INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT THE EGGS
- The mother hen turns her egg about 50 times a day in order not to stuck the yolk on the shell.
- The average hen produces about 300 eggs per year. Starting at the age of 19 weeks, it remains productive during the 12 months. The older hen produces larger eggs.
- The color of the egg is not connected with the quality or taste. There is no difference in the nutritional ingredients of eggs with different color of their shells.
- The largest egg that appeared in the world had 5 yolks. Very usual is the situation when the eggs have 2 yolks. That is the results of very often ovulation and commonly produced or very young chickens or hens that are at the end of their productive period
- China is the bigest producer of eggs – about 160 billion a year. In the US, 260 million hens produce about 65 billion eggs per year.
- The shell of the egg on its surface may have about 17 000 pores. Through them it may get a different odor. Therefore, in order to stay fresher eggs they need to be stored in a box.
- If you have two eggs and if you want to check if the eggs are boiled or fresh, you need to turn around the eggs. The boiled egg, will spins easily, and the fresh egg will spins very slowly, or will not turn at all.
- If one egg is fresh or not, you can check if you put the egg in a bowl with warm water. If the egg is fresh it will fail in the bottom of the bowl and it will stay there. If the egg float on the water, probably is spoiled. In the fresh egg the yolk is round and always is above the whites, and whites remains close to the yolk.
- The ancient Greeks believed that the world was created by the egg which was laid by the goddess Eurynome.