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em - 25 Nov 2007 10:17 GMT

A huge website, more there than you'd ever want to know about eggs. Tons and
tons of recipes, including a low-carb section,
http://www.aeb.org/Recipes/LowCarb.htm .

They even address the question of "which came first". They did a damn poor
job of answering the question, unfortunately. We all know, of course, that
the Chicken came first! (It says so right in the Bible.)
http://www.aeb.org/KidsAndFamily/answers_to_fascinating_egg_facts.htm

On that same page they say that Grade A eggs are better for hard boiling
than AA because they have larger "air cells" (the air in the egg). AA's are
better for frying and poaching. Apparently, the size of the air cell is a
part of the grading criteria. Interesting! I don't know that I've ever seen
anything other than AA eggs in the store, but I'll take a look-see.

From the website:

Learn More About Eggs

Find out virtually everything there is to know about eggs! Whether it is egg
safety, nutritional information or egg trivia, you can click on the topics
on the left for answers to everything that you have wanted to know about The
incredible edible eggT.

http://www.aeb.org/LearnMore/

Late, late, late. Gotta go.

Mike

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Ophie - 25 Nov 2007 13:40 GMT

> A huge website, more there than you'd ever want to know about eggs.
> Tons and tons of recipes, including a low-carb section,
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> http://www.aeb.org/LearnMore/

Thanks Mike. Saved! I base my proteins on eggs:)

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Cubit - 25 Nov 2007 15:39 GMT

The best eggs are the ones with the lowest price.

Eggs are a wonderful food. I figure it is hard enough to screw it up, that
all I need is basic cheap cheap eggs.

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H.L - 25 Nov 2007 18:04 GMT

> The best eggs are the ones with the lowest price.

In case you meant this seriously, it is incorrect. Higher prices often
mean that the hens have had better conditions. That translates to eggs
of higher quality.

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Doug Freyburger - 26 Nov 2007 20:18 GMT

> The best eggs are the ones with the lowest price.

Advice that works okay for chicken eggs, not so well for caviar. ;^)

Which addresses the chicken/egg problem handily - There were
eggs in the world a long time before the first chicken evolved. Not
that any of these eggs were chicken eggs, but at some point there
was an egg that hatched into something someone might recognize
as a chicken but that was a mutant in that generation.

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em - 26 Nov 2007 22:00 GMT

>> The best eggs are the ones with the lowest price.
>
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> was an egg that hatched into something someone might recognize
> as a chicken but that was a mutant in that generation.

Humph. I wouldn't touch that one with a ten inch pole.

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DJ Delorie - 25 Nov 2007 16:02 GMT

> They even address the question of "which came first".

The egg came first. Genetically, an egg and the adult it grows up to
be are the same, but an adult and the egg it lays need not be. Thus,
if one can define a point genetically where one generation was
"not-chicken" and the next was "chicken", the egg from that next
generation was thus the first chicken egg (and the previous egg was
not a chicken egg), and came before the adult it grew up to be.

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Kaz Kylheku - 25 Nov 2007 17:53 GMT

> > They even address the question of "which came first".
>
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> generation was thus the first chicken egg (and the previous egg was
> not a chicken egg), and came before the adult it grew up to be.

Your argument rests on word semantics, namely that ``X egg'' means
``an egg from which a member of species X hatches''. If we instead
define ``X egg'' as being ``egg laid by a member of species X'', then
the chicken egg didn't come first, since the egg from which the first
chicken hatched was laid by a non-chicken, and therefore (by
definition) wasn't a chicken egg.

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