Why hard boiled egg can not be microwaved?
By wayne001
@wayne001 (86)
United States
June 7, 2008 11:45am CST
I like eating eggs particularly hard boiled eggs. Some times I boiled several eggs at the same time but I only ate one and kept all the others in the refrigerator for later. But I don't like eating cold stuff. I want to warm up the hard boiled egg before eating. But every time the egg was exploded. Can someone tell me why the egg exploded like a bomb?
1 response
@fluffnflowers (1594)
• United States
9 Jun 08
Aaah, the many times my brother attempted this! 
I don't know, for sure, but I think the reason is that microwaves excite water molecules within a food, which causes the food to heat up. If you've got a bunch of water that's tangoing and doing the jive in the middle of an egg, the energy has to go somewhere and pop!
I wonder if you could heat them up by warming up a pot of water and letting them sit in the water for a bit. I know you can slice them and microwave them, but that might not work, depending on how you eat the hardboiled eggs.
I don't know, for sure, but I think the reason is that microwaves excite water molecules within a food, which causes the food to heat up. If you've got a bunch of water that's tangoing and doing the jive in the middle of an egg, the energy has to go somewhere and pop!
I wonder if you could heat them up by warming up a pot of water and letting them sit in the water for a bit. I know you can slice them and microwave them, but that might not work, depending on how you eat the hardboiled eggs.