Eggs are dangerous

Yeouch! :(

Jeff Huyler

Yes it's dangerous to boil water in the microwave let it boil longer and add a metal spoon 🥄 and it'll spray all over you...

Derek Bissett

Hope you are allright

Hog Duske

Another tip you can consider is not knowing the difference between weeds and plants - got my dad banned from the garden :-)

Mr B Shepherd

And that's why I have the microwave in a utility room and walk away from it when I 'm using it. Too dangerous to stand in front of.

P.s. don't avoid the boiled eggs in the future, just cut them in half, or mince them and nuke them with some butter and salt.

In my youth, my dad and I made the mistake of microwaving hard boiled eggs... with the shell on (and he was in PMEL!) The resulting detonation blew the microwave door across the kitchen...

I just usually batch make hard boiled eggs in one of those cheapo metal egg holders from AliExpress. Just sit it in a pot of boiling water for however long it takes and then just lift out. Peel and have a few hot and put the rest of them in the fridge, once they've cooled, to eat cold later. It does involve "cooking" as such but you can arse about like using a woodgas stove (outside obviously) or a penny meths stove or whatever weird and wonderful way you can find to boil water! :)

Ross Robertson

This is not the NASCAR moment we all signed up for. Hope it's healing well, and that the various esteemed gentlemen who occasionally appear on-channel aren't giving you too much shit over it.

Sulphur Dioxide, no doubt.

Frank

This is exactly why I'm banned from using the microwave. I'm banned from using any kitchen appliance actually. My curiosity does have its advantages.....

Paul Noble

Microwave a boiled egg 😳really?? Is that a thing? Always ate cold. Reminds me of a guy who put a ready meal curry into an industrial microwave for far too long. He took it out and put a spoon in to stir. As soon as the spoon touched the curry the meal exploded covering his face in hot food 😯

Mick Spanner

Ouch, noo I am not kissing it better!...PMSL

Broxie

800W 15seconds max for a pre-boiled egg. Now you know. We only learn from pain.

I always stir drinks just before microwaving them, should reduce the chance of superheating part of it!

No video? It did not happen ...

Peter Stimpel

When I was a teenager and microwave oven was a new idea we got one, parents out so got some chicken Kiev nuked them it was like gremlins film green jets of good all over the oven. Just love the unpredictable microwave cooking.

N. Shaun Tremayne

Four eggs 30s does not seem dangerous. I learned something.

Mike Page

Milky coffee will do the same, the bottom gets super heated and when you move it the hot bit rises very quickly and, well you can guess the rest. A glass rod in the mug is suppose to stop this happening.

Things like eggs and potatoes will explode. Poke a few little holes before microwaving to reduce the chances of that happening. Personally for hard boiled eggs I just cut them in half first as the steam seems to mostly build up between the yolk and the albumen.

Chris Parsons

I've burnt my lip before, it really hurts bad.

electronbox

Random accident or planned action by deep dark cheap manufacturers guild? Spooky.

OUCH! Sorry man. That's aweful.

Dave Frederick

I had no idea you could buy already boiled eggs. TIL. Maybe buy them fresh and give them the "evil 240V forks" treatment as a revenge next time ?

DeuxVis

Exploding sphericals... Giggity!

Andrew Donaldson

No good deed goes unpunished, as they say. It’s what you get when you avoid junk food - a stream of superheated egg juice. You have my commiserations.

Amro

That's why you reheat eveything with 240v. Much safer.

30 seconds, wow do you have a 6000 Watt industrial microwave by chance? 😆

Lostngone

Always prick a needlepin hole in the bottom..... Juat to prevent pressure from building....

Does this mean we can officially call you Hotlips. Seriously though, I hope you are on the mend.

