Homemade Salted Eggs - Part 2

Day 28 of Homemade Salted Chicken Egg
Salted Chicken Egg vs Salted Duck Egg
Cooked Salted Chicken Egg vs Cooked Salted Duck Egg

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As promised from previous post, i will update the results of this homemade salted eggs. Today is day 28 since i started to prepare these batch of salted eggs. When i first cracked open the egg, i was very delighted to see the "solid yolk" that salted egg should have. And for the sake of this experiment, i crack opened another store bought salted egg for comparison. Firstly, you can see that the colours are very different. Secondly, the textures are also very different (after cooked), the duck egg is oilier than the chicken egg. Because from what i know, duck egg is supposed to have more fats than chicken eggs, so this explains the oilier yolk for the duck egg. In terms of taste, i tried a few of my homemade salted eggs, some were saltier, some were not. This is partly because the salt does not "cling" well to some of the eggs and also partly because i didn't put enough salt. But i still prefers the taste of salted duck eggs to chicken eggs, because the flavour is stronger. However, if you want a "healtier" version of salted eggs, than the winner will be the homemade ones.

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Overall, i would said that this is quite a successful experiment, you can actually make your own salted eggs. The benefit is that if you didn't put so much salt, they are actually not as salty as those store bought ones. In other words, you can actually eat the whole egg. Because i don't normally eat the egg whites of store bought salted eggs because they are usually too salty. However, i will not be using these homemade ones for my mooncakes, because i prefer the colour of duck eggs for my mooncake. But i will definitely continue to make my own salted eggs for normal consumption.

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You can find the recipe for making salted eggs here - using salt, or here - using brine.

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Links: Know more about eggs