PpPete
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chandler's Ford
Soft boiled eggs
- Thread starter PpPete
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Ben M
Senior Member
- Location
- Chester/Oxford
Damn you, the holidays are my break from things like this!
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Oh yes indeedy
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PpPete
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chandler's Ford
swee'pea99
Squire
All seems a bit obvious to me...
Ben M
Senior Member
- Location
- Chester/Oxford
I've a nasty feeling, I used to try and solve, numerically, equations just like that for my (abortive) postgrad. project. I also recall trying to solve them analytically and getting bogged down in 'orrible Bessel functions or the like. It was nothing to do with eggs you must understand. Maybe that's why I never completed...
Keith Oates
Janner
- Location
- Penarth, Wales
What's the problem, I thought everyone knew that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Crumbs - that's tough stuff. And of course Eggs aren't really spherical - so Elliptical Bessels or some such would be required (I'm guessing now).
Ben M
Senior Member
- Location
- Chester/Oxford
did you hear that some theoretical physicists answered the conundrum "why did the chicken cross the road?"?
sadly it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
The air bubble in a fresh egg is very small and the 'white' is denser whereas in an old egg the 'white' is more liquid and the air bubble larger insulating the bottom, rounded end for longer in the boiling water.... which given that the yolk is nearer the round end and attached by a denser 'umbilical' membrane will cook faster than the pointy [technical term] end so the variables in shape and density due to age makes a complete nonsense of the calculation on a Thursday near Halifax.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Is this a hen's egg? Something smells fishy!
