How to Make a Square Egg !

[@7dollarhaircut]

When I was a kid (during the 80’s) I bought a “square egg maker” at a garage sale. It was a plexiglass cube with cranks that could be used to reduce the size of the cube after placing a hard-boiled egg in it. After some time passed (hours? maybe a day?) the egg could be removed from the cube and the egg would be compressed into a cube shape. Even the yolk inside the egg would be cube shaped.

[@Pauly421]

Thats so pointless I love it!

[@kayime6580]

Ngl, you had me during first half. _And then I saw the square yolk part._

[@Tochy1]

@@kayime6580 It's real

[@kayime6580]

@@Tochy1 Yep, and if you hatch it, a cubic Minecraft chick would come out.

[@ThePsho]

I always thought that square egg maker was a gag gift. Was surprised to find that it actually works.

[@tjnaples]

And that my friends is how you fit a round egg in a square hole.

[@zalibecquerel3463]

You're a square hole.

[@tjnaples]

Zali Becquerel I know you are but what am I?

[@XxYERMOM123xX]

@@zalibecquerel3463 I’ll show you my square hole

[@sleepgreed]

underrated comment

[@tjnaples]

@@sleepgreed 🙏

[@CrunchyMush]

This show represents the golden age of Australian educational broadcasting. I wish we had Deane and Rob on TV today.

[@Braziliense1984]

they're forever on KZbin for the whole world, kids don't need a TV anymore

[@randomgenerator7746]

Yep

[@desertgecko4549]

This is why egg-coloring kits come with a dye tablet you dissolve in vinegar then soak the egg in the vinegar solution for a minute or two. The vinegar softens the hard shell enough for the dye to penetrate and stick. Without it, the dye won't stick. FYI you can use regular food coloring and vinegar, and you can make the wire thingies you use to move the eggs in and out of the vinegar out of large paper clips.

[@JordanICM]

I love the heavy action music 5 second egg factory montage at the end. Really tied the whole lesson together.

[@ariannasv22]

The idea of an egg being stored in a bottle doesn't seem to odd, but an egg being stored in a square box seems cursed in my mind

[@patrciaclemons8183]

You can get it out of a box

[@dannydaghavarian9185]

Whats you're thoughts on square watermelons?

[@baskenmannzwei1234]

Quite the contrary my fellow proud citizen of the universe. There isn't much value to store an egg in a bottle (besides, how do you want to get it out as soon as its in there?) the square box on the other hand is stackable and saves more space than an egg carton.

[@marcopeterson805]

@@dannydaghavarian9185 good.

[@shable1436]

Cursed? My quite the amalgimagination

[@shahriarchowdhury7871]

I can't believe I found this episode after two decades! I really miss the days I would sit eagerly waiting to watch the curiosity show!

[@alcaldealer8515]

nice info, THANKS DEANE! awesome ending with the energetic egg packing music!

[@Lucifurion]

I remember doing this experiment with my brother & sister after seeing this episode. Mum was furious that we'd wasted so many of her "good eggs".

[@feelinghealingfrequences7179]

mom sounds cheap

[@JrIcify]

That's her fault for keeping the bad eggs a secret. I'm sure you would have used those instead.

[@pite9]

Atleast 3 of her "good eggs" turned out well.

[@keithwatson8228]

I just read this in an Australian accent.

[@callmetony4399]

@@pite9 adorably wholesome

[@obscurity3027]

These are the television programs which inspired the scientists of today. This show, Mr. Wizard here in America, and many others made science fun and entertaining. I’m very happy to see them live on in KZbin for our children to enjoy and learn from.

[@maskcollector6949]

Don't forget Bill Nye the Science Guy. And Mythbusters.

[@Magnet_Chaos]

@@maskcollector6949 And Beakman's World

[@steamyman]

Why this was an eggcellent show.

[@AlfredFonseca0327]

Shut up

[@spindoctor6385]

@@AlfredFonseca0327 Don't get over eggcited mate

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

EGGH, EGGH, EGGH, EGGH EGGH! XDXDXD

[@Maninawig]

I love how this is always suggested after a new Curiosity Show video where Deane is the host. That said, I tried this and forgot it for 2 days. The egg grew and the white of the egg turned to vinegar.

