But what if I don’t want to eat it? If you’d rather not eat the chalaza, simply remove it when the egg is raw. There are a couple of ways to do this. In the case of a fried egg, where you’d ...

It’s a chalaza—pronounced cuh-LAY-zuh—and it ... When cracking an egg, there’s really no need to remove the chalazae. They’re safe to eat, and once cooked, they disappear.

It's time you met the chalaza. (Pronounced: cuh-lay-zuh.) Relax. Despite its weird ropey appearance, it is not an umbilical cord. The chalazae (plural) can be found on two sides of the yolk and ...