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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / March 2004White thing next to egg yolk
The little white things next to the yolk means that the hen that laid the egg had been visited by a rooster. It means the egg is fertile and would have hatched into a little chick if it had been incubated. If the hen had never been with a man, I mean rooster, the white thing would not be there. I never pay any attention to it and eat as many as 35 eggs a week. Now that you know what it is, I bet a lot more of you pick it out LOL or quit eating eggs all together. > The little white things next to the yolk means that the hen that laid > the egg had been visited by a rooster. crap snipped Can't think why you'd post such a stupid lie, moron. } The little white things next to the yolk... Don't most eggs have that??? I cracked an egg not too long ago that had a small amount of blood in the yolk, now that probably meant there was a rooster in the hen house somewhere... :) Later, Dave ** 295/284/210 ** LCing since 3/1/04 > Don't most eggs have that??? Yup. They're struts, to keep the yolk centered. Real name "Chalaza". http://www.baking911.com/pantry_eggs.htm The glob on the side of the yolk is not the Chalaza, it is the Germinal Disk (Blastoderm). >>Don't most eggs have that??? > > Yup. They're struts, to keep the yolk centered. Real name "Chalaza". > > http://www.baking911.com/pantry_eggs.htm >} The little white things next to the yolk... > >Don't most eggs have that??? YEs, it has nothing to do with fertilization. >I cracked an egg not too long ago that had a >small amount of blood in the yolk, now that probably meant there was a >rooster in the hen house somewhere... :) It actually means it was probably very fresh. It would be a pale red area if the egg was less fresh. A developing chick would show up as a network of blood vessels. >Later, >Dave > >** 295/284/210 ** >LCing since 3/1/04 DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) 350/316/Mar-315/200 Atkins since Jan 12, 2004 >A developing chick would show up as a >network of blood vessels. Amost gagged on that one. :) >>A developing chick would show up as a >>network of blood vessels. > >Amost gagged on that one. :) Sorry but spots aren't horrible things. and that is the only description i ever heard of what a developing egg looks like. DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) 350/316/Mar-315/200 Atkins since Jan 12, 2004 > Sorry but spots aren't horrible things. and that is the only > description i ever heard of what a developing egg looks like. Depends on how developed it is. You can't really see a difference between a fertilized egg and an unfertilized egg, unless the fertilized egg has been left at a warm enough temperature to start growing. We have roosters and therefore fertile eggs. This is why we collect eggs every day and stick them in the fridge. OK, it's not terribly relevant now... none of our hens are broody and the outside temperature is barely above freezing so the egg isn't going to grow regardless. But if a hen were setting on it for a few days, or if it were warm enough outside that the weather itself acted as an incubator, they'd start to grow. And at that point, you don't want to crack them open in your kitchen. ;) The only difference between our eggs and store-bought eggs is that the yolk is much darker and the eggs more strongly-flavored due to a more varied diet than factory-raised birds. You can't tell that they're fertile in any way short of incubating them and seeing what happens. get an egg like that and you will never forget it  SignatureDiane Atkins since 12/4/2003 234/208/150 5"8 > >A developing chick would show up as a > >network of blood vessels. > > Amost gagged on that one. :) >get an egg like that and you will never forget it I remember my mom boiling an egg, and when she took a bite out of it, she had bitten a fully developed chick in half. Gives me the creeps to think about it. >>get an egg like that and you will never forget it > > I remember my mom boiling an egg, and when she took a bite out of it, > she had bitten a fully developed chick in half. Gives me the creeps > to think about it. Makes me wonder, don't people eat chickens all the time?What is so gross about eating a tiny chicken as opposed to a big chicken? i >>>get an egg like that and you will never forget it >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > i I think the unexpected nature of it. Biting into a tiny chicken when you expect and egg is kind of gross. Signaturejmk in NC >>>>get an egg like that and you will never forget it >>> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I think the unexpected nature of it. Biting into