Emu and ostrich eggs? archived

The only time I’ve seen one cooed was on vacation in Mexico. They soft boiled the egg and it was put on the table with the top cut off. Then you dipped toast in it. It was really good but probably not all that healthy.

I was quite shocked to see in this economy that Whole Foods was selling the EMU egg. It was 29.99!!!!

I think the ostrich egg is equivalent to a dozen chicken eggs, so you could make one huge omelet. Someone on MOL posted videos of people cooking these eggs. I think it was taken from youtube.

I think it's kinda gross but I think eggs in general are gross so...

Posted By: FELIX6F5I was quite shocked to see in this economy that Whole Foods was selling the EMU egg. It was 29.99!!!!

I saw those. As a parrot person (meaning an avian aficionado) I just kept thinking "Geez, if I could get one of those to hatch...."

Is it richer than a chicken egg?

I've had quail eggs. A dozen eggs is rather like two or three chicken eggs, and I couldn't distinguish the difference after cooked.

I have cooked cockatiel eggs, and they seemed poorer than chicken eggs. Of course, they're tiny.

Posted By: MelissaHI think it's kinda gross but I think eggs in general are gross so...

I am so totally with you there... ugh!

But the Emu egg was beautiful to look at...

I am with Melissa and Marylago. Eggs are useful as igredients in something else, eg. a cake or a pudding, but not to eat alone.

I believe they're healthier than hen's eggs, and make wonderfully light cakes, rich-flavoured chocolate cakes. Problem is that every time you crack one, you have to feed a dozen people. I can probably find nutritional info if you really want...

Maybe we should merge this with the kale thread plus some thread on how to feed a party of people.

I bought the ostrich egg (I think I paid $40). Wife and I pulled breakfast duty for a mini family reunion and thought this would be a fun thing to do. We scrambled it up and it fed ~8 easily. We poked holes at the ends and blew out the white/yolk so as to leave the shell intact.

The general consensus was that it was richer than the chicken egg. And the consistency was thicker...like whipping cream is thicker than milk (though the difference isn't quite as drastic as my cream v. milk analogy). But those differences utterly failed to substantiate the cost. This was more novelty than anything else. I'd buy another, but not for the taste, just for the 'fun' factor.

Thanks for letting us eat vicariously through you. Your story is pretty much what I expected.

I believe they do marvellous things to truffles, if you're gonna cook them again...

Funny, this. When the Euro came into the picture on 1/1/99 each of us who worked heavily on the conversion received a little trophy (in lieu of the standard lucite tombstone) which was an emu egg (get it? emu? terrible banker's humor, I know) mounted on a wooden stand that noted the conversion date. Pretty cool.

Posted By: FELIX6F5I was quite shocked to see in this economy that Whole Foods was selling the EMU egg. It was 29.99!!!!

To tell you the truth, last time I checked WF stock was doing (relatively) rather well.

Posted By: Tom ReingoldI have cooked cockatiel eggs, and they seemed poorer than chicken eggs. Of course, they're tiny.

Ewww. When my cockatiel used to lay eggs, I just took them away from her (I had to, the eggs weren't fertilized, and she was vicious in trying to defend them when they were in her cage). Eating the eggs never crossed my mind.

I always let Gloriana, our Eclectus parrot, keep her eggs (unfertilized). She was a very good mommy, really vicious in protecting them. After the 28 day incubation period, she knew they weren't going to hatch, so she took care of them herself. I was very proud of her. Sigh....

Mine wasn't too smart. She laid her first one while sitting on the perch. Needless to say, that egg didn't fare too well. After that she did smarten up enough to sit on the floor, but she was so vicious defending those eggs that I couldn't even change the papers, food, or water.

We had a nest box that attached to the cage, so she could come and go. The cage also has dishes that swing outward on doors.

Mine also had a really bad habit of flying into the fish tank. Every time I forgot to close the office door when I had her out, she'd end up flying in there (I didn't clip her wings) and land right in the water. She wouldn't sink, her wings would be stretched out on the top of the water. She was real friendly, but I guess cockatiels just aren't that bright.

