don't try this at home...

In following carrot-woman's lead, "for everyone else's entertainment", today an egg exploded in my face and my lip hurts.

It went something like this:

I was, in "hobbit"-style, scrounging for food for lunch and had a couple of hard-boiled eggs in the fridge in my office. I was really excited about adding these to my hodge-podge lunch, until I opened the container containing (that's why they call it a container) my eggs in it, pulled one out, and remembered that everything in that tiny little contraption of a cooling device (a.k.a. piece o' crap fridge) partially freezes.

I was very disappointed because I didn't want to wait for the eggs to thaw, and I didn't want to eat half-frozen hard-boiled eggs.

I thought to myself, I wonder if they will thaw if I put them in the microwave for 30 seconds? And then I thought, and I wonder if egg shells will burn in the microwave?

Well, only one way to find out... I decided that the microwave would surely thaw my eggs, and if I smelled or saw any signs of burning, I would quickly remove the eggs. One person in the lounge where I went to microwave them mentioned that eggs can explode if you microwave them, but I said mine were hard-boiled, so that shouldn't happened. She agreed, no, that shouldn't happen.

Now before you jump ahead and think that you know the ending, that really one of the eggs was not hard-boiled because I had mixed it up with a raw one and that it exploded in my face when I opened the microwave, no, no, no, that is NOT what happened. The eggs were indeed both hard-boiled.

So, I put them in the microwave for 30 seconds or so, removed them, and returned to my office to enjoy them with some salt. The egg shells didn't burn either.

I sat down at my desk and peeled the egg shell off the first one I picked up. The shell was a little hot, but the egg itself seemed okay. After peeling the shell, I put a little salt on it, put it up to my mouth, started to take a bite, teeth biting down, and *POP*!!! It exploded in my face!!!

My upper lip suddenly burnt terribly and started to feel numb. I promptly looked down at what I thought was a non-explosive and edible device called an egg, something I was apparently very wrong about, and saw the remnants of the bottom half of the white of the egg, encapsulating bits of yellowish-grayish-brownish yolk. Other bits of that yolk were sparsely scattered in my lap, on my shirt, and on my desk and the many things that cover it.

Needless to say, I was very disappointed about this bit of my lunch. While I did not eat the other egg as I had lost my appetite for egg by this point, I did de-shell it and cut it open with a knife (with my face partially turned and as far away from it as possible), and it was completely harmless. I tossed it into the garbage.

The End.