Bitted Egg?

[ronnie_suburban]

A friend asked me. Hoping someone here can shed some light.

Thanks

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[slkinsey]

I think it is a misconstruction of "beaten."

[ronnie_suburban]

I think it is a misconstruction of "beaten."

...was thinking the same thing but figured this was the place to find out for sure.

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[ronnie_suburban]

Just to wrap this up (or push it along ), I have been informed that a bitted egg is actually a double-yolked egg. Not sure of the origin of 'bitted' though.

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[Katherine]

If you google, you'll find a number of sites that seem to indicate it means "beaten".

[Jaymes]

I think it's a beaten egg with two yolks.

[Katherine]

I think it's a beaten egg with two yolks.

The first entry in a google search refers to "bitted egg white".

[ronnie_suburban]

If you google, you'll find a number of sites that seem to indicate it means "beaten".

Thanks Katherine, that seems much more realistic and makes more sense to me given the context of the recipe (B'stilla). I just cannot imagine a recipe relying or calling for double-yolked eggs. But my source is usually very reliable so I give him the benefit of the doubt. And I knew if there was more information avaiable, someone here would fill it in.

Jaymes...what you're suggesting is what my friend told me could be substituted for a bitted egg. Hmmm, the plot thickens...

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[Jaymes]

I think it's a beaten egg with two yolks.

The first entry in a google search refers to "bitted egg white".

Actually I was yust yolking.

Edited February 14, 2004 by Jaymes (log)

[ludja]

While on the topic of double yolks, I recently had a carton of eggs in which over half of the 12 were double-yolked! Kind of weird.

[Naomi]

I just love double-yolkers. My granny had a hen that seemed to produce them all the time. I've never had one from a supermarket.

[Katherine]

I just love double-yolkers. My granny had a hen that seemed to produce them all the time. I've never had one from a supermarket.

It's not a coincidence. A few reasons why you never see double-yolked eggs in a supermarket:

Double-yolked eggs are produced by older hens, which tend to lay larger eggs. So double-yolked eggs might be either jumbo or super jumbo (a size I only see at the egg farm store). So if you bought jumbo eggs all the time, you might see a double-yolked egg in the spring, as the layers reach their second year. At this time, the new layers are laying pullet eggs or even smaller (I can get these at the egg farm really cheap by the flat).

Egg farms turn over their hen populations once a year, as the eggs get too large (the demand is for extra-large and large sizes).

I believe that when they candle eggs as part of the quality control procedure, they remove most of the double-yolked eggs.