When you eat a chicken egg what is the brown/red bit sometimes attached to the yolk?!
I find it hard enough to eat food that isn't fresh: salad, fruit, veg so I hope what you're going to tell me isn't going to put me off too much! Thanks.
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Chalazae (singular: chalaza) are strands of egg white that anchor the yolk in place in the center of the thick white. They are neither imperfections nor beginning embryos.
The more prominent the chalazae, the fresher the egg. Chalazae do not interfere with the cooking or beating of the white and need not be removed, although some cooks like to strain them from stirred custard
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It is NOT a chick. It's just a little deposit of protein or sometimes blood - it's an imperfection that happens during the formation of the egg, often attributed to the rupture of a blood vessel in the chicken when the yolk is being formed, and it's quite natural and common.
The chalzae is white, not red or brown.
I believe it might be the start of a little chick starting to form, if you see that thing in the egg don't eat it just throw it.
And don't pay any attention to that vegan **** implying that you're not being a good vegetarian. Some vegans are a bit thick.
If a vegetarian too. And you know eating an eggs like eating a whole chicken :/ so not really very vegetarian, and the red brown bit is a blood clot from where the egg is developing into a live chick :) .x
It is the part that would have become the chicken if the egg had been fertilized. However do not worry as it had not been as the hen would have been nowhere near a rooster.
Blood. If you are keeping kosher an egg with a blood spot in it isn't.
yes thats a baby chick before it really starts developing. Sorry to put you off but yes its a chick. With free range eggs sometimes roosters get with the hens and fertilise the eggs.
It is the end of the egg, or the beginning of a chicken.
Depends how you view at it.