The other day, we visited Middle Farm near Lewes. Middle Farm is a great afternoon trip from Brighton... cider sampling, fresh fruit and veg, and lots of incredibly cute animals to pet! (Especially the sheep who paws at his fence to be hand-fed grass - soooo sweet!)
The farm shop is pretty expensive. But considering how much the price of eggs has gone up at Tesco lately, the fresh farm eggs didn't seem so pricey this time. So we bought a carton of six extra large.
On Sunday morning, we made eggs on toast for breakfast. One by one, as we cracked each egg open, they all turned out to be double yolks! I've eaten a lot of eggs in my life, but only ever seen a handful of double yolks.
Of course I got on to Google straight away to find out what the chances are, and here's what I found:
- Double-yolks do not mean that, if hatched, the egg would have produced twins. The future-chicken is actually the egg white.
- The chances of finding a double-yolk egg is 1 in 1,000. (We'd just found four! When I read this, I thought about going out to buy a lottery ticket.)
- Double-yolks tend to come from free range young hens laying their first eggs.
- Extra large eggs are almost always double-yolked. That's why they're extra large!
So in actual fact, even though the chances of finding a double-yolk are one in one thousand... buying extra large eggs from a farm almost guarantees it. One thing I do know, they sure tasted a lot better than those tiny eggs from Tesco!
