# What are my chances (egg drinking) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 5, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-chances-egg-drinking/91527 "2001-11-05T03:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gaspode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gaspode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaspode)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-chances-egg-drinking/91527/21 "2001-11-06T04:52:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kniz \* > **Wrestlers (competitive type, not TV) drink raw eggs all the time. It gives them energy and doesn’t put on weight.** Which would be amazing since eggs are over 10% pure lard. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-chances-egg-drinking/91527/22 "2001-11-06T06:56:20Z")
**Gaspode** the problem is that you are using logic and I have sat at the wrestlers table and watched them do it. I even ate one myself just to see what it was like. **Goo** I believe I’ve also heard of using a raw egg as a means of preventing a hangover. P.S. Does this concoction you like to eat have anything to do with **Goo**? ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-chances-egg-drinking/91527/23 "2001-11-06T07:07:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kniz \* > > \ > \*\* > P.S. Does this concoction you like to eat have anything to do with **Goo**? \*\* lol, no it doesn’t **kniz** , why do you ask ??? ---
**Author:** ![Gaspode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gaspode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaspode)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-chances-egg-drinking/91527/24 "2001-11-06T08:46:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kniz \* > \*\ ***Gaspode** the problem is that you are using logic and I have sat at the wrestlers table and watched them do it. I even ate one myself just to see what it was like. Oh I never doubted they did it. People have also been using faecal poultices for 6000 years. It’s just ridiculous to believe that raw eggs won’t cause weight gain. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-chances-egg-drinking/91527/25 "2001-11-06T12:37:42Z")
## Just in passing…why do you want to know d12? ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-chances-egg-drinking/91527/26 "2001-11-06T12:46:50Z")
My wife makes a shake w/ a raw egg as one of the components and never got sick from it. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Popup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@Popup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Popup)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-chances-egg-drinking/91527/27 "2001-11-06T13:02:23Z")
[nitpick] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gaspode \* > \*\*Which would be amazing since eggs are over 10% pure lard. \*\* **lard** is [a soft white solid or semisolid fat obtained by rendering fatty tissue of the hog](http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=lard) It’s true that the **fat** content of egg is about [10.8%](http://www.nutritionandeggs.co.uk/eggs_nutrition/nutrition1.html) [/nitpick] [hijack] It seems like the only way to ensure safe eggs is through pasteurising. [This site](http://www.davidsonseggs.com/HTML/HowMain.html) has some interesting tidbits. (They claim for example that only one egg in 20.000 (in the US) is infected with the Salmonella Enteritidis bacteria, which would account for why people like **Turbo** and **k2dave** are still alive.) They pasteurise the eggs by heating them, so that all bacteria die. What I don’t understand is how they can avoid cooking the contents of the egg. In order for the interior of the egg to reach [whatever tempereture is needed] I cannot see how they avoid having the content coagulate. I have been tought that egg youlk coagulates more or less instantly when it reaches 65-70°C. And in order for the yolk to achieve this temperature the white has to be even warmer. For a thourough intro to the physics of boiling eggs, look into [The Science of Boiling an Egg](http://newton.ex.ac.uk/teaching/CDHW/egg/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-chances-egg-drinking/91527.md?page=1)