Oh sick... I just cracked an egg... and it was bloody...

[Wetzelbill]

oh... fuck... I'm not going to be eating scrambled eggs for quite sometime now. That was disgusting.

:puke:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. When you eat organic, brown eggs, that tends to happen.

We had chickens (FRESH EGGS) when I was growing up. Happened all the time. Sorry it made you sick, but it's really not that big of a deal.
Duckie

[Mutley]

2. ...

DUDE!
It was
fertilized
:puke:

[Left Is Write]

3. I've seen that happen too.

I'm sorry your appetite was ruined. :(

[LeftyMom]

4. If old wives' tales are to be believed

you're either pregnant or somebody has got you with the evil eye.

Of course it just mean that the hen who laid that egg encountered a rooster, but it's much more fun to picture you with child. ;)

[MissB]

8. Actually, that is the old wives tale.

Blood in an egg doesn't mean fertility. My three hens (no rooster present) occaisonally pop out an egg with a bit of blood in it.

[u4ic]

5. If there's blood in it,

it's very fresh.

The egg absorbs the blood as it 'ages', so to speak.

[flvegan]

6. Why so disgusting?

It's just blood.

[Dangerously Amused]

7. Hello, Egg Psychic Hotline. Can I help you?

How to tell a bad egg

by Scott Matthews


One of the things that my family loves most about living in the country is that we get to eat fresh eggs from our genuine free-range chickens. But then, free-range chickens don’t always play by the rules; sometimes they don’t lay their eggs in the nesting boxes we’ve so thoughtfully provided. It is all too common for one of our boys to run into the house with a clutch of eggs nestled in the front of his Tshirt.

“Look, Dad!” he cries excitedly. “I found one of the hens nesting in the hay barn (or under the trailer, or in the horse’s manger, or even in a feed bucket)!”

We used to feed those “wild” eggs to the pigs unless we felt adventurous (or desperate) enough to carefully crack one open to check it for freshness. Believe me, cracking open one rotten egg satisfies both my need for adventure and my hunger for eggs for a long time.

One day, however, a friend of ours showed us that you could judge the freshness of an egg by placing it in water about an inch deeper than the egg is long. As an egg ages, the air cell expands. So, depending on how the egg lies in the water, you can tell whether the egg is fresh enough to eat on its own, or if it is old enough that, because of the taste, you should use it only for baking, or if it is best to just discard it.

To help our fellow country dwellers remember the rules of egg floating I made up this little rhyme. I hope you find it useful. A little warning though: you can't tell the age of a frozen egg by floating it. Even a fresh egg will float if it's frozen.


Can you eat that egg?
By Scott Matthews

If not sure you ought-ter,
then place it in water.
If it lies on its side,
then it's fresh; eat with pride.

After three or four days,
at an angle it lays.
But, it still is a treat,
so go on and eat.

Ten days, stands on end,
in your baking 'twill blend.
'Cause it's definitely edible,
in your baking, incredible.

But, if it floats on the surface,
that egg serves no purpose.
'Cause a floater's a stinker!
Out the back door best fling 'er!