Tesco,s Brown Eggs

[James]

Who'd have thought there was so much to it.
https://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Hard-Boile ... t-Cracking

I am frankly amazed that my mother and grandmother were able, using just a wood- and coal-fired range, to boil an egg. That link has given me a whole new respect for their culinary genius in the face of adversity. And to do it without cracking a single egg in the 50-plus years that I've seen them do it? Colour me flabbergasted.

I do not think with the greatest respect that your mother or grandmother were necessarily genius cooks, at least not from the evidence presented so far. They probably started the eggs off in cold water and gently boiled them, and in your grandmother's case at least, from room temperature. There is a lot of stuff we keep in fridges which do not need to be kept there, eggs being one of them.

Recently I was chatting to my mature adult daughter about keeping food in 'the old days' pre fridges. I must be getting old.

Dod

I wouldn't discount the high likelihood that I was being sarcastic.

[Lanark]

If you buy good quality organic eggs from healthy hens the shells will be much thicker
Soil association standards are the best for eggs.

[Dod101]

I am frankly amazed that my mother and grandmother were able, using just a wood- and coal-fired range, to boil an egg. That link has given me a whole new respect for their culinary genius in the face of adversity. And to do it without cracking a single egg in the 50-plus years that I've seen them do it? Colour me flabbergasted.

I do not think with the greatest respect that your mother or grandmother were necessarily genius cooks, at least not from the evidence presented so far. They probably started the eggs off in cold water and gently boiled them, and in your grandmother's case at least, from room temperature. There is a lot of stuff we keep in fridges which do not need to be kept there, eggs being one of them.

Recently I was chatting to my mature adult daughter about keeping food in 'the old days' pre fridges. I must be getting old.

Dod

I wouldn't discount the high likelihood that I was being sarcastic.

Neither would I nor did I when I responded.

Dod