Double-yolk eggs occur naturally, they’re not a gimmick. They probably don’t sell them specifically marked as such, but if you have chickens and eggs they’re out there.
Yes, I got my first double yolker in years a couple of months ago. I was cracking eggs to scramble them, and I was on my second egg and when I looked in the bowl, three yolks., two smaller than the first one. I took a picture of it, but I didn't post it anywhere. It almost looked like a yolk Mickey Mouse.
I'm aware they exist naturally, it's just they're never purposely sold in this state where in live in. That's like me saying that pig intestines occur naturally in farm pigs so why don't you have pig intestine barbeque skewers sold in your restaurants or markets. Just because X country sells or has this product doesn't mean Y should also have it or vice versa
There are literal cultural differences in the types of goods and products countries sell and this is one of them, I've never seen purposely matured double yolked eggs sold and marketed as it is in my country but who knows maybe it will catch up maybe not
Which would surely make getting a bunch of them more interesting? I’ve never seen them sold as such, but have got 5/6 in a carton being doubles before.
For me it would be interesting to even find a random one in my carton of normal eggs so the idea of a whole carton of eggs purposely double yolk ones that would sold/marketed as such is news to me as of today lol
And here I am waiting or a random double yolk to show up in my normal eggs
I think a lot of them are pulled when they are candled. Then, after you’ve pulled all the double yolks, it is likely that someone decided to start packaging them all together.
Having raised a lot of chickens for eggs when I was younger, we got huge eggs, but never any double yolks. It is very likely something that some breeds do more often than others. Our Rhode Island Reds never double yolked.
Well yes, that’s what I’m saying, the randomness makes it interesting. There is a chance you might find a whole pack which are randomly doubles. As I say, I’ve got close to that.
What recipes are you making that are that specific on egg size? Do you measure them scrambled? If you have an egg that’s 55g but needed 65g what do you do?
I’ve only seen recipes say how many eggs but not actual weight
The ones with double yolks are almost always "Jumbo" size in the US. It's the largest classification. 12 Jumbo eggs is 30 oz or 850g (~2.5 oz or 70g per egg), compared to medium eggs which are 21 oz or 595g per dozen (~1.75 oz or 50g per egg).
In the US eggs come in peewee (1.25 oz), small (1.5 oz), medium (1.75 oz), large (2 oz) extra large (2.25 oz) and Jumbo (2.5 oz)
Well they weigh the eggs and classify them that way. It's not like you feed chickens something that makes them produce double yolks it's that generally double yolked eggs weigh the most so are sold as jumbo
They aren’t only sold purposefully like this. They show up randomly in regular cartons of eggs, especially with larger sized ones. Unless your country inspects every egg for double yolks and throws them away they’re out there in the regular cartons.
He is saying his country doesn't sell double-yolked egg cartons. Not double-yolked eggs in general. He's just saying his country doesn't market cartons of double-yolks only.
Some countries do sell just cartons of double-yolk eggs and his doesn't, so when he reads about them/sees them online it's interesting.
I've gotten the brand that sells jumbo/large eggs here, they're just simply bigger that's it, I'm just waiting to encounter a random unintentional double yolk to pop up in my life lol
You do, it's just filtered out. In the egg sorting process, double-yolk eggs are easily filtered by weigh, they weight about 40% more than a normal egg of equivalent size. In certain countries, they are considered to be a deformity and used in animal food and other things like that. In some other, they are filtered out and put aside for specific uses, and sometimes, simply sold as double yolk.
In most countries, because of food and eggs regulations, finding a double yolk egg in a carton means QA process failed, so it's an exception. Most of the time, if you buy that at retail, then it will be specified. In Canada, the legal reason they are separated as a product is because the nutritional values are quite different, but as a consumer product, when cooking/baking, you'd rather not suddenly dump double yolk into a bowl when you only needed a single egg, so it was still separated before that.
Well yes because they literally don't sell these types of eggs in my country ever (or at least so far), not in the grocery, not in the wet market, not in the farmers market or even online sellers. Only eggs we have are white and brown with some variants (brighter and richer yolks, "more vitamins" type of eggs, large eggs are simply larger not double yolk)
So you can either get of your high horse and realize that not all countries sell the same product as you or you can just continue being ignorant that this is actually interesting for other people
It takes generations of breeding to get hens that constantly, or near constantly lay double yolk eggs. Some farmers have taken that challenge to have a gimmick to sell their eggs for a higher price.
Also there are chickens that lay blue, green, and with the right feed pink eggs.
Didn't know it takes selective breeding to make consistent double yolks, but the colored eggs I know exists, never seen them in person though only pics online
Do they taste any different or are just the shells differently colored?
I'm with you haha. I got an entire carton of double yolks and it was the same carton I'd bought every week, never had that happen once. Apparently you can get one that's already like that?? Literally had no idea.
Lol I’m surprised people are so upset at this. I didn’t know double yolk cartons were a thing either. I’ve gotten a carton that was almost all double yolks too before and I didn’t realize it was a thing that could be common. So it’s mildly interesting to a lot of us. I don’t see what the fuckin problem with that is.
They may not say double yolk, but list it as extra large or large eggs. The eggs are just sorted by size, the bigger ones happen to be the ones with a second yolk. The same brand may make different sizes with very similar packaging.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted since you’re right! I’ve gotten cartons of double yolks when I bought “extra large” eggs. They didn’t say “double yolk” but it makes sense that any that have two yolks get sorted into the extra large group.
I guess the downvotes are just coming from the yoke-yolk spelling confusion?
This is that same stupid realm as saying somebody doesn't know what they're talking about because they mispronounced a word that they've never heard in real life and only ever read in books like "albeit" or "macabre." It doesn't mean they don't know what they're talking about, spelling has little to do with being able to explain a topic.
To be completely fair, do people actually read labels on egg cartons? Unless you’re specifically looking for free ranged or “non-GMO fed” or some sort of specific types or something.
A vast majority of people, eggs are just eggs. I’ve personally never read any egg carton.
If you are buying eggs there are probably a lot of different types at the store. If you aren’t reading anything on the cartons then how do you know if you’re buying medium or extra large eggs, much less double yolk eggs.
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u/OldandKranky Dec 18 '22
Eggs should be banned from this sub. The mildly interesting thing is that people can't read double yolkers on cartons.