You and these others are eating these eggs with no seasoning on them?
Yuck.
That’s so unpleasant, I’d be unable to discern a difference anyway.
OTOH, I’d think any seasoning added would swamp minor differences in taste.
With meat, whatever was used to wash it could make a difference in the taste, even IF only water was used, as some can get absorbed into the meat, and water varies hugely.
At the very least there are different (more) pigments in free range eggs than in your “industrial” eggs, and I’d be willing to bet some trace “nutrients” (or contaminants?)* are higher in free range eggs. Whether that is “better” I’m not certain, but the “more orange” free range eggs yolks are certainly more visually “attractive”.
*I will grant you many a keeper of free range chickens has no idea what was dumped or buried 50 or 150 years ago on the land their chickens roam... I find all sorts of crazy stuff if I do any digging in the woodlot out past our east yard and garden.
Thats not the truth with eggs either if you compare relevant things.
The difference is flavor is not related to housing or weather they had their butts massaged by pandas.
For example, there is a couple we know that has a few dozen chickens. They have a coop and a small enclosed area. The chickens are let out once in a rare while but for the most part kept in a 1/2 acre plot. According to the dirty cramped housing theory their chickens and eggs should taste much better than “factory” farm eggs.
Their eggs are absolutely disgusting. They keep their birds locked up until they are into maturity. They dont readily identify “wild” food. The chickens eat a low grade budget crumble. If you throw a worm their way they stand terrorized wondering what the worm is going to do. Their eggs taste like the smell of hot wet corrugated cardboard. These eggs are much worse than “factory” eggs.
My personal flocks are let out within days of hatching. They dont say what they eat but it has to be almost exclusively bugs and weeds along with any corn left from last year that the crows, cranes, and wild geese havent picked up. I do not hire pandas to rub their butts. I open the door in the morning so they can go to work. I close the door at night so the raccoons cant come to work. They dont tell me where they go but I know that some go quite far to feed on things like wild grapes, gooseberries, junebugs, and whatever else mother nature puts on the menu. There are kitchen scraps and sometimes that box of smashed week old donuts I picked up for 25 cents. My eggs, not really the whites but especially the yolks, taste entirely different and significantly better than “factory” eggs.
‘At the very least there are different (more) pigments in free range eggs than in your “industrial” eggs, and I’d be willing to bet some trace “nutrients” (or contaminants?)* are higher in free range eggs’
‘You and these others are eating these eggs with no seasoning on them?”