microwaving an egg

[Dom Tuk]

What can you say to your wife who microwaved an egg and it exploded but then says that Delia Smith says you can microwave an egg if it is placed in the microwave in a bowl of water. Is it true. Can you legally hit your wife for doing such a thing!!!

[aurelia]

You need to have those little microwave egg things - and you have to break open the egg and pour into it - it is about 40 seconds to cook.  I knew microwaving a whole egg in it's shell would make it explode but the only Delia Smith thing I can think of concerning eggs - is she says to test how old eggs are to put them in a bowl of water - if they sink they're old and reverse if they float.

My cousin's wife phoned her mother the first night she was cooking a meal after she was married and asked her if it takes 3 minutes to boil an egg - how long will it take to boil two - count yourself lucky - he only gets sandwiches and they've been married years and years

[smudge]

Asking whether you can legally hit your wife for doing such a thing as accidentally exploding an egg - doesn't say say much for your personality. You need serious help mate.

[sarwal]

Smudge... you need a sense of humour transplant MATE... heh

[Tillys Mum]

Not sure I trust St. Delia on the egg front, my hubby used to be able to boil eggs but then read her instructions and failed. In her defence I can't recall her ever microwaving them but her beloved Lakeland Plastics do microwave egg thingys.

[smudge]

I expected a reply like that Dom Tuk - anyway did your wife put a pin through the egg first as this prevents it from exploding in the microwave?

[zgma]

No, you cannot legally hit your wife.  And sarwal - there's a reason smudge didn't have a sense of humor about this - it's really not funny.

[smudge]

Thanks zgma - nice to know there's also someone else who doesn't need a sense of humour transplant! Common sense prevails!

[Jenny Tools]

No you can't legally hit your wife but be warned she can legally cut off your goolies with a blunt bread knife and microwave them till they expolde.

[Dom Tuk]

Its sad when you cannot even joke about a thing like wife beating. If i was a wife beater then i would not have asked would i. But smudge she did mention later that she should have stuck a pin through it. is that what Delia recommends.

[5029]

put it in an egg poacher and into the microwave at a low power

[thekraut]

Don't know about the wifebeating. but making a small hole in the shell does not prevent the egg from exploding when being microwaved. The reason is that the whole egg reaches the same temperature at the same time, so the vapour can not get out quickly enough and builds up a lot of pressure - bang!

And to all you unbearably righteous people out there: Did you know that it is actually possible to be too pc?  

[zgma]

thekraut, it's not about being pc.  Joking about something makes it part of the cultural background.  Joking is a way to make something that is uncomfortable feel more comfortable.  Joking about something (i.e. dumb blond jokes) creates the culturally accepted idea that it is true or acceptable (i.e., that blondes are dumb).  I think it's disgusting to joke about wife beating.  Why is that funny?  It's not.

[zgma]

Right on smudge!  *GAB* Jenny Tools.

[FP]

Hi Zgma.  I must admit I'm a blonde and I have never taken any offence whatsoever at dumb blonde jokes.  Neither did I take any offence at Dom Tuk's question.  I took it as a joke.  I often joke that I'm going to hit my husband with a rolling pin, or threaten to kill the cat if he wees on the floor once more - I can't see the difference.  

[coggles]

When I first saw the question, (before anyone had answered), I was going to post an answer on the lines of:

 

Why hit your wife? If it was Delia that told her how to cook the egg, go and hit Delia.

 

I didn't post it then because I was busy slappping my husband for not polishing my boots properly, so I shall post it now...

 

I saw your post a joke and hope people see this as one too.

 

That does not, for one moment, mean that beating anyone up is good, it is not.

 

Nor is putting an egg in it's shell in the microwave.

 

[Dark Angel]

I'll second that - prick a hole through the yolk before you put the egg in, to prevent it from exploding.

And for the other matter - I took Dom Tuk's statement as a joke as well. We do joke about smacking our husbands and that type of thing. But I have been around when people have laughed about things like the Abu Ghraib prisoners being abused and Rodney King being beaten up by the LA police and found it upsetting.

[Dark Angel]

Forgot to mention, one pierces the yolk if one is poaching the egg.  The shell is not pierced Thekraut. :o)

[smudge]

Break open the egg - place in microwavable egg poacher - prick egg yolk - cook as instructions - eat when cooked - if it explodes or is not to your requirements, kick & punch wife around the kitchen a few times, then mop up the mess - there does that sound better! Sorry for appearing a pc person - I can assure you I'm not. :~)

[zgma]

I still don't think it's funny.  You can accuse me of being unbearably righteous as much as you want, thekraut, or talk about Americans not having a sense of humour or whatever you want, but I find it upsetting that it's acceptable to joke about abusing your wife. 

 

Dark Angel, what's the difference between joking about the abuse of the Abu Ghraib prisoners and joking about wife-beating? 

[zgma]

Fakeplastic, I don't really care that much about dumb blonde jokes either, but you have to admit that there's a generally accepted idea that blondes are dumb, that isn't supported by fact.  I care a lot more about people joking about really harmful things like this.