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I couldn't manage to capture how truly neon yellow the white was, it was almost highlighter colored. The yolk broke super easily, and at first I thought it was rotten, but it had no smell.

With a precursory bit of searching, it seems this could either be the result of bacteria getting in the egg, or that the chicken had a diet high in insects and this egg is extra nutritious.

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[–] user_name@lemmy.world 81 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“Bacteria or extra nutritious” is exactly why I not enjoy gambling.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Depends on the odds, no?

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Or grammar.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Extra nutrition probably would yield a very dark yolk too. Given that the yolk was soft, I hazard it’s a well aged egg.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

But for the price of eggs, I'd toss it...

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also often my eggs well-aged, but more in the way of chicken. This is poorly aged, by all accounts.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I prefer my eggs < 1month or hatched. Fresher in my experience isn’t always better; it does weird stuff in baking sometimes. But looks like this egg was on its way to be balut, had it been fertilized!

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Chicken pee is stored in the egg.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

Urine deep piss for that factoid.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did you guys know that eggs are basically a polymer and when you heat them you are polymerizing them into a solid? The stuff is crosslinking before your very eyes!

[–] Murazaki@lemmy.balamb.fr 6 points 1 month ago

High level nerding on carbohydrate polymerization 😄

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago

The chicken probably never went outside so...

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

You'd have to wait a loooooong time to hatch store-bought eggs. Or be very lucky.
The chance that they're fertilised is very small

bad egg (as in bad apple)