Price of Eggs and Bird Flu

[lumbrjk]

Hatching some more chicks tonight. We have 15 hens.

[DogFaced PonySoldier]

There's how ya grow your retirement, right there! lol

Future Warren Buffett here, folks! Remember, we can say, "We knew him when...." lol

[lumbrjk]

😆 ha!

[Huskee]

I was ponderin' this the other day...What if eggs were never edible, or were terrible tastin', or poisonous, whatever, and never were a common part of our diet? Then since my ponderin' hat was already on and hair was done messed up, I happened upon a further ponder...

What would recipes use that so commonly mandate eggs now? What would we have done with baking and such, batters and coatings, noodles, French toast, egg wash, etc, if eggs ne'er were an option? And can we do that, whatever that may be, now?

Surely those in the vegan community have this figured out. Maybe I am simply an ignorant fella in this regard (well, I know I am) and it's rather common knowledge, but if whatever this option is, is viable, why do we still use eggs in cooking?

[DavidNorcross]

I honestly thought that meat and eggs have been the proper human diet for a very very long time…

[cruiseplanner1]

A lot of baking recipes allow for one quarter cup of yogurt to substitute for up to three eggs. I plan on trying that out this weekend on a cake. Good excuse to bake myself a treat...all in the name of research

[Murdy]

A couple times when we were out of eggs, my wife substituted apple sauce.

[Hulagn1971]

What's interesting is the price at Harris Teeter for Eggland's Best hard boiled bagged eggs hasn't gone up at all. I can get a bag of six or their store brand for under $3 any day of the week. The price bounces back between the two. I go through 2-3 packs a week for breakfast at work, plus yogurt and some low sugar granola. Egg prices definitely won't send me to my local BK attorney to file a chapter 7 or 13.

[Bogy]

That's $6 a dozen, which people are complaining about, because they aren't 79 cents like they used to be.

[Hulagn1971]

Bogy yes correct, $6 a dozen. These are cooked, peeled and ready to eat. Compared to over $6 a dozen here locally, not ready to eat (unless you do it Rocky style, raw).

[klflowers]

I was at a restaurant in Conyers, GA the other day. Little mom and pop place. They had a notice on the door that said they were charging a 49 cent surcharge per egg right now. Betty's Home Cooking. Pretty good food.

[Huskee]

Interesting, that's what they now cost, so the eggs had been free prior to this?

[klflowers]

Huskee I guess so. I had lunch instead

[Bogy]

Prior to this an egg would have cost less than ten cents, so pretty close to free.

[FireMan]

First, to address smokenoob , ya jump in a pond around these parts ya would hurt yerself.
Second, ya what did the knuckle dragging cavemen do a gazillion years ago before they existed? They breathed star dust.
Tird, got yer mind out of the gutter.
Fort, AI and cacklenerries? We be in a lotta trouble.

[smokenoob]

well I see ya got my meanin’, ya caught my drift…..

[FireMan]

And while we're on the subject of the Grand Wazoo!

[DogFaced PonySoldier]

Ya'll lost me way back yonder down the road...

[Bogy]

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[RichieB]

J-Melt maybe if you told her you'd sleep in the coop with them it might convince her. I know my wife might consider it. 😉

[J-Melt]

Haha! Just asked, she thankfully said she would not be okay with that one.

[Panhead John]

Damn, I thought it was gonna be a singles mixer with hot babes…😢

[SheilaAnn]

My local health food store still has them for $4.99/dz

[Michael_in_TX]

The eggs I normally buy have now hit $6.50/dz, so I dropped down to the cheapest ones. $3.98/dz. Ethen Chlebowski's "Are Expensive Eggs Worth It?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YY7K7Xa5rE) video from last year convinced me than an egg is an egg is an egg.

In other words, buy on price.

Still, it was weird buying white eggs. (I've been buying brown eggs for years now.) Also, these cheaper eggs are about 10-15% smaller than the eggs I normally buy (I didn't realize that until I got them home).

Also....lol...these eggs came in a styrofoam container rather than the cardboard one. I feel like I bought a McBLT. (Remember those?)

[Michael_in_TX]

Ethen Chlebowski's "Are Expensive Eggs Worth It?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YY7K7Xa5rE) video from last year convinced me than an egg is an egg is an egg.

Speaking of which, I went to go rewatch it and in the opening segment he shows the eggs that I just bought for $3.98/dz. Apparently in January of 2024 they were $1.78/dz!

(Ethan lives in Austin and shops at HEB, because Texas.)

[Jfrosty27]

I was innthe grocery store yesterday. The eggs I bought less than a week ago went up by 10%! They were $8.19 for a 18 count. Now $8.99. 👎🫤

[McFlyfi]

Costco holding steady from 3 weeks ago at $7.49/24 pack.

[DavidNorcross]

From what I read an agreement has been reached with Turkey where they will export 15 tons of eggs to the US between now and July. I have also read that Canada limits the farm size to 25000 birds and if the flu is detected they quarantine rather than cull and that works well for them due to the reduced size of their flocks.

I think there is alot of messages here for the way we handle food production.

[DogFaced PonySoldier]

Restaurant Depot yesterday. Even buying in massive bulk (15 doz) it's still almost $6/doz

[Bkhuna]

I was in Publix yesterday and I dozen Large eggs were $4.29. Dozen Jumbo $5.25. What accounts for the great disparity in pricing from state to state?

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

supply chain and demand. States like mine have had massive bird flu culls while some neighboring states haven't been severely affected. I would suspect prices are highest where there isn't a major egg laying production footprint AND normally relies on states that do but had large culls.

[Jerod Broussard]

Eggs by the dozen here are around $6.00, Coffee Latte $5.46. People complain more about the eggs. Maybe the meager 0.6g of sugar in the egg leads to the complaining.