Double Yolked Eggs

noodler

I appreciate this isn't exactly an important topic but I found the below very strange when I was cooking breakfast for the family today.

The mother had purchased a Tray of large eggs (certainly bigger then normal) and I poached one and there was two yolks in it - strange I thought but i guess there was always a chance.

I then went to fry two eggs and they both had two yolks in them as well.

So basically, in the entire tray we have only tried three of the eggs but they all had double yolks.


I assume this is strange? A couple of Sellafield jokes were made, tounge-in-cheek you understand.

Faith

They're twin embryos. I come across them every so often. It's great if you like yolks more than the white!

I worked in a café a couple of years ago and we got a batch of twinies in. They were great (I only eat the yolk!).

noodler

I actually have a boiled egg every morning but in the last few months have only been eating the white because that is where the protein is and the yolk can be a little sickly in very early hours of the morning.

Why would they be in batches by the way? Is every single egg in this going to be a doble-yolker? I mean are they all from the same chicken? Unlikely surely?

Mellor

I got a batch of twins before.
I can't think of a reason thwhy they batch like that, must be something in the water

rubadub

At a guess I would say large chickens lay large eggs, if you have small chickens laying large eggs they are more likely to be twins than simply large eggs. So if you have a farmer who specialises in small chickens he probably has mainly small eggs, and he would have a small % of large twin eggs which he would sell for more. This would make sense as to why they might appear in a single batch, he might output 1 tray of large twin eggs for every 100 trays of small ones.

all guessing though...

Caveat

noodler wrote: »

... have only been eating the white because that is where the protein is...

Not strictly accurate. Protein is found in both the yolk and the white.

Darkginger

Young hens tend to lay more double-yolked eggs - it's like they're still learning how it all works When a pullet starts laying, you first get very small eggs, then the occasional huge double yolker, and now and then a soft-shelled egg. After a few weeks they settle down and start producing more standard eggs. That's been my experience of chicken-keeping, anyway.

noodler

Caveat wrote: »

Not strictly accurate. Protein is found in both the yolk and the white.

The vast majoirty is in the white is my understanding.

Darkginger

Depends what you call a vast majority - an average egg has 3.6g protein in the white, and 2.7g in the yolk. The yolk also contains 24.8g of folate (the naturally occurring form of folic acid) as opposed to 1.3g in the white. All of the vitamin D in an egg is in the yolk, too.

Just scramble them and eat the lot

Mellor

Hardly the vast majority, slightly more.
The yolk contains all the fat (good thing, one of my prefered sourced of fat)

Kenny_D

There's a butcher in leixlip that sell these double yolk eggs. They are massive eggs and every single one has two yolks, every time we buy them. Great for scrambled eggs

milly4ever

they sell these in waitrose

Catari Jaguar

My boyfs gran gets trays of double yolk eggs in Dun Laoghaire market

Clementine

A few months ago in the same half dozen free range eggs I was using I got a double yolker and an albino egg! The yolk was white. Luckily I was separating the yolks from the whites so didn't have to fish it out of the mixing bowl but it really put me off my carbonara!