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Cooking Eggs

If you fill a tank up full of water and put in loads of raw eggs can you cook those eggs by sending an electric current through the water?

and/or

What if you just did the same in a small pan but with only 1 egg?
 
If the current heats up the water,then it will cook the eggs. In that regard, it is no different than any other way to cook eggs, just a different way to heat up the water. However, it may require a rather large current to do so.
 
Technically, yes you can...

...However the equipment to do so probably isn't available at your house.

If the OP is asking questions like this, then they don't know enough about electricity or electrical safety to attempt such a stunt.

THIS SHIT CAN KILL YOU IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
DON'T TRY IT. WRITE MYTHBUSTERS OR SOMETHING.


AG, a keeper of the secret of electroluminescent pickles.
 
When enough Electrical current passes through your body it can cause burns, when enough passes through an object it can catch fire. I assume as the current passes through the egg it slowly and steadily warms the egg up and cooks it.
 
Don't worry, I think Tachyon is only talking theoretically.

He's just prone to throwing lots of ideas around, which is generally a good thing. As my exchange from last week will attest, some of us don't always keep up, or try to read too much into them. (Sorry about that, guy!) I don't think he will try this experiment IRL.

Err, Tachyon? You still with us, buddy? Hello? Hello?
 
When enough Electrical current passes through your body it can cause burns, when enough passes through an object it can catch fire. I assume as the current passes through the egg it slowly and steadily warms the egg up and cooks it.

Electricity tends to go around rather than through, because of the Faraday cage effect. But ion drift is different, and water is not a pure conductor, so that's not entirely applicable.

If you want to do an experiment, get a 9V alkaline battery, crack an egg onto a ceramic plate and place the battery contacts down in it for about 30 seconds. It will give off a few bubbles as the electrolysis does it's thing.

Then check to see if any of the egg has coagulated.

I remain skeptical.

This could be a whole new way of cooking eggs. Better tell Delia that as well as poach, fry, boil, bake, and scramble, you can now prepare ionized eggs, full of electrolytic goodness, so they're better for you, perhaps?
 
You can also taste the electricity if you put the contacts of that same 9 volt battery on your tongue... but you shouldn't do that.
 
When I was a teenager (that is, when I was young and stupid instead of just stupid), I took a water-filled, two quart dish and ran household current through it with the aid of a couple alligator clips clamped to a stripped extension cord. I was trying to collect enough hydrogen from the process to make a nice loud pop and found that my DC supplies simply weren't sufficient. And yes, I know as I knew then that I wasn't just collecting hydrogen ... pure chemistry wasn't the point; the pop was. Within an hour or two, the temperature of the water had gone up considerably, and the terminals in the water had corroded. That water was too hot to touch.

Based on this, I think it's safe to say you could certainly cook an egg in such a set up. But it's much, much easier to just use home-made thermite. But that's another post.
 
Of course you can make it at home. I doubt Christian would want instructions posted here, but you can do your own searching.
 
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