Re: Pinholin' and hard boiled eggs

on 5/5/02 4:31 am, John Edwards at edw4@mindspring.com wrote:

> That would be the end that comes out of the hen last. ;-)
> - JE
>
> Jim Kosinski wrote:
>
>> Guy - c'est superlatif!
>> but where the heck is the bottom of an egg?
>> Jim K
>> Many thanks,
>> Jim Kosinski
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>> Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Pinholin' and hard boiled eggs
>> Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 18:23:40 -0400
>> From: "Guy Glorieux" <guy.glorieux@sympatico.ca>
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>> Gisèle and I are just back from grocery shopping and we're preparing
>> supper. Nice sunny day outside and we're preparing a big "Salade
>> nicoise" with hard boiled eggs among many constituents.
>>
>> I pull out two eggs from the fridge and a neddle from the drawer. I
>> pierce a small pinhole at the bottom of the eggs and put them in the
>> water to cook to hard.
>>
>> Gisèle looks at me:
>> - I've seen you do that so many times but never asked. Why do you do
>> that to the eggs?
>>
>> Me:
>> - It's because there's a small air bag at the bottom of the eggs. When
>> the temperature of the water rises to boiling, usually the pressure
>> increases inside the eggs and they break. If you pierce a pinhole in
>> the air bag, the pressure can rise, the air will come out through the
>> pinhole and the eggs won't crack.
>>
>> Gisèle:
>> - You sure know how to get pinholin' in every aspects of your life,
>> don't you...
>>
>> Me:
>> - Told you so... -:))
>>
>> Try it! It really works fine. Pinholin' and hard boiled eggs.
>>
>> Chef Guy
>>
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Does anyone know which end of the egg comes out of the hen first?
Is it the blunt end or the pointed end?

Answer to this would end many hours of discussing this with my wife.

I think it is the big (or blunt) end that comes out first

Alexis
Received on Sun May 5 15:50:58 2002