm

    On that same page they say that Grade A eggs are better for hard
    boiling than AA because they have larger "air cells" (the air in the
    egg). AA's are better for frying and poaching. Apparently, the size
    of the air cell is a part of the grading criteria. Interesting! I
    don't know that I've ever seen anything other than AA eggs in the
    store, but I'll take a look-see.
    From the website:

    Learn More About Eggs

    Find out virtually everything there is to know about eggs! Whether it
    is egg safety, nutritional information or egg trivia, you can click
    on the topics on the left for answers to everything that you have
    wanted to know about The incredible edible eggT.

    http://www.aeb.org/LearnMore/

    Thanks Mike. Saved! I base my proteins on eggs🙂

  3. The best eggs are the ones with the lowest price.

    Eggs are a wonderful food. I figure it is hard enough to screw it up, that
    all I need is basic cheap cheap eggs.

  4. em said:

    They even address the question of "which came first".

    The egg came first. Genetically, an egg and the adult it grows up to
    be are the same, but an adult and the egg it lays need not be. Thus,
    if one can define a point genetically where one generation was
    "not-chicken" and the next was "chicken", the egg from that next
    generation was thus the first chicken egg (and the previous egg was
    not a chicken egg), and came before the adult it grew up to be.

  5. DJ Delorie said:
    em said:

    They even address the question of "which came first".

    The egg came first. Genetically, an egg and the adult it grows up to
    be are the same, but an adult and the egg it lays need not be. Thus,
    if one can define a point genetically where one generation was
    "not-chicken" and the next was "chicken", the egg from that next
    generation was thus the first chicken egg (and the previous egg was
    not a chicken egg), and came before the adult it grew up to be.

    Your argument rests on word semantics, namely that ``X egg'' means
    ``an egg from which a member of species X hatches''. If we instead
    define ``X egg'' as being ``egg laid by a member of species X'', then
    the chicken egg didn't come first, since the egg from which the first
    chicken hatched was laid by a non-chicken, and therefore (by
    definition) wasn't a chicken egg.

  6. Cubit said:


    The best eggs are the ones with the lowest price.

    In case you meant this seriously, it is incorrect. Higher prices often
    mean that the hens have had better conditions. That translates to eggs
    of higher quality.

  7. Cubit said:


    The best eggs are the ones with the lowest price.

    Advice that works okay for chicken eggs, not so well for caviar. ;^)

    Which addresses the chicken/egg problem handily - There were
    eggs in the world a long time before the first chicken evolved. Not
    that any of these eggs were chicken eggs, but at some point there
    was an egg that hatched into something someone might recognize
    as a chicken but that was a mutant in that generation.

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    Quoted message said:
    Cubit said:


    The best eggs are the ones with the lowest price.

    Advice that works okay for chicken eggs, not so well for caviar. ;^)

    Which addresses the chicken/egg problem handily - There were
    eggs in the world a long time before the first chicken evolved. Not
    that any of these eggs were chicken eggs, but at some point there
    was an egg that hatched into something someone might recognize
    as a chicken but that was a mutant in that generation.

    Humph. I wouldn't touch that one with a ten inch pole.

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