Duck vs Chicken Eggs while baking

[blshanatic]

I made cream puffs last night. Recipe called for 4 eggs. I tried to look up equivalency and found various answers. Many saud to use the exact amount the recipe calls for so I used 2 duck eggs and 2 brown chicken eggs. It didn't turn out!

What is your opinion of equivalence when it comes to duck egg replacement in baking?

 

[Cheyen]

Everyone has a different method, I think, but my grandma and I used to bake a lot together. We used 2 duck eggs for 3 chicken eggs. Also, depending on the recipe, we would replace white flour with wheat flour. Duck eggs make things very fluffy, so certain recipes that call for white flour might turn out so fluffy it just falls apart!

One sure way to find out how many eggs to use is to crack the amount of chicken eggs needed into a bowl, then weigh them. Do the same with duck eggs, and adjust accordingly. I've done this for bantam eggs, and some peafowl eggs a friend gave me. (Also, I don't recommend baking with peafowl eggs

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[TLWR]

If 3 or less, I just do one to one. If 4 or more, I usually start reducing the number of duck eggs... unless the ducks were laying small eggs.