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  • @jamesrowe3606
    @jamesrowe3606 8 місяців тому +74

    The egg thing is pretty simple. Unrefrigerated eggs stay fresh because of the coating on the shells that you are legally required to wash off in the USA. The choice is 1) tolerate the odd trace of chicken shit on the eggshell (the bit you don't eat) or 2) compromise the safety of the bit you do eat by dousing them in nasty chemicals.

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. 8 місяців тому +1

      "Nasty chemicals" isn't a particularly scientific concept.

    • @HaiLsKuNkY
      @HaiLsKuNkY 8 місяців тому +2

      if you watch videos on youtube people in the uk hatch eggs bought from supermarkets lol

    • @jamesrowe3606
      @jamesrowe3606 8 місяців тому +2

      @@eadweard. Thanks for that Einstein.

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. 8 місяців тому

      @@jamesrowe3606 It's in the same category as "Body Thetans" and "misaligned chakras".

    • @JPVLDRodrigues
      @JPVLDRodrigues 8 місяців тому +7

      It's simple... If you get a dirty egg, just wash it before cracking it and cooking it. Not before.

  • @PHDarren
    @PHDarren 8 місяців тому +20

    Basically eggs have evolved for millions of years to the point where they come out of (in this case) a Chicken with all the natural defences required already there and don't require any human interference.

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. 8 місяців тому

      Scientifically-illiterate drivel.

    • @MrLeadb1
      @MrLeadb1 8 місяців тому +2

      @@OneTrueScotsman Transporting of eggs in the EU is not a concern as they don't have to be refrigerated during transport. Transporting them in the USA means using refrigerated trucks and not letting them sit outside too long during delivery in case they have moisture condense on them due to them being cold.

  • @ellesee7079
    @ellesee7079 8 місяців тому +104

    You don't need UK eggs, you just need a friend with chickens 😊 I'm sure they'd let you buy unwashed eggs. I love getting an egg with a little fluffy feather attached!

    • @gazzaarrgghh
      @gazzaarrgghh 8 місяців тому +10

      finding a feather.... thats how you know they're fresh! :D

    • @asicdathens
      @asicdathens 8 місяців тому

      The European eggs are sampled for pathogens like salmonella

    • @blackbob3358
      @blackbob3358 8 місяців тому +2

      @@gazzaarrgghh Years a go supermarkets were literally putting a feather in each carton of BATTERY eggs here in the UK, trying to pass them off as "free range", so they could get a higher price for 'em. I do'nt know what the stipulation is now, but at one time if a hen had a square yard to "stretch it's legs", it was classed as free range.. Hardly. ( Seething capitalism has means and ways ! )

    • @blackbob3358
      @blackbob3358 8 місяців тому +1

      That's based on the presumption that you have a friend with a Hen Coop, ellesee. I do'nt, do you ?

    • @SimonNemeth
      @SimonNemeth 8 місяців тому +2

      They'd most definitely be much nicer eggs as well.

  • @dirtbikerman1000
    @dirtbikerman1000 8 місяців тому +34

    Don't import eggs, just get some chickens.
    I had 4 chickens and got 3 to 5 eggs a day, some of them were double yokers too

    • @digidol52
      @digidol52 8 місяців тому +2

      You'll be amazed how good fresh eggs from your own hens are but I wonder how they would like the Florida climate?

    • @dannjp75
      @dannjp75 8 місяців тому

      @@digidol52chickens are bred across the world, Florida isn’t exactly a tough place to live. As long as the don’t mind alligators, hurricanes, junkies, racists, homophobia, board shorts, stupid shirts, jet skis, show ponies, fake tits and roller blades.

  • @davidjb-750
    @davidjb-750 8 місяців тому +7

    “So they are walking on…. a very tight rope” Was it just me expecting him to say EGG SHELLS 😊

  • @abigail1st
    @abigail1st 8 місяців тому +5

    American intensive farming practices are also a reason why the eggs have to be washed in the US. If the animal farming standards were less cruel towards the hens, the eggshells would probably be less contaminated by ‘waste’.

    • @nevillemason6791
      @nevillemason6791 8 місяців тому +3

      I'd heard that in the USA when a flock is changed in the shed the bedding can remain and new bedding is put down on top of the old. Hence disease can pass on from one flock to the next. In the EU and UK when a flock is changed all bedding must be removed and everything thoroughly sterilized. This prevents/eliminates disease being passed on. There's a far lower chance of any egg contaminated with salmonella, etc.

