Strange Egg question.

[Chirpy]

Carugoman: Why is the sky blue?

 

[Rosalind]

Okay, DW says that she heard that cooking in an aluminum pan will cause the yolk to turn black. Chemists - please comment.

Nope, untrue. Although aluminum does conduct heat really, really quickly, the heat transfer is considerably slowed once the heat hits the water or the albumin of the egg. It's not much different from cooking in a copper pan: because the metal is an especially good conductor, things will cook faster, but not instantaneously or anything. Shouldn't have any problems overboiling eggs in aluminum pans.

What you do NOT want to do is add vinegar to a copper pan or an aluminum pan that has a lot of scratches in the cooking surface. The acid will react with the copper or aluminum and the resulting metal oxides are not good for people to ingest. Since most copper or aluminum cookware is coated or anodized, it's not generally a problem, but if you've got hand-me-down cookware, it's something to consider.​

 

[anniemyth]

Aluminum has also been linked to alzheimers. I use steel or teflon or Iron to cook in. Why take the risk?

That being said.. I still used deodorant, which contains aluminum.

 

[3peeps]

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So your armpits will just keep repeating old stories over and over some time in the future.

 

[ksacres]

It's not deoderant, it's the anti-perspirant. And I still use mine too...

 

[mdbucks]

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I think I still use anti-perspirent, but then again I dont remember.. Now what was I saying??? I forget

 

[country freedom]

I was told not to boil an egg any longer than 5 minutes--slow boil. Turn off heat, put pot under running cold water ( I use ice cubes in cold water now, instead of running cold water) for at least 10 minutes, then crack egg gently all over and peel off gently.

 

[gritsar]

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I always heard it was the aluminum in anti-perspirants that caused some breast cancers, not alzheimers. Or maybe I'm just recalling wrong.


Carugoman, two questions: Why is sea salt ridiculous? It's what I use. I was told the sodium content is lower and the SO has high blood pressure.
Secondly, I don't mean to sound weird, which I am, but...
nevermind the sky being blue thing; I'll bet explaining the birds and the bees was a riot at your house.

 

[carugoman]

I apologize for not quickly responding to my posts. In the past two weeks,my seven year separation with my wife has finally ended;six and a half years too late I might add. She is a Philadelphia lawyer,in every sense of that term,including location. I got the decree on a Tuesday evening;Wednesday morning,I'm filing my papers to get married...have to wait three days;Saturday afternoon before Thanksgiving,the ceremony. Had to go to the AMVETS post because I needed a 2nd witness-my best friend was the husband of the minister performing the ceremony. Then afterwards,everyone wanted to buy us "drinks,"but I only drink coffee,so I had to serve myself...HOW RUDE!!! Monday morning,truck breaks down,call neighbor for a lift to auto parts to buy a water pump and radiator hoses and whatever else. Have to buy neighbor some gas and a 12-pack and listen to his troubles all afternoon long...yes,yes,uhuh. Tuesday morning,truck running great! Oh,went to county courthouse to pick up marriage license and then,30+ miles to Eglin Air Force Base(AFB) to get my newlywed a spouse-dependent ID card and into the DEERS system and TRICARE PRIME. Wednesday morning,house and kitchen prep. Marilyn does house,I do kitchen,slaughter,hang and bleed goose turkey chicken,scald and pluck,gut wash and butcher for oven-roasting. I do the unpleasant stuff that the "city" relatives can't appreciate nor understand,before their arrival.

So...here I yam(sweet potato,)

Carugoman: Why is the sky blue?

Electromagnetic Radiation(EMR) spectrum can be plotted on a linear graph to illustrate all the forms of energy(measurable) that exists in our universe. This graph,is by no means, complete,since as advances in theoretical science,mathematics to prove existence of new forms of energy,and technology to measure and utilize that form shall never cease to create.

One way to qualify measurement of EMR is to use Wave Form Theory(WFT). If you measure the crest of one wave to the crest on the next sequential wave.this is called the wave's length,or wavelength more precisely. Visible light portion of EMR spectrum is actually a very small portion of the total forms of energy spectra. If a straight beam of white light was bent at a right angle(90 degrees) using a prism, the light would be fractured into a rainbow of all colors. This is called refraction of visible white light. If one was to measure the wavelengths of each color that was refracted(using metric linear measurement,) one would find that the colors near the red color end of the rainbow have a longer wavelength than the colors toward the violet color end of the same rainbow. Energy that has longer wavelengths than red color start out as infra-red,micro-wave,radio waves and continue on to other forms of energy...inversely shorter than the visible violet color wavelengths are ultra-violet,X-ray,gamma-ray and so forth.

Still with me? My kids learned early to qualify their questions before asking...especially about EMR and all things electrical,magnetic,mechanical and mathematical since I'm a certified pocket protector inserted in front shirt pocket,propeller-head electrical electronic engineer.
In the morning and at twilight the sky appears some shade of red because the atmosphere is at its maximum dimension and refracts the visible white light at its longest wavelengths. The human eye interprets these longer wavelengths in red hues. In the morning, once the sun appears to "rise"above the horizon, the sky starts to change from red to orange to yellow,green then blue,if there are no atmospheric disturbances overhead. This happens,when,as the sun reaches its zenith,the and the shortest measure of refracted visible light would be detected as a blue hue to the human eye.

And that's why the sky is blue.

Why is an orange orange,but an apple red?​

 

[carugoman]

To answer the first question:

Carugoman, two questions: Why is sea salt ridiculous? It's what I use. I was told the sodium content is lower and the SO has high blood pressure.

The difference in taste between refined,iodized table salt,when dissolved in a cooking fluid,say chicken broth for example,is so minute as to be superfluous. Can YOU really taste the difference,honestly? The FDA recommendation for sodium content max per day for avg adult male is 2,300 mg. This then translates to a content percentage of 25.21% Sodium to 5.8 grams(5800 mg) of Sodium Chloride(NaCl) common table salt. Unrefined sea salt contains a ratio of 30.6% Sodium. This is because sea salt contains other sodium salts,such as sodium sulfate,sodium sulfite,sodium flouride. So this proves that sea salt actually contains more sodium,by weight,that table salt. There are also other mineral compounds present;some with bitter taste elements(both organic and inorganic,in nature). Besides all that...which one costs more to purchase? A fool and his money soon parted. That's why I think sea salt is ridiculous!
All y'all take care!​