I never buy eggs. I don't eat them. However I have a recipe I'd like to try, that requires an egg.
In the supermarket, small shops, and even the small farm shop I looked in, they come in minimum packs of six. If I buy six, five will be wasted into the bin.
Surely there's somewhere that will sell me a single egg? I'd have thought the farm shop would but nope.
Or if not, is there something I can do with the other five other than eat them?
Not so much of a shop but often on country lanes you see eggs for sale outside people's houses with a money pot for donations. Hens lay a lot of eggs and the owners need to get rid of them easily.
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Eggs are some of the most versatile foods to cook. They are used all over the place. As many have suggested.
But. Yeah it is very unlikely you will find anyone selling one. As almost everyone expects to buy in multiples of 6. There is not the demand for shops to open a box.
Your best bet is to talk to a few niebours. Odds are one of them is happy to sell you an egg if you explain why.
And you never know. You may make a local friend interested in cooking.
Ask a friend or family member? Or just knock on a neighbor's door and ask if they have a spare egg. You could offer to pay for it, but I feel like most people would happily just give you an egg if you said you needed one for a recipe.
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There's always a five finger discount!
Saw an eleven-egged carton last time I went to my grocer, seemed like someone really just opened it then fucked off. Then again maybe they just saw the missing egg. Life's little mysteries are all around us if you know where to look.
Morrisons used to do "buy as many eggs as you like". It was ace! I haven't been in there for a while so don't know if they've stopped. But basically you could take a box and take as many eggs as you liked.
They were near the fruit and veg rather than with the other eggs (in Bedford, anyway).
Hopefully they're still doing this.
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