Raw Eggs

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What do you do with an egg when you see a red dot in when you crack it open? My MIL breaks it in a bowl - if there is red dot, she throws it away and can get through 2-3eggs like that!

I normally take the red bit out with a spoon?

What do you guys do? AND what is this red dot?

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From what little I remember from Bio Lab, I think that red dot is the formation of the heart of the chick....I remember we would crack the egg in a petri dish and it had a big red dot and veins, and under microscope u can see the heart beating :)
I find that gross and usually throw it out too if I get that.

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Oh thats sick! But i jst take it out with a spoon...is the egg still contaminated?

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Not sure about if its still contaminated...but it still feels odd to me,s o i throw it out. do a search on google :)

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i have never heard of red spots until now. sounds freaky from afrosheen’s post!
this is what i found on google:

Blood Spots

  • Blood spots are occasionally found on an egg yolk. Contrary to popular opinion, these tiny spots do not indicate a fertilized egg. Rather, 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. Less than 1% of all eggs produced have blood spots.
  • Mass candling methods reveal most eggs with blood spots and those eggs are removed but, even with electronic spotters, it is impossible to catch all of them. As an egg ages, the yolk takes up water from the albumen to dilute the blood spot so, in actuality, a blood spot indicates that the egg is fresh. Both chemically and nutritionally, these eggs are fit to eat. The spot can be removed with the tip of a knife, if you wish.
    *]Eggs with blood spots are not kosher. This is because blood spots can also occur due to fertilization. Of course, most hens nowadays are not allowed anywhere near a rooster so fertilization is an impossibility in today’s eggs, but religion dictates that we toss the egg with the blood spot. The laws of Kashrut do not dictate white eggs over brown or other color eggs, just that it not be a fertilized egg. Some people believe that there are more blood spots in brown eggs than white eggs because they mistakenly think that a naturally occurring brown coloration in the brown egg is a blood spot and it is not. The laws of Kashrut are clear that it is the red blood spot that is not allowed for fear of fertilization and that brown spots can be ignored.
    Spoonful: All about eggs
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i've never seen a red dot in an egg. but i always take out that white globby gross thing floating around inside.

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My mom always said if the egg has a red spot then throw it away and don't eat... eww @ red spot eggs

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Better play safe :p

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The only BAD Egg is one that Floats in Water.............:)

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My mum used to say that the red dot indicates the first laid egg of the hen.
I duno how true that is.

But usually just scoop the red dot out and cook the rest of the egg.

If you have ever smelt a rotten bad egg, you'd know when you come across one, the smell is horrible.

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i've never seen this red dot thing on an egg...but this will now make me look for one always....!