… that if you are hard-boiling eggs, and you forget them, they eventually explode?
SHOPPING ONLINE? Please, come here first!
Your use of my Amazon affiliate link is a major part of my income. It helps to pay for insurance, groceries, everything. Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance.
Thinking about Mother's Day? (Pssst - It's 9 May.
Mother's Day Gift IdeasAbout this blog…
“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
Wonderful about St. Joseph! “Terror of Demons”
PLEASE donate using VENMO!
CLICK and say your daily offerings!
Do you want to show some appreciation?
Do you have a faithful Catholic website that needs competent and reliable tech support?
Fr. Z’s VOICEMAIL
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
GregB on ASK FATHER: “What’s the deal with tarot cards?” : “In the video that I referenced in my comment Adam Blai has a portion of the presentation where he goes…”
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on CQ CQ CQ: Ham Radio – #ZedNet reminder – “Low” Sunday 11 April ’21: “RichR – It should not make a difference if you are using Mac or PC. Take a look at the…”
RichR on CQ CQ CQ: Ham Radio – #ZedNet reminder – “Low” Sunday 11 April ’21: “I’m pretty much solely on Mac OS. Is that a problem with the hotspots or programming cables?”
AA Cunningham on Challenge coin news and questions: “From wackypedia: Challenge Coin In the military it can be common that while visiting a bar, say Tun Tavern in…”
mysticalrose on ASK FATHER: “What’s the deal with tarot cards?” : “I came across the von Balthasar book on those cards in my twenties and presumed that if a Catholic theologian…”
TRW on ASK FATHER: “What’s the deal with tarot cards?” : “I have a friend who played with a ouija board at a friend’s house when he was in high school.…”
JesusFreak84 on ASK FATHER: “What’s the deal with tarot cards?” : ““They’re just paper” presumes that whoever made them isn’t hexing them ahead of time…”
JesusFreak84 on Video: WE ARE OUR RITES: “Praying God preserves these little guys and safeguards their vocations, whatever those vocations may be <3”
albinus1 on Daily Rome Shot 127: “A colleague of mine once suggested “low dives” as a translation of “ignobilibus tabernis” in this inscription.”
maternalView on “The constant negativity directed to us priests by…” Wherein Fr. Z relates, reacts, reflects and rants.: “In order for me to remain charitable to the Pope and my bishop I’ve decided I need to avoid reading/listening…”
maternalView on Challenge coin news and questions: “I’ve seen Fr Z mention challenge coins before. Could someone explain them to me? It seems it’s something traded or…”
Andreas on #ASonnetADay – Sonnet 143. “Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch…”: “Father Z., As we approach the final block of sonnets, your wonderful readings have, for me, brought out what appears…”
Fr Martin Fox on ASK FATHER: “What’s the deal with tarot cards?” : “If someone goes to a psychic, or to astrology, or tarot cards, or a ouija board or similar things, in…”
GHP on ASK FATHER: “What’s the deal with tarot cards?” : “I can vouch that ouija boards are supernatural. I was 15 years old in January 1968; I and my next-door…”
iamlucky13 on ASK FATHER: “What’s the deal with tarot cards?” : “I suppose in a literal sense, the physical tarot cards themselves are are not the real problem. “They’re just pieces…”
Books which you must have.
I use this when I travel both in these USA and abroad. Very useful. Fast enough for Zoom. I connect my DMR (ham radio) through it. If you use my link, they give me more data. A GREAT back up.
Get ready…
Don’t rely on popes, bishops and priests.
“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops.”- Fulton Sheen
Therefore, ACTIVATE YOUR CONFIRMATION and get to work!
Send Snail Mail to Fr. Z
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Tridentine Mass Society of Madison
733 Struck St.
PO BOX 44603
Madison, WI 53744-4603
For email HERE
- “The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”
- C.S. Lewis
This blog has to earn its keep!
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful.
