Is it Possible to Unboil an Egg? The Amazing Uncooking Experiment!

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Published 2018-02-09
Is uncooking something possible? In this video I attempt to unboil an egg by using an unlikely ingredient that fully denatures the proteins. Then I dilute it allowing the proteins to refold to their original form. Then I show you how to "cook" an egg without actually heating it by using a strong base to denature the proteins.

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All Comments (21)
  • @PeterOConnl
    Please don't put the egg back in the chicken in the next video :/
  • @carly5903
    You had the opportunity to say “eggsperiment” and lost it
  • @albandalvi1325
    Me urinating on a boiled egg Mom - What are you doing? Me - Un boiling the egg. Flying slipper hits my head
  • @arkhamknight616
    Never have I ever thought that pissing on an egg will uncook it...
  • How to unboil egg: 1: Buy an egg 2: cook the egg 3: put the egg in a flask 4: pee in it 5: wait 6: egg done! 7: now you don't want to waste resources so you drink the pee in the flask 8: Now eat the egg!
  • @Mirsab
    Now I can annoyingly correct someone if they say boiling an egg is an irreversible action
  • @curedbytheonomy
    Wife: Honey, why are you peeing on a hard boiled egg? Me: Just you wait.
  • @samaelm9482
    “Waiter ! This is over-cooked “ “Sorry, lemme just take it away and un-cook it a little for you “ It’s not much but just a fancy way of saying , I will pee in your food .
  • @Max-ls2ye
    What I love about you is that you are just like mark rober, teaching and inspiring people around the world to get into science but un like mark rober, you teach us more about chemistry while he shares his engineering and physics knowledge. Good luck moving on!
  • @davecahyo
    Meanwhile Toni Braxton: "un-boil my egg ... Say you love me again ..."
  • @MiaMore.
    So if I boil too many eggs, just pee on them and stick em back in the fridge? 😂🤣😂
  • @olivyuh
    As a hairstylist, I thought this was really cool cause this is the exact science used in chemical texturing. Potassium Hydroxide is a common ingredient in a chemical relaxer used to straighten the hair. It's then neutralized to stop the process. Neat to see that eggs react similarly to the disulfide protein bonds in the hair.
  • @C-Wam
    Just a couple of things: 1) It is better practise to put your grams of reagent to add into the flask first and then bring to the final volume with solvent. I'm sure you noticed but 8 M urea requires a lot of urea and will physically occupy a lot of the space in the flask. 2) It is highly unlikely that your renatured egg white proteins (formed upon dilution of urea into water) have folded back into their native state. All you have done is simply dissolved some scrambled proteins in water.