  • @Nobby76
    @Nobby76 8 місяців тому +3

    The way i see it with eggs not being washed. Yeah it might have a splodge of chicken poop on it or a feather stuck to it. But thats on the outside of a sealed container, you are not eating the container, you are throwing it away, you only want the contents. That would be like refusing to open a can of tomatoes, because there is a bit of dirt on the paper label.

  • @vjaska
    @vjaska 8 місяців тому +33

    Steve is a good guy to watch, definitely watch his channel as well as your own

    • @stuartfaulds1580
      @stuartfaulds1580 8 місяців тому +2

      that he is

    • @dawnfishwick861
      @dawnfishwick861 8 місяців тому +3

      Totally agree, love watching Steve's channel

    • @jiggely_spears
      @jiggely_spears 6 місяців тому +1

      @@dawnfishwick861 the guy with his wife and daughter right?

  • @BBCBOY919
    @BBCBOY919 8 місяців тому +5

    7:12 I am genuinely upset that you didn't say "walking on eggshells".

  • @barriehull7076
    @barriehull7076 8 місяців тому +12

    The salmonella-in-eggs controversy was a political controversy in the United Kingdom caused by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, Edwina Currie's claims that "most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now affected with salmonella" in 1988. These claims led to a 60 percent decline in egg sales over the next few weeks, and angered both politicians and those in the egg production industry.[1] Currie's statement also resulted in the destruction of around 400 million eggs and the slaughter of around 4 million hens.[2] The controversy dominated Currie's tenure as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and resulted in her resignation two weeks later. Wikipedia.

    • @marvinc9994
      @marvinc9994 8 місяців тому +1

      "Edwina Currie'"
      Kindly stop using Bad Language (there may be children watching)!

    • @kingcurry6594
      @kingcurry6594 8 місяців тому

      The first identified outbreak of salmonella in the UK 1988 was about a mile from my home and was at the farm that I bought my eggs from. I'd never had any illness.
      The hens were taken into the care of a Government research centre to study them. Their faeces were full of salmonella and their eggs had some bacteria in them, but the hens were perfectly healthy.

  • @charlenewoods1967
    @charlenewoods1967 8 місяців тому +10

    Steve is a really nice, down to earth guy.

  • @HaiLsKuNkY
    @HaiLsKuNkY 8 місяців тому +11

    In the UK, we fortify some foods with additives. I think they add vitamin B to alcohol, and this means that alcoholics in the UK do not suffer the same health problems as alcoholics in the USA.

    • @michaelmay5453
      @michaelmay5453 8 місяців тому +9

      You add vitamin B to beer, not to alcohol (that would denature it immediately so that would be a really dumb idea). But I get your point, I'm just a doctor of biochemistry so not correcting this would mean the god of biochemistry would smite me if I didn't. :P

    • @HaiLsKuNkY
      @HaiLsKuNkY 8 місяців тому +1

      @@michaelmay5453 Oh, Thanks for clearing that up. I remember seeing a UA-cam video where they spoke about how alcoholics in the UK didn't suffer from this disease that alcoholics in the USA commonly suffer from. Apart from that, I didn't really know much about what it was, so I just assumed it was all alcohol :)

    • @michaelmay5453
      @michaelmay5453 8 місяців тому

      @@HaiLsKuNkY They don't because they have access to actual healthcare. Other than that, there is no difference.
      Your mistake was minor and I like you. That's saying a lot because I don't generally like people. I'll be seeing you around. :)

    • @chrism7969
      @chrism7969 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@michaelmay5453 I'm not sure if we do fortify alcoholic drinks with thiamine in the UK. However, heavy alcohol consumption does result in chronically low levels of vitamin B1, which causes a particular type of dementia.
      Whilst it's true that in the UK alcoholics would have access to healthcare free at the point of delivery a lot of them don't access it and whilst it would not be fair to describe the treatment they receive as palliative only, it would be true to say they are unlikely to receive the most resource intensive and expensive types of treatment. You're not going on a waiting list for a liver transplant if you are an alcoholic who is still drinking. Resources are provided to help people stop drinking, but if people can't stop drinking there is a limit to the resources that will be spent on keeping them alive. Particularly if those resources can be used by somebody else who will benefit more from them because they're not drinking.

    • @michaelmay5453
      @michaelmay5453 8 місяців тому

      @@chrism7969 I'll make this short and sweet, you don't.
      The rest of this comment of yours is just a mix of stating the obvious and not really knowing what the hell is going on. VERY few alcoholics will ever need a liver transplant, that's not why people need liver transplants. In most cases it is because of infections or cancer. Getting to that point without dying of other causes from abusing alcohol is quite literally one in a million.
      I don't know what all of that crap is about but whoever it is you're thinking of, maybe try to fucking help them instead of being a daft on a matter you don't even seem to understand?

