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[docsquid]

I give some of our girls' eggs to friends and family. My mother in law rang last night to report one of the eggs I gave her didn't cook properly. It was a large egg, with almost no yolk, and was still very runny/watery after 4 minutes boiling.

 

Part of me wonders whether she really did boil it for 4 minutes, but I wonder if anybody else has had an egg that didn't boil. I know you can get yolkless eggs (and double yolkers too), but this was a large almost yolkless egg - I thought they were usually small.

 

Now she's worried she will get another one, and therefore reluctant to have any more eggs from our chooks.

[sjp]

sounds like a freash egg. I find thatthe whites of really freash eggs are slow to fry and boil I seem to end up with over cooked yolks and the underneath burned

[Cooks]

I fail to see how one egg blip would stop her from having your eggs? never had it myself but I am sure that its just a blip type thing.

[docsquid]

My MIL worries incessantly about everything! I suspect she didn't really cook it for 4 minutes, as my chooks have been completely reliable in egg-laying since they started in November - apart from the odd double-yolker and the occasional ridges on the shell.

 

Ah well, more for us I guess

[Looney]

I boiled some eggs for sandwiches the other week and left them to boil for about 6 mins and the yolks were still soft! They were enormous eggs though. My usual trick is to forget I have eggs boiling and end up with a dry pan

[Falkor]

I think it is to do with the freshness of the egg too.

 

BUT another thing I always forget is the size difference between my girls eggs and your normal medium egg from the supermarket. I always use Orp eggs for my dippy eggs (i only eat the yolk and their yolks and huge) and they weigh 15g+ more than a medium egg so require more cooking.

[Foot-tapper506]

I also think its because the eggs are really fresh. I noticed as soon as I began boiling my chooks eggs that it took longer to cook through even for a dippy yolk. - at least 4 minutes instead of 3. Also, frying takes longer as you need the heat lower to make sure the whites are properly cooked and you dont burn the bottom. I also give my eggs to family and they are always eager to have them. Your MIL's loss I say!

[Snowy]

If you think about it, 4 minutes cooking a large egg would give you a runny yolk. So the same applies if there is hardly any yolk, but you get runny white instead. Older hens tend to lay the bigger eggs with more watery whites, and the lack of yolk was probably just a hormonal blip. Those type of eggs are usually screened out of the supermarket ones so it is one of the joys of real free range eggs