600g $4.50 ($7.50/kg) vs 700g $4.90 ($7/kg) at Colesworths.
Which do you get and why?
Do You Buy 600g or 700g Eggs at Coles/Woolworths?
haru on 22/01/2023 - 20:00
Last edited 22/01/2023 - 23:20 by 1 other user
Last edited 22/01/2023 - 23:20 by 1 other user
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I prefer the 800g when I do my banking.
How many eggs are you throwing at your screen?
Sell them to demonstrators if politicians walk past?
I go for 900 ones when banging :D
I get JUMBO when I make mayo. They are double yolked. Plus for omelettes.
Otherwise 800g
Agreed
If eating the eggs fried, boiled, omelette etc then 700g
If cooking the 600g
700g because they're bigger
600g coz you can't use half an egg so it will always be better to buy the 600g unless you will reduce the total number of eggs consumed. Atleast that's how I explain it to myself.
Wut
Fair point
When theres a recipe for 1 egg, I'll always use 1 egg
If my egg is smaller than the recipe calls for, i will still only use 1 egg. So if i buy larger eggs, i don't get more uses out of them, i consume them just as fast but end up consuming a little more egg everu time. I still don't know how to explain but it makes sense in my head.
Xlarge always for me , Sunny Queen because 1500 hens per hectare. Most "free range" are 10,000 hens per hectare.
Lucky hens brand remind me of the fresh laid eggs i used to collect and enjoy as a kid. I think they're 700g but they've got a good ratio of chicken to free range space too.
Honest eggs is 30 hens per hectare
I just saw they changed the packaging… 1500 hens per hectare when ‘outside’… so no idea how many when inside :/
Generally hens that sleep outside are usually designated by the technical term "Fox Poo" unless they are lucky enough to live on Kangaroo island, where the words " Cat toy" may be used.
Free access to the outside in daylight hours would be the advantage, so you don't have some poor lump that would break its legs if it tried to stand:-/
How long do they get to be outside though? Is it like a cop out, they can go outside for 1hr and then back into a cage or big shed where they are walking atop their dead?
Same here. Slightly more expensive, but worth it for the extra space they (hopefully) have.
Wow. I go the ones at 28/hectare :o
That's not true "free range".
Baking recipes expect large eggs.
So 600g?
USDA says 12 large eggs should be minimum 24 oz, or 680 grams. So in Australia I guess you should be buying extra large eggs to have what most recipes expect.
700g
800g even better value per kg Colesworths, but usually low stock.
Just checked Coles in Melb.
700g $0.61 per 100G
800g $0.68 per 100Gfree range
700g $0.70 per 100G
900g $0.79 per 100G no 800g listedThis is my go to in WW
$6.0/kg caged
$8.4/kg “more free”Reason - i enjoy bigger fried eggs
I like to poach my eggs so the bigger the better.
I like to poach my eggs
I always pay for mine.
As opposed to stepping on mines.
I've seen some 10-packs at Woolies recently that are 700g, which means that the weight per egg is equivalent to the XLs - however the price per kg is the lowest of all the various free-range ones.
Nobody likes buying the big ones, so supply and demand pushes the price down for these??
700g because my partner says his diet plan requires that size
700g but not from supermarket. I go to a suburban farm. Eggs are nice and fresh
600gm as I take pity on the poor ole chook that has to expel the larger size eggs.
How do you know it doesn't feel good? Egg laying must be a positive biological urge just like busting nuts is for apes.
You sound like you enjoy eating nuts.
All hens start egg production laying Pee Wee or Small eggs and gradually increase to a mature egg grade size of Medium, Large or bigger. In modern breeds, most hens are laying Large, Extra Large or Jumbo eggs by 40 weeks of age.
Supermarket eggs are gross, they are almost already off when you buy them and smell gross. Fresh eggs are best but I guess not everyone has the space or effort. My chicks aren't laying in the current heat so have to settle for store brought eggs.
The place I'm living had chickens. The chickens were old and the eggs were weird, nothing baked right and they were always too runny. The chickens died and we had to throw them in the trash. Now weeds grow wild in the old chicken pen. Supermarket eggs are a lot less bother and always cook the same.
Nothing in, nothing out.
I wouldn't even know where to buy chickens to replace them. I've never seen live chickens at Woolies. I searched Uber Eats just now for chickens and no live chickens available in my area.
I am lucky as living in regional area local IGAs/Foodworks have freerange from smaller local farms.
As far as cage eggs go, having seen the condition of chickens from cages and the damage the cages do to the chickens I would never buy cage eggs…Always buy freerange from decent freerange farms.
Had a supply of free eggs, but I didn't dare eat them. A pair of wild ducks lived in my back yard. Mrs Quacker was clearly a cross between a domestic and a wild duck. I'd feed them and leave a water dish for them, and they'd leave me an egg every couple of days. But I wasn't sure if it was safe to eat them because they had no shells.
no shells???
got a pic?
Never buy eggs at the super market !
I buy the 800g "jumbo" eggs either from Aldi or Coles.
Why buy caged eggs?
Chickens are fed antibiotics and hormones.
Usually buy free range 700g tray from Costco.
700g is the perfect size for eggs.
800grm
700g, only because they have more airtime and more splash damage.
Karens PLEASE….I'm kidding.
Used to buy the free-range brand from Coles with 18 eggs and 1,500 hens per hectare when the children were all at home, but can now afford the SA eggs with 190 hens per hectare, so only get those now. Large is big enough for the cooking and baking..
Depends. If general eating, whatever is best value. If baking, 600g.