View Full Version : Duck Eggs - anybody know where I can buy them?


JonJParr
24-02-2005, 12:33
My girlfriend and I are having friends over to stay this weekend- haven't seen them for ages and we're having a weekend of fine wine and good food (I'm doing the cooking AND wine selection).

I want to cook scrambled duck egg with black truffle for breakfast on Saturday morning (served with a glass of fine Bordeaux- and no, it's never to early for Bordeaux). Just been over to Waitrose and apparently they don't sell duck eggs! Anybody got any ideas?

hazel
24-02-2005, 12:37
They used to sell them in Sheffield fish market
Not sure whether they still do.
Hazel

valentine
24-02-2005, 12:39
There is a sandwich shop/deli at Sheffield Lane Top that stocks them sometimes. Can't remember the name but it is just below the Netto

SaxonLeigh
24-02-2005, 12:47
there is a family in high green who sell duck eggs. you go down westwood road (georgie lane) towards the tip & westwood dam & there is a row of houses in the dip before the bridge, they sell duck eggs there, very nice they are too.

Meaks
24-02-2005, 12:48
They've always sold them in Castle Market on several of the stalls. I'm sure they still do.

nick2
24-02-2005, 12:52
I'm sure I got some from Waitrose, also from Heeley City Farm.

JonJParr
24-02-2005, 12:53
Originally posted by nick2
I got some from Waitrose, also from Heeley City Farm.

When did you get them from Waitrose Nick? I even asked someone and she said they didn't stock them.

nick2
24-02-2005, 12:55
I'm sure I did, I have been looking for them for ages, I think it would have been just after they opened.
I can't think of anywhere else I would have got them.

These are them : http://www.deansfoods.com/pages/4_ChurchManor.htm

GHS1961
24-02-2005, 13:28
Not particularly handy but the place to get eggs of all kinds at great prices is Skidmores in Bakewell

poppins
24-02-2005, 14:05
Do people REALY eat duck eggs ? do they quack open the same as regular eggs, how do they taste ?

Zebra
24-02-2005, 14:07
I saw some in Waitrose a few weeks ago. I remember cos I was saying I don't think I coudl eat them, it seems odd in a way. Don't ask why, I'm odd.

nick2
24-02-2005, 14:07
They are more eggy than chicken eggs, the yolk is more fatty and rich. They just taste much better. Apparantly swans eggs are the best but I bet they are realy difficult to get.

JonJParr
24-02-2005, 14:40
Originally posted by nick2
They are more eggy than chicken eggs, the yolk is more fatty and rich. They just taste much better. Apparantly swans eggs are the best but I bet they are realy difficult to get.

I'll second that! Duck eggs are fantastic - they make omelettes to die for.

cgksheff
24-02-2005, 14:42
Tai Sun Chinese Supermarket behind Woolworths in town.

...and I would guess the other chinese supermarkets will also sell them.

Applegrim
24-02-2005, 16:50
Sometimes the wet fish shop on Woodseats sells duck eggs,

Dirtydog
24-02-2005, 17:03
Garys butcher shop on Handsworth Road sells them for 20p each. Luvverly.

depoix
24-02-2005, 17:15
the butcher in eckington sells them all the time

leddi
24-02-2005, 19:17
Tesco at abbeydale, they had some the other day.

roughy101
24-02-2005, 19:43
manns fish store, procter placeat hillsborough used to sell them,you could always ring them.

Hels
24-02-2005, 20:17
Got mine from Tesco's!

BoroughGal
25-02-2005, 06:17
Originally posted by roughy101
manns fish store, procter placeat hillsborough used to sell them,you could always ring them.

Manns is on Hillsborough Road.

mdawes
25-02-2005, 12:10
Ring Wayne at Fruit-A-Peel at 279 Fulwood Road, Broomhill (0114 266 8993). He usually sells them.

Tim42
25-02-2005, 12:31
I buy them all the time from deli. in meat market. Place next door to cafe.

Kristian
25-02-2005, 12:46
Originally posted by BoroughGal
Manns is on Hillsborough Road.

They definately should have some, because I've had them from there before!

K x

Glamazon
25-02-2005, 13:08
just natural fruit and veg shop in crookes often have them

Tim42
25-02-2005, 13:10
I know definetly Where one can aquire duck eggs from. From a duck. Huh!

jarvo
25-02-2005, 15:27
Waitrose sell duck eggs

JonJParr
25-02-2005, 16:33
Originally posted by jarvo
Waitrose sell duck eggs

Seriously they don't - I've just been in about 30mins ago to double check. Then trekked over to Chinese Supermarket behind Woolies and the only ones they had were salted and preserved. Urghhh!

Am off to Just Natural in a minute to see if they have them. Fingers crossed! Just need to quaff a few espressos.

InVIs4bLeMaN
04-04-2005, 21:39
Come to castle fish market at The Shellfish Bar they do duck eggs @£1.20 half dozen ;) oposite the jewellers

letting
04-04-2005, 23:23
Wet fish shop in Hillsbrough

scotia
05-04-2005, 18:08
saw them for sale in Morrisons today
Ecclesfield but sure all other branches will have them

cgksheff
05-04-2005, 18:14
We bought some just before Easter to reduce the problem of the "white egg crisis". They came from Castle Market.

