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What kind of sorcery is this? How is this egg standing whole without its shell? Apparently, the inner membrane—the thin layer that you can see stuck to the hard shell when you boil an egg—is strong enough to hold it without breaking its shape. But how can you do this?
According to author Biswarup Ganguly—an Indian photographer who works at the National Council of Science Museums—”the white eggshell has been removed by dipping a normal chicken egg into vinegar for 48 hours.”
I have to try this right now.
Image by Biswarup Ganguly/Creative Commons
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Anddddd Jesus’ reign of good articles comes to a whopper of an end.
Oh I disagree, I want to use this to freak the fuck out of my kids.
I agree
he had a nice little run though for a while.
And what, pray tell, is wrong with this one?
Really? Something like this is post worthy? Blackberry review, iPhone security compromised, Russian meteorite and… oh look an egg with no shell.
It was pretty cool. If you don’t like it you could just try not being a dick about it
If the writers of Gizmodo made an article about everything in their day that they came across that was “pretty cool” then it would be full of utterly useless articles like this. As another commenter said over the weekend, if nobody voices their opinion over pointless and silly articles, then Gizmodo will continue to go down that route.
It’s you that’s the dick. Let me guess you’re one of these “IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT LEAVE” people? In which case, I direct you, again, to the above point.
Ok, please change your perception of this site as being a site that posts “pretty cool” stuff, as opposed to just tech. We cool now?
Crumbs, you’ve been written this site long enough to realise we don’t just post tech.
Oh I know. And I do enjoy the cool little posts. But really, this is scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Sorry, just realised I wrote “written” not “reading” in my reply before. (Oh, for an edit button!)
It’s always worth remembering that your opinion isn’t the only opinion. This was one of our most-read posts, and unfortunately these days I’m so tied up with reporting and numbers-crunching that I no longer get to read absolutely everything, but this was one of the few stories I read today — out of interest, and not just because I work on the site.
I wasn’t implying my opinion was the only one – I was just stating a valid opinion that this article, in my opinion, is in no way the same quality as other articles.
Ooookaaay then.
Sorry, I forgot opinions are only valid here if they’re praising the article.
Hate to disagree – but nothing wrong with this.
Although I have been loving the science articles of late.
http://listverse.com/ if you want facts.
Thanks, I also like to look at http://www.todayifoundout.com/
To those of you considering doing this:-
by the time the acid has removed the shell, it has also pickled the yolk into a rancid smelling, hard to clean substance.
DO NOT give this to your kids to play with, without the shell the yolk is exceptionally fragile, and it is going to break into your best sheepskin rug.