When I was a kid (during the 80’s) I bought a “square egg maker” at a garage sale. It was a plexiglass cube with cranks that could be used to reduce the size of the cube after placing a hard-boiled egg in it. After some time passed (hours? maybe a day?) the egg could be removed from the cube and the egg would be compressed into a cube shape. Even the yolk inside the egg would be cube shaped.
This is why egg-coloring kits come with a dye tablet you dissolve in vinegar then soak the egg in the vinegar solution for a minute or two. The vinegar softens the hard shell enough for the dye to penetrate and stick. Without it, the dye won't stick. FYI you can use regular food coloring and vinegar, and you can make the wire thingies you use to move the eggs in and out of the vinegar out of large paper clips.
Quite the contrary my fellow proud citizen of the universe. There isn't much value to store an egg in a bottle (besides, how do you want to get it out as soon as its in there?) the square box on the other hand is stackable and saves more space than an egg carton.
I love how this is always suggested after a new Curiosity Show video where Deane is the host. That said, I tried this and forgot it for 2 days. The egg grew and the white of the egg turned to vinegar.
A very cool video with some interesting, easy to reproduce results. Thanks for sharing with us a lovely simple experiment that is safe for all ages. :-)
This was before Carbon Dioxide was going to destroy the world, back when climatologists (like 'father of Climatology' Reid Bryson) claimed the Earth was still cooling and an ice-age was going to kill billions from starvation by the 2000s.
These are the television programs which inspired the scientists of today. This show, Mr. Wizard here in America, and many others made science fun and entertaining. I’m very happy to see them live on in UA-cam for our children to enjoy and learn from.
Wish you would have explained exactly what was going on to shell. Like is the shell completely gone and that's just an interior lining that's made of a similar material as reptile eggs? Or did you chemically change the calcium of the shell and that made it soft. Guess I'll have to give it a goog and find out
I saw this trick on a book when I was a kid. The book mentioned that the egg would have bounced, but it didn't mention to do it from a low height. So I let the egg soak in vinegar overnight (horrible, horrible smell) and the next day, lo and behold! the egg is in fact rubbery. Confident, I pick it up and throw it on the floor, only to see it break and make a mess. Moral of the story: don't always trust what you find in books.
@@CuriosityShow seeing the egg with its translucent membrane in your linked video was pretty cool. I might have to try this to see it up close. It would also be interesting to test the elastic limit with many rubbery eggs sandwiched between two tables as if it were a sandwich and two of my childhood TV presenters, a cameraman to garnish the sandwich like your balloon experiment!
"The Ooh Ahh bird is so named because it lays square shaped eggs." Classic line from '70s Brit sitcom The Good Life where Margo reads out Tom's homemade Christmas cracker joke.
I wonder if it's healthier to eat the eggs whole like that, once cooked. I'm wondering if the membrane under the shell has a higher concentration of nutrients but since it stays attached to the shell when cracked normally, are we throwing away the best part? Like peeling vegetables?
There is almost nothing of nutritional value in the membrane, it's largely just a bit of collagen. The shells however are ground up and sold as calcium supplements, as they are almost entirely calcium.
The best way to think about it is by examining the purpose of the membrane for the growing chick. Of course when a chicken hatches it doesn't eat its shell. The nutrients it was getting while growing inside of the egg were in the yolk and not the shell. So for predating animals, the bulk of the nutrients are logically in the yolk too.
It’s easier to just warp the local space around the egg by transforming it from Cartesian to inverted polar coordinates. That way you get cube like eggs. Not perfect but it works well enough. The only thing you have to be careful of is switching back to regular space when cooking them or a singularity might form.
I guess put the jar with the egg inside in the fridge until its cold then hold it upside down and shake until the egg gets stuck in the neck. Then warm it up and the expanding air inside the jar should push it out.
When I was in middle school, one of my teachers told me the saying about how “Columbus’s friends said it was easy to make an egg stand on end after he showed them the trick” and then she asked me “so what do you think the trick was?” I went home for the weekend, and this was essentially the solution I came up with, and I have always wanted to see someone else do it. The teacher was a good teacher, and both told me the real solution and gave me praise for out of the box thinking, and I think that is why I eventually became a game designer. Columbus’s (supposed) solution, btw, was to file down just a little of the flatter side of the egg until it stood flat.
I was alone and depressed until I watched this video on repeat for two months straight. Giving me a new outlook on life, I now live in Beverly Hills with super models and a rescue dog.
