# Lots of double egg yolks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [December 16, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-double-egg-yolks/1025750 "2025-12-16T13:54:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-double-egg-yolks/1025750/21 "2025-12-17T23:52:52Z")
We buy the largest eggs available and double eggs are, maybe, a one in a couple hundred event. When I’m cracking eggs into something I’m baking, I’m never quite sure what to do (usually nothing) but if it’s for frying over easy, it’s a special treat. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-double-egg-yolks/1025750/22 "2025-12-18T00:01:15Z")
I’ve seen double yolks many times, but never seen a TRIPLE yolk. I also asked somewhere if a double-yolker would indeed produce two chicks if it was fertile and incubated, and they all said that it’s unlikely that EITHER chick would survive, and if they did reach full term, both would be very frail and unlikely to survive. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-double-egg-yolks/1025750/23 "2025-12-18T00:06:48Z")
Some of you guys sure eat a lot of eggs. Where are they being used? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-double-egg-yolks/1025750/24 "2025-12-18T00:11:12Z")
I have never in my life seen a double-yolk egg. But I don’t typically eat a lot of eggs – takes me about a month to go through a carton of a dozen. And I don’t know what “jumbo” is – must be a US term. The larger sizes here are labeled “large” and “extra large”. My usual eggs of choice are “large” and preferably brown. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-double-egg-yolks/1025750/25 "2025-12-18T00:55:15Z")
Yeah, I’ve even had three or four double yolks in a dozen back when I used to buy jumbo eggs. It squicks out people in my family, so I stopped buying them and just get regular large eggs or sometimes extra large these days. I’m trying to think if I’ve ever seen them in a carton of extra larges. I want to say maybe once, but I don’t know for sure. Never seen them in larges, I don’t think. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-double-egg-yolks/1025750/26 "2025-12-18T00:55:48Z")
I had also never seen a triple yolk until I saw two in the last two weeks in two different cartons from two different stores. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-double-egg-yolks/1025750/27 "2025-12-18T02:10:23Z")
I’m actually glad I don’t see them because it would throw off my macros. Eggs are the perfect food, 50% Protein (whites), 50% Fat (yolks), and 0% Carbs. If they were double or worse, triple yolks, I would be adding more fat to my diet, which isn’t that bad, but I’m trying to increase my dietary protein and not fat. Plus, I don’t need the extra cost and calories that go along with jumbo eggs. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-double-egg-yolks/1025750/28 "2025-12-18T02:28:51Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > My mother used to work for an egg farm. Double yolks come from young, new layers. Confirmed by [here](https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Why-do-some-eggs-have-double-yolk). Yep, grew up on a chicken farm and saw the same thing. It happened occasionally with older hens, but not often. The mail reason to candle eggs is to avoid including any with blood spots or major fault lines in the shell. Stressed hens sometimes have blood in their eggs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-double-egg-yolks/1025750.md?page=1)