  • @mpmlopes
    @mpmlopes 8 місяців тому +2

    You can use "k" instead of the space bar to pause/resume. The space bar only works when the video is in focus. I'm sure that youtube changed something in their UI as the space bar also started failing to work for me more frequently in the last few weeks.

  • @EarthlyEden1
    @EarthlyEden1 8 місяців тому +6

    If you are having issues with the space bar, try the ''K'' key, does the same job.

    • @BBCBOY919
      @BBCBOY919 8 місяців тому +1

      explain pls

  • @teknotony
    @teknotony 8 місяців тому +5

    Buy eggs from a roadside honesty box , fresh produce and cash for them ... Win ! Win !

  • @IanDarley
    @IanDarley 8 місяців тому +15

    You just need to find a local farm with fresh laid eggs.

    • @sarahfoster6765
      @sarahfoster6765 8 місяців тому

      As long as they have been immunised the chicken against Salmonella

    • @Connor6569
      @Connor6569 8 місяців тому

      @@sarahfoster6765 Why? I eat raw eggs from un vaccinated chickens all the time

    • @sarahfoster2526
      @sarahfoster2526 8 місяців тому

      Where are you from?

    • @joepiekl
      @joepiekl 8 місяців тому

      Yep. The problem is you also need to do something similar for about 20 or 30 other products to avoid all of this ultra-processed crap, and who has time for that?

  • @alanjanes923
    @alanjanes923 8 місяців тому +4

    Steve from Reacting to my roots buys his eggs from a farm local to him, you should try that if you have one near you. Plus another channel you should check out is The Natasha and Debbie show, they react to a lot of stuff too, quite often it's different to what everyone else is doing.

  • @amandaabrahams5118
    @amandaabrahams5118 8 місяців тому +6

    Could try looking into local farmers for eggs.. I've watched a few of Steve's reactions the recent one with the taste testing

  • @gaelsomerville5163
    @gaelsomerville5163 8 місяців тому +1

    That coke ad was from the 1970s singing, 'I'd like to teach the world to sing' and it was such a catchy song they had to take the references to coca cola out and released it as a single. It went to no. 1 in the UK and i dare say, in a number of other countries!

  • @solalexander674
    @solalexander674 8 місяців тому +6

    I'm buying Steve a tikka massala and have talked to him several times and he, and his family are great. His wife Lindley is a new edition to the video, Jt and Anna are also great, I once saw a bigfoot in a deer costume in there personal video in kentucky

    • @Zippy66
      @Zippy66 8 місяців тому +1

      He's very wholesome. I couldn't imagine him swearing like King Boomer 😂

  • @HughShower
    @HughShower 8 місяців тому +1

    As an aside and to answer the old riddle, the egg came before the chicken. Like every other bird, chickens evolved from egg-laying reptiles.

  • @gaelsomerville5163
    @gaelsomerville5163 8 місяців тому +3

    In the UK most eggs sold are free range; battery chicken farming is much less common than in the USA.

    • @leec6707
      @leec6707 8 місяців тому

      I feel for the lives some of these chickens have 🙁

  • @sarahealey1780
    @sarahealey1780 8 місяців тому +3

    You just need to find a local farmer, any farmer that sells from his farm will sell you unwashed eggs, if they have a little poop and a few feather on them they are fresh and good to eat.

  • @coot1925
    @coot1925 8 місяців тому +4

    I've eaten eggs in the US and they definitely don't have as much taste as in the UK.
    ✌️❤️🇬🇧

  • @helenroberts1107
    @helenroberts1107 8 місяців тому +5

    There are so many countries that are healthier and safer, with better (and cheaper) healthcare and good education. There are videos where it tells you. I think Midwest Americans did a video about it. We used to have chickens and ate the eggs they laid, never got Ill at all

  • @MrLeadb1
    @MrLeadb1 8 місяців тому +1

    One point that video left out was that there are more cases of salmonella poisoning per capita in the USA than in Europe by quite a margin.

  • @AdeboFunkyVoodoo
    @AdeboFunkyVoodoo 8 місяців тому +1

    This is also why American chicken isn't sold in the UK and EU.
    It boils down to higher hygiene and health standards for the animals, so that their byproducts aren't contaminated. The US has lower standards for taking care of the animals and then chemical wash the food products to take the bacteria off them. So chlorine washed chicken is not sold here.
    It's the age old adage of prevention being better than a cure.

