Here's a situation: You're in a rush at the store and need to grab a carton of eggs. There's an entire wall of yellow, white, and blue boxes each labeled cage-free, free-range, organic—and countless ...

Why are extra-large eggs sometimes cheaper than large ones? And if I buy them, can I use them interchangeably with large? --Anonymous, Central Islip It's counterintuitive, but supermarkets do, indeed, ...

When you’ve shopped for eggs at the grocery store, you’ve probably noticed that, in addition to choosing between types of eggs (such as brown vs. white eggs), there’s also a range of sizes to choose ...

If you regularly cook Ina Garten’s recipes, you’ve probably noticed a few of her favorite ingredients, such as “good” olive oil, San Marzano tomatoes, and extra-large eggs. Garten explained the reason ...

A reader asked: “Grocery stores are now selling extra large eggs. Do I have to worry about equivalencies in recipes?” Here’s how egg sizes are measured and when you need to factor different sizes into ...

If you’ve ever followed a cookie recipe exactly and still ended up with loose dough, cookies that spread or baked up cakey there’s a good chance the problem was your eggs. Many baking recipes just say ...