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🥚 Family-run for 20+ years
🌾 Locally sourced quality eggs
🐔 Cage-Free Cornish hens
📦 Sizes:Small➜Super Jumbo + Ostrich Eggs
❤️ Serving KZN-Chatsworth/Camperdown

You crack an egg, you see a tiny red spot, and straight into the bin it goes. 🥚It happens in less than one in every hund...
15/10/2026

You crack an egg, you see a tiny red spot, and straight into the bin it goes. 🥚

It happens in less than one in every hundred eggs and it worries almost everyone who sees it. It is simply a small blood vessel that burst while the yolk was forming inside the hen. It is not a chick, it is not a sign the egg is old, and it is not a sign of anything wrong.

Scoop it out with the tip of a spoon if it bothers you, or cook the egg exactly as it is. Both are perfectly safe.

Fresh white cage free eggs from The Egg Nest, quality-checked daily. We are primarily a collection only business. Delivery may be arranged depending on quantity and distance.

📌 Chatsworth, 317 706 Rd, Montford
🕐 Tue, Thu & Sat, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
📲 +27 84 512 9686
📌 Camperdown, 3 Goodwill Place
🕐 Mon, Wed & Fri, 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
📲 +27 60 387 4869
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.eggnest.co.za

This information is for general educational purposes only. Please consult your doctor or registered dietitian for personalised advice.

There is something in the yolk worth knowing about. 🥚That golden colour comes partly from lutein and zeaxanthin, two car...
13/10/2026

There is something in the yolk worth knowing about. 🥚

That golden colour comes partly from lutein and zeaxanthin, two carotenoids that gather in the macula at the back of your eye, where they help filter light.

Now the honest part. Spinach and kale contain far more lutein than an egg ever will. What eggs have going for them is delivery. The yolk brings fat along with the carotenoids, and that helps your body actually absorb them rather than pass them through.

Small trials have found that eating eggs regularly raises pigment levels in the macula, and one study in people with early macular degeneration saw improvement in glare recovery. Genuinely encouraging, but worth saying plainly that these were small studies and an egg is not a treatment for anything.

The practical takeaway is simpler. If you have been binning the yolk, this is one more reason not to.

Fresh white cage free eggs from The Egg Nest, quality-checked daily. 30 eggs per tray.

📌 Chatsworth, 317 706 Rd, Montford
🕐 Tue, Thu & Sat, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
📲 +27 84 512 9686
📌 Camperdown, 3 Goodwill Place
🕐 Mon, Wed & Fri, 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
📲 +27 60 387 4869
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.eggnest.co.za

This information is for general educational/guidance purposes only. Please consult your doctor/healthcare provider or registered dietitian for personalised advice.

Nobody warned us about any of this. 🥚The shell fragment will outrun a spoon, a fork and your finger. The only thing that...
08/10/2026

Nobody warned us about any of this. 🥚

The shell fragment will outrun a spoon, a fork and your finger. The only thing that reliably catches a piece of shell is another piece of shell, which raises questions nobody has ever satisfactorily answered.

Then there is the peeling. Same pot, same water, same timer, and one egg comes out glass smooth while the next looks like it lost a fight. There is no justice in it and there never has been.

And the tray behind the tray. You were certain you were out. You were not. Now there are sixty eggs in that fridge and a quiet sense that something has got away from you.

We cannot fix any of this. We can at least make sure the eggs are good.

Fresh white cage free eggs from The Egg Nest, quality-checked daily. 30 eggs per tray.

📌 Chatsworth, 317 706 Rd, Montford
🕐 Tue, Thu & Sat, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
📲 +27 84 512 9686
📌 Camperdown, 3 Goodwill Place
🕐 Mon, Wed & Fri, 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
📲 +27 60 387 4869
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.eggnest.co.za

Bakers, if your custard keeps splitting, the eggs are not the problem. 🥚Egg yolks thicken at around 80 degrees and scram...
06/10/2026

Bakers, if your custard keeps splitting, the eggs are not the problem. 🥚

Egg yolks thicken at around 80 degrees and scramble not far above it. That is a narrow window, so the moment you pour hot milk straight onto cold yolks, or push the heat up to speed things along, you get scrambled egg in a pan rather than custard.

Temper properly. Pour the hot milk onto the yolks in a thin stream while whisking constantly, so the yolks warm up gradually instead of hitting the heat all at once. Then back into the pan on genuinely low heat, stirring without stopping, until it coats the back of a spoon and a finger drawn through leaves a clean line.

If it does start to split, pull the pan off the heat immediately, sit the base in cold water and whisk hard. More often than not you will save it.

A custard with cornflour in it is far more forgiving, because the starch protects the egg proteins and lets you take it to the boil without fear.

Baking in bulk this week? Fresh white cage free eggs from The Egg Nest, quality checked daily. 30 eggs per tray, with wholesale pricing on 12 trays or more.