  • @martinscholes2023
    @martinscholes2023 8 місяців тому +2

    Will we look back in years to come and remember “The Egg Wars” 😊. Greetings from England where we love eggs fresh from the chickens ass, (shite, fluff and all). 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @WithTwoFlakes
    @WithTwoFlakes 8 місяців тому +3

    Spooky to hear you name check both Steve & McJibbin who are both quality folks. I've watched many videos from them as well as yourself. What a huge, and yet at the same time, small and cosy world the InterWeb is. Think I'll go make myself a fried (UK) egg sandwich and a cuppa...

  • @pboro1jawrattler
    @pboro1jawrattler 8 місяців тому +1

    I'm from the uk and the last time I got ill from eggs over the last 40 years was never

  • @markjones127
    @markjones127 8 місяців тому +1

    Steve is definitely a good guy, I've been following him for a while, when I went to college here in the UK in 1988 I lived with 5 American exchange students from Wisconsin, and they wouldn't eat our eggs as they were a little freaked out by them not being refrigerated and just didn't trust them.

  • @andrewsmart8520
    @andrewsmart8520 8 місяців тому

    I for one do not buy eggs from the supermarkets in the UK because the freshest eggs can be bought directly from the free range farms. They are often larger, fresher and cheaper, and if they’re dirty you can always wipe them just before you crack them.

  • @infernalsymphonytv2928
    @infernalsymphonytv2928 8 місяців тому +1

    7:10 You might say... They're walking on egg shells 😂

  • @Lucylava
    @Lucylava 8 місяців тому +12

    The best eggs are the freshest eggs, so ones from a local farm or someone's back garden are always going to be better than generic supermarket ones (although you do get very good quality free range eggs here from the better supermarkets). Some independent shops near me sometimes have them for sale and they do have small amounts of poo and feathers stuck to them, but that's how you know they're the best ones!
    Basically nature already designed the egg to protect itself so washing them is entirely counter productive.
    Yolks also should be deep orange, even verging on red.
    Pale yellow yolks are not good and are what you get from battery farming.

    • @SimonNemeth
      @SimonNemeth 8 місяців тому +1

      Our free range eggs in all the supermarkets are generally very good, not just the 'better' supermarkets.

  • @CiaraOSullivan1990
    @CiaraOSullivan1990 8 місяців тому

    The play/pause shortcut key is K. Pressing spacebar repeats the most recent operation.

  • @PlayThemes
    @PlayThemes 8 місяців тому

    A bit of insight on your spacebar woes: For it to keep working now you have to click play on the video and then make sure you click nothing else after that and the spacebar will work fine for pausing/playing, as soon as you click on anything else though it will stop working, be that another button on the video or even something on another monitor and will only work again once you have pre-pressed play/pause with the mouse again. The "K" key also works for pausing/playing and will work after you click on anything else on the youtube page but will also stop working if you click on anything else outside that browser page.

  • @steelpanther9568
    @steelpanther9568 8 місяців тому +1

    I’m Already Subscribed to Steve’s UA-cam Channel, as well as your own channel,
    Even I learn something new by watching his reaction videos about the UK & Ireland, even though I’m from the UK,
    🇬🇧😎👍🏼

  • @glenakiwibackyardgardner1193
    @glenakiwibackyardgardner1193 8 місяців тому +1

    Here in Kiwi land we don't wash eggs and store them on the shelf

  • @owenoneill5955
    @owenoneill5955 8 місяців тому +1

    I thought everybody knew about the bugs and shite in food...The replacement for Cochineal the red food dye is N21 and N26...Petroloeum biproducts.
    We eat shrimps....bugs of the sea...... with no problem though.

  • @Cayles764
    @Cayles764 8 місяців тому +2

    Is it common in the USA to deliberately undercook eggs so that they're a little runny? In the UK, this is common and as long as the eggs are British Lion Quality, you don't have to worry about salmonella because the hen was vaccinated.

  • @timglennon6814
    @timglennon6814 8 місяців тому

    I’m a Brit, and if I crack open an egg or two I wash my hands after.
    It’s just common sense.
    Salmonella rate in the USA 1.35 million, which results in 26,500 hospital admissions.
    In the U.K. an average of 10,000 people are infected by Salmonella each year.

  • @clivehemming4778
    @clivehemming4778 8 місяців тому +1

    My sister in Maine buys eggs straight from the farmer unwashed.

