I coordinate a couple of local food clubs in my area of town, and we recently began purchasing eggs from a different farmer. These eggs are amazing and quite unlike anything you’ve ever purchased at the store I’m quite sure – organic or not!
Ever seen double yolk eggs before, not just one in a blue moon, but LOTS of them?Â
The egg delivery I received this week had eggs so large that some of them looked like duck eggs. In addition, half or maybe more were double yolk eggs! It is easy to see why eggs like this are never in stores. There is little chance they would even fit in a standard size carton!
In addition, eggs this size typically come from layers that are older. Since chickens that mass produce eggs don’t live very long due to unfavorable living conditions, this would also keep egg size in check.
If you’ve never seen eggs like this, why not? Are you still supporting the industrial food complex by buying your eggs at the store, which are, in many cases, months old?
Even organic eggs from the store are no comparison. Just get some farm fresh eggs and compare the difference. Deep golden to orange yolks, much bigger size, stronger shell, better taste, double yolks, cheaper price.
You don’t need any double blind studies to see and taste the difference. Your five senses will do you just fine, thank you!
By the way, if double yolk chicken eggs aren’t easily available to you, look for goose eggs instead. They are becoming more widely available and the larger yolk makes them comparably as rich as their double yolked cousins.
*Thank you to Paul Hardiman for emailing this mouth watering picture to me shortly after Tuesday’s pickup. What a fantastic brunch you enjoyed, Paul!
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
I was out of my farmer’s eggs so I picked some up at Safeway (Organic “free range”). I made scrambled eggs this afternoon for my 3 year-old and he said, “Mom, why are these eggs white?” Even a 3 year-old can tell the difference between farm fresh eggs and store bought ones!
We had double yolk eggs for three weeks straight, and we eat at least 3 – 4 eggs per day in our house. I was bummed when I cracked an egg open and it only had one yolk.
I get eggs from my parents’ farm and we will get double yolks occasionally. It’s always such a surprise! There’s a huge difference between store bought and farm fresh free range chicken eggs, in taste and performance in dishes.
Sarah, I would like to discuss with you regarding your coordinating buying clubs for your area as I would like to start this up in an area of my state that has no health food stores but seems to be a huge interest for buying choices of the most healthy foods. How can we connect?
Hi Sher, just email me at thehealthyhomeeconomist.com
I have a similar experience. I get my raw milk from my local diary farmer and he recently started selling eggs. My! They’re the best I have ever tasted. The yolks are a rich yellow color and they’re huge. I have been buying organic eggs for years and they pale in comparison.
I’d love to do farm fresh eggs, if there was a way to know which are fertile and which aren’t. Is there an EFFICIENT way to tell the difference?
If there’s a rooster with the hens, they’re probably all fertile (unless the ratio of hens:rooster is very high). If there’s no rooster, then none are fertile 😀 Though most chicken farmers keep roosters in their flocks, not everyone who raises chickens does – We only have hens, since we live in a subdivision, so none of our eggs are fertile. We don’t have enough extra eggs to sell at a market, but we sell them to co-workers for $2 a dozen. Maybe you can find a friend who only keeps hens.
If there is a chance, but not a certainty that the eggs are fertile, there’s really no way to be 100% sure if the eggs are fertile without incubating them, and then you couldn’t eat them! (Actually, you can sometimes see a very small, faint circle with a tiny dot in the middle on the yolk of a fertilized egg, but not always, and you have to break the egg – obviously that’s not very efficient either.) But fertile eggs don’t look or taste any different or have any different nutritional content from non-fertile eggs. (I know this for sure because we had a rooster for a while, but he was too big and noisy, so we gave him to the farmer we get our milk from.)
Thanks Audry, Looking for someone with hens only may be a good option.
If fertile eggs were limited to a ‘tiny’ dot, it probably wouldn’t be too big of a deal, but some of the eggs I’ve come across had more of a ‘dot’ than this ‘city boy’ could handle. Not sure why I’m able to rip a chicken leg right off and eat it, but can’t handle fertile eggs.
Yes, sometimes the white even gets a little bloody.
Ah, yeah that can happen if the fertile eggs aren’t collected quickly enough… if that was happening a lot, I wonder if just finding a different farmer (who maybe picks up the eggs more frequently) would help. You can occasionally get blood spots in non-fertile eggs too, but not like a fertilized egg that’s been sat on for a few hours… :-
Definitely can be a challenge when the chickens are free ranging around and the eggs are sometimes “lost”.
the yolk is where all the nutrition – including cholesterol – and all the flavor is!
why would I want a double yolk egg though? isn’t that where all the cholesterol is too? don’t get me wrong, I don’t usually go for all whites, but I’m curious
Sorry! The “Too funny” was supposed to go on the “dentist” post…
I’m not sure what to think about double yolked eggs. Doesn’t seem normal to me.
The problem with getting eggs from farmers around here is that they are all brown eggs and they do not have the same taste as white eggs. The other problem is that my husband has an autoimmune disease and he doesn’t like eating anything that isn’t pasturized. He’s afraid of the bacteria. Can’t say that I blame him. I know that I will not be agreed with on that.
The way I look at it , if a chicken is free to roam and eat and do what a chicken does and naturally produces a bunch of double yolk eggs, this sure seems normal.
I wonder if folks consider double yolks abnormal just because store eggs rarely if ever have them? Abnormal becomes the norm in that case kind of like kids with allergies are the norm nowadays although this used to be abnormal just a couple decades ago.
I don’t see my daughter’s food allergies as normal at all. My husband has autoimmune problems and she inherited the tendancy. Somewhere something triggered them. If I had known what it was I sure would have done what I could to prevent it.
Too funny!