Random question for the day.
Do you know how to tell if an egg is bad (without cracking it open)?
There is a small air pocket in the large end of the egg. When the egg is fresh, the pocket is only about 1/8th of an inch deep and as large around as a dime. As the egg ages, however, it loses both moisture and carbon dioxide — shrinking — so that the size of the air space increases. And the size of the air space determines the buoyancy of the egg.
~So if you submerge a very fresh egg in water, it will lie on the bottom.
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~An egg that is a week or so old will lie on the bottom but bob slightly.
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~An egg that is three weeks or so old will balance on its small end, with the large end reaching for the sky.
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~And a bad egg will float.
4 comments:
Learn something new everyday!
The better question is . . . how can you tell which easter egg has the best candy? :)
It's like the same test used back in the day in Salem for witches!
"Oh, darn. The woman drowned. I guess she was a good egg after all...."
very interesting...
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