Gerry BVR

Sorry to hear of the eggblast ... A short but pleasing tale of AliExpress, who I gather you had a minor issue with; I asked you if it were possible to get the 0.5Hz LEDs for the HexaPuter in quantities of less than 5000 ... eventually, my dimly-lit brain realised that asking AliExpress was a more appropriate idea. Did so, and after telling me that their minimum production run was 3000 pcs, they kindly offered me what they had left - 150 pcs white, 152 blue and 242 green, which duly arrived yesterday. Good service, if you catch the right people ...

Hope it heals quickly big man! Hearing storeis about boiled eggs takes me back to the late 90's when my firends and I worked a student summer holiday in the egg factory on the edge of Loanhead (outside Edinburgh.) Myself and Al were in the boiled egg dept. (which either went to be used for prepared salads or to be pickled). The rejected boiled eggs (broken ones) went next door to our friend Chris who was in the Egg Mayonaise Dept. and our other friend Forest was in the pre pack Scrambled Egg Dept. The money was good at the time but it was not pleasant work. Gave us a lot of respect for the people that worked there full time to support thier families.

Some of my best microwave explosions involve eggs. Almost as much fun as CDs!

Phil Collins

Tinned potatoes do the same and l have even had them explode when on a standard hob

John Catterall

I love how it exploded in his hand after it had been partially eaten already XD. Makes me think of a new home defense, someone's breaking in, just hit them with a microwaved egg.

Entropic Nightmares

Get well soon

Nathanael Jurg

Sounds like a PSA video on the dangers of superheating in a microwave and why the manufactures recomend waiting a while before consuming or moving.

Tokkan FX

Sounds like the omega-6 (Linoleic acid) levels were too high in them eggs!

*reminisces*

Had a similar experience with Big Soups from Heinz. The chicken ones seem to be prone to explosions. Usually they happen during heating, but once I had one explode during the mid-heat stirring with a spoon. I was picking bits of chicken off my face, off the walls and ceiling, and bizarrely behind my head.

pop tarts and egg's the world is a dangerous place young Clive sky walker, surprised you were, hope it wasn't to bad an experience.

Like potatoes... Always poke them before microwaving. *Anything* in a microwave must be able to vent and not be in an enclosed container. Eggs are no different. Sorry for the bad experience.

Raphaël

I did know you can't microwave hard boiled eggs and I never buy them Clive. I remember when I had a gadget that you could pot eggs in in a microwave made of plastic and you had to put a small measure of water in it to cook them but it was a lot of messing around and you still had to cook them anyway. Stick to Scotch eggs if you like them. They can be microwaved.

Jeremy Travis

Hang on... Can you buy hard boiled eggs? I dont think I have ever seen that in Oz. Hope you are OK Clive, not too sore...

Anybody who has played "Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders" knows *not* to microwave eggs ;) Get well soon.

Tim Albers

Yep. I think you need to seek sweet rewengi on egg-kind with a judicious application of wattage!

Nigel Brown

A pity we don't have a mid-week live stream today; now we have to wait until Saturday before we can behold the new top lip.

Peter Luijer

I once microwaved a portion of curry I had made the day before, took the bowl out of the microwave and was about to pick up a chunk of meat from it with a fork to test the temperature, when the very chunk of meat I was about to pick up exploded. I figured it was hot enough, put it on my plate along with the freshly cooked rice and gave it a few more minutes to cool. I guess I had a narrow escape from a similar experience to yours. I don't trust eggs, they don't even have the decency to explode before you put them in your mouth! I'm glad I follow a vegan diet not to get away from spiteful eggs.

Dr Andy Hill

Oh Clive, I'm so sorry you learned the hard way, eggs in sold form are spiteful. Put a raw whole egg in your microwave and watch the fantastic explosion. It seems the hard-boiled eggs you bought were still soft in the middle? I hope your lip heals soon and isn't too painful. You have sympathy from a previous egg victim.

