..... when taking the time to closely survey my vast array of cooking skills today, I realized that I am not exactly the most deft person on the planet when it comes to cracking eggs..... sure, I can do it...... who can't?..... but it is definitely not a thing of grace & beauty like you see when some cooking show is on.....
.... quite frankly, I think that my egg-cracking problem is two-fold.... on the one hand I always imagine that I'm going to crack the egg too hard and end up with a handful of gooey egg...... this invariably leads to me standing at the hob in the kitchen and tapping, checking, tapping, and checking until the calcium finally succumbs..... it's not a pretty sight at all, and yes, I am quite ashamed......
.... secondly, well, I've just not cracked that many eggs in my short lifetime to get sufficiently good at it.... hey, it's an honest skill to acquire.... and since I'm not a huge baker of cakes, whipper of meringues, or much of a breakfast eater, well, eggs and I haven't had much time to grow on each other...... thusly, I am in no way, shape, or form any kind of egg expert.....
.... having said that, remember me talking about that tuna sandwich a few days ago?.... the one where the first part of the recipe called for four boiled eggs?..... well, check this out...... behold the last egg that I peeled and halved.....
..... that's right, folks...... an egg with two yolks...... ever seen one of those bad boys before??...... well, me neither until just two days ago......
.... I reckon it just goes to prove - yet again - that I am truly surrounded by mutants here at The Compound...... and like I said, I'm no expert, but you do have to admit that that was one extremely weird chicken egg.....
..... and yes, I ate it.... not the yolks, though..... they creeped me out too much.....
... honestly, you can't make this shit up.....
Two yokes! Yumma! I've gotten eggs with two yokes about three times in the past year. I think they are extra tasty. Eat em!
Bullshitted by The Maximum Leader on August 13, 2008 02:23 PMI meant to write "yolks" not "yokes." I don't imagine I've been yoked up to an oxen recently...
Bullshitted by The Maximum Leader on August 13, 2008 02:24 PMI have gotten so many double yolks that it doesn't even surprise me any more.
The very first egg we cracked in our old house had double yolks, the second egg also contained double yolks.
I took that as a omen and told DH to stay the hell away from me cause it's an old wives tale about double yolks and twins.
Bullshitted by Quality Weenie on August 13, 2008 02:45 PMDouble yolks ain't all that rare, Bubba...especially if you buy the larger size eggs.
What freaks me out is when you get a half-formed chick in there, like some mutant dinosaur embryo...
Bullshitted by Elisson on August 13, 2008 04:10 PMDoubles? Bah, that's nothing. I used to get triples occasionally, back when I raised chickens for eggs, meat, and profit.
Walrilla
Bullshitted by Walrilla on August 13, 2008 04:24 PMTime to buy a lottery ticket! I hardly ever buy a Lotto ticket, but when I get a double-yolk egg. I just hate to get an egg with a blood-spot on it. Blech!
Bullshitted by Joan of Argghh! on August 13, 2008 04:32 PMI have a half-vast array of cooking skills.
Bullshitted by Cappy on August 13, 2008 04:57 PMyep..most of the time the eggs are "candled"..a process that will identify double yolked or an occasional fertile egg that might get slipped in on the batch. I have seen some Farmer's Markets that had the double yolked eggs separate and sold them as double yolked hen fruit..
Bullshitted by GUYK on August 13, 2008 05:09 PMThanks for the snake skin. Very cool. And I have had double yolks in the past... luckily no twins.
Bullshitted by vw bug on August 13, 2008 05:12 PMThere is an art to cracking eggs - it takes a real cracker-jack. I have rarely seen two-yolked eggs - definitely mutant.
Bullshitted by Lou on August 14, 2008 07:29 AMMy parents get their eggs straight from an egg farm and dad always buys a dozen "double yolkers"...they're only available one day per week though. Very common round these parts.
Bullshitted by Lisa W. on August 14, 2008 07:55 AMBeing newly wed with no cooking skills I was amazed to find a double yolk egg. Each morning as I prepared TGOO's breakfast, at O'dark thirty, revealed a double yolk egg. Yep, the entire dozen were double yolks. Never happened again.
Bullshitted by h~ on August 14, 2008 11:52 AMIf you live in New Jersey, sometimes you get treated to triple and quadruple yolks, because that's just the way the wind (if you could call it such) blows there.
Bullshitted by Erica on August 14, 2008 02:39 PMI see them every once in awhile. Let's see now. I work at least 260 days a year (more now that I am running three places) and cook and average of 300 eggs per day...for the last 22 years (minus three I worked at the office)...that's around a million and a half eggs I have cooked. Holy crap! ...and I still love eating them.
Bullshitted by Richard on August 14, 2008 06:35 PMOh by the way...I can also crack an egg in each hand whilst holding another in each palm.
Bullshitted by Richard on August 14, 2008 06:38 PM