At LEAST four.
One carton of a dozen eggs. She cracked one egg, saw it was double yolked. Shrugging, she moved onto the next one, which was also double-yolked. And so it went on to the fourth. At that point, feeling somewhat nervous and reasoning that eggs are cheap, she dumped them.
Anybody have an explanation?
Why did she throw them out? There’s nothing wrong with double-yoked eggs! I bet some folks would pay extra.
:: shrugging ::
She didn’t decide to toss them till she got to four in a row.
Do older chickens have a tendency to ‘twin’? Were they marketed as extra large (or extra-extra large)? Cause double yolks would tend to be larger.
I’m also surprised that she threw them out. Are they bad luck or something? (Bad mind! Stop saying Zuul.)
I still don’t understand why that made any difference, one, four, twelve, it’s still eggs. FWIW it has nothing to do with anything wrong with the chicken. Sometimes either rather young hens or elderly ones will lay double-yolkers. I bet the eggs were from a real chicken farm, too, not a “factory farm.” In a high-volume commercial enterprise they would have been rejected for no good reason other than standardization.
Maybe she doesn’t like egg yolks?
My uncle just brought 18 eggs from his own chickens to my mom yesterday, and 2 of them were huge and probably doubles. There was another one that was so big it might have had 3, but she didn’t crack into them yet, so I will find out later. We always thought it was kind of lucky to get double yolks or more.
I just peeled two hard boiled eggs today to make egg salad. It occurred to me that I have seen double yolks in raw eggs, but never when I have peeled a hard boiled one. Hmmm…maybe I just don’t boil any really large ones. That would be interesting to find.
Indeed. I’ve heard some egg producers separate out the double-yolkers for sale to those who prefer them; possibly the OP’s sister got such a box by mistake. A shame she threw them out–it’s always a shame to throw out good food. Double-yolk eggs are higher in fat, of course (and richer in taste), but if you need to avoid fat that badly, why eat eggs at all?
I asked her via email. She explained that, apart from being mildly freaked out,she was separating the yolks from the whites anyway, as all she wanted was the latter, and given that it seemed likely that they would all be double-yolked decided that the recipe would come out wrong given the lesser volume of egg white in each egg.
The little market down the road from me seems to have a higher volume of double-yolked eggs than other places. I run across them pretty often. Since I sometimes count calories, I’m never sure how these count.
Satan!!!
I’ve had two double-yolked eggs in a row and I thought it was really cool. I have read that it’s not uncommon to find double-yolked eggs in a carton of extra large eggs.
We raised chickens and having double yolks is not uncommon. Many of our eggs were double yolked and some of our eggs were too big to fit in the cartons.
Monavis
I have always wanted to get the double-yolk in the egg thing.
I’d probably alert the media if I did get it.
I like double yolks myself, but then I’m not much of an egg white guy.
I was at a restaurant once and got double yoked eggs and asked the guy how that happens?
He shrugged and said "I don’t know kid, horny chickens I guess… "
I have bought a dozen extra-large eggs every week for the past three years* and have never gotten a double yolk. I feel left out.
Do some egg producers really separate them out? How can they tell it’s a double yolk? Do they take an x-ray?
*Yeah it’s a different dozen every week. I’m not that much of a sucker.
I never get double yolks.
But I am the king of getting bloody yolks . Nothing quite like a huge oozing bloody blob in your pancake batter to make cereal look better.
It’s definitely an omen but it’s hard to interpret. Consulting my sources, either your sister is going to have a fight with the octomom over sugar OR she’s going to be four term mayor of Bristol VA on a CHANGE NOW! platform.
My husband bought 18 double yolk eggs from a friend. They were huuuuge! He boiled a few, and they look really strange cut in half. They were also really yellow - fresh farm eggs. Yum!
It really freaks me out that you came so close to guessing what city she lives in. I know I’m not supposed to be evil anymore, but I may have to send my last couple of flying monkeys out your way to make sure you don’t pose a threat.