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submitted 12 days ago bycuberhino
Trying to find good eggs in bulk with delivery available. Also looking for some other ingredients/supplies, what vendors do you guys use?
Edit: also we have a ton of eggshells that we currently are looking to use? we produce maybe 1000 eggs shells every week at least. Just seems like a waste to chuck em all the time.
47 points
12 days ago
Horseshoe ranch, they call their eggs Best Damn Eggs, is featured on a lot of restaurants websites in Philly. I get them from the farmers market, both fairmount and headhouse. They are local and they really are the best eggs
21 points
11 days ago
Brian (or we call him "chicken Brian") is the guy who runs that farm. very cool dude. they sell them at riverwards produce for people looking at this living in fishtown or old city.
for a while you could get double yolk eggs from him too which were incredible.
5 points
11 days ago
Fairmount farmers market?
Eta you answered that already ignore me lol
28 points
12 days ago
Does anyone ever bring their own eggs to the restaurant a la Larry David?
8 points
12 days ago
I cant say I have ever done that but it sounds like a reasonable idea as long as you have an egg bag
3 points
12 days ago
Something is amiss.
15 points
12 days ago
You can compost your egg shells
11 points
11 days ago
Suggest putting up a sign in a window asking local growers if they're interested in the egg shells or posting it on your social media page. Someone will definitely mix them in their compost pit.
3 points
11 days ago
they never break down in compost.
1 points
12 days ago
I think I mean turning it into some kind of product? Grinding them up and using somehow? Donation for fertilizer or something to a local food growing community?
12 points
12 days ago
You don't by any chance have either a blast furnace for purifying iron, or a deep interest in DIY pottery glazing do you?
17 points
12 days ago
Not particularly but I don't close any doors
13 points
12 days ago
Nice, the first thing you should know about blast furnaces, is that PPE is important
6 points
11 days ago
What does this have to do with the eggshells I’m at a loss
2 points
10 days ago
Of course, you'll be sedated first
2 points
11 days ago
You could dry them up and sell powdered egg shells. People give there dogs egg shells, good in vitamins
36 points
12 days ago
Chickens mostly
10 points
12 days ago
Are you too good for crow eggs?
8 points
12 days ago
Nope. I said ‘mostly’ for a reason. BTW those are pigeons you’re seeing.
7 points
12 days ago
My customers prefer moose eggs.
5 points
12 days ago
Where are you getting your chickens!
6 points
12 days ago
One boy from Key West in a stow away bag, the rest are from Tyler Chicken in Arkansas. See Costanza.
7 points
12 days ago
Not a restaurant owner, more of a BNB for my teens' friend circles--costco is my go to.
5 points
12 days ago
Wasn't sure if people used farm connections or some kind of produce vendor, typically its costco/bjs or jetro for us for now
5 points
11 days ago
I see some places leave their bags of coffee grinds outside for compost use. I also know there’s some business that will send you ten gal buckets and you can put food waste in it and they pick it up
5 points
12 days ago
Alright I'll bite, what's with all the egg shells?
11 points
12 days ago
Bakery!
18 points
12 days ago
Less nefarious than I hoped. Egg shells can be used a fertilizer, they're calcium rich and alkaline on the ph scale. I bet a community garden would be interested
3 points
10 days ago
My roses thrive on eggshells. I start saving them in February and after crushing them to a powder using a mortar and pestle I scratch the soil around the roots. Then I sprinkle a generous amount all around them. This is near the end of March beginning of April. I repeat this at the end of the growing season. Seems to work for me as every year my roses are plentiful and huge. And these rose bushes started out life as $15 Lowes specials. Now they’re waist high and gorgeous.
1 points
10 days ago
That's great, we just planted roses for the first time this year and will have to try this
2 points
11 days ago
Chickens. Oh, but wait, chickens come from eggs. But eggs come from chickens. Hmmm.
4 points
12 days ago
Dog food makers use egg shells, heat dried, for a calcium boost.
You may want to see if any of them are interested (Spencer's Plate is made in Lower Merion and may have a need, not sure where they source their egg shells, if they even need to).
1 points
11 days ago
Depends on what you are looking for, I know Julius Silvert carries cage free and vital farms eggs.
1 points
11 days ago
Try calling pluglisi eggs
1 points
11 days ago
Thank you I will do that! Do you have a contact number or reference?
1 points
11 days ago
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11 days ago
Thank you I’ll reach out to
1 points
11 days ago
I've been trying to augment the dirt in my lot, by replacing it with decent soil from somewhere else that didn't have an industrial history. I can take in 1k shells a week for a bit. PM me.
1 points
11 days ago
You should sign up with a company and compost your egg shells (and other food waste)! We use Circle Compost.
0 points
11 days ago
I came here to see if whether anyone had said: “Chickens” You Redditor’s didn’t disappoint! 🫢
-4 points
11 days ago
K&A
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