myplacedk comments on Behold! A perfect microwave hardboiled egg

[–] myplacedk@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was told that the trick is to not have the egg in its shell.

Take a cup, fill it one third with water, then crack your egg in the cup. Now it can't build up pressure, it can't explode.

It microwaved without exploding. As I took it out of the microwave, it exploded. It went everywhere. The floor, the ceiling, every cabinet door. I count myself lucky that I didn't get boiling hot egg in my eyes.

Also, the noise attracted attention from everybody in the house, no way to just discretely clean it up before anyone noticed my stupid experiment.

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[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

That sounds like superheated water to me. When you heat water in a microwave it can reach temperatures above 100C without boiling, if you disturb the water in that state it boils instantly and explodes.

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[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Now it can't build up pressure, it can't explode.

Oh, it can. I tried this, just without water.

It microwaved without exploding. As I took it out of the microwave, it exploded. It went everywhere. The floor, the ceiling, every cabinet door.

This. Thread. Is. Useless. Without. Pics 🤣🤣🤣

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[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I like to put egg in microwave ramen sometimes. But you have to swirl it a bit first and break the yolk.

I used to just plop one or two eggs directly into the bowl with the ramen, and microwave it all at once. But this happened to me, thankfully it did it inside the microwave. But I was at work, it was very loud, and soup was dripping out of the door.

Not fun.

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