  • @777petew
    @777petew 8 місяців тому

    I'm from the UK and our eggs are not refrigerated in the supermarkets. My Mum didn't keep eggs in the fridge. If you store your eggs in the fridge in the US, that's ok because you prevent the incidence of bacteria. But our eggs haven't been that dirty but may have a little bit of bird shit or a feather on them. But the natural sealing boundary on the shells is preserved, and our eggs are safe. You don't keep them for a month etc as you eat them. As for serving them, you observe the usual cross-contamination procedures. It's all to do with production methods.

  • @annejames5695
    @annejames5695 8 місяців тому +1

    The reason UK eggs don’t need to be washed is that all laying hens are vaccinated against salmonella as chicks before entering the commercial system, and vaccination is the most practical method for controlling infectious diseases, some of which can be airborne

    • @DruncanUK
      @DruncanUK 8 місяців тому +3

      Ha ha, I can hear the screams of the Anti-Vaxers already!

  • @TheRattyBiker
    @TheRattyBiker 8 місяців тому +1

    Never mind eggs... You should check out the video on US water mishaps by that Simon? bloke with multiple channels... Vaccinate your Chickens, take the egg direct from the Chicken and store at room temperature (counter top) for up to 3 weeks {depending on the float check} and use at your leisure - BTW - room temperature is the best temperature to start using eggs...

    • @carlgibson285
      @carlgibson285 8 місяців тому

      I think that US water mishaps video is on Simon's Brain Blaze channel. Tbh I'd be surprised if anyone hasn't come across his videos before, Factboi has so so many channels, it's almost impossible to avoid him.

  • @tordoff80
    @tordoff80 8 місяців тому +1

    uk eggs can be stored on the shelf we don't wash em to much but we don't eat the shell usa has a over clean policy that makes ure eggs unsafe

  • @SeanHendy
    @SeanHendy 8 місяців тому +1

    Eggs naturally have a 'bloom' that protects the eggs. Haven't put eggs in the fridge for many years, even though most fridges seem to have those egg shaped storage areas, which here in the UK are pointless.
    Imagine having your own chickens that lay in the US, what are you going to do, scrub every egg? Nope. Just store them in a cool place and they'll be fine.

  • @paulknox999
    @paulknox999 8 місяців тому +1

    already suscribed to Steve, love his channel as well.

  • @The-Underbaker
    @The-Underbaker 8 місяців тому +1

    In the UK we also don't wash our chickens with Chlorine... 🤢

  • @TerryBoydon
    @TerryBoydon 8 місяців тому +1

    I watch Steve’s channel as well, definitely worth a watch..

  • @Medcanuk
    @Medcanuk 8 місяців тому

    I have a small bungalow in the southwest of the uk but I have 2 chickens in the back garden to give me fresh free range eggs every morning. Now you have the baby maybe consider getting a couple.

  • @0utcastAussie
    @0utcastAussie 8 місяців тому +1

    Don't you have "Farm Shops" along the roadside ?
    Get your fresh produce from them.
    that does mean you'll have to go out of your way to find them though and that will mean you spend more on fuel getting the better produce.

  • @petrokemikal
    @petrokemikal 8 місяців тому

    Im European and I have my own chickens.. Each day I collect a few eggs from the nests and they are usually dirty.. I dont bother washing it off.. I too was told at a young age that eggs shells are protected by a coating and not to wash them, We also never put eggs in the fridge... Never had any sickness off eating eggs, the odd egg might have an unsightly blood spot in it, I hate that and usually remove it or toss the egg, but I was told its perfectly normal to have some eggs with blood spots.. It just freaks me out..

  • @VincentFredriksson
    @VincentFredriksson 8 місяців тому +1

    Hey King Boomer, instead of pressing the space bar to pause, you can press the letter “K” to pause instead, works like a charm.

  • @reactingtomyroots
    @reactingtomyroots 8 місяців тому

    Appreciate the shoutout and subscribe. :) I'll have to check some of your videos out as well!

  • @KenFullman
    @KenFullman 8 місяців тому

    Here in the UK i used to keep my own chickens for our own use. Since they were so productive we often had a backlog of eggs to consume. We never refrigerated any of the eggs and often we'd have eggs three or four MONTHS old. Yet I never had one go bad.
    The only eggs we'd refrigerate are the fertile ones, that we intended to hatch. If they're refrigerated they go into a dormant state. You can then put them into the incubator at a later, more convenient date.

