Approaching the Production Batch
We’re getting close to the 440-gallon seven-thousand-jar production batch of Payo! Here’s an update on a couple of the ingredients, the label, the Amazon storefront, and shipping. For the type of eggs used in Payo, the preference list is:
- Organic, pastured, fed traditional diet
- Organic pastured
- Pastured
- Organic free-range
- Organic cage-free
- Free-range
- Cage free
I went down the list, looking for suppliers. For this batch, the best I could find was type 4 egg whites and type 7 egg yolks. There are a couple suppliers who may have type 4 yolks available next year. The reason good eggs are hard to find is that companies aren’t ordering them in the form I need, so egg suppliers aren’t offering them. When I ask how large an order I would need to put in for them to put their good eggs through the separation and pasteurization process, I hear a number between three and six thousand pounds...