Re: I hard boiled an egg, then froze it. Why did it crack?

Date: Thu Dec 14 15:39:00 2000
Posted By: Martin Gunn, Secondary School Teacher, Chemistry, The Gryphon School
Area of science: Biochemistry
ID: 974398671.Bc

Message:


Good thinking, but the egg still contains water!  All the cooking has done is 
to have converted the proteins in the egg to a solid form--the amount of water 
remains almost the same. As a consequence of this, and the expansion of 
water during freezing, the egg cracks.

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