How do you like your eggs in the morning?

CrowdScience

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4.8 • 985 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Should you wash your eggs? Well believe it or not, there is quite an international debate about this question from CrowdScience listener Susan. In Canada, where Susan grew up, commercially sold eggs are washed before they reach stores, whereas in the UK where she is now living they are not. So what is best to avoid contamination?

It’s one of a number of egg-themed questions that CrowdScience tries to crack in this episode. One of our presenters, Marnie Chesterton, heads over to Susan’s home in London to cook some eggs and explore other egg cooking questions from our listeners, such as what is the science behind frying an egg without it sticking to the pan and why are some boiled eggs harder to shell than others?

Meanwhile this episode’s other presenter, Anand Jagatia, explores questions about eggs after they have hatched. He investigates a case of curious chicken behaviour sent in by listener Laurie, as well as working out how a cuckoo knows it’s a cuckoo when it’s been raised in another bird’s nest.

Presented by Marnie Chesterton and Anand Jagatia Produced by Jonathan Blackwell for BBC World Service

Featuring: Dr. Vincent Guyonnet, Dr. Valérie Lechevalier, Dr. Siobhan Abeyesinghe and Dr. Ros Gloag

(Photo credit: Getty Images)

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0:14.4	to share that science with you.
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0:25.5	calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.6	Should we start with Fried? Do you like yours over easy or sunny side up? Oh sunny side up I think.
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.0	That's a good breakfast cooking sound, isn't it?
0:44.0	Ooh!
0:50.0	Still well back.
0:51.0	Hello and welcome to Crowd Science from the BBC World Service. I'm Annan Jagatia and this is our
0:57.0	last episode of 2021. So as we head into 2022 in the spirit of new beginnings and rebirth, we're devoting a whole episode to
1:06.8	chicken and egg problems. And no, I'm not talking about causality dilemmas, I'm talking about
1:13.2	questions that are quite literally about chickens and eggs.
1:16.9	And that's why you can hear Marnie Chesterton frying up some breakfast
1:20.3	with one of our listeners.
1:21.7	Susan, how do you think our egg is turning out?
1:24.0	Well, our eggs are doing very well.
1:25.0	I'm using a non-stick pan here and just a little drop of oil in it.
1:29.0	And they're not sticking at all, as you can see, I'm moving them around the pan and they've cooked nicely.
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