Are These the Eggs That Technology Hath Wrought? [Updated]

As anyone who knows me well will tell you, I make some mean deviled eggs. It would be pretty hard to improve upon my deviled eggs.

Or, at least that's what I'd believed up until just a few minutes ago.

Coming as a blessing that feels more like a curse, every single egg in this carton of Jumbo Grade A Jersey Lynne Farms White Eggs contains two yolks. That's 12 eggs, 24 yolks. A nightmare of cholesterol, if that's something you care about.

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More yolk means more egg to be deviled. So, now I'm eating these amazing deviled eggs and feeling weirdly circumspect about each bite. I mean, what kind of barnyard engineering does it take to get a hen laying strictly twin-yolked eggs? What kind of sorcery?

Some preliminary googling tells me that: a) this is not uncommon for those who live on a farm to see b) then hen who laid these may have been young and reproductively unsynchronized ;( c) I've met the minimum criteria to be featured in a news piece by my favorite Paper of Record, The Daily Mail! d) this is an omen of death e) someone in my family is pregnant.

Apparently, the chance of just a single egg coming out with double yolks is 1 in 1000. My friend Anna told me over gchat just now, I've "messed with something deep." Horrors.

Update: Some of you have asked, so here is my recipe...

Part 1.) Perfect hardboiled eggs:
• Bring water to a boil
• Place 4 eggs in boiling water
• Cover after one minute and turn the burner down super low
• Cook for 12 minutes
• Remove eggs after 12 minutes and place them in a bowl of ice water
• Crack and peel

Part 2.) Perfect deviled eggs:
• In a bowl, combine yolks with 2tbs mayonnaise and 1tbs yellow mustard, blend until smooth
• Add onion powder and paprika to taste, blend until evenly distributed
• Spoon yolk mixture into halved egg whites
• Sprinkle paprika over top
• Eat

Nothing fancy, but if you don't believe me when I tell you they are the best deviled eggs, just ask my friends.