  • @MrVidification
    @MrVidification 8 місяців тому

    Walmart shows more expensive eggs than UK, but they offer organic brown eggs with the outer layer also. Lots of negative reviews over how they're not really free to roam or always cracked if delivered. No different to the UK there. A more rich orange yolk seems to be a general reflection of health 🐣

  • @seanohartaigh2209
    @seanohartaigh2209 8 місяців тому

    T.T.I.P would lower the standard of food production across EU in line with US standards, studies have shown. Hens should be free range , it keeps them happy and the yolk of the egg is rich and orange as opposed to being watery and yellow

  • @joeasher2876
    @joeasher2876 6 місяців тому

    I don't know if it's a thing in the USA but in the UK you can also just rent chickens. For a couple of hundred pounds you can rent four of them, with a hutch and enough food for 6 months. It's almost certainly financially better to buy them but you get guaranteed egg laying chickens and don't have to deal with killing them afterwards. People who rent then tend to do it because they have kids and teach them something about food but don't want to end up with chickens that can live way beyond the egg laying part of their life.

  • @iddjutt
    @iddjutt 8 місяців тому

    thought you were going to say "walking on eggshells"(@ 7:11 )

  • @uppyraptor49
    @uppyraptor49 8 місяців тому +1

    Never put eggs in a fridge!

  • @jmmypaddy
    @jmmypaddy 8 місяців тому +1

    ahhhh damn, I was hoping to hear "walking on egg shells here"
    It is important to also note that stupidly the UK has left the EU, so these practises could evolve away from consumer health protections and more to serve the econmic markets. Obviously, now having left the EU, the UK is now in competition with the EU as opposeed to a major decision maker within it. The UK has already agreed deals that are worse for the country since leaving, which means we can only begin to see worse standards of food happen. Moral of the story

  • @KGardner01010
    @KGardner01010 8 місяців тому +1

    If you're having trouble with your Space Bar for pausing videos, Brian - your K key can do the same job for you if needs must . . .

  • @andreaschapman9886
    @andreaschapman9886 8 місяців тому +1

    Hello KB,one fact that seems to have been omitted is that the eggs in the USA are washed with chlorine which in sufficient quantity is deadly to humans or at the very least harmful.

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. 8 місяців тому +1

      So's water.

    • @Lyme_lyte
      @Lyme_lyte 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@eadweard.🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @ladykaycey
    @ladykaycey 8 місяців тому +1

    I've been subscribed to Steve's channel since he started it. I like it and he has a lovely wife and little girl too. He covers all sorts of subjects 😊

  • @hiramabiff2017
    @hiramabiff2017 8 місяців тому

    English eggs...Basically, it's what your mum drummed into you because her mum drummed it into her as her mum had done the same. " Wash Your Hands " .. As long as you do that your be fine. I miss the farm eggs with feathers and crap stuck to them you could buy from the butchers shops

  • @HankD13
    @HankD13 8 місяців тому

    FYI: Salmonellosis annually causes, per CDC estimation, about 1.2 million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations, and 450 deaths in the United States every year, while the EU records 91,000 cases each years, 61 deaths - in steady decline too. Since the EU actually has a much larger population than the USA...... 😁

  • @MrJPEZ123
    @MrJPEZ123 8 місяців тому +2

    haha I have also experienced similar spacebar issues in the past.

    • @CiaraOSullivan1990
      @CiaraOSullivan1990 8 місяців тому

      Pressing the spacebar repeats the most recent operation. The play/pause keyboard shortcut is K.

  • @penishazelton8321
    @penishazelton8321 8 місяців тому

    Hay boomer, one of our iconic detective series is the "ms. Marple" series.!!!

  • @dalbhuie_youtubeaddedanumber
    @dalbhuie_youtubeaddedanumber 8 місяців тому

    I, a Brit, lived in Rhode Island for 8 years and found a huge difference in the eggs. The main things to strike me about US eggs where, how thin the shells where and how weak and yellow the yolks where in the store bought ones. This is usually sign the chicken has been feed the absolute minimum amount of protien. Further they seemed to lack flavour. As such I ended up keeping my own chickens, and letting them free range round my property. This gave me some of nthe best eggs I ever had, rich in flavour, strong in shell, and a deep orange yolk. Coupled with the complete elimination of ticks in my yard as the chickens seemd to have a reall passion for eating them.

  • @pennycarter3433
    @pennycarter3433 8 місяців тому

    When I kept hens I washed them just before using them if they were a bit mucky.

