Is Your Egg Safe To Eat?
Before you cook your eggs, you need to check if they’re still safe to eat. How do you do so? You guessed it: salt water. Dissolve two tablespoons of salt into two cups of water, then drop the egg in. If it sinks, it’s good to eat. If it floats, it’s doubtful.
There’s science behind this density. Salt raises water’s density enough so that bad eggs will float. When eggs decay, their yolk disappears and gets replaced by air. This makes them less dense than saltwater, indicating that your egg is bad.
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