Eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side, according to experiences with more than 200 eggs.
New York (AP) – Eggs are Less likely to crack When they fall on their side, according to experiences with more than 200 eggs.
What does this mean for the best way to break a Breakfast egg? Not much, because a break around the middle is the best way to obtain the golden yellow And whites flowing to ooze.
But scientists said it could help hard eggs in a pot: dropping eggs horizontally can be less likely to cause an wandering crack that can release the interior of the egg in a swollen and cloudy mess.
We generally think that eggs are the strongest at their ends – after all, that's how They are packed in the box. Thought is that the arc -shaped background of an egg redirects the strength and softens the impact.
But when scientists have pressed eggs in both directions during a compression test, they cracked under the same amount of force.
“The pleasure started when we thought we would get a result, then we saw another,” said Hudson Borja da Rocha with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which helped manage experiences.
The researchers also carried out simulations and dropped eggs horizontally and vertically from three short heights to 0.4 inch (10 millimeters).
The result of the egg? Those fell less cracked less.
“Common sense is that the egg in the vertical direction is stronger than if you put the egg. But they have proven that this was not the case,” said the scientist of Marc Meyers materials at the University of California in San Diego who was not involved in the new study.
Scientists found that the egg equator was more flexible and further absorbed the energy of the fall before cracking. The results were published Thursday in the journal Communications Physics.
Eggs are also generally nestled from top to bottom in homemade machines for the challenges of the fall of eggs in the context of STEM School projects, which partially inspired the new study. It is not yet clear if the new results will help protect these vulnerable eggs, which are abandoned at much higher heights.
It is a bit counter-intuitive that the oblong side of an egg can better resist a fall, said the co-author of the Tal Cohen study with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Countless broken eggs show “the courage to challenge these very common and accepted concepts,” said Cohen.
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