This is why you should never boil or heat eggs in the microwave

Are you planning or reheating a well-cooked egg? It's best not to take a dose if you don't want hot eggs to fill your face!

A YouTube name infrared213 recently released a video showing what happens when you give a well-cooked egg in the microwave. At 38 seconds, we see a guy who only lightly touches an egg with a fork, it explodes with tremendous force.

Lightly touching the egg with a fork, it explodes with a tremendous force.

So what happened? How does a seemingly harmless egg become a scary thing that even airlines will prohibit carrying on board?

A recent study from two researchers Anthony Nash and Lauren von Blohn, presented to the American Sound Association, seems to have found the answer to this. Accordingly, the researchers investigated a man who suffered burns and ear injury after warming up a boiled egg and causing it to explode in the middle of his face.

They recreated the incident by warming up nearly 100 eggs to see if the explosive sound was loud enough to cause hearing damage. The data obtained showed that the results were impossible but they found the reason why the eggs exploded.

Specifically, the egg yolk in the experiment after being removed from the microwave has a temperature of more than 100 degrees Celsius, which is hot enough to boil water. When an egg is cooked inside the shell, tiny water pockets are formed. Then if the egg yolk heats up, the bags will also heat up. However, because the water is currently under pressure from the eggshell, it will not boil unless something causes imbalance in pressure. If the egg is cracked, it will immediately explode, causing small pieces of eggs to shoot everywhere and causing burns.

So after reading this article, hope you will not try to play like that again.