I eat wacky eggs for breakfast! ...and lunch, and dinner...

rf1170
rf1170 Posts: 180 Member
in Food and Nutrition
if anyone's peeped my diary lately, they've probably noticed that I eat a lot of eggs. and not just that, but I eat a lot of... wacky eggs. three small whole eggs, one large egg white, 1.5 large egg yolks... so here's the issue - my hens started laying eggs in the last month or so, and they haven't worked out the kinks yet. case in point:

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the one on the right in the photo reminds my roommate of one of those malted chocolate balls you might indulge in at Easter time, and weighs 25 grams. and the one on the left weighs about 80 grams - more than three times the teeny egg! how in the world would you record those babies in your diary? I'm not too chuffed; the difference is probably negligible, but it makes baking rather interesting. even so, I'm happy with my homegrown eggs, and wouldn't trade them for a dozen perfect specimens at the local grocery store! does anyone else out there keep hens? got any wacky egg pictures or stories?

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  • bubblicious84
    bubblicious84 Posts: 74 Member
    We get eggs from some friends, and they'll have some wacky sizes too lol. I'm envious of you - I'd love to have access to my own home grown eggs!
  • wolfchild59
    wolfchild59 Posts: 2,608 Member
    The yolk and white of an average "large" egg weighs around 55 grams, give or take nature. So you could use that as a baseline for how you record yours. e.g. if you ate both of those (assuming the weights you gave were sans shell) you could record it as 1.9 large eggs. Or just round up to 2, if you'd prefer.
  • rf1170
    rf1170 Posts: 180 Member
    The yolk and white of an average "large" egg weighs around 55 grams, give or take nature. So you could use that as a baseline for how you record yours. e.g. if you ate both of those (assuming the weights you gave were sans shell) you could record it as 1.9 large eggs. Or just round up to 2, if you'd prefer.

    smart! I didn't know that; thanks for the tip!
  • rf1170
    rf1170 Posts: 180 Member
    here's the tiny egg next to an average-sized large egg - the yolk was about the size of a dime! totes adorbs. I can't say for sure what was inside the big egg, as I gave it to my neighbor. hopefully two or three yolks!

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  • I_love_frogs
    I_love_frogs Posts: 340 Member
    Our girls have occasionally laid fart or fairy eggs <no yolks>, but we have had a few in the last couple of years that have eggs inside eggs. Shell and all!!

    Hardly ever any multiple yolks tho. Have had a few massive eggs that looked like whoever laid them needed an air cushion for a while tho.
  • mamagooskie
    mamagooskie Posts: 2,964 Member
    my kids would love to eat those little tiny eggs!!

    If I was the one laying em.....I'd want to lay the little ones, feel sorry for whoever is popping out the biggens.
  • jpenson
    jpenson Posts: 4
    that is an interesting fact, thanks for sharing!!
  • LaurySch
    LaurySch Posts: 277 Member
    I'd love to have my own fresh eggs!

    Funny how we are so used to the perfect 'grade A' eggs we get in the store that these look like freaks of nature! I wonder how many eggs in the commercial farms don't make the grade?
  • rf1170
    rf1170 Posts: 180 Member
    Our girls have occasionally laid fart or fairy eggs <no yolks>, but we have had a few in the last couple of years that have eggs inside eggs. Shell and all!!

    Hardly ever any multiple yolks tho. Have had a few massive eggs that looked like whoever laid them needed an air cushion for a while tho.

    cool! I've never seen a shelled egg inside another one before! maybe certain breeds are more likely to lay certain kinds of unusual eggs?
    my kids would love to eat those little tiny eggs!!

    If I was the one laying em.....I'd want to lay the little ones, feel sorry for whoever is popping out the biggens.

    my friend says that her six-year-old likes to eat the little eggs with short bacon strips and silver dollar-sized pancakes. cute idea!
    I'd love to have my own fresh eggs!

    Funny how we are so used to the perfect 'grade A' eggs we get in the store that these look like freaks of nature! I wonder how many eggs in the commercial farms don't make the grade?

    I wonder the same thing - they only lay like this for a few weeks, until they become more mature, but a bigger operation would constantly have birds this age (because they usually rotate their flock to keep it vigorous). so you'd think they'd always have these kooky eggs. I've never been in a store that had anything but "grade A" large or jumbo eggs for sale, but I'd be willing to pay a little less for these tiny ones! my friend sells his pasture-raised organic eggs at our farmer's market, and he often saves out a dozen or two of the whoppers to sell for an extra dollar. so consumers might be more open-minded than our grocery selection would have you believe!

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