On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:30:50 GMT, Janet Baraclough
> wrote:

>The message >
>from Goomba38 > contains these words:
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>> <RJ> wrote:
>> > I notice that all the chefs
>> > break their eggs into a bowl/cup
>> > before adding them to the recipe.
>> >
>> > This is supposed to detect "the bad egg".
>> >
>> > Thinking back.... in twenty years, ( 10,000 eggs ?? )
>> > I've NEVER encountered a bad egg.
>> >
>> > Has anyone here ever gotten a bad egg ?
>> >
>> > <rj>
>
>> yes, an egg with blood in it.
>
> That red spot is just a fertilised egg, not a bad one. Just winkle it
>out with a teaspoon.
>

Actually, that red spot is more than likely blood from a tiny ruptured
blood vessel at the time of ovulation.
The indicator of a fertilized egg is a tiny white mass of cells,
called the blastodisc, on the surface of the yolk.

Ross.