[@elbee2324]

A very cool video with some interesting, easy to reproduce results. Thanks for sharing with us a lovely simple experiment that is safe for all ages. :-)

[@samuell.hodgesjr.1577]

I very much enjoy this kind of stuff. So glad that I found your channel! This relates to my other interest, magic.

[@lundsweden]

How 80's is this? Everything was square in the 80s!

[@FokkeWulfe]

"Hey Mary, what's your claim to fame?" Why, I was Egg Carton Girl on Curiosity Show back in 1986 and again in 2021.

[@jakebrakebill]

if you hard boiled one of those soft eggs in a sqaure container, would it stay sqaure when its removed

[@CuriosityShow]

Yes, pretty much - Rob

[@seankkg]

The ending makes eggs so exciting.

[@axilion2129]

you could say that it's 𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠

[@R0binah00d]

I never saw this show. Yet it still made me feel nostalgia for the tv I watched as a kid.

[@joshcanttakeajoke2853]

Wish you would have explained exactly what was going on to shell. Like is the shell completely gone and that's just an interior lining that's made of a similar material as reptile eggs? Or did you chemically change the calcium of the shell and that made it soft. Guess I'll have to give it a goog and find out

[@CuriosityShow]

The shell dissolves, but underneath it is a tough membrane - fresh eggs are best - Rob

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

1:26

[@dennisonida5104]

@@CuriosityShow 1983

[@bogbert7019]

Used to do this all the time as a kid, love seeing this video

[@cyberhaggis]

I saw this trick on a book when I was a kid. The book mentioned that the egg would have bounced, but it didn't mention to do it from a low height. So I let the egg soak in vinegar overnight (horrible, horrible smell) and the next day, lo and behold! the egg is in fact rubbery. Confident, I pick it up and throw it on the floor, only to see it break and make a mess. Moral of the story: don't always trust what you find in books.

[@CuriosityShow]

Have a look at kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX6UgqaibrqGd68 -Rob

[@carneeki]

@@CuriosityShow seeing the egg with its translucent membrane in your linked video was pretty cool. I might have to try this to see it up close. It would also be interesting to test the elastic limit with many rubbery eggs sandwiched between two tables as if it were a sandwich and two of my childhood TV presenters, a cameraman to garnish the sandwich like your balloon experiment!

[@puertoriconnect4611]

So glad I got recommended this show. Would’ve love this as a kid.

[@somarriba333]

Good thing I didn't learn this when I was a kid. Those water balloon fights would have gotten more interesting. 😁

[@seanbooth1408]

This was my favourite after school show back in the 70's

[@OrisTV]

loving the egg montage at the end

[@spacejihadist4246]

I bet Senku has been watching these when he was younger. I really love these science shows. It prepares us for an unknown future.

[@tomatosquid434]

Love how the eggs got its own music montage at the end 😂

[@biquinary]

When he asked "can you think of a way to make square eggs" I immediately thought "force chickens into small boxes".

[@tannermeche7968]

Me too

[@S.Waters.]

Those acid washed jeans sure bring back memories. My goodness, I miss the 1980’s.

[@tricdaddy316]

I love how he says “carbon dioxide” like it was just discovered

[@KL-tn1xc]

Not because it was just discovered, but because it was before the internet.

[@Valchrist1313]

This was before Carbon Dioxide was going to destroy the world, back when climatologists (like 'father of Climatology' Reid Bryson) claimed the Earth was still cooling and an ice-age was going to kill billions from starvation by the 2000s.

[@jeremiahjohns5258]

@@KL-tn1xc Then how has this been uploaded on to youtube, huh? ExPlAiN tHaT

[@SieMiezekatze]

@@jeremiahjohns5258 I refuse to explain that

[@Jeff-kz5kl]

I wonder if it's healthier to eat the eggs whole like that, once cooked. I'm wondering if the membrane under the shell has a higher concentration of nutrients but since it stays attached to the shell when cracked normally, are we throwing away the best part? Like peeling vegetables?

