How to Blow Eggs
At exactly 9PM last night, I was on the phone with my friend Neevy when the conversation took a turn toward what I’m calling “half-memories.” Half-memories are vague recollections from your youth that could, just as easily, not be your own memories at all, rather something you saw on TV, or were read at bedtime. For some reason your brain filed it in the wrong spot, and now you’re left thinking it’s a memory of something you did instead of knowing the truth.
When I told him I kinda-sorta remembered hanging out with a five-man team “that had been wrongly accused of a crime we didn’t commit and forced to go underground” he knew something was up. When he told me he had a baby-sitter who would make only small holes in either side of a hardboiled egg, then blow the thing out of the shell, I wasn’t so sure.
The following video is our experimenting with this strange phenomenon.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Ok, I tried this twice and all I got was a mouthful of weird egg-juice…how big are the holes supposed to be?
September 4th, 2008 at 9:31 am
This is a pretty common crafty trick for decorating eggs at Easter – this way if you make a very fancy egg, you can keep it for next year, without it going all rotten and stinky.
Blow-hole should be pretty small, exit-hole should be bigger. It also really helps if you stick a toothpick or wire in there first to pop the yolk so that it will all come out easier and you won’t blow your ear drums with all that huffing and puffing.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
That is just plane redonculous!