I’ve known this for years, but this really old video taught me something new! I thought the vinegar did something to the egg to make it bounce. But when he said you can still use it, I realized that it’s bouncy because the vinegar only melts the shell and not the albumin which lines the shell! I never realized the albumin was so tough.
One of the main reasons I like older generation diy experiment tv shows is that the experiment never wastes material. The egg is still edible and they certainly consider the wastage of food.
This reminds me a little bit of that legendary Donald Duck comic "Lost In The Andes", by Carl Barks, where Donald and the nephews find square eggs that are made by square chickens.
When I was a kid (during the 80’s) I bought a “square egg maker” at a garage sale. It was a plexiglass cube with cranks that could be used to reduce the size of the cube after placing a hard-boiled egg in it. After some time passed (hours? maybe a day?) the egg could be removed from the cube and the egg would be compressed into a cube shape. Even the yolk inside the egg would be cube shaped.
Thats so pointless I love it!
Ngl, you had me during first half.
_And then I saw the square yolk part._
@@kayime6580 It's real
@@Tochy1
Yep, and if you hatch it, a cubic Minecraft chick would come out.
I always thought that square egg maker was a gag gift. Was surprised to find that it actually works.
And that my friends is how you fit a round egg in a square hole.
You're a square hole.
Zali Becquerel I know you are but what am I?
@@zalibecquerel3463 I’ll show you my square hole
underrated comment
@@sleepgreed 🙏
This is why egg-coloring kits come with a dye tablet you dissolve in vinegar then soak the egg in the vinegar solution for a minute or two. The vinegar softens the hard shell enough for the dye to penetrate and stick. Without it, the dye won't stick.
FYI you can use regular food coloring and vinegar, and you can make the wire thingies you use to move the eggs in and out of the vinegar out of large paper clips.
The idea of an egg being stored in a bottle doesn't seem to odd, but an egg being stored in a square box seems cursed in my mind
You can get it out of a box
Whats you're thoughts on square watermelons?
Quite the contrary my fellow proud citizen of the universe. There isn't much value to store an egg in a bottle (besides, how do you want to get it out as soon as its in there?) the square box on the other hand is stackable and saves more space than an egg carton.
@@dannydaghavarian9185 good.
Cursed? My quite the amalgimagination
This show represents the golden age of Australian educational broadcasting. I wish we had Deane and Rob on TV today.
they're forever on UA-cam for the whole world, kids don't need a TV anymore
Yep
I remember doing this experiment with my brother & sister after seeing this episode. Mum was furious that we'd wasted so many of her "good eggs".
mom sounds cheap
That's her fault for keeping the bad eggs a secret. I'm sure you would have used those instead.
Atleast 3 of her "good eggs" turned out well.
I just read this in an Australian accent.
@@pite9 adorably wholesome
I love the heavy action music 5 second egg factory montage at the end. Really tied the whole lesson together.
I can't believe I found this episode after two decades! I really miss the days I would sit eagerly waiting to watch the curiosity show!
nice info, THANKS DEANE!
awesome ending with the energetic egg packing music!
"Hey Mary, what's your claim to fame?" Why, I was Egg Carton Girl on Curiosity Show back in 1986 and again in 2021.
Why this was an eggcellent show.
Shut up
@@AlfredFonseca0327 Don't get over eggcited mate
EGGH, EGGH, EGGH, EGGH EGGH! XDXDXD
When he asked "can you think of a way to make square eggs" I immediately thought "force chickens into small boxes".
Me too
I love how this is always suggested after a new Curiosity Show video where Deane is the host.
That said, I tried this and forgot it for 2 days. The egg grew and the white of the egg turned to vinegar.
A very cool video with some interesting, easy to reproduce results. Thanks for sharing with us a lovely simple experiment that is safe for all ages. :-)
I love how he says “carbon dioxide” like it was just discovered
Not because it was just discovered, but because it was before the internet.
This was before Carbon Dioxide was going to destroy the world, back when climatologists (like 'father of Climatology' Reid Bryson) claimed the Earth was still cooling and an ice-age was going to kill billions from starvation by the 2000s.
@@KL-tn1xc Then how has this been uploaded on to youtube, huh?
ExPlAiN tHaT
@@jeremiahjohns5258 I refuse to explain that
How 80's is this? Everything was square in the 80s!
I very much enjoy this kind of stuff. So glad that I found your channel!
This relates to my other interest, magic.
The ending makes eggs so exciting.
you could say that it's 𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
Love how the eggs got its own music montage at the end 😂
Toy channels need to pay attention.
