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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Eggs in the dishwasher experiment


One of the things I love about homeschooling is that you can justify exploring almost anything you’re curious about and figure out a way to convert it into a learning experience.

Case in point: I’d read in Jeff Yeager’s “The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches” that he boiled eggs in his dishwasher. So naturally we had to try it. In an effort to be all scientific about it, we put one egg in a secure location in the top rack, and one in the silverware basket in the lower rack.

You can see the results in the photo: There was obviously some cooking that had taken place in both eggs, because the whites had turned from clear to white. But they were still too runny to be considered even soft-boiled eggs. You wouldn’t have wanted to eat them; we fed them to the cats.

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