r/mildlyinteresting • u/bekg1 • Dec 18 '22

Every egg in this carton had double yolks Overdone

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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.

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u/DesignatedDonut Dec 18 '22

Tbf this is always interesting to me because we don't have this type of gimmicky eggs in my country

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u/Icemasta Dec 18 '22

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.