  • @owenoneill5955
    @owenoneill5955 8 місяців тому +1

    Steve ( reacting to my roots) does some good stuff

  • @Cayles764
    @Cayles764 8 місяців тому +1

    When I had eggs in the USA, I found them sweet tasting. I don't know why this is and when I mention it to people, they look at me like I have 2 heads.

  • @lloydevans2900
    @lloydevans2900 5 місяців тому

    If you want to know what originally set this off, you have to go back in history to when most eggs were locally produced by small farms, and most town grocery stores who wanted to sell eggs had to buy them directly from those small farms. It wasn't too long before some classic fuckery developed between the store owners and local farmers, driven by the sheer corrosive greed of small town small businessmen.
    You have probably noticed that almost all eggs sold in the USA today have the same white shells. This is a consequence of the washing process, but if you ever knew anyone who kept chickens, you will also probably know that different breeds of chickens produce a variety of different coloured eggs: Some may be white (or close enough), some are speckled, with most of the rest being various shades of brown. There are even some rare breeds today which produce almost sky blue eggs.
    Anyway, back to those small town businessmen: Some store owners decided that they would only pay full price to farmers for white eggs, but half price at most for other colours, despite the difference literally being skin-deep (or shell-deep, to be more precise), with the egg interiors being essentially the same regardless of the shell colour. The farmers were of course more than a little annoyed by this, but initially at least had little choice but to accept the new pricing, otherwise they wouldn't be able to sell all the eggs their chickens had produced.
    Once the store owners realised that they could get away with this, the idea spread from one town to the next, and kept spreading until one farmer (or more likely several farmers) had the idea to wash and bleach all the eggs their chickens produced. Which effectively bypassed the new pricing scheme: Can't pay lower prices for coloured eggs if all the eggs are white!

  • @weeddegree
    @weeddegree 8 місяців тому +1

    “Why won’t the fucking space bar work” 😅

    • @LuvNickynGina4ever
      @LuvNickynGina4ever 8 місяців тому

      Reading this back, gave me a great chuckle! 😅

  • @Verdent777
    @Verdent777 8 місяців тому +1

    I have had backyard chickens for 4 years. Ye canny beat it!! I know what they eat they are loved and cared for. They are free. Best eggs.

  • @wilkibrown6725
    @wilkibrown6725 8 місяців тому

    To start or pause, I simply place the cursor over the video and just tap on the cursor controller. I've never used the space-bar.

  • @paulwalton1222
    @paulwalton1222 8 місяців тому

    We got an ex member of Parliament called edwina curry or currie and people called her eggwina cos she was health minister when our eggs had salmonella. Egg sales dropped drastically after that but now since then there are very strict rules in place. She is mainly remembered for eggs and not for shagging john major who was a married prime minister. The affair is allegedly tho, i never looked on to it.

    • @vallejomach6721
      @vallejomach6721 8 місяців тому

      There was also a report that surfaced some years later that the government brushed under the carpet that supported and vindicated her claims. That must be annoying since not only did she lose her job at the time, but it stuck with her for the rest of her career...and it turns out she was right.

  • @janbow5124
    @janbow5124 8 місяців тому

    I remember a little while back we were asked in the UK if we agreed with us importing chickens for eating or not. I signed the petition with a no vote because I understood that USA also wash their chickens in bleach or peroxide. Is that true? If it is why are your chickens and eggs so bad that you need to nearly sterilise them before we can eat them?

  • @KiloSierra1
    @KiloSierra1 8 місяців тому

    It is annoying when the last egg left is covered in chicken shit. Then some egg shell falls into the yolk when you crack it.

  • @debbielough7754
    @debbielough7754 8 місяців тому

    The real issue isn't whether eggs are chemically washed or not, but why they're chemically washed. Unfortunately, that's a result of animal welfare and hygiene standards being substantially lower in the US than in the EU and UK. For eg, free range has been the norm here for decades. Though sometimes that has to be curbed, like recently free range flocks have been kept inside due to bird flu, generally the conditions in which they live are healthier, and cleaner (and they're checked up on by both inspectors and supermarkets themselves).
    The thing about the contaminants (bugs in food, cigarette butts, etc) - the EU and UK have the same sort of rules, they're just less explicit - they don't necessarily mention the contaminants individually the way they do in the US. Same result, just different path (and the US one sounds worse).

