Stupid useless knowledge question I need answered

[Tabatha]

Couldnt figure out what forum this fits under, so i figured "egg behavior". So....Stupid question coming! But I have to figure this out. I'm the queen of useless knowledge, but I need to expand it. Why, when you crack an egg, does the spot or bullseye always wind up on top of the yolk? Does it not always happen? Why/how does it if it does? I've never cracked an egg that it wasn't on top. Can you flip a yolk over?

 

[Judy]

It doesn't -- voice of exp[erience. You can crack it into a glass dish. With a little luck, you can flip it without breaking the olk.

 

[Tabatha]

I found myself practicing flipping it before cooking some eggs and I broke it every time...lol. I've been wondering this for about a month...the disk that is. I've been watching every egg I cracked to see if I could make the disk land on the bottom...lol. It's the little things that amuse me

 

[JadedPhoenix]

Do you have roosters? If so, it could be the mark that shows that it is fertile.

 

[Tabatha]

Yeah. I have some that are not fertilized and some that are. I just didn't realize until one day I cracked 4 eggs into a plate that had 4 divided sections. I got to looking to check who was laying the fertilized eggs and noticed a trend of the disk or bullseye always (from what I've noticed) lands on top of the yolk of each cracked egg. I'm just wondering why this happens. Are most yolks more dense on one side, so that the heavier side cracks down and leaves the disk on top? Is it the stringy white bungees(I forget what they are called) that hold the yolk in place that determines what side or the yolk cracks up?

 

[dheltzel]

I think it's the same phenomenon that makes a piece of buttered toast always land butter side down when dropped.

Seriously though, I've had to gently flip the yolk over with a soup spoon on occasion. Given that more that 50% of the yolk surface is exposed because of it's height, I think the odds have just worked in your favor so far.

 

[aart]

I've had to flip many yolks looking for the spot....I use a large spoon and very slowly 'flip' it against the side of the bowl.