What did you pay for a dozen eggs?

[jye]

Lakewood has this interesting dynamic in many stores thanks to WIC

[yungermanchik]

In ShopRite egglands best ($4.19) is less expensive than Bowl&Basket (shoprite-brand) ($5.49)

[jye]

Different supply chains. NPGS also has cage free at $3.75 and regular at $5.99. The inversion in prices is unlikely to last too long. A market like this is going to have some temporary anomalies. As I pointed out in the other thread a buttered bagel and eggs at Bagel Nosh is pretty close in price to buying eggs at seasons and frying them at home.

[aygart]

Different supply chains. NPGS also has cage free at $3.75 and regular at $5.99. The inversion in prices is unlikely to last too long.

https://www.businessinsider.com/avian-flu-has-made-organic-eggs-cheaper-than-conventional-ones-2022-12

[yungermanchik]

I'm talking about Regular E-L vs. Regular B&B

[jye]

I'm talking about Regular E-L vs. Regular B&B

Egg lands best are specialty eggs. ShopRite are regular commercial egg farms.

[ExGingi]

https://www.businessinsider.com/avian-flu-has-made-organic-eggs-cheaper-than-conventional-ones-2022-12

Aren't those (and cage-free) more prone to blood spots?

[yungermanchik]

Egg lands best are specialty eggs. ShopRite are regular commercial egg farms.

What's specialty about them? I thought they were just "brand-name".

[DaasTora]

Aren't those (and cage-free) more prone to blood spots?

They are. In fact I bought them from GoPuff some time ago when they were cheaper than the regular and almost half of them were spotty.

[jye]

What's specialty about them? I thought they were just "brand-name".

Proprietary feed.

[jye]

Aren't those (and cage-free) more prone to blood spots?

Organic and free range each independently contribute somewhat to the incidence of blood spots.
Organic hens are often fed varieties of feeds that lead to more blood spots, and free range chickens are exposed to varying temperatures which can also lead to increased blood spots. Scientifically the blood spots we see today, whether on the yolk or the white have nothing to do with fertilized eggs, they are actually simply burst blood vessels in the egg laying process. This is what causes the one or two dots that we see as blood spots.

A fertilized egg has a network of blood vessels running through the yolk. If the embryo dies it can form a kind of ring of blood around the yolk; sometimes the ring can disperse into dots of blood. Those would actually be fertilized egg blood spots. 99% plus of the time today that is not what you are seeing, not even on organic or free range eggs. It’s simply burst blood vessels.

Contrary to popular belief, in just about all egg farming systems, including free-range, cage-free, and organic, male chickens are considered useless. They are all killed at birth, (sometimes by being ground up alive) leaving exclusively female hens on the farm.

Fresher eggs are somewhat more likely to have a blood spot on the yolk; as the egg ages water bleeds into the yolk from the albumen, diluting the blood spot and often diluting small blood spots to the point that they disappear. We all end up eating some blood spots but they aren’t red by that time so aren’t any halachic issue.

By far the greatest determinant of the incidence of blood spots is the fact that all commercially produced eggs are candled. A light shines through the shell exposing any blood spots and those eggs are rejected and never make it to the supermarket. Brown eggs make it harder for the light to make it into the egg, leaving more blood spots that make it through. As many as 5% of brown eggs can contain blood spots. Small organic producers often don’t candle their eggs at all so they will have a high incidence of blood spots that reach the consumer.

[Alexsei]

In other news they say blood spots are now הפסד מרובה...

[koplonko]

In other news they say blood spots are now הפסד מרובה...

It's not so far off, because the modern day poskim said to throw out eggs with blood spot even though they can be halachically mutar, because it's only a few cents... I wonder what they would say now

[avromie7]

Different supply chains. NPGS also has cage free at $3.75 and regular at $5.99. The inversion in prices is unlikely to last too long. A market like this is going to have some temporary anomalies. As I pointed out in the other thread a buttered bagel and eggs at Bagel Nosh is pretty close in price to buying eggs at seasons and frying them at home.

Part of the reason they can still sell it for the same price is because it's not the same eggs. They're using canned or frozen eggs.

[jj1000]

It's not so far off, because the modern day poskim said to throw out eggs with blood spot even though they can be halachically mutar, because it's only a few cents... I wonder what they would say now

Especially now because the eggs aren't really viable eggs in the first place, which FWIU gives them a much more lenient status than what they were back before mass produced eggs from a farm.

[eli232]

I paid last week in Williamsburg 6.99 thankfully they have it now on "special" for 4.99

[DaasTora]

As I pointed out in the other thread a buttered bagel and eggs at Bagel Nosh is pretty close in price to buying eggs at seasons and frying them at home.

They say that it’s cheaper to buy a cake than bake one.

[Alexsei]

What is the usual expiration date you guys get? Eggs I bought Today have a bb date of Feb 23

[jj1000]

[AsherO]

Typical moronic lottery winner, putting all their eggs in one basket…