Verifying eggs (Was: [Sca-cooks] Food Fight!!)

[Olwen the Odd]

: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:10:46 -0600
>
>Corwyn commented:
> > I don't even want to think about verifying whether eggs have been boiled
>or
> > not. Who would handle that? The Marshals? Is there some kind of test,
>like
> > spin them or something?
>
>Actually there is an easy way to verify whether an egg is hard boiled
>or not. Spin it.
>
>Because of internal resistance (the yolk will spin at a slower
>speed than the shell or the white portion), the raw egg will not
>spin as long as the hardboiled one. However, the differance in
>spin time may not be enough to differentiate between a hard and
>a soft boiled egg. Plus spinning each one of some one or two
>thousand eggs would probably take too long.
>
>Stefan
>(full of esoteric details - they just don't include movies or
>songs)

There is another way, IIRC, to tell if an egg is hardboiled involving
putting it in water.  Can't recall what it does exactly.  I think one goes
pointy end up and the other lays on its side or something.  Anyone at home
with a bowl of water and a hard and raw egg?
Olwen

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