Using ostrich and emu eggs
Every time I venture to whole foods I notice the ostrich and emu eggs for sale. The one obvious difference is size. Do the eggs taste the same as chicken eggs? Are they any different nutritionally? Can they be hard-boiled?
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i have a friend who has 8 ostriches, and he eats their eggs all the time. the taste is (apparently) different from a chicken's... richer somehow, but not different in a bad way. he has hard-boiled them, but as roux says, it takes a LONG time to do it. i think he boils them for an hour, but don't quote me on that one. his most regular method is to drill a hole in it, drain it into a big bowl, blend it, and then makes scrambled eggs a cup or so at a time. he has found that he can freeze the leftover egg for eating later. as roux also said, one ostrich egg is about 2 dozen or so chicken eggs, so be prepared!
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What can I do with ostrich eggs?
Ostrich eggs were commonly used as food in the villages of the Serengeti district, but such eggs were mostly used for decoration or as a fertility treatment, and rarely for food, in Ngorongoro district. Eggs are also used to protect children from bad spirits and to increase livestock productivity.Are emu eggs good eating?
\u201cThey are also great as a quick nutritious meal or snack. \u201cOne emu egg is equal to about eight to 10 chicken eggs, so you wouldn't eat a whole emu egg all to yourself, but it may be useful to feed a crowd.\u201dAre ostriches eggs edible?
Can You Eat Ostrich Eggs? Yes, an ostrich egg is edible and you can eat them. One egg contains around 2,000 calories. Compared to a chicken egg, it has more magnesium and iron, but fewer vitamins E and A.More answers regarding using ostrich and emu eggs
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In order: broadly, yes though slightly richer; I do not know, but one ostrich egg is equivalent to approximately thirty chicken eggs; yes but you need to do it for (obviously) much longer and at a lower temperature--think more like sous vide, less like hard boiling.
Answer 3
I have cooked and eaten an ostrich egg once before and it was a mildly unpleasant experience.
It definitely doesn't taste like a chicken egg - it has a denser texture (almost rubbery) and a stronger taste. Scrambling it and using it as part of a frittata in two very large 14 inch pans, I was still scratching my head as to what I should with the leftovers.
Also, unless you have ostriches I know they can be quite expensive. The emu eggs seem like they would be a bit easier to handle, but still I'm not sure I would have any reason to buy one except for curiosity.
Answer 4
I've never had Ostrich eggs but I've eaten many duck and goose eggs that my family raised when I was a child. Duck and Goose eggs are richer (large yolks) and slighly gamey in flavor - you may enjoy this or find it unpleasant depending on your tasts. I quite enjoyed them.
Our birds were "free range" (they wandered in our back yard) and ate a lot of grass and bugs in addition to hand shelled corn which gave a deep savory flavor to the egg that you do not get with "feed fed" chickens.
There is nothing quite like Goose Eggs scrambled with a bit of butter sauteed morels for a country gourmet breakfast though.
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