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As a crowd of sweating journalists and photographers gathered outside the skyscraper on Tuesday, a reporter even managed to cook an egg simply by placing the fr

• Someone 13y ago
  Actually not that good of a demo. Egg white coagulates at around 65 degrees centigrade, yolk at around 70. On a sunny day, you can easily reach those temperatures without using a mirror to intensify sunlight. [That temperature difference makes it 'easy' to hard-boil an egg while keeping the yolk fluid. Photos at http://www.douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html#Figure_4.1 http://www.douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html#Figure_4.1, some science at http://www.sousvidedash.com/2011/12/the-perfect-fast-cook-sous-vide-egg/ http://www.sousvidedash.com/2011/12/the-perfect-fast-cook-so... (quote: "It’s interesting because it illustrates just how critical it is to accurately measure your eggs for this technique. I use a plastic pocket caliper to measure mine.")]