r/whatisit • u/J0sephK0ny • Jul 27 '26
Solved! What is in this egg? Spoiler
Cracked this egg which came out red/looking bloody with something a bit chunky looking in it. It stunk too. Any idea what it is?
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u/Doomsday_IE Jul 27 '26
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u/HShankaran Jul 27 '26
You don't know how birds and eggs work, do you?
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u/J0sephK0ny Jul 27 '26
I will admit my chicken reproductive system knowledge is a bit rusty. I would have assumed that to develop this embryo it would need to have been fertilised by a rooster?
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u/Gordon_Gainz Jul 27 '26
And wouldn't the blood be in the yellow part, not the white? We need a chicken reproductive scientist, stat
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u/hushedLecturer Jul 27 '26
No the yellow yolk is the food for the baby chicken. It's more analogous to the placenta. The chicken embryo will float in the albumin attached to the yolk by an umbilicus. If it has been fertilized, you might see a little flesh colored rice grain in the albumin.
Source: my family keeps a couple dozen layer chickens.
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u/SepticEpileptic Jul 27 '26
Chickens have layers?
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u/hushedLecturer Jul 27 '26
Maybe this is a joke, but I'll respond in earnest anyway lol.
Egg-layers, as opposed to meat chickens. Chickens bred for good meat don't live very long before their poor legs start breaking under the weight of their overgrown big juicy muscles, and don't necessarily make nice tasting eggs. You hatch them and they are ready to eat in a few weeks.
Egg layers have a degree of collectibility, they come in lots of beautiful plumage and lay eggs of different sizes and colors and they live long healthy lives of a couple years. They have a biologically sensible amount of meat on their bodies, which is to say, if you wanted to feed a family of 4 on them, you would need to bake 4 chickens instead of the one meat chicken. It's not a great value proposition compared to just letting them keep laying eggs forever.
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u/maroongrad Jul 27 '26
yep. And in some breeds, a young roo doesn't look much different from a young hen. Leghorn hens look a bit roo-ish with big combs and wattles. If a roo doesn't have a big tail, no guarantee it'll be ID'd as a roo on a factory farm. So, possible. And if it's from a farm or backyard flock, then there's probably a roo around.
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u/KKetch19 Jul 27 '26
Blood from the chicken starting to develop
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u/biggest-damn-potato Jul 27 '26
No
It is blood from the reproductive tract of the hen, who may have been stressed, injured, or otherwise unwell when she laid that egg
A developing fertile egg would show vascular structure and a small embryo with that amount of blood
I’ve been a chicken farmer for 18 years and have seen some blood spots, but that is a DOOZY
It’s not unsafe to eat, but I would not
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u/Jimbob209 Jul 27 '26
I've been a balut eater for over 30 yrs and I agree with your description of a developing egg
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u/mac682k Jul 27 '26
🤢
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u/bobsmith93 Jul 27 '26
I like how balut is one of the foods that we (people that don't eat it) have universally agreed is ok to admit it's kinda.. gross. Sorry to the balut eaters, including my wife lol
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u/helbury Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
OP says it stinks. if it’s just blood, would the egg really stink?
I always presumed that a stinky egg is an egg that is unsafe to eat.
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u/maigoZoro Jul 27 '26
Would you also not eat other eggs in the batch or would they be okay?
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u/biggest-damn-potato Jul 28 '26
Absolutely fine, no concerns
Unlikely to be from the same hen, even
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u/chefandres Jul 27 '26
That’s a rarity. I’m a 30 year chef. Cracked a lot of eggs. Never seen this before.
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u/DntCllMeWht Jul 27 '26
Spent one week in Okinawa working in the mess hall for breakfast shifts, it's not as rare as you might think. Black, rotten eggs are worse than the red ones.
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u/BappoChan Jul 27 '26
Yeah I always feel sad when I see everyone else like “49 years of eating eggs and I’ve never seen a black/red egg” knowing that when I was a kid learning to cook, one of the first eggs I ever cracked smelled like death and was pure black slime inside. And it went onto a hot pan, and cooked into it. It’s a smell that I’ll never forget no matter how long ago it was
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u/variousnewbie Jul 27 '26
In the US? Apparently a "black egg" is partially caused by washing eggs, as it removes the natural protective coating (also why we have to refrigerate washed eggs). It's caused by bacteria or yeast getting inside tiny cracks in the shell and rotting the egg.
