Hardboiled egg turned green?

[21hens-incharge]

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

I did see that but wanted to be very very clear that green whites are not from over cooking.

 

[gtaus]

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.

Yikes! The white of that egg was green. Glad I did not eat it.

 

[gtaus]

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)

Would you believe, we just ran out of cabbage juice earlier in the day and I had to use whatever water we could draw from the well?

 

[gtaus]

I did see that but wanted to be very very clear that green whites are not from over cooking.

Yes, good thing you spelled it out even more because I was not hearing what people were saying. In fact, I thought green whites were indeed from over cooking. So, if the egg white was green from something other than over cooking, are people thinking bacteria?

 

[21hens-incharge]

Yes, good thing you spelled it out even more because I was not hearing what people were saying. In fact, I thought green whites were indeed from over cooking. So, if the egg white was green from something other than over cooking, are people thinking bacteria?

I do think it could be from bacteria but I am not certain and have no data and no scientific sheets to reference for it.

I did have one egg several years ago that had blood swirled throughout the entire white. I do not know what that would have looked like if I had boiled it though.

 

[aart]

I did have one egg several years ago that had blood swirled throughout the entire white. I do not know what that would have looked like if I had boiled it though.

Would turn brown I would think.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Would turn brown I would think.

That is what I am thinking too.

I am just glad it was a one time thing.

 

[blackandtan]

Would you believe, we just ran out of cabbage juice earlier in the day and I had to use whatever water we could draw from the well?

ROTFL