An eggs-cellent question: Whatever happened to double-yolk eggs?
What does any of this have to do with double yolks? Nothing. Answer Man just thinks it’s cool. Also, he suspects Romans would have been excited to get an extra yellow globule in their frying pan. But are there really fewer double yolks now than in the sepia-toned youth of our question-asker?of the USDA’s National Poultry Research Center in Athens, Ga. First, some basics: Most double yolks are the result of what Jones calls “hen puberty.
“Her system is a little confused,” Jones said. “She’s trying to find her way and accidentally releases two yolks at one time. It predominantly occurs to younger laying flocks just as they’re going into the laying cycle.”There are a few reasons you might never see a twin-yolk egg. Eggs are graded by weight, from peewee to jumbo. Double-yolk eggs have more mass and are typically graded jumbo. If you never buy that size egg, you probably won’t see one.
Also, some commercial egg producers don’t want doubles. The shells can be more fragile, stretched as they are around two yolks. Combined with their bigger size, that can be a problem. “When you look at a standard egg carton box for large eggs, the big, big ones have trouble fitting,” saidof A Dozen Eggs, a small, family-run farm in Purcellville, Va. “It depends on the layout of the container. In cardboard ones they fit pretty good. But some of the Styrofoam ones have a divot in the middle that can break the egg.”The USDA’s Jones said that though double-yolk eggs don’t show up often in grocery-store cartons, the eggs aren’t tossed.
By the way, Jones said, from a food safety point of view, there’s nothing wrong with a double-yolk egg.“People say, ‘Can I get some double yolks?’” he said. “I say, ‘Take a big one. There’s a chance it’s a double.’”
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