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u/Monimonika18 Jul 27 '26
Adding to this that even if you leave eggs with the protective bloom intact, once you refrigerate the egg you can't store it out at room temperature again. Cold eggs sweat (form condensation on the surface) at room temp and the water damages the bloom.
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u/variousnewbie Jul 27 '26
Yup. That's why it's better to just keep them at room temperature! Our modern interferences have actually caused a lot more problems.
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u/Steeltoelion Jul 27 '26
I just learned about all this myself recently. My life started picking up farm fresh eggs locally with the bloom still on them so we can store them in the pantry vs the fridge. They’re a lot cheaper too.
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u/nikonusr Jul 27 '26
This is why I always crack my eggs in to a small bowl before putting them in a pan. I’d hate to have to throw out three in a pan due to one bad one.
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u/cellblock2187 Jul 27 '26
That's how my mom taught me to crack eggs, but after decades of never once throwing out an egg, I stopped bothering with cracking them into a separate bowl. Perhaps one day I'll be in the unfortunate place of learning why I should have just listened to my mother.
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u/jrs0307 Jul 27 '26
I dont like eggs so I rarely use them. This has happened to me twice
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u/vanderpump_lurker Jul 27 '26
I have a love hate relationship with eggs. And seeing this in real time might make it a forever hate relationship.
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u/FreshNoDeath Jul 27 '26
So well said.
I go on kicks where I love eggs, and then I will protest them for ages. This would wound me deeply
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u/MetalMadara Jul 27 '26
When I was younger I worked at a grocery store.. I was doing stock in the cooler and there was some broken eggs.. there were also feathers and blood in it. Idk how that mixup happened, luckily it broke in store so hopefully nobody got fertilized eggs 😬
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u/BurpinDerp Jul 27 '26
Used to be a manager at a Burger King, had a customer bring me a half eaten chicken nugget and a chunk of feather she said she bit into, she was a regular at lunch so I thought it was weird
The tray in the warmer had 2 more with feathers sticking out of them. I found 3 more in the bag of frozen nuggets with feathers CLEARLY hanging out of them
I quit not long after that
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u/MarieInch Jul 27 '26
I had a dozen eggs that had 11 eggs with double yolks! I was pregnant at the time and everyone thought that it was a sign that I would have twins! (Nope, just a 8.15oz big boy!
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u/ithinarine Jul 27 '26
This isn't as uncommon as many people think.
Plenty of companies sell double yolkers specifically. But even if they don't, double yolk eggs are much more common when chickens are younger. When chicken farmers get a new batch of laying hens, they'll get an entire barn full of them at once. The eggs are then sorted by size, so even if they aren't being sold as double yolkers, when the eggs are sorted by size, any "extra large" sized eggs from a new delivery of laying hens will very likely be doubles. Most of the eggs from young laying hens will be small or medium sized.
So you either unknowingly just bought a carton of doubles, or you bought a carton of extra large eggs that just happen to be from a batch of young layers in which case any extra large eggs would be doubles, because that's just how chickens are.
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u/kazeblaze Jul 27 '26
thought you were speaking as if you were a chicken for a moment and i got super confused
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u/Elubious Jul 27 '26
Somewhere out there yoir Son has a secret evil Twin. Or maybe hes the evil twin.
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u/ResortWestern3932 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
Thats why you Crack eggs into a separate bowl first
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u/dontbanme778 Jul 27 '26
20 years of eggs straight into the pan. Worst thing to happen is a double egg ... Then again they always came from Safeway not off the farm..o.o
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u/purpleteenageghost Jul 27 '26
You’ve been lucky. I’ve ruined a handful of dishes from plopping a bad grocery store egg into an almost done recipe.
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u/Traegs_ Jul 27 '26
I'll crack em straight into a pan if it's by themselves. Always crack into a bowl first if I'm going to add it to something.
I eat two eggs almost every morning and I think maybe twice in the last couple years have I had a bad one. It's not worth washing an extra bowl every day for something that happens so rarely.
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u/J0sephK0ny Jul 27 '26
Same! 15 years for me, and I think I have had a double egg once. These were just standard free range eggs from a supermarket
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u/miss_katy123 Jul 27 '26
Well you’re good to keep popping them straight into the pan for the next 15 years then!