Have fun taking the egg out the jar now...
These are the television programs which inspired the scientists of today. This show, Mr. Wizard here in America, and many others made science fun and entertaining. I’m very happy to see them live on in UA-cam for our children to enjoy and learn from.
Don't forget Bill Nye the Science Guy. And Mythbusters.
@@maskcollector6949 And Beakman's World
Wish you would have explained exactly what was going on to shell. Like is the shell completely gone and that's just an interior lining that's made of a similar material as reptile eggs? Or did you chemically change the calcium of the shell and that made it soft. Guess I'll have to give it a goog and find out
The shell dissolves, but underneath it is a tough membrane - fresh eggs are best - Rob
1:26
@@CuriosityShow 1983
Good thing I didn't learn this when I was a kid. Those water balloon fights would have gotten more interesting. 😁
I saw this trick on a book when I was a kid. The book mentioned that the egg would have bounced, but it didn't mention to do it from a low height. So I let the egg soak in vinegar overnight (horrible, horrible smell) and the next day, lo and behold! the egg is in fact rubbery. Confident, I pick it up and throw it on the floor, only to see it break and make a mess.
Moral of the story: don't always trust what you find in books.
Have a look at ua-cam.com/video/7M1Qsl9USAM/v-deo.html -Rob
@@CuriosityShow seeing the egg with its translucent membrane in your linked video was pretty cool. I might have to try this to see it up close. It would also be interesting to test the elastic limit with many rubbery eggs sandwiched between two tables as if it were a sandwich and two of my childhood TV presenters, a cameraman to garnish the sandwich like your balloon experiment!
watching this high is a trip
:)
What were the odds on him actually having 1000s of those boxes, and 100s of those jars?🤔
Cliff Stoll has 1000s of Klein bottles under his house, so maybe?
ua-cam.com/video/-k3mVnRlQLU/v-deo.html
Are you suggesting he's a liar?
*YOU DON'T KNOW ME!!!*
Pretty high actually.
Actually a pretty smart idea
if you hard boiled one of those soft eggs in a sqaure container, would it stay sqaure when its removed
Yes, pretty much - Rob
"The Ooh Ahh bird is so named because it lays square shaped eggs." Classic line from '70s Brit sitcom The Good Life where Margo reads out Tom's homemade Christmas cracker joke.
I never saw this show. Yet it still made me feel nostalgia for the tv I watched as a kid.
Can we talk about that absolute banger of a theme song?
I bet Senku has been watching these when he was younger.
I really love these science shows. It prepares us for an unknown future.
loving the egg montage at the end
Those acid washed jeans sure bring back memories. My goodness, I miss the 1980’s.
5:00 “it might have a slight vinegary flavor, but that might even improve the taste”
This sums up how the British tastes British food.
Nice job! Next episode: taking the egg out of the jar
"And thus, you have captured the egg within a glass void from which there is no escape".
So glad I got recommended this show. Would’ve love this as a kid.
Liked the egg montage at the end.
I came here looking for my fellow egg-montage fan. I could go for about 45 seconds of that song with that footage.
This was my favourite after school show back in the 70's
Back when people used to make things
Used to do this all the time as a kid, love seeing this video
Kids, make sure to spill some vinegar on mum's marble bench top and watch her reaction!
I used to love this show as a kid
For their next trick, how to get the rubberized egg, out of the bottle :)
eggxactly... thats just impractical... even the box was unpractical...
Fluoride acid would dissolve the bottle.
Who else is hungry for an egg now?
This show is so damn cool
This would be a hell of a Dragon's Den pitch: "I'm asking for £50,000 for 20% of my company Egg in a Box"
I wonder if it's healthier to eat the eggs whole like that, once cooked. I'm wondering if the membrane under the shell has a higher concentration of nutrients but since it stays attached to the shell when cracked normally, are we throwing away the best part? Like peeling vegetables?
Same
There is almost nothing of nutritional value in the membrane, it's largely just a bit of collagen. The shells however are ground up and sold as calcium supplements, as they are almost entirely calcium.
@@ev6558 Good to know, thanks!
The best way to think about it is by examining the purpose of the membrane for the growing chick. Of course when a chicken hatches it doesn't eat its shell. The nutrients it was getting while growing inside of the egg were in the yolk and not the shell. So for predating animals, the bulk of the nutrients are logically in the yolk too.
Thinking collagen
I've seen rubberized eggs before.. they normally have a wire running from it to a controller.
