Peeling An Egg

The title is not some fancy metaphor that uses the shell of an egg to describe something clever. It's simply about how to peel an egg.

I eat a lot of eggs. I love them! Fried, scrambled or just hard boiled. In the last case there is always the trouble of getting the good parts of the egg out of the shell. Usually I just smash the egg against something hard, like my sink, and then starts to peel. Most of the times the shell have been broken in to many very small pieces which makes it difficult to remove it all without standing almost minutes just picking at it. This is the only bad thing about eggs I can think of.

A few weeks ago I woke up late, and tired, and turned on the TV. On TV2 Zulu they were showing an episode of "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer". I like the first seasons of that show but have never really seen it from beginning to end. This episode was one I have not seen before so I just stuck. It was about how Buffy begins at college, I think, and have to share a room with another girl she does not know. Of course there is stuff about this girl that Buffy does not like and the story have begun... As tired and as weird as I am, I did not pay much attention to it until I noticed that this girl had a lot of boiled eggs in the fridge, and in a special "montage" session they even showed her peeling one. She did it in a way I have never actually seen before - which is kind of surprising as it is just a stupid egg.

The new special way was simply to put light pressure on the egg while rolling it. Almost instantly the shell starts to break and come loose in larger pieces which afterwards is much easier to remove than before. At the same time it seems that by rolling the shells sticks easier to the thin "skin" that exists beneath it which increase the chance of peeling off a whole "lane".

Some out there might get the same kind of epiphany as me, others wont. My point however is: "You never know what you might learn by watching TV" :P .