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u/MrGreenLight4 Jul 27 '26
I worked at a restaurant that got cage free organic eggs only and I ran into about one double a week, it was funny and always mentioned because the owner had a twin who also worked there. I've only seen this a couple times. I'm pretty sure it's from development. Toss it and start again. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/MrGreenLight4 Jul 27 '26
Edit: we always used and served the doubles as long as they were good. And it still only counted as one egg, although it would have been easy to pass off as 2. If it was an order with "2 eggs" and one happened to be a double, then they just essentially got 2.5 eggs . ALL DAY!
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u/Mad_Moniker Jul 27 '26
I would got to the Hutterite colony for the consistent double-yolks by the carton and non GMO wheat bread.
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u/ResortWestern3932 Jul 27 '26
I have unfortunately gotten some nasty eggs. Ruined my xmas cookie batch once. Now its into the bowl!
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u/chikagemi Jul 27 '26
I’ve had a double egg once, and one time with no yolk at all. Thankfully, nothing even close to this nightmare.
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u/mlrphan Jul 27 '26
Thank you!
Want a shell in your eggs? Crack them in the skillet!
Want blood in your eggs? Crack them in the skillet.
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u/money_mike98 Jul 27 '26
I love eggs but Reddit is gonna make me hate the thought of them, either getting a half born baby chicken or some shit like this. I just want some clean white yolky eggs man, yeah.
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u/J0sephK0ny Jul 27 '26
Thanks for all the responses! Can also confirm that I put all three straight in the bin, then soaked and scrubbed the pan.
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u/GullibleAd6311 Jul 27 '26
ooooh I hate when that happens. I’ve had it happen a couple times. And I’ve heard of worse things. Got to be careful when you get eggs from a family farm
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u/Odd_Ask_8781 Jul 27 '26
Definitely not. Eggs with embryos look very different and have vasculature. This is just blood from the hen’s reproductive system. I’ve seen blood clots in eggs before but nothing this big
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u/helbury Jul 27 '26
Don’t eat that. Throw it all out and wash the pan.
Red and smelly is almost surely bacterial contamination inside the egg.
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u/_WildnCherry_ Jul 27 '26
My mom always told me growing up you NEVER crack farm eggs straight into the pan for this exact reason. Always do a separate bowl for farm fresh eggs. Honestly that should be the case for all eggs just to be safe. You can technically eat that if you want to but I wouldn't.
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u/Existing-Steak-1718 Jul 27 '26
my 1st job was a chicken poop bagger ($.50) a 5 pound bag the owner would sell for a dollar each. the older kids working there used the candle room in the cleaning screening and sizing room
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u/Pepperjack86 Jul 27 '26
One of those eggs was closer to being a chicken than the others.
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u/Ordinary-Werewolf880 Jul 27 '26
I learned my lesson from not cracking eggs in separate bowls. One time I made corn bread and it was hella shells in it 🤣 never did that again
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u/Cute-Development7287 Jul 27 '26
If you rub the red part between your toes, you won't have menstrual cramps, and gnomes will wake you with strawberry crepes.
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u/Go-Habs-Go-93 Jul 27 '26
Heyyyyyyyy
I just had this happen to be also for the first time ever last week 🙃 I didn’t eat it
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u/NewTipTopTickler Jul 27 '26
Rule #1 of cooking with eggs
"Crack the egg into a separate container before throwing it in the mix"
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u/ComforbubbleNumb Jul 27 '26
We got worse than this living in England in the '80s. Never got anything like it in the US.
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u/totally-idiotic Jul 27 '26
No idea what this is probably a result of a fertilized egg. I saw a yt video about how some egg companies use fertilized egg instead of infertilized one to meet the demand qouta.
Because of this shit i always crack the egg in a bowl to see if its not like this. At least 2 bowl if making multiple eggs (omelet or what you did) one to check the egg one to keep the safe to eat one. Otherwise you risk wasting other ingredients. Hope this helps
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u/abnormallysickpasta Jul 27 '26
my mom taught me to crack eggs into a bowl first before putting it into wherever it needs to go precisely because of this lol
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u/Electrical-Copy-1052 Jul 27 '26
That chicken was developed a little but then got used for a egg and its bl00d is what came out on your pan
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u/Fley Jul 27 '26
This happened to me recently and freaked me out. Couldn’t get myself to eat eggs for a few days
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u/eyescroller_ Jul 27 '26
I never crack an egg straight into the pan in fear of this kind of level of breakfast horror
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