“Actually you can buy “free range” eggs for just a little more than the factory produced ones. They taste better.”
Not in a double blind taste test they don’t. When neither the cook or the person eating the egg know which is which the person tasting the egg choose the free range egg about 50% of the time. In other words no better than a random guess.
When either the cook or the taster knows which is which the percentage goes up. indicating there is some confirmation bias going on.
“Not in a double blind taste test they don’t.”
Maybe so, but unlike some of you, I have some compassion for the chickens. BTW, I don’t eat Veal either. What is done to calves to make Veal is also a disgrace! So head on down to the Greyhound Track and place a bet on a dog that when he or she can’t run fast any longer, they will be killed. Way to go Arizona and the other backward a$$ed states that don’t care about how animals are treated.
One major problem with the term ‘free range’ is that the birds do not have to be caged. What happens is that barns have thousands of birds walking about in circles around feed dispensers and laying eggs in the chips, excrement and whatnot where they are gathered up and sold under a slightly disingenuous rubric or ‘free range.’ Makes perfect sense to me that these eggs taste little different from factory confinement animals.
Birds that are free to roam and eat diet of choice while foraging are another matter altogether. One obvious clue is the brilliant orange to deep, deep yellow yolk. The flavor, of course, is just as revealing. Remarkably, I can also distinguish the difference between Budweiser beer and my craft IPA’s.
I don’t care about double blind taste tests, nor do I believe them.
The shells are thicker, the yolks brighter, and the eggs taste better. Thats all I need.
You are right. I was raised on a small farm and I owned all the chickens. None of them were in cages.
Eggs taste like eggs. I can’t tell any difference then or now.