I feel so dumb. I did not know this about eggs 😳😮

Bullshit! The color of chicken eggs (brown or white) is determined by the breed of the hen that lays the egg. Chickens with white feathers and light earlobes produce white eggs, while chickens with red feathers and red earlobes lay brown eggs.

Thank you.

Don’t feel dumb…it’s never made sense to me that we would remove the bloom….but I didn’t figure tide pod consumption would be such a problem either … 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Good lord folks… she isn’t claiming the store bought egg is white because of the chlorine…. It’s just a white egg from a production chicken that happens to be white. She is explaining their process for removing the bloom, which exists on fresh eggs regardless of the shell color. Her farm fresh egg just happens to be brown.

Market Eggs in Switzerland (and most of Europe) - on the shelf, not refrigerated

Absolutely fascinating the number of folks calling out "Bullshit! The color of eggs doesn't matter... etc." AHEM? She didn't SAY ANYTHING about the color. You saw a white egg and a brown egg and YOU placed focus on the color.

Here in Germany, eggs aren't refrigerated because the bloom isn't washed off. Eggs are sold on shelves (not in the refrigerated section)... and we keep them on our kitchen countertops (not in the fridge). The entire food supply in America is one big chemical experiment.

US government is to blame for this. In all their “wisdom”, they strip eggs of its own protectant. It’s yet another money-making scheme to jack up prices on eggs. People in EU never put their eggs in the fridge because their govt doesn’t require the “washing”.

Her point that comercial eggs are washed is correct, that the washing removes a protective film is correct. The problem is that such a film also has bacteria what will go in the egg (and you hands) if the egg is not carefully washed before the shell is broken. And the “health” calculation was that most consumers will not wash the egg, or at least not properly therefore is best to pre wash them before selling.

They come in all colours!! The bloom if you don’t wash it off you can leave the eggs out on the counter for weeks fertilized or not. If you wash them you need to refrigerate. Massed produced eggs are washed and refrigerated !

I learned this when I went to Mexico for the first time. It's illegal to wash the eggs the way the US does in Europe. Why? Because the US washes them to cover up for unsanitary conditions. In Europe, by leaving them unwashed (and with the bloom), you're demonstrating clean raising. If you raise your own chickens you can literally leave them out at room temp on your counter for weeks. Own your own chickens folks. They're easy.

For those keyboard warriors, she isn’t talking about color. Shes talking about the bloom, a natural barrier produced by hens that protects it from microbes entering a porous shell.

Absolutely true- eggs from the source 🐣

My 2 Buff Hens ... Cool fact .. color of the chicken most of the time is color of the egg. White chicken -white eggs. My girls are slightly different color, ones eggs are lighter brown than her sister's. I always know which one laid an egg.

Yes ma'am. The US is one of the few countries that wash eggs. It's a really stupid practice

Joel Salatin

We never refrigerate our eggs I

She’s not completely accurate. In fact she’s either willfully ignorant or deliberately deceiving. You can get naturally occurring white eggs from chickens.

So while it's true that commercial eggs are washed, and must be refrigerated, that's kind of a natural consequence of having good eggs away from a farm. The bloom she refers to does keep bacteria from getting into eggs, but it doesn't keep bacteria, and other things like chicken feces from being ON the eggs. So people on a farm, collecting eggs daily can control how much exposure to those things the eggs have. In a large commercial egg producer, it's much harder to control that. Imagine the commercial producer doesn't wash the egg. You bring it home, and in a hurry, dont wash the egg yourself well, get some of that bacteria and debris into the food from the shell while cranking it. Don't fully cook the egg, and now you've poisoned yourself. That creates a big liability for the commercial producer. They wash the eggs to ensure they can pass them off to you in an uncontaminated state. The only real consequence is that you must refrigerate, and control what they're exposed to as the end user. So it's not nefarious, but if you have a good local egg producer, you can take your pick which you prefer.

Nope. I'm not a chicken expert but we did have chickens for a brief time. The colour of the egg is about the breed of chicken. Our Leghorns laid white eggs. Our Rhode Island Reds laid brown. And you don't want chicken poop and dirt on your eggs. You have to wash them.

The color doesn't matter! This lade is wrong. The eggs I buy from a farm near me have all colors and all of them have the bloom designed by the Creator to survive the 21 days of hatching. However, apparently most organic eggs sold in grocery stores have been washed.

Oh yeah, go to Europe…. You will not find eggs in the refrigerators. The are out on the shelves some with poop still on them. We don’t buy store eggs have not for YEARS

My chickens gave me 12 eggs today!! Different breeds give you different colors

she's absolutely right about the washing, but the color of the shell is genetics. Broilers, Ideals, and Leghorns lay white eggs, most other varieties lay brown eggs, Americaunas lay blue-ish green eggs (my favorite). I've had most varieties on my farm at one point or another

What a load of cobblers! So my chickens that laid white eggs were secretly bleaching them before I collected them every morning? And the chickens that laid brown eggs were just into whole foods? Who knew 🤣🤣🤣

I grew up on a farm with chickens. Eggs are not uniform in color. Wildly different shades of brown, whites and off-whites…even a greenish color. I’ve never seen a dozen eggs ‘in the wild’ that are uniform in color.

Get some chicks

PEOPLE she not talking about color!!! She saying ALL eggs have bloom. Stores wash it off

I think it’s in the USA only. In the UK you don’t have to refrigerate eggs

Yeah no I’m good with store bought eggs and chlorine! They come from a butt hole so of course I want them to be washed…… maybe if I had my own chickens it’s a different story but store bought - keep them clean!!

I didn’t know either. I have a farm wife friend and I knew she didn’t refrigerate her eggs but had no idea why. I love how she described it as “the way God made them”!

Chlorine in egg processing doesn’t cause eggs to be white. Eggshell color is determined by the hen’s genetics.

Well, you can still coat the egg from a store with food grade mineral oil . Then your back to shelf stable no refrigeration needed . So it is an inconvenience, but the store bought eggs have no chicken shit . Lol 🤣 . I clean my farm eggs and immediately coat them . So is what it is

In other countries, eggs sit on the shelf next to the bread in the stores.

Our eggs are kept with the bloom intact and are shelf stable. To further extend the shelf life there is a process called "glassing". Farmers do this to preserve the eggs over the winter. Glassing uses a water/lime mixture that extends the shelf life for additional months.