  • @DavidJohnson-rj8zu
    @DavidJohnson-rj8zu 8 місяців тому

    It seems that old mother nature says don't muck about with eggs she has already made them safe providing you don't get the shell in the frying pan (best of luck with that) and wash your hands after handling them it should be hunky-dory.🤪

  • @Andy-zm3lp
    @Andy-zm3lp 8 місяців тому

    I’ve tried both so knew how the country’s differ in their approach. You buy organic or free range from a supermarket or farm here and sometimes you get bits of muck on the shell , makes me think that’s going to be a really tasty egg 😂.

  • @ben31uk
    @ben31uk 8 місяців тому +1

    Buy eggs fresh straight from you local farm.

  • @JamesLMason
    @JamesLMason 8 місяців тому

    In some ways, it's not the final product you necessarily need to be concerned about. If the US method of working with eggs is adhered to properly, there's probably not any more risk than with European eggs (although i would imagine the vaccination helps). The same with chlorinated chicken. The chicken is safe to eat when you receive it, it's the practices which occur before the processing that are of concern. If the American system just practiced better husbandry, they would not need to resort to these extreme measures.

  • @zippymk13
    @zippymk13 8 місяців тому

    Just so you know KB, the "k" key on your keyboard also pauses video playback.

  • @dannjp75
    @dannjp75 8 місяців тому

    Best eggs I’ve ever had? Phi Phi, Thailand. The most incredible golden yolks that are to die for. Best hangover cure..😂

  • @domramsey
    @domramsey 8 місяців тому

    Both systems are perfectly acceptable when things are done properly. It's just that the two systems are incompatible with each other. It's not a big deal, it's just an interesting difference in approach.
    As far as insect parts etc. in food goes, those regulations are universal. You are never going to get completely "clean" food when it's been grown in dirt on a farm.
    The area where the US falls down a lot is chemical additives in processed food.

  • @timglennon6814
    @timglennon6814 8 місяців тому

    Steve Reacting to My Roots.
    I follow him have done for the last 12 months.
    He’s a brilliant reactor. He reacted to some great videos.

  • @SgtSteel1
    @SgtSteel1 8 місяців тому

    Is there not a farmer anywhere local to you? I'm in the UK and drive by a couple every 5 miles or so. There are signs on the side of the roads saying Fresh Eggs here and they put a price on the sign. Potatoes etc etc. I'm certain your local guy would appreciate you popping in for some stuff.

  • @rasmusn.e.m1064
    @rasmusn.e.m1064 8 місяців тому

    "Florida man goes berserk on space bar: Alien Jazz Band go on strike in protest" *Siri, play Mos Eisley Cantina by John Williams*

  • @zebedeemadness2672
    @zebedeemadness2672 8 місяців тому

    If you're US get some hens, there eggs will basically be what we have in the UK (Europe), unwashed, fresh, non refrigerated and delicious if you look after your hens.

  • @zenfox1979
    @zenfox1979 8 місяців тому

    the main point i took from that video was the egg has a natural protective barrier that the americans wash off before selling it, genius.

  • @GrafindeKlevemark
    @GrafindeKlevemark 8 місяців тому

    I choose my eggs from chickens that are brought up outside on the grass. Those poor chickens in huge chicken farms where they never see the light of day, well no, I won't buy.

  • @coot1925
    @coot1925 8 місяців тому +1

    I don't understand why the US have to fuck about with even the most basic food.
    I've also been experiencing problems with YT.
    It has started freezing my tablet and phone in different ways, usually when typing a comment.

  • @cheryltotheg2880
    @cheryltotheg2880 8 місяців тому

    I’ve seen other people struggle with the space bar

  • @Unbrokensword86
    @Unbrokensword86 8 місяців тому

    If your having trouble pausing a video with the space bar on your keyboard try pressing the K key instead that will pause it too

  • @airgun10
    @airgun10 8 місяців тому

    steve is a great guy when are you going to check out the THE MUPPETS THE DEVIL DOWN TO JAMAICA maybe you could check out food comparison prices another shock to the system for you guys

  • @albin2232
    @albin2232 8 місяців тому

    You should try the cube shaped German eggs. They're really tasty.

  • @dreadmoose76
    @dreadmoose76 8 місяців тому

    In Europe....and wider....the likelihood of getting salmonella from eggs or chicken flesh will be controlled by cooking and effective infection control mechanisms by default. These are things that can be taught to anyone prepping food. However, vacation means that the likelihood of a particular chicken or the eggs thereof have salmonella in the first place is reduced (not to zero of course but to a very high extent). What that means is that if you can't reach every food prep person and train them properly...you are still minimising the chances that contaminated eggs or flesh reach the open market. A two pronged pincer movement approach to consumer health and welfare......