The Real Difference Between Brown & White Eggs (Most People Don't Know)
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There you are in the dairy aisle, and before you sit two cartons of eggs. One holds white eggs. The other holds brown eggs, and the brown ones most often cost a little more. They look somehow more rustic, more wholesome, more natural. And because of that look, a great many folks quietly assume the brown eggs must be the better egg. Healthier, maybe, with more protein or a richer yolk. So they reach for the brown carton, feeling they have made the wiser, more natural choice.But I am here to tell you, plainly and from my own henhouse, that this common belief is simply mistaken. The real difference between a white egg and a brown egg has nothing to do with how healthy it is, and everything to do with what kind of hen laid it. In fact, you can very nearly tell which color a hen will lay by looking at her earlobes.I am Elias Yoder. I am Amish, and I farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. And I will tell you, this is one subject I come to not as a curious outsider but from my own barnyard, for we gather eggs every single day. We keep hens of different kinds, and our basket holds white eggs and brown eggs and even some pretty colored ones, all mixed together, gathered warm from the nests by my own family's hands.What I walk you through:✔ The most surprising fact: shell color is decided entirely by the breed of the hen, not by whether she was free-range, organic, or cage-free
✔ The charming rule of thumb: a hen with white feathers and white earlobes lays white eggs (the White Leghorn), while one with reddish feathers and red earlobes lays brown (the Rhode Island Red)
✔ That some breeds, like the Araucana, lay lovely pale blue or green eggs
✔ The hidden truth: every egg's shell is being built white for most of its making, and brown breeds add a surface pigment only in the last hours before laying
✔ The proof you can see tonight: crack a brown egg and look inside, the shell is white within, because the brown is only a tint on the outside
✔ Why brown eggs cost more, and it is not a swindle: the brown-laying breeds are larger, heavier birds that eat more feed, and that cost is passed along
✔ The one thing that truly changes an egg's goodness: the hen's diet and how she was kept, never the color of her shellThe plain old wisdom underneath it all: the color is only the outside, and the worth of the egg is not in the shell at all. So much of the world spends its longing on the wrapping, believing the finer-looking thing must be the finer thing. But the careful old folks always knew better, that you do not judge the worth of a thing, or a person, by the outward show, but by the substance within. The rustic brown that makes folks pay more is quite literally only a tint on the surface, with the very same egg inside.This is one of a series on Elias Yoder Explains, where I take the ordinary things of daily life that everybody handles and nobody really understands, and explain them plainly, the way the careful old folks understood them.Tell me in the comments below. Did you always believe brown eggs were healthier, and are you surprised the shell color makes no difference at all? And for those who keep hens, what colors does your basket hold? Do you have the blue or green layers that delight the children? Tell me about your hens. And if you crack a brown egg tonight and see that white inside for the first time, come back and tell me. I read every single one.Next video: how an eggshell, so fragile you can break it with one hand, is at the same time so strong you can squeeze it whole in your fist and it will not break. Subscribe so you do not miss it.#BrownEggs #WhiteEggs #EggFacts #HowThingsWork #AmishWisdom #PennsylvaniaDutch #Chickens #BackyardChickens #PlainSense #Homestead #EggMyths #Farmlife #SimpleExplained #EliasYoderExplains #EverydayNature