Ten Cool Things To Do With An Egg

Here's when eggs go past the yummy thing you have for breakfast or the word that proceeds the -o on everyone's favorite waffle brand. Make a mess!


10. Egg Drop: Conduct your own physics experiment. Using only 3 straws, a sheet of notebook paper, and a meter of masking tape, construct an apparatus that will protect your egg from a 2.5 meter drop. Use a hard boiled egg if you don't want to clean up a mess!

9. Egg in a bottle: Shell a hard-boiled egg. Find a bottle where the egg can sit on the neck and not fall all the way through. Light a match or two inside the bottle and let it burn through itself. Then, put the egg over the neck. It’ll make a funny sound and be sucked through the bottle.  (To get it out, blow as hard as you can on the neck, then turn the bottle over). The explanation.

8. Naughty Egg: Egg someone’s house! (Please don’t).

7. Egg Squeeze: Clasp a raw egg between your thumb and index finger. Hold it over the sink. Squeeze. Keep adding fingers until it breaks. (I had to use everything but my pinky).

6. One-Handed: Try cracking an egg open with one hand. (Anyone remember that old Disney Channel movie? Eddie’s Million Dollar Cook-Off).

5. Standing Egg-vation: Defy the equinox myth: balance a hard-boiled egg (or a raw one if you don’t get frustrated easily) on its wider tip.

4. Translucence: Take a raw egg and put it in a jar. Soak it in (preferably black) vinegar. Change the vinegar after a day. Then, leave it under a sink or on a shelf where you can’t see for 6-8 days. Take the egg down. The shell will be gone and the leftover membrane translucent. You can see the yolk!

3. Bouncy Egg: Do the same thing as number four but with a hard-boiled egg.  Your egg will be able to bounce when dropped from not-too-high, like hot-dogs from school cafeterias.

2. Egg Toss: Here’s a classic: have an egg toss with raw eggs.

1. Spoon Egg: Put an egg on a spoon, clench the spoon with your front teeth, and walk on the street with it.

Sources:

Bizarre Labs

8th grade Physical Science

High School Biology

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