How egg-straordinary! Man buys box of eggs containing SIX double-yolkers

A man who cracked six double-yolkers in a row – a feat less likely than winning the lottery – says he’s “both the luckiest and unluckiest guy in the whole world”.

After cracking the first egg – at odds of 1,000 to one – Phil Cooper and a friend watched in amazement as every other egg in the box produced twin yolks.

The pal filmed the sixth egg cracking to make sure they had proof of their miraculous discovery – beating odds of one in a quintillion.

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Phil, 31, said: “I had a box of eggs, some ham and bread so, of course, we decided to make eggs Benedict, one of my favourites.

“I set about boiling some water in a pan and cracked the first egg in. What a result, double yolker. I hadn’t seen one of those in years, and this man eats a lot of eggs.

“I think I’ve only ever had two or three in my life, so I was pretty chuffed. I remember thinking, ‘that bad boy is mine’.

“Next egg, another double yolker. Cue shouts of joy and disbelief from the pair of us, because now we both get one.”

The sports surfaces installer, who lives in Oxted, Surrey, added: “After the third egg turned out to be a double, I just knew in my heart and soul that the rest would be as well – that we were witnessing something amazing here, something special.”

Marks & Spencer do sell boxes of double yolk eggs, which can be identified by holding a candle up to the egg. But the box Phil cooked up last Wednesday box was from Morrisons – so the double-yolked eggs had not been purposefully placed together.

Around one in 1,000 eggs have a double yolk according to the British Egg Information Service. This would suggest the probability of getting six double yolks in a row would be one in one quintillion – or one in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

But a spokeswoman for the British Egg Information Service said the odds are much harder to estimate than that. She said: “It’s really, really rare to get a double yolker but more common, if you get one double yolker, to then get more.

“You get double yolks when a young hen’s reproductive system is not fully developed. It’s quite unlikely – less than 0.1 per cent. But if a group of hens is the same age, you are more likely to then get more double yolkers from that group of hens.” She was unable to suggest what the odds of six in a row would be.

Phil said he feels both elated and unfortunate that the statistical anomaly was not as fruitful as winning the lottery.

According to the National Lottery, the chance of winning their jackpot is one in 45 million.

Phil said: “To think that the odds could be so much greater than winning the lottery obviously makes me simultaneously both the luckiest and unluckiest guy in the whole world.

“The thought about not eating them never crossed my mind, though. (I took) a quick photo for evidence of my greatest accomplishment to date, and (put them) straight on the plate. Best day of my life.”