To remove the little white bits attached to egg yolk.....

[SuzysZoo]

Ever since I was about 10 I have removed the stringy white bits attached to egg yolk before I use/eat said egg (you have to remove it when it's raw). It looks like umbilical cord (which I guess it is). I swear I found a bit of the "string" in a cake when I was 10 which I think started me off. I am the only person I know who does this and everyone else thinks I'm odd! Anyone else!?

I remove it too, because my DMum always does, so I just do it automatically!

I call it a 'strand of supporting white' from first year biology, where we had to carefully deconstruct an egg. That just stuck in my head

You found it in a cake???? That had been baked?

Well if YABU then so am I. Actually I'm glad to hear I'm not the only neurotic person who does this. For some reason it just makes me cringe.

Oh. I never notice them when it's cooked so don't bother. Seems like an awful faff?

How do you remove it?

The biological name is 'chalaza'. I remember it from first year Biology too. I don't remove them though!!

I do really think I did find it in a cake, yes, hence my disgust and need to remove. Sometimes the eggs I use seem to have a big blob of brown baby chicken (about the size of a lentil) - that comes out too!

Oh look - I'm not mad - Wikipedia says that the chalaza are "sometimes removed"!!!

In the eggs of most birds and reptiles, the chalazae are two spiral bands of tissue that suspend the yolk in the center of the white (the albumen). The function of the chalazae is to hold the yolk in place. For culinary use of eggs, particularly in baking, the chalazae are sometimes removed in order to ensure a uniform texture.

I have no idea what you are talking about... Must go crack an egg

I remove it too!

Unless you get your eggs from your local farm, where the local cock may have broken in and copulated with a chicken or two, then the brown bit wont be a baby bird.

If you buy them from the supermarket, they're are tonnes of chickens couped up no where near a cock . Even the free range chooks have hardly any room to move.

That advert where they are flying round free and happy is absolute bullshit.

Actually a lot of supermarket free range eggs are fertilised - here.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031114/Shopper-amazed-chick-hatches-supermarket-egg.html

OK that was a quail but from time to time there are reports of hatchings from supermarket eggs!

I always remove them for stuff like scrambled egg and omelettes, where they are so obvious and foul if you come across them, but don't bother for cakes, as I have never noticed stringy bits there. Now I shall start looking suspiciously at every slice.

I have always removed it and I'm a farmers daughter who lives on a farm! [Blush]I can't eat a boiled egg due to the fact I can't remove it before cooking!!

What do you do if there is a small blood spot in the egg?? I throw immediately and start again with the next egg...sometimes I go through 4-5 eggs before I get my perfect one!!

YADNBU! I do it too! DP tells me I'm faffing but ill remove it for me if he's making scrambled eggs It makes me cringe too and it does look like an umbilical cord!

I just told DP I'm not the only one who does it. He cocked his head to the side as if looking at me in a whole new way before declaring I am 'Precious'.

yfuw: I just take out the blood clots :/

I remove it too. With a teaspoon.
And I remove the 'blood spot' (learn something new every day) in the same way.

I've never even noticed this!!!

Never noticed this at all. I will be cracking eggs and looking tonight

I call it the 'spring' and pinch them off and throw them away, but only for fried or poached egg (have to be careful not to break the yolk). They make me gag.