What is this brown mass on this egg?
I boiled an egg and while eating it I found this brown mass. It's not gooey - I tested whether I could squeeze it out, but it just ripped with the rest of the egg white.
Update: another egg in this batch of 24 had a similar spot. Here are some more pictures:
As you can see in this picture, this time I was able to squeeze out the brown mass:
Best Answer
That could be what's known as a meat spot. When a hen is laying an egg, sometimes pieces are sloughed off on the process down the ovary. Although this is unusually large for a meat spot, it could be something like a blood clot that was sloughed off during the process.
It is usually safe to eat, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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Contrary to popular belief, they do not indicate that an egg has been fertilized. Blood spots are the result of the rupturing of tiny blood vessels in the hen's ovaries or oviduct — the tube through which eggs pass from the ovaries to the outside world ( 1 ).What is this brown lump I found in my egg?
These tiny spots do not indicate a fertilized egg. Instead, they are caused by the rupture of a blood vessel on the yolk surface during formation of the egg or by a similar accident in the wall of the oviduct.Why does my egg have a lump in it?
The \u201cbumps\u201d just mean the eggshell has some texture to it rather than being completely smooth. This also occurs in the oviduct as the egg passes through the hen. There may just be some debris in the tube as the shell is being formed.Why do my eggs have brown spots on the shell?
Brown spots occur on brown eggs (eggshell color depends on the breed of hen) when the egg spins too slowly as it passes through the oviduct of the hen. It's so common that these eggs even have their own nickname: "speckled" eggs (via Reader's Digest).What a rotten egg looks like?
A fresh egg should have a bright yellow or orange yolk and a thickish white that doesn't spread too far. If it's off, the yolk will be flatter and discoloured and the egg white will be far runnier. As we've already described, rotten eggs will also have a sulfuric smell to them.What Is The Difference Between ‘Brown Eggs’ And ‘White Eggs’?
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