Selecting eggs in a grocery store is sort of like solving a logic puzzle. White eggs. Brown eggs. White organic eggs. Brown farm-raised eggs. White organic farm-raised eggs. Which ones to pick?? Jumbo? Extra jumbo? Fertilized?
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I’m sorry. WHAT. Fertilized?!? As in there are babies in there?? I wanted to Google immediately, but I was freezing (hi, refrigerated section of Trader Joe’s), so I grabbed a carton (suspiciously, also the cheapest option of an organic nature), high-tailed it home, and hopped on the Internet.
My quest for information started sanely enough. An article on Chow.com explained that while most store-bought eggs are unfertilized, some are not - all it takes is a rooster in the area to earn them a fertile label. And even if the chicken did get pinned down by the sultan of swagger, the process of refrigeration halts any growth inside the shell. Fun fact: There is no nutritional difference between the two types of eggs.
Phew. That solves that, right? Totally. Unless you have a penchant for over-Google-ing, and find yourself deep in a thread on backyardchickens.com:
PEOPLE HATCH THESE OMEGA WONDERS.
"When I was a newbie I tried incubating an egg that I had washed and refrigerated. It hatched, was deformed and sad."
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Just let that sit on the proverbial griddle that is your mind for awhile. And while you do…enjoy this video of chicken mating. Also known as gang rape.