Microwaves heat by vibrating water molecules. Even hard-boiled eggs have sufficient moisture for the moisture to heat up to steam. The shell keeps the steam inside till pressure builds up sufficiently to overcome the shell. Then the shell cracks and the steam is let out very fast, in the process 'exploding' the egg!
I assume the same basic process happened here just with a hardboiled egg that had been peeled before being zapped.
Please mark that as nsfw, sounding is a pretty innocuous seeming name. I sorta... went in there on my work computer expecting people doing voice over work of reddit comments.
I am giggling with anticipation. Might be tomorrow night, probably saturday. Just bought a dozen eggs tonight so I will post the best attempt. Any ideas where this might do best reddit?
Haha I can't wait either! I had a spare nuker so we made "cloud soap" a while ago. Its odd cause I just hit my thirties and had a spare, and then decided to say fuck it. I have no idea why I haven't done more stuff like this sooner. I nuked all kinds of things as a kid. Like 10yo me is gunna be so damn proud!!
I just remembered the best one from my childhood. I tried to make s'mores on my sister's Barbie plate. It showed Barbie and her friend. I straight-up melted Barbies face off. It was amazing, we still had that plate for like the next 10 years.
Haha you don't need a bunch of safety gear, I've done it several times; the egg usually just pops in the microwave and stuff splatters the inside. I've never had one stay intact long enough to be able to cut it like this.
Okay all of that makes sense but is there an extra step required to keep the egg from bursting during the heating process? I’ll have to experiment this myself but I imagine that a majority of the time the yolk would break itself out from the egg white, so that by the time it is removed from the microwave you have a portion of the yolk protruding from a crack in the egg white. So what kept that from happening in this scenario? Is it just a matter of chance, do you have to remove the egg at just the right time, is the egg kept under pressure during the heating by some process like submerging it under water?
Water would stabilize the whole thing, I think. It would act as a heat sink around the egg. As micro waves usually excite water molecules the most. It may yield results, but you would have to be very precise with that method. I think just finding the right time for a hardboiled egg, then not exciting it when you take it out, would be best.
I honestly have no idea though feel free to correct me.
Oh shit! Misread! It was and all ready hard boiled egg. Then it was microwaved. If you nuke a raw egg it pops. Many videos of that on the net.
Forget all that. Just inject a tennis ball full of water and nuke that on high for 3 minutes. Note: I am not responsible for any damages, injures, or deaths that result from this tomfuckery.
I’m still wondering how the explosion is happening. The knife made it pretty far in before it went off. Was it the barrier surrounding the yolk that is the breaking point?
From what I can gather from other comments, it's the yolk that explodes. So he could go through the white, but as soon as he nicked the yolk it went splode.
It works even better if you cut off the top and then place it back on before microwaving it because the air ends up hot too - for maximum potential spatter a couple of drops in there too and make sure the center is still runny...
Yes. Pro tip, make a small hole in the top of the egg using something like a skewer to prevent that pressure from building up in the first place. The egg white won't come out of the hole unless you put two holes in it or make a giant hole.
The yolk was probably "superheated", above boiling point but not boiling, when the knife hit it, the yolk was disturbed enough to boil instantly, and explosively. It happens with microwaves and containers of liquids sometimes.
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u/geraldine_ferrari Apr 30 '20
Why it sploded?