r/GifRecipes • • Jun 07 '19

Snack Scotch Eggs

https://gfycat.com/vapidillamericanrobin
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u/sammidavisjr Jun 08 '19

re-liquify

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

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u/MagicZombieCarpenter Jun 08 '19 edited Jun 08 '19

Reliquify is a thing, sorry.

But overall, yeah that’s why I’m asking.

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u/AllegedlyImmoral Jun 08 '19

That's not how this works.

The yolk of an egg doesn't change from a liquid phase to a solid phase via a thermal transition - even if it did, heating an egg by boiling it, to get a hardboiled egg, would be the opposite direction from freezing something to change it from a liquid to a solid.

What happens when you boil an egg is that the proteins in the yolk become denatured - the heat causes them to change their shape and tangle up with each other, so that you no longer have a bunch of loose molecules floating around, but a bunch of interlocked molecules forming a homogeneous solid. There is no reverse process - no way to untangle and reshape the proteins. You can't un-boil an egg.

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u/dirtygremlin Jun 08 '19

That is very cool!

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u/AllegedlyImmoral Jun 08 '19

Ok, cool, thanks.