Culinary interlude

Not engineering on any scale, but something we all have to do regularly.

EAT!

Yesterday after finishing in the Workshop I decided to treat myself to my favourite meal of fried eggs and bacon on toast.

The eggs are X-Large free range, from a local supplier.

Cracking the first egg into the frying pan a twin yolk appeared, only the second such for me, one unfortunately 'breaking'.

Looking at the other egg the thought 'That cannot be another double can it?' crossed my mind.

I cracked it in anticipation, and I couldn't believe what I was looking at as it slid into the frying pan, another twin yolk, and thought 'What are the odds?'.

Photos taken for posterity.

Geoff - They tasted wonderful

Edited By OuBallie on 22/09/2014 10:45:23

Double yolked eggs - odds are quite high, first time layers it's common in my limited experience.

Twice this year I have bought six eggs from a wellknown discount supermarket and they were all double yolked

Roy

You may have bought a box of double yolked eggs by mistake

Some companies use a powerful light to detect double yolks - I once found six in a box, then checked the box and it said 'double yolks' on the outside.

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Plus, I'd say it's much more than 'one in a thousand' from when we kept chickens.

Neil

When I was helping my brother wiring a new house at Little Eaton we used to visit the local butcher who sold the most enormous eggs (and lots of homemade pies etc.). Every one was a double yoker. Must be something to do with the breed of hen? They must have been big hens!

John

there are some weird people who only eat one half, be it white or yolk for whom this would be a really bad day.

Hi one and all,

we keep about forty chicken's...10 ducks and 12 geese......

can't wait for the spring, new chickens start to lay double yoker's for a week or two...mmmm........and they are not always large....

but I prefer the duck eggs for breakfast....I only eat the goose egg's in an omelette as it's just to much on it's own.....

just the odd time you can get an egg with no shell, now that feel's weird.....

When I lived in Africa occasionally you'd get offered an Ostrich egg......

Frank in France

Do ostrich eggs taste the same?

When I was a kid in the late 50s we lived on the West Coast of the North Island, and had wild Turkeys, their eggs were good for cooking, went well in sponge cakes.

Ian S C

Our egg supply used to be from a local butcher (now closed) who sourced his eggs locally and were generally large and often double yolked. An occasion of note was a generous scrambled egg for 3 - Four eggs Eight yolks!.

john

Very strange. Only two days ago I cracked open a rotten egg for the very first time in my life. The yolk flew out of the shell, all in one piece, and felt dense and heavy. The smell has put me off eggs for a while.