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Cooking & Baking

Denninmi

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3. It may just be a matter of the sorting process.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sun Apr 8, 2012, 12:23 PM

Apr 2012

Eggs go down the line and are visually inspected by "candling" with bright light. All of the unusual eggs are pulled out for special handling. Now, I don't know if that is what happened here, but perhaps they were manually packed into segregated cartons meant to go some other direction (processing?) and then ended up back on the line.

I have actually heard of some vendors at farm markets selling double yolked cartons for a premium.

I have my own birds, so no longer buy eggs. I get double yolkers quite often, probably on average once a week. A bonus.

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Wherein I discuss hormone laden eggs [View all] Stinky The Clown Apr 2012 OP

Thanks, Stinky; will do the same. elleng Apr 2012 #1

I grew up on a farm Coyote_Bandit Apr 2012 #2

I agree about the price. You get what you pay for, including supervision. Thanks for that info. freshwest Apr 2012 #4

It may just be a matter of the sorting process. Denninmi Apr 2012 #3

I got a double yolk once from a very young bird. wildeyed Apr 2012 #5