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Poached Egg in a Mason Jar

🐓 Poached ovum of Gallus gallus domesticus in a Mason Jar🥚

Hardware:

One Mason Jar
One 1000-Watt Faraday cage⚡️

Ingredients:

One chicken egg that resembles the following formula

\[x^2=(\frac{y}{a})^2 (b-y)\]

(a) controls the vertical stretch
(b) adjusts the length or height of the egg
*If you want to graph this on your TI-84, switch to Parametric Mode.
For the top half (positive square root) Enter:

\[X_1 T: √((T/3)^2* (5-T))\]

\[Y_1 T:T\]

For the bottom half (negative square root) Enter:

\[X_2 T: -√((T/3)^2* (5-T))\]

\[Y_2 T:T\]

* don’t screw around with the variables too much, you’re not God.

118(~120) milliliters (mL) of \(H_2 O\), if unfortunately, you’re using the Imperial system (which sucks), a half cup.
15 milliliters (mL) of citrus limon juice, one tablespoon…🍋
* The citrus limon juice lowers the pH of the \(H_2 O\) from 7 down to 4 or 5 which helps the egg whites coagulate by helping the proteins in the egg whites to bond more tightly.

Directions:

Put the \(H_2 O\) into the jar.
Put the citrus limon juice in the jar.
Crack the egg into the jar.
Put jar into a Faraday cage and dielectrically heat☢️ for relatively 1:20 minutes at 2.45 GHz.
Hopefully it didn’t eggsplode💥. Enjoy.

End of blog. Thank you for reading!