Thursday, July 19, 2012

Egg Frying--Part Two

You may remember that a couple weeks ago, we tried to fry an egg on our driveway to test the old saying, "It was so hot, you could fry an egg on the sidewalk." The experiment failed. All that happened was that we got hot, and the egg dried out and attracted ants. According to the internet, we needed to supplement the blacktop and sun with foil and a magnifying glass to be successful. That was the only way we could generate enough heat to reach 158° F, the temperature needed to cook an egg.

Well, I thought we were done with our experimenting until I heard that it was Fry an Egg on the Sidewalk Day. I took that as a sign that we, Theodore and I, had to try again. We were so confident that it would work this time, Theo and I discussed whether or not we were going to try also to fry bacon to go with the egg. Well, no such luck. Even with the magnifying glass, all we got was a raw egg and really hot and sweaty.

I'm done with this experiment and I'm moving onto something else. Really. Unless we get a better magnifying glass, and heat the egg up to room temperature first, and ...

Our Second Attempt at Frying an Egg on the Driveway





3 comments:

  1. You're totally cracking me up with these egg frying experiments. Actually, from what I've learned in my solar cooking adventures, I think what you really need is a black metal pan... like cast iron maybe. Foil will reflect the heat, and what you really need is something to absorb it. I'd let the pan sit out in the sun for an hour or so and get really hot before you put the egg in. Still don't know if it would work or not, but that's what I'd try!

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  2. We did the first one on the blacktop and it was pretty hot. That should be about the same as an iron skillet. At one point this time we had the temperature under the magnifying glass up to 161. However, we couldn't maintain it. I'm not sure about the whole thing. I do want to try again, but maybe I'll move onto solar ovens.

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    1. Ha! - Well, you'll probably have more success that way!

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