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News & ArtsThursday, February 12, 2009
Chow The Magical Egg Timer
Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Does anyone else look upon their Foolproof Eggtimer ($5!) with amazement and near-disbelief? (If you do not have one, and you get one, it will change your egg life.)
I do not think I even want to know how this mysterious, verisimilitudinous, ovoid-of-(resin)?? works. Or maybe I do.
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Progressiveness only applies to letting gays get hitched and railing about cars and the environment
NOT avoiding eating the embryos of creatures!! nope nope nope nope! the Stranger is a progressive publication!
NOT avoiding eating the embryos of creatures!! nope nope nope nope! the Stranger is a progressive publication!
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Whatever yo it's still messed up that you need to eat things squeezed out of a living animal while going on and on about how trannies deserve the right to piss in a bathroom that makes them feel most comfortable
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@6: I'd rather eat something squeezed out of a chicken than anything squeezed out of you. That's where you fit in the pecking order.
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@6, please explain why you believe it is messed up to eat something squeezed out of a living thing.
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A living thing that lives in a cage, perhaps. Not a living thing with a big dong in my face if that's what you're getting at.
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ooo I had one of these many years ago and lost it during one of my many moves. So helpful and awesome!
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Now, see, I tried to make soft-boiled eggs a couple weeks ago, and my cookbook didn't tell me that I needed to add a minute if the eggs had just come out of the fridge! My eggs turned out too raw to eat, sadly.
I wonder if this egg timer makes the same compensation?
I wonder if this egg timer makes the same compensation?
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@13 I don't think it does, because it is measuring the heat from the water (which would only be partially lowered by the cold from the eggs) so I would leave it until it gets to the half-way mark between medium and soft.
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I'm always a little wary of heating up anything plastic with my food, lest the carcinogens leech out
(This is why I also never microwave tubberware, no matter how sturdy it is)
(This is why I also never microwave tubberware, no matter how sturdy it is)
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@13/15 I wonder if keeping the egg timer in the egg carton in the fridge would take care of the problem? Or you could just put the eggs on for a minute before you add the magical egg timer...
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It's a thermometer. We've learned from the folks in molecular gastronomy that the state of the egg (soft to hard boiled) is a function of it's temperature and not the time it's been in hot water.
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5 minutes exactly for soft, 17 minutes exactly for hard. the hands on a clock are just as magical apparently.
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@19, sure, it's the temperature, but not the temperature of the water. If that were the case, you could boil a pot of water, dip the eggs in and expect them to be magically instantly cooked (actually you'd pretty quickly get a broken egg since the expanding air inside the egg would cause enough pressure to crack the shell instead of slowly escaping through the porous shell). So it must also include a time component for the egg to be 'cooked' -- to reach the desired temperature.
I'll go out on a limb and guess that the magic egg turns in the water because the plastic inside the egg has different regions made of different plastic that expand at different rates as the temperature increases inside the egg. One region expands rapidly between 60-70, another between 70-80, and a third between 80-90; as these regions expand it causes the egg to rotate, and you get your smooth transition from soft to hard. That could be complete bullshit though.
I'll go out on a limb and guess that the magic egg turns in the water because the plastic inside the egg has different regions made of different plastic that expand at different rates as the temperature increases inside the egg. One region expands rapidly between 60-70, another between 70-80, and a third between 80-90; as these regions expand it causes the egg to rotate, and you get your smooth transition from soft to hard. That could be complete bullshit though.
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Things people eat that are squeezed or come from living things.
Cum
Milk (human and from other animals)
Nutrients from shit which vegetables are grown in (organic fertilizer from animals)
Eggs
There are many more things but, really we are made of cells which we ingest all the time, naturally, mainly our own cells in our own bodies every time you swallow. An egg is just a single cell too, it just happens to be a big one.
Cum
Milk (human and from other animals)
Nutrients from shit which vegetables are grown in (organic fertilizer from animals)
Eggs
There are many more things but, really we are made of cells which we ingest all the time, naturally, mainly our own cells in our own bodies every time you swallow. An egg is just a single cell too, it just happens to be a big one.
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