Westbrook – In the course of boiling 6 seemingly benign (albeit out-of-date) eggs on Sunday evening, Lanna Lee Maheux-Quinn was shocked to her core when one of the eggs explodes in her face. “I was standing there, waiting for the water to boil for a minute, while reading a Jennifer Crusie novel on my Kindle, when pop! and then a drop of hot water hit my face”, said apartment-dweller Maheux-Quinn. “I knew right away one of the eggs exploded, but I didn’t understand why. Why did this have to happen to me?”
When asked what she did in the face of such danger, Maheux-Quinn replied, “I quickly covered the pot, turned off the heat and went back to reading my book. Later I put the 5 eggs that did not explode in the refrigerator. I threw the explodey egg away.”
Some experts say that exploding eggs are caused by tiny cracks in the shell, controversial expert Coach says, “the exploding eggs come from crazy chickens”.
“Some people say that it might have been a bad egg,” says Maheux-Quinn, “but it looked like a good one to me. Just goes to show, you never can tell.”
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