📌 Chatsworth, 317 706 Rd, Montford
🕐 Tue, Thu & Sat, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
📲 +27 84 512 9686
📌 Camperdown, 3 Goodwill Place
🕐 Mon, Wed & Fri, 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
📲 +27 60 387 4869
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.eggnest.co.za

We looked into the usual eggshell garden tips, and most of them do not hold up. 🥚Start with calcium. Eggshells really ar...
05/10/2026

We looked into the usual eggshell garden tips, and most of them do not hold up. 🥚

Start with calcium. Eggshells really are 95 percent calcium carbonate, but they barely break down in soil. Archaeologists still dig up shells sitting perfectly intact in refuse heaps that are hundreds of years old. They decompose properly only in very acidic soil or a hot compost heap, and the average garden is neither of those.

Then there is the slug barrier, the tip everybody repeats. The evidence simply is not there. Slugs cross a ring of crushed shells without much trouble.

So what actually works? Half shells make genuinely good seedling starters. Crushed shells work as a gentle abrasive for scrubbing pots and vases. And they are perfectly fine in the compost, as long as you are not expecting them to feed your tomatoes.

Fresh white cage free eggs from The Egg Nest, quality checked daily. 30 eggs per tray.

📌 Chatsworth, 317 706 Rd, Montford
🕐 Tue, Thu & Sat, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
📲 +27 84 512 9686
📌 Camperdown, 3 Goodwill Place
🕐 Mon, Wed & Fri, 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
📲 +27 60 387 4869
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.eggnest.co.za

Planning something big this month? Get your order in by Monday. 🥚Ostrich eggs are made to order, which means we place th...
02/10/2026

Planning something big this month? Get your order in by Monday. 🥚

Ostrich eggs are made to order, which means we place the order with our supplier on Tuesday and it comes in fresh for Thursday collection. No sitting on a shelf waiting for a buyer.

One egg is roughly the size of two dozen chicken eggs and feeds 8 to 12 people, so it is built for a family gathering rather than a Tuesday breakfast.

📌 How to order
R200 per egg, minimum order of 1
50% deposit to reserve, balance due at pickup
Order by Monday, collect Thursday
Chatsworth collection only
Limited quantity confirmed weekly

📌 Chatsworth, 317 706 Rd, Montford
🕐 Tue, Thu & Sat, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
📲 +27 84 512 9686

📌 Camperdown, 3 Goodwill Place
🕐 Mon, Wed & Fri, 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
📲 +27 60 387 4869

📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.eggnest.co.za

We reserve the right to quantity based on stock availability.

Three weekend breakfasts that actually get eaten. 🥚Egg in a hole, french toast sticks and silly face boiled eggs. All th...
30/09/2026

Three weekend breakfasts that actually get eaten. 🥚

Egg in a hole, french toast sticks and silly face boiled eggs. All three are under 15 minutes and use things you already have in the kitchen.

The real trick is letting them help. Cutting the hole in the bread with a glass, cracking the egg, building the faces. Kids eat what they made, even when it is the same food they pushed around the plate yesterday.

Save this one for Saturday morning.

Fresh white cage free eggs from The Egg Nest, quality checked daily. 30 eggs per tray.

📌 Chatsworth, 317 706 Rd, Montford 🕐 Tue, Thu & Sat, 8AM to 3PM 📲 +27 84 512 9686
📌 Camperdown, 3 Goodwill Place 🕐 Mon, Wed & Fri, 9AM to 12:30PM 📲 +27 60 387 4869
📧 [email protected] 🌐 www.eggnest.co.za

Day after Heritage Day, and the fridge is full. 🥚Here is the easiest fix. Whatever is in there, rice, curry, pap, braai ...
25/09/2026

Day after Heritage Day, and the fridge is full. 🥚

Here is the easiest fix. Whatever is in there, rice, curry, pap, braai meat, chakalaka, reheat it and put a fried egg on top. The runny yolk turns into a sauce and suddenly yesterday's food feels like something you actually chose to make.

For a good fried egg, get the pan properly hot first, then turn it down before the egg goes in. Too hot and the bottom burns before the white sets. Cover the pan for the last thirty seconds if you want the top just set without flipping it.

Works on almost anything. Toast, noodles, last night's roast vegetables, even a plain bowl of rice.

Fresh white cage free eggs from The Egg Nest, quality checked daily. 30 eggs per tray.

📌 Chatsworth, 317 706 Rd, Montford 🕐 Tue, Thu & Sat, 8AM to 3PM 📲 +27 84 512 9686
📌 Camperdown, 3 Goodwill Place 🕐 Mon, Wed & Fri, 9AM to 12:30PM 📲 +27 60 387 4869
📧 [email protected] 🌐 www.eggnest.co.za

Happy Heritage Day. 🌍Every family has recipes that came from somewhere, passed down through people who never wrote anyth...
24/09/2026

Happy Heritage Day. 🌍

Every family has recipes that came from somewhere, passed down through people who never wrote anything down. A grandmother's hand measurement. A dish that tastes like a particular kitchen. The way your family has always done it, because that is how it was always done.

Today we celebrate all of it, and everyone everywhere carrying their own traditions forward.

Wishing you a day of good food and good company, with the people who matter most.

Address

317 706 Road, Montford
Camperdown
4092

Opening Hours

Tuesday 08:00 - 15:00
Thursday 08:00 - 15:00
Saturday 08:00 - 15:00

Telephone

+27845129686

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