All of a dozen were 'double-yolkers'.

Are duck eggs more prone to this or have we been lucky!

FORE
05-04-2005, 22:15
An odds & sods shop near the Malin pub often has them but he only opens at weekends.

RichD
06-04-2005, 09:09
I was in Tesco at Infirmary Road last night, and they had plenty. Was almost tempted to try them... maybe next week. :)

JonJParr
06-04-2005, 09:26
That's where I ended up getting them from too Rich and they were extremely tasty, you should try some!

marketman
06-04-2005, 15:50
Just curious, why wouldn't you get them from Castle Market?

themill
25-04-2005, 17:42
Went into 'Morrisons' store in Bramley, Rotherham and they have started to sell them along side the ordinairy eggs, so they should hopefully sell them in the Sheffield area stores.

Draggletail
25-04-2005, 22:45
Originally posted by poppins
Do people REALY eat duck eggs ? do they quack open the same as regular eggs, how do they taste ?
They taste 'fowl' :hihi:
Sorry, couldn't resist that. Never had 'em to be honest

MuteWitness
26-04-2005, 05:16
the chinese supermarket of the moor in town sell them.

petebarker
27-04-2005, 21:38
A farm near Edenfield, Lancashire, sells duck eggs .

glitterbug
06-05-2005, 23:32
you posh chuffs, they do sell them in the castle market on the egg stall ( of course ) you can get almost anything there

themill
12-05-2005, 17:30
The egg stall in the market sells everything?
When I asked for an exhaust system for my Honda 50 they looked at me gone out!
Customer service, PAH!

Cyclone
12-05-2005, 19:05
Originally posted by JonJParr
My girlfriend and I are having friends over to stay this weekend- haven't seen them for ages and we're having a weekend of fine wine and good food (I'm doing the cooking AND wine selection).

I want to cook scrambled duck egg with black truffle for breakfast on Saturday morning (served with a glass of fine Bordeaux- and no, it's never to early for Bordeaux). Just been over to Waitrose and apparently they don't sell duck eggs! Anybody got any ideas?

I might be repeating someone else since I haven't read the thread, but they sell them at Tescos on infirmary road. I bought some the other day and had them poached on sat morning. Very nice they were.

Fantomas
29-05-2008, 08:15
Hello, just reviving this old thread - does anybody know if the egg stall is still in Castle Market?

Me and Mrs Fantomas are really fancying some asparagus with dippy duck egg.

Grim Reaper
29-05-2008, 08:16
Hello, just reviving this old thread - does anybody know if the egg stall is still in Castle Market?

Me and Mrs Fantomas are really fancying some asparagus with dippy duck egg.

It is, I got mine from there a couple of weeks back. ;)

Fantomas
29-05-2008, 08:18
It is, I got mine from there a couple of weeks back. ;)

Eggscellent, thanks. :thumbsup:

haddockman
29-05-2008, 08:57
Helloth (?) farm shop at Halfway sells them! We bought 6 for £1.20 the other day :D

LitleMermaid
29-05-2008, 11:06
Helloth (?) farm shop at Halfway sells them! We bought 6 for £1.20 the other day :D

Gorgeous they were too:D

I'll wrestle you for the remaining two!

haddockman
29-05-2008, 11:15
Gorgeous they were too:D

I'll wrestle you for the remaining two!

We'll have to buy some more before we move!! Need to find a nice little shop like that near the new house!!

Yog Sothoth
29-05-2008, 11:48
Tesco's do them on Abbeydale Road, but I'd say go to Castle Market or to the superb Boldock's fish and game shop on woodseats high street.

Fantomas
29-05-2008, 12:09
Just got some from Castle Market. We've looked in Tesco Abbeydale Road a few times and not seen them - maybe they don't always stock them.

Thorpist
29-05-2008, 17:52
Why is that I only see brown chicken eggs?
It used to be that hens eggs were always white.

missflirtuk
31-05-2008, 23:07
morrisons in ecclesfield

jingle jangl
01-06-2008, 13:54
My other half gets ours from a supplier at his works. I can get you some but you have to pick them up from Rotherham.....

ratboyisaac
01-06-2008, 14:13
Hi. they sell them at castle market.

Dick
01-06-2008, 15:23
Not particularly handy but the place to get eggs of all kinds at great prices is Skidmores in Bakewell
Unfortunately Skidmores have closed down.
They used to have their game birds hanging above the shop window but the council told them they couldn't do that anymore.

GHS1961
02-06-2008, 15:20
Unfortunately Skidmores have closed down.
They used to have their game birds hanging above the shop window but the council told them they couldn't do that anymore.


A sad loss to the town, shop is currently being renovated and will reopen as a designer clothes shop.

The Skidmore brothers now live on Castle Street and can be seen wandering up and down the Monyash Road where they have a field with a cow and some geese.

Dark Moomin
02-06-2008, 15:44
Coppice House Farm Shop I believe have them somtimes and I have often seen goose eggs in there too! but haven't had occasion to try one yet, they are really big!

jingle jangl
03-06-2008, 08:37
We also get goose eggs from the same supplier...... now they are something to die for!! Chips and egg has a new meaning!!!

kellogs
03-06-2008, 21:28
coppice house farm shop. rivelin valley road sells them. lovely shop, sure u will buy other things there too.