Have egg whites gotten more watery recently?

Maybe this didn’t bother me as much before…but I’ve noticed that since the egg shortage started over the previous year, the whites of eggs have become much more watery. A quick Google search gives me varying answers ranging from the egg being stale to the chicken having a viral disease.

This happens for any brand I buy. Maybe I should get more expensive eggs. :thinking:

older eggs, older hens, high temps all result in watery whites. I’m sure there’s other reasons too.

It could be cat eggs…

Ah! I’ll pay attention to this as temperatures go down heading into winter. Most likely explanation so far.

Mammal eggs are a bit hard to cook given the size and the issue of them not being visible to the naked eye.

There are mammal eggs…

Interesting, never knew those points. I have noticed the farm we get our eggs now have way more yolks than whites now. Didn’t noticethe whites consistancy though, but the eggs seem smaller with bigger ratio of yolks.

relatively bigger yolks also happen as hens age. :wink:

Very interesting. I have just been turned onto something new, eager to learn more. thanks!

I suspect the farms I buy from keep their hens longer as they are more natural styled farms and dont have a fulldare per se.

Any issues, food wise, with old hens’ eggs? More yolk to white ratio is a blessing in my book!

:man_shrugging: I don’t think so. Commercial farms generally don’t keep hens very long because production goes down.

WTH is going on here? Is it a summer thing?

The egg whites are pouring out of the eggs just as I crack them on the side of the pan. And the yolks are more orange than I recall.

Kinda grossing me out. :nauseated_face:

High temps make the whites more runny.

Diet. Grain fed hens lay eggs with yellower yolks, free range or more varied diets result in yolks more orange. Or they feed the dye mixed in with grain to make people think they’re on a more natural diet.

I recognize that knowledge is power, but in this case, I wasn’t eggsatly looking for science, but empathy.

Usually the orange colour is from when they feed them corn. Or one hopes so anyway. Taiwan eggs tend to be less orange than other countries.

Curb leads to pale yolks.

The egg place we used to use had free range chicken that ate a good chunk of farmers market leftovers. The yolks were glorious.

Not this summer!