One farm locally sells their eggs to the locals in a small shed adjacent to the Village Hall. You have a choice - single yolkers or double yolkers - but there is a price difference.
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This is the first time I have ever heard of this and I have never cracked open or eaten one.
Just looking into this it seems that only hens less than a year old lay such eggs. Morrisons were selling them a couple of years ago but they were checking every egg under a UV lamp to select the double ones. So Rightnow perhaps in the US they are no longer using Spring chickens!
As I have never seen this in my lifetime I assume that here they either screen them or use mature chickens to lay.
Does it mean twice the cholesterol?[/QUOTE]
Only a very small amount of cholesterol comes from the food we eat Annie. About 80% is made in the liver.
Where is cholesterol made?
[I]Some of our cholesterol comes from the food we eat, but most (about 80%) is made in the liver in a complex 37-step process.
Cholesterol and another type of blood fat called triglycerides cannot circulate loosely in the blood, so the liver packages them into “parcels” called lipoproteins.
The lipoproteins are then released into the blood and carried around the body to wherever they’re needed.
How is it broken down?
Once in the blood stream, some cholesterol will be returned to the liver and broken down. It’s used to make bile acids which are released into the intestines to help with digestion – bile acids break down the fats in food.
A small amount of bile acids will be removed from the body as a waste product in your poo. But most will be absorbed back into the blood, returned to the liver and used again for digestion.
Some treatments for high cholesterol work by stopping bile from being absorbed back into the blood. The liver has to take more cholesterol out of the blood to make more bile, lowering your cholesterol levels.
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The short time that I was taking statins I was experiencing excess acid and trouble digesting fatty foods. Cholesterol also important for the assimilation of vitamin D, which in turn keeps your immune system healthy.
[I]Nutritionist Munmun Ganeriwal explains in one of her IGTVs, “You should have the complete egg with the yolk. The egg yolk what we think is full of cholesterol is an excellent source of phosphor lipids. These are bioactive lipids or fats which have a beneficial effect on cholesterol metabolism. It also has beneficial effect on inflammation and HDL (good cholesterol) function.”
Research has also highlighted that eating eggs does not negatively impact your cholesterol levels. Eggs are also a rich source of essential nutrients. These are power-packed with protein, B vitamins, iron, healthy fats, vitamin A and much more.[/I]
[I][B]Cholesterol plays a vital role in how your body works. There is cholesterol in every cell in your body, and it’s especially important in your brain, nerves and skin.
Cholesterol has three main jobs:
It’s part of the outer layer, or membrane, of all your body’s cells
It’s used to make vitamin D and steroid hormones [/B][/I]
Cholesterol is not the bad boy it’s made out to be…
In SA, I’ve only ever found one double yolk. What do you feed your Roosters up North :shock:
We don’t have any special bins for double yolkers, it’s all random when we buy small, medium large or x large eggs.
It must not be too special then if you know you’ve purchased them. Kinda takes the fun out of it. Guess I’ll keep looking when I crack an egg open. 
I don’t think I’ve ever had a double yolker, but I once had an egg with a double white, which I have heard are much rarer.
I found a four leaf clover in a free range egg, and although I am not at all superstitious, I couldn’t help but see it as a good omen. I was made redundant at work the very next day, and concluded that the egg must have been meant for someone else. I don’t have a good track record with eggs. 
Just as long as you did not find the double yolkers on a six pack.
I have never had a double white, Harbal, so you must be luckier than me.
Me thinks there’s a special thread dedicated to your all the eggs you’ve ever had!
Perhaps it’s something to do with social distancing, you know, No more than one yolk inside this egg at any one time. there’s a shop in my town with a sign up saying the very same thing. The funny thing is, I have NEVER seen more than one person inside. Normally empty in fact.
Perhaps the sign is wishful thinking Longdogs…
Moral of the story is “Never put all of your eggs in the same basket, you may get lucky.”
Thanks for the fun, you guys.
I was surprised at how many boxes of smashed eggs were in Tesco last week. Someone had put them in a box on the floor by the egg section. I picked up a box from the display, I always check them & one of those eggs was smashed too, so I added it to the box on the floor, the next box I picked was OK so that went in the trolley, there must have been some very heavy handed shelf stackers in there that evening.
In the 15 years or so, since l have kept hens. I have only had one, maybe two double yolkers.
I wonder why they bring us so much joy?
I would like to retract my earlier comments.
Two double and a tripple yolker in the pan for lunch from a metric dozen box of Big 'n Free eggs.
I have had one double yolk,Right Now…but that was before lock down, 
Right Now, and before Lock Down, make your mind up.
Artie, I think because it’s rare, and considered good luck! Another gift of foolish superstition, like finding a four leaf clover on the lawn.
Or maybe, it’s a “double your pleasure, double your fun” type of thing.
Oh, fruitcake, you have made my day!! All those yolks in one pan, you are one lucky fella!
Spitty, Right Now can be relevant before, during and after :shock:
It’s happened again … 
6 double-yolkers in a box … 
They were size XL and I thought the first one felt heavy so when I cracked it open I wasn’t surprised and, as expected, all the others were double, too … 
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