• eezeebeeOP
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      10 months ago

      No, just large eggs. Do deliberately double-yolked eggs exist?

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        10 months ago

        Yeah I’ve only bought them once and it was unintentional. Living in a place where I didn’t fully grasp thr language, I thought I was having the luckiest egg day ever until I translated the carton!

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          How do they know which eggs will be double yolk? I’ve never heard of that before, just occasionally get them in a normal carton of eggs.

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          10 months ago

          This sounds like it would’ve been such a magical experience until you realized though!

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    10 months ago

    Did you buy extra large eggs or a double yolk carton?

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      10 months ago

      Just regular large eggs. Are extra large more likely to be double yolked? Or are there eggs somehow made to be double-yolked on purpose?

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        They do sell double-yolkers as a thing. You can shine a light through the shell to identify them, apparently. Higher value product so producers who get enough of them will go to the extra trouble of sorting them.

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        I was under the impression that yes, but I’m not positive

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    10 months ago

    Now this kind of post makes me feel like I never even left Reddit!

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    My mother once bought me a box of 15 eggs from a little shop on the side of a farm.

    All 15 eggs were double yolk.

    I dont know the odds of that happening and how it happens.

    I told my mother. She didnt sound surprised at all.

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      It’s a genetic trait, so if they kept breeding a twin-maker hen for efficiency alone (if you raise chicks, you get 2 for 1 effectively), that could mean that most of their stock are now laying dual yolks.

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        10 months ago

        Are there nutritional differences in said dual yolk eggs or is one truly getting double yolk nutrition?

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          The two yolks together are like 30-50% larger than one regular one, so the nutrition facts are slightly changed since the amount of egg white is reduced.

          Since most calories actually come from the yolk, I’d say it should be noticeable to some degree, if you really measure it.

          (This answer was brought to you by my wife, who happens to be a nutritionist).

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    10 months ago

    I read a newspaper article that a woman cracked 4 double Yolkers into a pan in a row and apparently the chances were like 1 in a trillion

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    Update: I cracked a third egg from the carton today. It was another double yolk.