😄😆😅
Hmmmmm... 🤔
It’s easier to just warp the local space around the egg by transforming it from Cartesian to inverted polar coordinates. That way you get cube like eggs. Not perfect but it works well enough. The only thing you have to be careful of is switching back to regular space when cooking them or a singularity might form.
I loved this show as a kid
That is actually interesting
I’m glad after taking the eggs out of the perfectly suitable egg container, I’ve got somewhere suitable to store my eggs
Okay genius, I'd now like to see you try to get that rubber egg out of that jar without breaking the egg or the jar...
I guess put the jar with the egg inside in the fridge until its cold then hold it upside down and shake until the egg gets stuck in the neck. Then warm it up and the expanding air inside the jar should push it out.
I came here to see an egg cooked into a perfect square on a frying pan. I left with so much more.
Good luck getting your egg back out of your jar
Yes ok but… how do you get the egg *out* of the jar?
Squeggs!!!
Good luck with getting the egg out of the jar :D
When I was in middle school, one of my teachers told me the saying about how “Columbus’s friends said it was easy to make an egg stand on end after he showed them the trick” and then she asked me “so what do you think the trick was?”
I went home for the weekend, and this was essentially the solution I came up with, and I have always wanted to see someone else do it. The teacher was a good teacher, and both told me the real solution and gave me praise for out of the box thinking, and I think that is why I eventually became a game designer.
Columbus’s (supposed) solution, btw, was to file down just a little of the flatter side of the egg until it stood flat.
Gotta love that 80's "education-video" riff at the end 😄
Omg the CURIOSITY SHOW I used to watch this after school back in the 80s lols I feel a little old, but I have to say this brings back memories wow 🤩
This video saved my life
I was alone and depressed until I watched this video on repeat for two months straight. Giving me a new outlook on life, I now live in Beverly Hills with super models and a rescue dog.
If anyone was to wear this Casio calculator watch (DBC-611E-1EF) it would be this guy. It is like they were made for him 4:25
Hes too powerful to be kept alive
I tried it last week, I had to break the jar to take out the egg later.
My square box was large enough to accommodate an egg, so I had no excuse to carry out the experiment.
I’ve known this for years, but this really old video taught me something new! I thought the vinegar did something to the egg to make it bounce. But when he said you can still use it, I realized that it’s bouncy because the vinegar only melts the shell and not the albumin which lines the shell! I never realized the albumin was so tough.
Isn't the albumen just the egg white? There is a membrane around the inside of the shell but I don't know what it's called.
@@BogSulphur nope the albumen is the membrane that lines the egg and centers the yolk.
Try it with nitric acid ! You won’t need to wait overnight 🤪
You won’t need to eat it then
Nah mate, fluoroantimonic acid all the way!
Fizzy drinks doesn't quench my thirst
Water and Jesus is all you need
This is clearly where rubber chickens come from.
Thank you! You are awesome
can this method improve the conservation of the eggs?
Wait just a minute now, show me how you plan on getting it back out of that glass jar sir
Tremendo soundtrack xd
It's chic to be square! 😬
I’ve got eggs and vinegar. I’m trying this tonight and having scrambled eggs with a touch of vinegar tomorrow for breakfast! 🍳
I always watched this show in Germany in the 80s!
question is how do you get it out the jar with out breaking the jar ???
I bet that wasn’t a free range egg
Having an absolute dig at Julius Sumner Miller
So... how do you get it out? The jar one?
Is it safe to it after boiling?
Egg.
I'm not sure your new business proposal of square eggs will take off.
Very cool!
Imagine being the guy at the grocery store trying to fit the eggs in the square boxes to try to sell them. That store probably wouldn't last long.
This video is wild for folks who’ve never seen an egg before.
Can you use this trick to grow square chickens like in minecraft?
One of the main reasons I like older generation
diy experiment tv shows is that the experiment never wastes material. The egg is still edible and they certainly consider the wastage of food.
“Hey I’d like a box of eggs”
“There you go, a box-shaped box of egg”
Can you make it hard again?
This reminds me a little bit of that legendary Donald Duck comic "Lost In The Andes", by Carl Barks, where Donald and the nephews find square eggs that are made by square chickens.
how do you take it out of the jar now?
Does anyone know what year this was made?
Actually if you wish to try this trick you'll first need to teach your 🐔 chicken the principals of geometry.
*HOW DO YOU GET THE EGG OUT OF THE JAR?!*
It’s a very good point. One that I thought straight away.
deadpan humor level 1000
Look at all those chickens
Australians!
Answering questions nobody ever asked since 1972.