we all know how to boil an egg,
but what if you want to unboil one? a
perplexing question indeed, but there is an answer, step up to the plate
scientist and biochemist to unravel the
mysteries of how to unboil an impossibly hard boiled egg, to make sure it is
hard boiled boil the eggs for 20 minutes at 194 degrees Fahrenheit, then to unboil it add urea to the eggs, this untangles the knotted proteins by chemically breaking
them into bits, returning the eggs to a liquid form, (Note: Urea is one of the
main ingredients in pee, so these unboiled eggs are probably not delicious),
next put the (now liquid) solution into a machine called a 'vortex fluid
device,' the device pieces the broken proteins back together within minutes, a
vast improvement over older methods of reconstituting proteins, which could
take days and there you have it, a boiled egg now unboiled,
there is of courses a serious reason for unboiling eggs, UCI biochemist Gregory Weiss said in a statement, 'in our paper, we describe a device for pulling
apart tangled proteins and allowing them to refold,' but unboiling
eggs isn't the main focus for the researchers, 'the real problem is there are
lots of cases of gummy proteins that you spend way too much time scraping off
your test tubes, and you want some means of recovering that material,' Weiss
said, other researchers from around the world have been looking into the
unboiling issue, including researchers from Malta who published
research on the same subject last January, the scientists at UC Irvine have filed for a patent of their method,
and hope that it will eventually find uses in industries from cheese-making to
pharmaceuticals,
OK the scientists can unboil an egg, so I will set
them a new challenge, lets see if they can unscramble an egg!
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