Cooking at Least Three Eggs in a Pot at a Time

Why do some have the minhag to cook at least three eggs in a pot at one time?

When boiling eggs in shell, there is no way to tell ahead of time if the eggs contain a blood spot. Therefore, there is a minhag to cook three eggs together, so that even if one of the eggs contains a blood spot, that egg would be batel among the other two eggs and the pot would not need Kashering. At the present time eggs are not fertilized, and even if they contain blood spots, one need only remove that spot of blood, and the rest of the egg can be eaten. Nonetheless, many maintain the minhag to cook at least three eggs together.

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