a tiny chicken when > you expect and egg is kind of gross. It is gross to me as well, but I am trying to understand why that is so. You could be right. Or, perhaps, we are not used to eating such tiny chicks. i >Makes me wonder, don't people eat chickens all the time?What is so >gross about eating a tiny chicken as opposed to a big chicken? The bones. That's why Crunchy Frog candy never sold well. -- 6/2/2003 181/164/164? Dick Yuknavech rey@mindspring.com >>get an egg like that and you will never forget it > > I remember my mom boiling an egg, and when she took a bite out of it, > she had bitten a fully developed chick in half. Gives me the creeps > to think about it. Chickens develop from the white, not the yolk, as this seems to imply. Either that or she peeled a cooked egg without looking at it or feeling it. If it had a chick in it, the egg white would have been completely gone and the chick would have filled the interior of the egg shell. There are several cultures that deliberately cultivate eggs to be that way, most notably in the Philippines where they consider embryonic ducks (called "balut") a delicacy. I tried and couldn't eat one. Pastorio >>get an egg like that and you will never forget it > > I remember my mom boiling an egg, and when she took a bite out of it, > she had bitten a fully developed chick in half. Gives me the creeps > to think about it. I once bought eggs at a convenience store, and after boiling half of them, when peeled the whites were marbled with pink, and contained half-formed chicks. Ewwwwwwww! I shook the remaining raw ones, and they audibly rattled. Ewwwwww! Signaturejamie (jamiemck@newsguy.com) "There's a seeker born every minute." >>} The little white things next to the yolk... >> >>Don't most eggs have that??? > YEs, it has nothing to do with fertilization. The red things are signs of fertilisation. i >>I cracked an egg not too long ago that had a >>small amount of blood in the yolk, now that probably meant there was a [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > 350/316/Mar-315/200 > Atkins since Jan 12, 2004 >The red things are signs of fertilisation. No, they are signs of a ruptured blood vessel. They are NOT signs of fertilization. They are officially called "bloodspots." Connie ***************************************************** My mind is like a steel...um, whatchamacallit. > >The red things are signs of fertilisation. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > ***************************************************** > My mind is like a steel...um, whatchamacallit. I think she is talking about the long white thing that looks like a little umbilical cord. When I make cheese cake I use the broken shell to remove it. It has always bothered me. Im weird.... I break one egg at a time in a small bowl then put it in the pan b/c I have seen bloody yolks before. ICK! Laureen Yes, many years ago when living on a chicken ranch, we candled every egg and always removed the ones with the blood spots and other imperfections before packing the rest for shipment. In those days the "inferior eggs" were broken into special containers, stirred all around with paddles and delivered to bakeries. Granted, it was 45 years ago, but..............yuck. I'm glad there are better standards for such things these days. BTW, I have a little pair of tongs and I never fry and egg without removing that white stuff, and always order them scrambled at restaurants, cause I know they didn't remove it. LOL -- Cheri Type 2, no meds for now. Laureen wrote in message ... >I think she is talking about the long white thing that looks like a >little umbilical cord. When I make cheese cake I use the broken shell >to remove it. It has always bothered me. Im weird.... I break one egg >at a time in a small bowl then put it in the pan b/c I have seen >bloody yolks before. ICK! >Laureen >I think she is talking about the long white thing that looks like a >little umbilical cord. Not when she said "the red thing". (G) Good to see you again, Laureen. I miss you when you're not posting. Connie ***************************************************** My mind is like a steel...um, whatchamacallit. Blood spots on an egg do NOT mean the egg was fertilised. They are due to the rupture of a tiny blood vessel during yolk formation. The 'redder' they are, the fresher they are. Most eggs with large blood spots are found (by candling) and removed simply because many people are upset by the sight of them. Some people may also have religious reasons to avoid eating them, but they are not dangerous. The 'strings' are called chalazae and are a protein string which holds the yolk in the centre of the egg. It's not a sign of a developing embryo. See http://www.aeb.org/faq/general-faq.html Aramanth I now know more about eggs then I ever thought I needed to... but at least I know the squiggley thing is not a sign of aliens at work on the chickens. :0) the squiggley thing = chalazae }Blood spots on an egg do NOT mean the egg was fertilised. Thanks for the info! My grandfather passed that along and having lived on a farm as child I thought he would know. I guess bad information passed along is still bad information... :) I would still throw it out though as blood spots look plain gross in a frying pan... Later, Dave ** 295/284/210 ** LCing since 3/1/04 > I never pay any attention to it and eat as many as 35 eggs a > week. 35 eggs a week!!! 3 dozen??? 