Blind taste test.
Stopped last Wednesday at my local farmer who raises eggs at his farm but not as part of any large commercial egg business. Go into small shed near the chicken coop with a couple of roosters and chickens running around in the cold. Large metal mesh container with a least 80 brown large eggs in it.
Pack 5 dozen for myself in cartons that are reused. Leave $10 in the mesh container.
Thursday stop at Woodman's and purchase one doz commercial eggs. Date code 45, sell by date, 3/14/12. So packaged on 2/14/12.
This AM, Saturday 2/25/12 conducted blind taste test for two people.
Eggs cooked in unsalted butter with no seasoning, sunny side up for one person and easy over lightly for the other person.
Results:
First Taster, easy over lightly, correctly identified the different eggs, preferred the farm egg, more taste, more flavorful.
Second Taster, sunny side up, incorrectly identified the farm egg, farm egg had a little more taste but only subjective. No preference.
Test performed only once, so no statistics.
Caveat, we have been eating these farm eggs for a number of years, so one would expect a possible bias.
Conclusion both eggs highly acceptable and the difference was not very much but both Testers reported that the farm eggs had slightly more taste..-Dick