# In Egg We Trust?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-egg-we-trust/130033
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 28, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-egg-we-trust/130033 "2002-09-28T23:55:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@aka\_10003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aka_10003)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-egg-we-trust/130033/1 "2002-09-28T23:55:54Z")
I remember that years ago we used to crack eggs open in a seperate bowl, as every so often, the eggs would have some blood in them.
But now every cooking show I watch, Martha’s included, bypass this stage and confidently crack them straight into the mix.
What has changed?
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### Author:  [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-egg-we-trust/130033/2 "2002-09-29T01:26:20Z")
Maybe we stopped being so prissy about tiny little drops of blood. I get such eggs occasionally, but I never saw it as being anything to prevent using the egg. Apparently, many consumers object, since such eggs are taken out of circulation if they are detected. Here’s a Staff Report by SDSTAFF Jill: [Are red spots in eggs dangerous?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/megg.html)
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### Author:  [@cdhostage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdhostage)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-egg-we-trust/130033/3 "2002-09-29T01:47:38Z")
I’ve never seen blood in eggs. I have personally boiled and broken (and eaten) perhaps 850-900 eggs in the past two years, and perhaps and equal amount in the rest of my life.
What’s freaky though is the number of yolks in modern eggs -
I shop at Costco.
Normally, they have one particular farm-factory providing eggs. 95% of these have one yolk, and 5% have two.
One time, they switched suppliers of eggs. and 60% of those had one yolk, 30% two, 9% three, and I once found a FOUR-YOLK-EGG! Dear Lord!
Now, they’re back to the old supplier.
That new place must have been using some funky injections on dem chickens. Fertility Twins, Unite!
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2002, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-egg-we-trust/130033/4 "2002-09-29T10:39:44Z")
The seperate bowl was also to catch spoiled eggs, which are much less likely these days.
–Nott
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### Author:  [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2002, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-egg-we-trust/130033/5 "2002-09-29T16:28:13Z")
I always assumed that there was a kosher issue here. But I second AskNott’s suggestion.
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-egg-we-trust/130033/6 "2002-09-29T19:17:13Z")
I was always told that it was to avoid getting bits of shell in the mix…better to fish it out of the bowl of only eggs than say, a bowl of batter.
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2002, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-egg-we-trust/130033/7 "2002-09-30T02:33:41Z")
> [@](#):
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> I remember that years ago we used to crack eggs open in a seperate bowl, as every so often, the eggs would have some blood in them.
It definitely is a kosher issue - eggs with blood in them are non-kosher, so (if you are kosher-observant) you want to see that an egg is bloodless before you render an entire bowl of batter non-kosher.
However, I suppose there might have also been reasons for non-Kosher-observant folks to crack eggs into a separate bowl. I just know why I (and everyone I know) do it.
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### Author:  [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-egg-we-trust/130033/8 "2002-09-30T04:30:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by An Arky \*
> **I was always told that it was to avoid getting bits of shell in the mix…**
This is why I use a separate bowl. It’s like magic, too: if I use a separate bowl for the eggs, I never get any shell in them, but if I throw caution to the wind, I’m bound to end up with a bunch of crunchy little bits of shell in whatever I’m making.