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Do you know what happens when you microwave a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg at full power for five seconds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not much. It barely gets warm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you know what happens when you microwave a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg at full power for ten seconds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It gets a little warmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you know what happens when you microwave a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg at full power for 15 seconds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It gets warmer yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you know what happens when you microwave a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg at full power for 22 seconds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It gets hot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you know what happens when you microwave a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg at full power for 28 seconds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It explodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you know how long it takes to clean a microwave in which you have exploded a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You might ask, why would you microwave a peeled, nearly hard boiled egg? Because it was nearly<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I felt like Scotty when I did it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Captain Kirk: More power, Scotty! It did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or, in this case, a completely cooked egg yolk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In my defense, it does appear that the egg yolk was, in fact, completely cooked at the time it exploded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … <\/p>\n
\nMe: She’ll nae take it, Captain! She’s going to blow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n