Double Yolked Egg

[Bird]

When I was a kid, we occasionally found double yolked eggs; not frequently, but often enough it wasn't considered to be any really unusual thing. However, I don't think I've actually seen one in many many years since we get our eggs from the grocery store. Double yolked eggs were usually considerably bigger than the normal eggs. However, this morning I was fixing some sausage and eggs, what the store calls "large" eggs, but they appear rather small to me, and one was only slightly larger than the others and it was a double yolked egg. I don't think I ever got one from a grocery store before.

 

[Partsman2]

TWINS! I'd say you get the prize for the day! I'm not sure what it will be but you get it.

 

[dmccarty]

I have gotten at least one or two double yolks but not much more than that. I thought it was cool everyone else in the house just kinda shrugged there shoulders.

They just don't appreciate the little things in life...

Later,
Dan

 

[Grrrr]

Our next door neighbours are commercial poultry farmers and they often come up with double yolkers. They sell there eggs on to a supermarket chain and the supermarket don't like the doubles for some reason. So, all the ones turn out to be double yolkers are sold at the farm gate. We regualrly have them with are ham and chips.

 

[Podunkadunk]

When I was growing up, we had chickens...Rhode Island Reds, Polish Game Hens and Roosters and some "white" chickens from a neighbors chicken house. The Polish game's would lay blueish-green eggs and occassionally, the white chickens (don't know the name of them) would lay huge double-yolkers.

I've never had one in a box of store eggs...I think they 'screen' them in some fashion. You got a treat with that one!

Podunk

 

[Grrrr]

I think they 'screen' them in some fashion. You got a treat with that one!
Podunk

Our next door neighbours have a thing a bit like a airport security scanner that all the eggs run through on a conveyor belt. Any the computer doesn't like are shown to the operator who decides if they are bad. The supermarkets don't like the doubles as they are normally too big and don't fit in the boxes well.

 

[randy41]

we keep chickens and very occasionally get double yolks.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

We have a double yolk and a no yolk egg in the fridge right now. We usually get one double yolk egg a week from our hens but so far only the one non-yolk (it is tiny next to the double yolker)

 

[Bird]

I think they 'screen' them in some fashion

They used to call it "candling" eggs, where they held each egg up to a candle to see what it looked like inside. I think they use a little better light now-a-days.

 

[crbr]

When I was growing up, we had chickens...Rhode Island Reds, .........

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