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What's called a "detached" air cell, is really membrane that ruptured where the air cell would be. The air pocket becomes a free-floating bubble. Those are pretty easy to spot when you candle, you'll clearly see a bubble moving around when you tip the egg. Weird shaped air cells, (caused by getting bounced around so much that the membrane pulls away from the shell around the air cell, but doesn't rupture) are a little harder to see. They often have an amoeba-like shape, or the air cell may be elongated down one side. I just recently finally figured out how to find the normal air cells when I candle. If you hold the egg sideways, with to light shining through the large end from one side, and slowly rotate the egg, you should be able to spot the air cell, usually. On green eggs, or darker eggs, and sometimes even lighter eggs with a good, strong shell, it can be really difficult to see the air cells. The damaged ones show up more easily. So if you can't find the air cell at all, it's probably normal.
What did Dipsy turn inside out? The box? And how? Open it up and re-tape it?
That's a bummer about the neg reviews. You never know what somebody might take it in the heads to get upset about. Especially if they don't know how any of this works in the first place. Seems like the more clueless somebody is, the more likely they are to complain about perfectly good eggs.
What's called a "detached" air cell, is really membrane that ruptured where the air cell would be. The air pocket becomes a free-floating bubble. Those are pretty easy to spot when you candle, you'll clearly see a bubble moving around when you tip the egg. Weird shaped air cells, (caused by getting bounced around so much that the membrane pulls away from the shell around the air cell, but doesn't rupture) are a little harder to see. They often have an amoeba-like shape, or the air cell may be elongated down one side. I just recently finally figured out how to find the normal air cells when I candle. If you hold the egg sideways, with to light shining through the large end from one side, and slowly rotate the egg, you should be able to spot the air cell, usually. On green eggs, or darker eggs, and sometimes even lighter eggs with a good, strong shell, it can be really difficult to see the air cells. The damaged ones show up more easily. So if you can't find the air cell at all, it's probably normal.
What did Dipsy turn inside out? The box? And how? Open it up and re-tape it?
That's a bummer about the neg reviews. You never know what somebody might take it in the heads to get upset about. Especially if they don't know how any of this works in the first place. Seems like the more clueless somebody is, the more likely they are to complain about perfectly good eggs.