5 eggs a day??? Yowzah... Lee > > I never pay any attention to it and eat as many as 35 eggs a > > week. > > 35 eggs a week!!! 3 dozen??? 5 eggs a day??? Yowzah... I need an egg eater like that at my house. My 8 hens lay on average 4 dozen eggs a week and there's only 2 of us here. We have this many hens cause in winter when they slow down, we only get around a dozen a week, which is enough to not have to buy. also, we're hoping they will go broody and raise some chicken for us (we have an old heritage breed that doesn't have the broodiness bred out of them). But when they're producing - it's 4 dozen eggs every week. We're *ridiculous* with trying to use up eggs. If I'm making scrambled eggs or an omelet for just the two of us, I crack ten eggs (whereas store-bought I'd cook 5-6 for 2 people). Then whatever we don't eat, I feed to the cats. I hard-boil a dozen at a time as snacks. I make a big batch of egg salad every couple weeks. But on a *good* egg-eating week, we might eat 2 dozen, so that leaves a surplus of 2 dozen eggs every week, week after week after week. But... 2 excess dozen a week is not enough to sell either... I'm afraid to put up a sign and get customers since I'd only be able to handle 2 customers a week. So we give away eggs to my daughter, her friend, the landlord, anyone who stops by to visit for any reason... and are still always swamped in eggs. I've become a regular egg-pusher, "You're here to read the electric meter? Have some eggs!" My fridge is getting full... I have to decide what to cook based on how many leftovers we already have cause one whole shelf is full of eggs all the damned time. I cooked a turkey this week and can't cook anything else until it's mostly gone cause there's no room in the fridge with all the eggs. We could go on an all-egg diet here. Well, at least it'd be low-carb. ;) Anyone want some eggs? > > > I never pay any attention to it and eat as many as 35 eggs a > > > week. > > > > 35 eggs a week!!! 3 dozen??? 5 eggs a day??? Yowzah... > But... 2 excess dozen a week is not enough to sell either... I'm > afraid to put up a sign and get customers since I'd only be able to > handle 2 customers a week. Well, you can do what one of my neighbors does. She sets a cooler out on a tree stump along side her driveway and puts the eggs in there to sell. It's an honor system. If the sign is up by the road, you check to see if there are eggs in the cooler. If there are, you take your dozen (we always return our empty cartons) and leave $2 in the cash box. More often than not, the cooler's empty, but if I'm one of the lucky ones, I get my farm fresh eggs. Lee >Anyone want some eggs? Wish I were your neighbor. There's nothing so wonderfully flavorful as fresh eggs. They make "store-bought" eggs totally insipid by comparison. Lucky you!! Connie ***************************************************** My mind is like a steel...um, whatchamacallit. >> > I never pay any attention to it and eat as many as 35 eggs a >> > week. [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >Anyone want some eggs? Is there a homeless shelter or soup kitchen in your area? I would contact them and see if they are interested. I'd be very surprised if they were not. Remove SPAMDEFENSE in address to reply. > The little white things next to the yolk means that the hen that laid > the egg had been visited by a rooster. It means the egg is fertile and > would have hatched into a little chick if it had been incubated. If the What horsepuckey. The white stringy thing merely connects the yolk to the albumin. Some people here are grossed out by them and remove them, but they break up when blending or whipping. I don't think I've seen one in an egg for 20 years or so, but when I was little, eggs frequently contained tiny pinkish-brown embryos, and they look exactly like you'd expect an embryo to look, if you've ever seen pictures of animal embryos. Signaturejamie (jamiemck@newsguy.com) "There's a seeker born every minute." |
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