Do you know what happens when you microwave a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg at full power for five seconds?
Not much. It barely gets warm.
Do you know what happens when you microwave a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg at full power for ten seconds?
It gets a little warmer.
Do you know what happens when you microwave a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg at full power for 15 seconds?
It gets warmer yet.
Do you know what happens when you microwave a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg at full power for 22 seconds?
It gets hot.
Do you know what happens when you microwave a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg at full power for 28 seconds?
It explodes.
Do you know how long it takes to clean a microwave in which you have exploded a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg?
Fifteen minutes.
You might ask, why would you microwave a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg? Because it was nearly hard boiled. There was kind of a divot in it after I peeled it, and I could see a bit of the yolk, and it didn’t look quite cooked.
I looked at the nearly hardboiled egg, and I thought, aha! I can fix this! I’ll just microwave it! Not too long, though, or it might explode.
So I started microwaving the nearly hard boiled egg, a couple seconds at a time. Due to phase change, the temperature curve may not have been a linear response to linear input, though.
I felt like Scotty when I did it.
Captain Kirk: More power, Scotty!
Me: She’ll nae take it, Captain! She’s going to blow!
It did.
Or it was like Chris Knight in Real Genius. All I had to do is synthesize the excited bromide in its frozen state in an argon matrix, and then apply a field to radiatively couple it to the ground state to yield a gigajoule of energy output per liter!
Or, in this case, a completely cooked egg yolk.
No, seriously! There was phase change when the yolk went from semi-liquid to solid. It must have been. The egg didn’t explode because I was stupid and this was the predictable result of microwaving the egg!
Right?
In my defense, it does appear that the egg yolk was, in fact, completely cooked at the time it exploded.