Exploding egg

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I started with one not-too-fresh egg (last one in the carton), plopped it in a pot of cold water, and set it on the stove to boil while the tea was steeping. Went into the bedroom to read the SDMB (plug!). After a couple of minutes, I heard a loud “crack” from the kitchen. The water was boiling, and the blunt end of the eggshell had blown off. It was in three pieces: one loose on the bottom of the pot, one still attached to the egg by a bit of membrane, and the third, a half-inch triangle, on the stovetop a full foot from the pot. Exploding egg!

The egg looked, smelled, and tasted perfectly normal.

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Report back to us as to whether there are any further explosions when the egg passes. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Even back in the days when I used the wrong method to boil eggs, I never had that happen. Interesting.

Had it gone long enough to retain the basic egg shape or was it now a hard poached egg kind of thing?

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I’ve often had eggs crack as the water heated and emit icky strings of white, but this one ended up a perfect ovoid. It was either already cooked enough to keep its shape, or the inner membrane was intact enough to hold it together.