Extinction for the egg timer?

August 1st, 2006

When I was very small my mother used to make hard boiled eggs for me at breakfast time. I don’t remember liking them very much, until I discovered salt.

Now Ben Harris, a student at Brunel University, has advanced egg science quite a bit further. Harris’s rather good idea: apply some heat sensitive ink on the shell of an egg to let you know how cooked it is. Will egg timers die out? For more, see http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2292596_1,00.html

Of course, once you’ve applied such technology to eggs, why stop there? Bacon, watch out …

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