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

Same

[@ev6558]

There is almost nothing of nutritional value in the membrane, it's largely just a bit of collagen. The shells however are ground up and sold as calcium supplements, as they are almost entirely calcium.

[@Jeff-kz5kl]

@@ev6558 Good to know, thanks!

[@chuchu9649]

The best way to think about it is by examining the purpose of the membrane for the growing chick. Of course when a chicken hatches it doesn't eat its shell. The nutrients it was getting while growing inside of the egg were in the yolk and not the shell. So for predating animals, the bulk of the nutrients are logically in the yolk too.

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

Thinking collagen

[@BEATMAN.]

question is how do you get it out the jar with out breaking the jar ???

[@randomfpv22]

I used to love this show as a kid

[@shanecoulston7304]

Omg the CURIOSITY SHOW I used to watch this after school back in the 80s lols I feel a little old, but I have to say this brings back memories wow 🤩

[@stegra5960]

"The Ooh Ahh bird is so named because it lays square shaped eggs." Classic line from '70s Brit sitcom The Good Life where Margo reads out Tom's homemade Christmas cracker joke.

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

I’ve got eggs and vinegar. I’m trying this tonight and having scrambled eggs with a touch of vinegar tomorrow for breakfast! 🍳

[@shable1436]

Who else is hungry for an egg now?

[@MrMaiiis]

Have fun taking the egg out the jar now...

[@atrocious_pr0xy]

I've seen rubberized eggs before.. they normally have a wire running from it to a controller.

[@Krashulka]

😄😆😅

[@sadkritx6200]

Hmmmmm... 🤔

[@yeminiariel8502]

Nice job! Next episode: taking the egg out of the jar

[@Braziliense1984]

can this method improve the conservation of the eggs?

[@giannijimenez5684]

Can we talk about that absolute banger of a theme song?

[@stewartdavies929]

I loved this show as a kid

[@kolelokaram8541]

Toy channels need to pay attention.

[@weshard1]

Liked the egg montage at the end.

[@wmaneker]

I came here looking for my fellow egg-montage fan. I could go for about 45 seconds of that song with that footage.

[@mortengoodwin9973]

5:00 “it might have a slight vinegary flavor, but that might even improve the taste” This sums up how the British tastes British food.

[@MrBlunt32]

This show is so damn cool

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

Back when people used to make things

[@tinab3001]

watching this high is a trip

[@AdamBechtol]

:)

[@grotgrusson5124]

Gotta love that 80's "education-video" riff at the end 😄

[@bl1398]

It’s easier to just warp the local space around the egg by transforming it from Cartesian to inverted polar coordinates. That way you get cube like eggs. Not perfect but it works well enough. The only thing you have to be careful of is switching back to regular space when cooking them or a singularity might form.

[@itsnony77]

This video saved my life

[@m____w____6981]

I was alone and depressed until I watched this video on repeat for two months straight. Giving me a new outlook on life, I now live in Beverly Hills with super models and a rescue dog.

[@dr.shadox4927]

remind me a magasine for kid some years later who offers some interesting toy with it , and once they game a box for make egg square (related to the main story in the issue of magasine) if im remember correctly in was a Picsou Magasine , around 1997 maybe

[@argalib]

Is it safe to it after boiling?

[@JohnSmith-iu8cj]

I always watched this show in Germany in the 80s!

[@arunimarajesh6144]

So... how do you get it out? The jar one?

[@charlottekerr4312]

Yes ok but… how do you get the egg *out* of the jar?

[@nateroseman]

How much does it change the taste?

[@NoosaHeads]

Does anyone know what year this was made?

[@BoilaFrog]

Thank you! You are awesome

[@DetBareMikkel]

"And thus, you have captured the egg within a glass void from which there is no escape".

[@rainierviana9429]

That is actually interesting

[@SquirrelASMR]

Can you use this trick to grow square chickens like in minecraft?