Consider putting two forks in it and heat the egg with 240V instead

Karl Langeveld

Ouch! That sounds painful! :O

devttyUSB0

This do this PLEASE

Michael Wellman

I thought everyone knew not to do that, you have to cut them because the white and yoke not only heat deferentially, but the white is a void that fills with steam, it's similar with potatoes as the center heats faster for to water concentration and the steam can not escape so you poke it with a fork or knife. Although I don't think hard boiled eggs are sold by themselves in the states so that's interesting

Michael Wellman

I did that years ago. After I inserted the knife to cut it, it exploded violently.

Tony Weavers

Yeah... stick to burgers and stuff and spam.

Heat an apple in a microwave for 30 seconds then cut into it, wear a face shield! Anything with an imperious skin will do this in a microwave.

George Cohn

User error perhaps . Better off putting the whole chicken in there . lol kidding hope you didn't burn yourself to much. No pudding for you . Get some liquid into lungs

I've had that sort of "special moment" too. I'd soft-boiled an egg a bit softer than I liked and so I put it in the microwave for 15 seconds. Then I poked it with a fork, and very soon had a faceful of egg which, thankfully, cooled as it sprayed in my direction. (Also I was wearing glasses.)

fluffy

You had so many alternative choices, the danger forks, the woofler, the tesla coil, etc. You do have a microwave cannon don't you? You must have one somewhere.

Mark Trombley

Life. Just a winding journey of burning ourselves on boiled eggs and eating burgers.

I boost my scotch eggs in the microwave. The exterior meaty bit seems to absorb all the energy.

Big Clive

No shell. Pre-boiled and peeled hard boiled egg.

Big Clive

I once had a boiled egg explode in the microwave, I was amazed that the white and yoke seemed to emulsify into a yellow grey powder thar coated the inside like spray paint. - meaargee.

Rob Googe

I was going to microwave the ones we had bought and saw it on the packaging. So I ended up eating them cold.

I'll have to buy some more just to check the packaging.

Big Clive

There's a technical family discord, but not run by me. It is often linked to in the live streams on bigclivelive.

Big Clive

So I saw on the hard boiled eggs Costco sells, it specific warns about not to microwave them.

You should have given it 45 seconds, then it could have exploded inside the microwave, where all good explosions should happen! Had a similar thing happen to me once with a chicken snitsel thing with cheese stuff in it, pressed the knife into it and it exploded and burned my left hand!!!

William Taylor

Hope you're ok

I guess this is one time if the egg had exploded in the microwave, it would have been a good thing!

Michael Horton

Ahh Piss!

Lol, 5-10 seconds is best.

NightshadeLenar

Hey, also, there is a big Clive discord?

Michael Gilchrest

Too soon!

Michael Gilchrest

Time for a live steam!

Michael Gilchrest

Been there done that with my favourite food meat pies and microwave burnt various parts of my mouth and fingers has not put me off my pies though My sympathy to you Clive lesson learned in theory

Eek. Best wishes with your recovery!

Charles

OMG - all those high voltage and craft knife japes and it has to be a humble egg in your face! If it makes you feel any better, back in March I put a mug of steaming hot black coffee on the arm of my armchair and then sat down, followed by the mug. Because it was an armchair the coffee had nowhere to go except round my back end. Not the place to have a 6" diameter burn. Had to have 6 weeks off work.

Ymir the Frost Giant

I'd stick with cold Scotch Eggs.

Andrew Donaldson

Well that sucks! No law suit? lol ... good thing you didn't pop a few grapes in there; plasma burns don't sound fun.

Peter Stevens

here's a video that might be relevant. a japanese variety show investigated a viewer's claim of the exact same thing. https://youtu.be/XNClpXBzzSU please don't link to that outside of patreon or the discord.

Ruthsarian

Yikes! I hope it heals up quickly!

Davin Desborough

Clive, Clive, Clive. Microwave oven lesson #1, NEVER put eggs in the shell in a microwave. Most of the time they explode, making a horrible mess.

Dennis Smith

Poke a hole in through the albumen into the yolk to let the steam out maybe?

but can you hard boil eggs with 240v?

Frankfactor

They are!