Print'Unboiling' an Egg—Or Not
After Hervé This explained how to "unboil" an egg (by unraveling its protein molecules from one another using sodium borohydride), blogger Michael Pusateri of Cruft tries it for himself, to less-than-stunning results. If we can get our hands on some magic chemicals, I'm thinking of trying it here at Serious Eats. [via Kottke]
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3 Comments:
Dam'. It's an interesting article, or at least an article about an extremely interesting person and topic, but I kept losing the thread of it, and had to re-read because the typos kept distracting me... I try to accept thing,s but 'specialism'?!
mongoose at 10:58AM on 02/20/08
In the most recent book by Jasper Fforde, an important (as in saving-the-human-race important) subplot involves a recipe for unscrambling eggs.
BaHa at 4:31PM on 02/20/08
I have a pot of sodium borohydride here on my bench with an enormous skull and crossbones on, but I'm quite happy to keep it on my bench in the lab and not in my kitchen thank you very much. That sounds grim!
jennywenny at 6:22PM on 02/20/08