This Will Change How You Think About Eggs

You can still serve them for breakfast…you’ll just appreciate them more when you do.

When think about eggs, you probably picture the pastel cartons in the refrigerator section of the grocery store. Pay a few bucks and you can take home a dozen for baking, frying or scrambling. Eggs are a food that spans centuries, continents and cultures. We tend to think of eggs as their end use, which is as an ingredient. But it’s just not fair to think of them in such simplistic terms.

Eggs come from birds. Female birds make them, molecule by molecule, calorie by calorie. They are tiny self-contained spaceships, carrying bird babies into existence. They are engineering miracles, with perfect symmetry and geometry that balances structure with function.

If you start to think of an egg as an important part of an ecosystem instead of an item on your shopping list, you realize that they are much more interesting and complex. Yes, they are cheap, delicious, and nutritious and but they are also represent a key evolutionary step that allowed life to leave the ocean and start reproducing on land!

Read on, and the next time you whip up a breakfast scrambler, you’ll have more to think about than which type of cheese you’re going to melt on top!

While mammals get pregnant and carry around a heavy, sagging uterus until our ankles are swollen and our skin is stretched to the point of no return, birds just outsource the whole thing to an egg.

It’s true, a fertilized egg is like a detachable pregnant belly.

Inside is everything a baby bird needs to grow from a tiny bundle of cells into the cute, fluffy chicks everyone loves at easter time.

When I was pregnant with my kids, I was starving all the time. This was because a lot of my calories were being diverted away from my body and into my babies’ bodies so they could grow things like eyes and spines.

A bird has to collect all that extra nutrition in advance. Her body takes a whole bunch of calories from her food and stores them in the part of the egg known as the yolk. As she prepares to lay the egg, the yolk gets coated in albumen, also known as egg…

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