We’ve all heard the phrase, “It’s so hot you can fry an egg on the sidewalk.” But what happens to an egg when it’s bitter cold? That’s what the YouTubers at Minnesota Cold wanted to figure out, and they made a great little video for the little scientists in your life.
Okay, let’s be honest, even if we aren’t a little kid, we all want to know what happens to an egg when temperatures drop below zero.
During the day Nathan Ziegler is the principal at Minnesota’s Hope Academy but by night he does science experiments with cold weather. It just so happens that Minnesota is extremely cold in the winter, with the typical temperature in January dropping down to around thirty below.
Ziegler might be the only one in Minnesota who welcomes the freezing days because he has endless entertaining experiments to do.
Minnesota Cold is a YouTube channel that Ziegler has set up to create videos of his amazing experiments. When the temperatures drop and the lakes freeze, Ziegler dreams up experiments.
Minnesota is nicknamed the land of 10,000 lakes, and when the temp drops those lakes freeze. So he has plenty of space to think up and deploy a ton of experiments. And his YouTube channel has already racked up quite a few videos.
Some of his cold-weather experiments include: throwing a pot of boiling water into the air, jumping onto a frozen trampoline, building an ice brick house, making a giant ice carousel, and making a backyard ice skate rink.
Minnesota Cold’s videos are charming and they will catch the attention of anyone who’s interested in science and cold weather.
In this video, Minnesota Cold asks the question, how do you like your eggs? Sunny side up, over easy, or frozen?
If you’ve ever wondered what happens to eggs in thirty below weather, then you’re in for a treat. The first thing Ziegler does is not what you’d expect … he brings out slices of bread.
Now, this makes you wonder if he’s gonna serve up a whole breakfast buffet like he was in a fancy hotel. That’s probably one of the better places to be in Minnesota in January. A five star hotel with a giant fireplace and huge buffet with all the breakfast fixings you can imagine. But I digress.
He pulls out a few slices of bread and stacks them up on top of each other at an angle. Then he takes another stack and lines it up close to the first. The suspense is killing me. What’s with the bread?
The next thing Ziegler does is delicately crack open an egg. Now, this is very hard to do with your hands in, as Ziegler mentions, twenty-seven below weather.
It’s as if he’s trying to save the shell, which is exactly what he’s trying to do.
Now Ziegler takes the egg with the shell intact, and only slightly cracked on the side so that the albumen (that’s the white stuff) begins to slowly pour out. That’s when the two stacks of bread come into play.
With the white stuff trickling out, he places the egg on the precipice of the two stacks of bread, so that the innards ooze down onto the ground. Still wondering what this is all for?
While that little experiment is left to freeze, Ziegler takes another egg and does the hot summer day trick of cracking an egg on the sidewalk, except this time, yep you guessed it, it’s twenty-seven below!
Interesting things happen when you crack an egg on the sidewalk in January, in Minnesota. You guessed it again, it freezes. The frozen egg looks so strange, nearly translucent and it’s stiff as a board. But what about that egg and the bread setup?
It all becomes clear once the egg is frozen and the bread is slipped out of the way. Ziegler made an egg sculpture. With the bread removed and the egg whites and yolk frozen, they hold up the shell.
It looks like something frozen in time. The shell floats in midair and the egg is pouring out into a pan. As if someone stopped time when an egg is cracked into a hot skillet. But at this moment the egg is frozen solid. It’s so cool to see Ziegler holding his marvelous frozen egg creation.
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Click the video below to see the wonders of mother nature, in January, in the frozen tundra of Minnesota in twenty-seven degrees below zero!
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