Hardboiled egg turned green?

[aart]

Next time, if there is one....take a pic, worth thousands of words.

 

[gtaus]

I really think there was another issue.....tiny invisible crack allowing bacteria inside type thing.

Green whites are a no go for me.

Green whites was a no go for me, too. I was thinking that if there were tiny invisible cracks in the eggshell, and bacteria got inside spoiling the egg, that it would smell bad even after having been hard boiled. The egg did not smell bad.

But I did wonder if that small egg had been frozen enough to affect the texture and color but not frozen enough to crack the shell. I have had a number of frozen eggs these past few weeks and usually I just wash them off, remove the shell, and let them thaw out in the refrigerator for a few days in a bowl. The yolk texture has changed on some of those frozen eggs, but they still taste good when scrambled up. I eat those.

Since the egg was small, I also considered the possibility that I just overcooked it. In any case, I don't eat green eggs but the girls did not mind when I fed it back to them.

 

[gtaus]

Next time, if there is one....take a pic, worth thousands of words.

Will do. Should have thought of that from the start.

 

[gtaus]

Was the green throughout the whole thickness of the white?
If it was I would certainly have tossed it too.

Thinking it had to be because they were destined for pickling......

Yes, the whole white of the egg was green, and the yolk had green spots in it. No way was I going to add it to my pickling jar with other eggs.

 

[gtaus]

You indicated that this was a "small" brown egg. Was it the smallest in the batch? The most common reason an egg turns green is from overcooking. Was the white green or the yolk?

The white was green and there were green spots in the yolk. I would say that this egg was probably the smallest egg in that batch. My first thought was that it had been overcooked, but I have never seen an overcooked hard boiled egg and did not know if they turned color. Evidently, that is a good possibility.

Next time I hard boil those small eggs, I'll only boil them for 12 minutes instead of 15.

 

[21hens-incharge]

The white was green and there were green spots in the yolk. I would say that this egg was probably the smallest egg in that batch. My first thought was that it had been overcooked, but I have never seen an overcooked hard boiled egg and did not know if they turned color. Evidently, that is a good possibility.

Next time I hard boil those small eggs, I'll only boil them for 12 minutes instead of 15.

Hardboiled eggs cooked to long will get green around the yolk but not throughout the white.

The green affects the yolk only.

For real an overdone boiled egg with green around the yolk....the green is yolk only and wipes right off the white since it would be only yolk residue on the surface of the white.


Please don't eat any eggs with green whites.

 

[Peepsi]

Thanks. To be clear, the egg white itself was green and the yolk had some green spots in it. The egg did not smell bad, so I just cut it up and fed it back to my chickens this morning. Next time I'll only hard boil the eggs for maybe 12 minutes. I save the smallest eggs for hard boiling and use them to pickle with the beet juice.

First time I had ever seen a green egg and wondered what happened. Probably overcooked it. Thanks.

Ok, then you should not eat that, as I already said. You made it sound at first like just the yolk was green. Anyway, glad you did not eat it.

 

[Peepsi]

Hardboiled eggs cooked to long will get green around the yolk but not throughout the white.

The green affects the yolk only.

For real an overdone boiled egg with green around the yolk....the green is yolk only and wipes right off the white since it would be only yolk residue on the surface of the white.


Please don't eat any eggs with green whites.

Yeah, we all said that earlier on, but the OP wasn't clear even after asking about it until now.

 

[so lucky]

A quick google search only shows that you can change an egg white to green by adding red cabbage juice while cooking. Something about cabbage juice being a pH indicator. You didn't cook those eggs in cabbage juice did you? (lol)

 

[Kiki]

Next time, if there is one....take a pic, worth thousands of words.

This.