She was smart about one thing though, she HATED my ex-husband. Whenever he was in the same room as her, she'd screech, throw seeds at him, etc. I had to find her a new home because of that, and years later I realized I should have dumped his ass at the curb and kept the bird instead.

You're bringing back memories. First, the other thing I did with her eggs is even grosser than what I said. I will not even post it.

Second, yes, they do seem dumb. But maybe it's just that captive cockatiels don't get enough practice flying.

Third, my cockatiel hated my ex-wife. Maybe they sense that the relationship is not good and foretell the divorce. She reserved a special "bark" for my ex. It was so nasty! When my ex and I were splitting up our property, she said the bird is clearly mine, and we wouldn't dispute that.

Cockatiels are known to bond to one person in a couple. Africans are even worse in that regard. That was the reason we picked an Eclectus. They're a little less prone to that, though their being a matriarchal species has its own set of problems. Gloriana decided I was her mother, so she listened to me, whereas she decided that Melech Ric was her boyfriend, so she tortured him and bossed him around. I thought it was hilarious. Him, not so much.

That is so gross. I'll stick with chicken eggs.

Spontaneous -- thank you for a HUGE giggle first thing in the morning! that's a great little story, and you tell it well.

And thanks, 2wheels, for the details on cooking an ostrich egg. I guess an omelet would be just about the only way to do it. Although I was thinking it could be funny -- and a little disgusting, probably -- to hard-boil an ostrich egg, halve it, devil the yolk, and then serve one giant deviled egg at a party (kind of like spinach dip in a hollowed-out loaf of bread).

Probably best to not overthink the ick factor. Milk is kind of disgusting, too, if overthought. (But delicious in panna cotta.)

Posted By: Tom ReingoldYou're bringing back memories. First, the other thing I did with her eggs is even grosser than what I said. I will not even post it.

Wait! People, are you really going to let him get away with that? C'mon Tom... let's hear the lurid details... MOL wants to know (so, okay, I do...)

beppolina, Not a big milk fan either. Will have it in coffee and I do eat cereal--with just the minimal amount of milk.

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OK, you asked for it.



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I fried the eggs and fed them back to her.









































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That's not gross. Except maybe for the frying part. When Gloriana's eggs wouldn't hatch, after the 28-day incubation period, she ate 'em. I came in one morning to check on her and to take her breakfast order, but the eggs were missing and she had yolk smeared on her beak. I asked her what happened, and and she gave me a look that said, "Hey I did my best for those ungrateful kids. I gave them a month, If they're not gonna show up, well.... that's IT. Too bad. I'm a career woman, and I got stuff to do. And I'm hungry."

I told her she was a good girl, and then I made her a French Toast chaser.

Posted By: metaphysicianThat's not gross. Except maybe for the frying part. When Gloriana's eggs wouldn't hatch, after the 28-day incubation period, she ate 'em. I came in one morning to check on her and to take her breakfast order, but the eggs were missing and she had yolk smeared on her beak. I asked her what happened, and and she gave me a look that said, "Hey I did my best for those ungrateful kids. I gave them a month, If they're not gonna show up, well.... that's IT. Too bad. I'm a career woman, and I got stuff to do. And I'm hungry."

I told her she was a good girl, and then I made her a French Toast chaser.

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Posted By: Tom ReingoldI fried the eggs and fed them back to her.

That's it? I'm disappointed, I was expecting a really gross story. Birds eat eggs all the time. My great-Grandfather had chickens, and every so often an egg would break by accident and the chicken would eat it. The problem was when a chicken got a taste for eggs and started breaking eggs on purpose and eating them. When that happened, he would put a stone egg the same size and shape as a chicken egg in the nest. A few pecks of a stone egg would usually break the chicken of the egg eating habit.

Yea, I though you snorted it or something.

Certainly no grosser than pigeons eating chicken wings... I see that all the time.