[@rashidzia055]

how do you take it out of the jar now?

[@googleisfascist9278]

How get egg out bottle?

[@JaydenLawson]

Can you make it hard again?

[@jackbotman]

For their next trick, how to get the rubberized egg, out of the bottle :)

[@sentival]

eggxactly... thats just impractical... even the box was unpractical...

[@anotherlover6954]

Fluoride acid would dissolve the bottle.

[@benrichards399]

What were the odds on him actually having 1000s of those boxes, and 100s of those jars?🤔

[@A3Kr0n]

Cliff Stoll has 1000s of Klein bottles under his house, so maybe? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5yWnomkh9GEgrc

[@tonyhancock3912]

Are you suggesting he's a liar?

[@zalibecquerel3463]

*YOU DON'T KNOW ME!!!*

[@davidmcguire6043]

Pretty high actually.

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

Actually a pretty smart idea

[@AlterRaigo]

This just blew my mind!!! 🤯🤯🤯

[@happyfunster7665]

How do you get the egg out of the jar/box?

[@RandomBo0]

Good luck getting your egg back out of your jar

[@HazeAnderson]

It's chic to be square! 😬

[@bronson9953]

What happens to the shell in vinegar after a while tho?

[@armoryindustrial7884]

Once on a while chickens will lay soft shell eggs. Basically eggs without the calcium carbonate shell. Or eggs with 2 yolks.

[@Peter_1986]

This reminds me a little bit of that legendary Donald Duck comic "Lost In The Andes", by Carl Barks, where Donald and the nephews find square eggs that are made by square chickens.

[@americanpancakelive]

would this work if the egg in vinegar was in the fridge?

[@andy2231]

Kids, make sure to spill some vinegar on mum's marble bench top and watch her reaction!

[@Shady-Shane]

Egg.

[@dancingvirgil]

I bet that wasn’t a free range egg

[@roshanthapa25]

I tried it last week, I had to break the jar to take out the egg later.

[@m____w____6981]

My square box was large enough to accommodate an egg, so I had no excuse to carry out the experiment.

[@waynemyname9036]

Good luck with getting the egg out of the jar :D

[@MalinowyWampir]

I love this channel. It will always remind me of my childhood 👍🖐

[@CuriosityShow]

Happy to hear that - Rob

[@Luke-er6pg]

What year would this be??

[@animan095]

I came here to see an egg cooked into a perfect square on a frying pan. I left with so much more.

[@joshanwa]

Tremendo soundtrack xd

[@boredincan]

Having an absolute dig at Julius Sumner Miller

[@Stehvee]

Hes too powerful to be kept alive

[@conscience-commenter]

The Curiosity Show (1972-1990 ) hosted by Rob Morrison and Dean Hutton was an entertaining kids science show produced before Australia became an authoritarian regime . Good ole days down under .

[@nanak3363]

4:10 it's gonna be difficult to take that round egg out of a cuboidal jar

[@KE-yq2eg]

Fizzy drinks doesn't quench my thirst

[@randy6243]

Water and Jesus is all you need

[@ShwiftRicky]

the cartons fine... I've always liked it.

[@YeBittenDog]

This video is wild for folks who’ve never seen an egg before.

[@seancarnahan01]

This is very cool. and explains all the carbon in our atmosphere :)

[@patron40silver]

We did this, with the match, when I was a kid, 45 years ago. We'd put ours in a bottle with a much smaller hole, though.

[@TheKev01]

I’m glad after taking the eggs out of the perfectly suitable egg container, I’ve got somewhere suitable to store my eggs

[@harrypalms453]

This would be a hell of a Dragon's Den pitch: "I'm asking for £50,000 for 20% of my company Egg in a Box"

[@DEADPOOL-ti4cs]

4:06 and what's about getting it out

[@wparo]

If anyone was to wear this Casio calculator watch (DBC-611E-1EF) it would be this guy. It is like they were made for him 4:25

[@Ekbird]

How do you get the egg out of the jar???

[@rancidcrawfish]

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