That way I have steady income I can plan on, and you wind up regularly on my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I periodically say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
As for Latin…
"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
-
Recent Posts
- #ASonnetADay – Sonnet 144. “Two loves I have of comfort and despair…”
- Sudden, so far unexplained departure of Philadelphia Carmelites
- LIVE VIDEO – 13 April 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – St Hermenegild, martyr
- #ASonnetADay – Sonnet 143. “Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch…”
- ASK FATHER: “What’s the deal with tarot cards?”
- Daily Rome Shot 127
- Video: WE ARE OUR RITES
- #ASonnetADay – Sonnet 142. “Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate…”
- Challenge coin news and questions
- LIVE VIDEO – 12 April 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Votive of the Holy Trinity
- “The constant negativity directed to us priests by…” Wherein Fr. Z relates, reacts, reflects and rants.
- CQ CQ CQ: Ham Radio – #ZedNet reminder – “Low” Sunday 11 April ’21
- #ASonnetADay – Sonnet 141. “In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes…”
- PASCHALCAzT 2021: 54 – Low “Quasimodo” Sunday: “A question for you!”
- Man who identifies as a woman wants to be admitted to a convent of Poor Clares. Good idea?
- LIVE VIDEO – 10 April 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Easter Saturday “in albis”
- PASCHALCAzT 2021: 53 – Easter Saturday: “Sin is the shipwreck of the soul”
- #ASonnetADay – SONNET 140. “Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press…”
- Is there ice on Mars? It seems that, yes, there is.
- LIVE VIDEO – 9 April 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Easter Friday
- 10-13 June – Guadalajara – Summorum Pontificum Conference
- Daily Rome Shot 126
- PASCHALCAzT 2021: 52 – Easter Friday: Is Christ passing you by?
- #ASonnetADay – SONNET 139. “O call not me to justify the wrong…”
- Daily Rome Shot 125
- ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter?
- BOOK: Mysteries of the Lord’s Prayer
- PARIS: Priests arrested because of COVID-1984 guidelines
- PASCHALCAzT 2021: 51 – Easter Thursday: “Virtue is difficult, a prolonged martyrdom.”
- LIVE VIDEO – 8 April 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Easter Thursday
Let us pray…
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
Yes, Fr. Z is taking ads…
Be a “Zed-Head”!
CHALLENGE COINS!
My "challenge coin" for my 25th anniversary of ordination in 2016.
Want one? I do exchanges with military and LEOs, etc.
PLEASE RESPOND. Pretty pleeeease?
Loading ...
This is really useful when travelling… and also when you aren’t and you need backup internet NOW! I use this for my DMR “Zednet” hotspot when I’m mobile. It’s a ham radio thing.
If you travel internationally, this is a super useful gizmo for your mobile internet data. I use one. If you get one through my link, I get data rewards.
Please use my links when shopping! I depend on your help.
WDTPRS POLL
Loading ...
Fr. Z’s stuff is everywhere
Help support Fr. Z’s Gospel of Life work at no cost to you. Do you need a Real Estate Agent? Calling these people is the FIRST thing you should do!
GREAT causes to support
…smiling…
May one ask how we found this out?
I’ve done it myself, but that was not the result I observed. Instead I saw them scorch and adopt a consistency close to that of vulcanized rubber.
Or am I missing the gag here?
….and admitting it means you end up with egg on your face (sorry – couldn’t resist).
A friend of mone once tried to hard boil eggs in the microwave. Not only did they explode, but the blew the door right off the microwave and scattered broken glass throughout the kitchen.
Thankfully, nobody was hurt.
….and your kitchen will smell like a rancid egg. I’ve done it a month ago.
I guess it wouldn’t be as bad if there were still water in the pot, than if it were all to have boiled away….
But my dad accidentally did melt the bottom off a pot. It was a double boiler, and he didn’t realize that’s what it was when he started boiling water in the top pot. (I was there, and I didn’t notice, either….)
sadly yes….
Funny boiled egg story. My four year-old had a boiled (soft) for the first time a couple of weeks ago. My wife put the egg in an egg cup and lopped off the top of the egg and put it on the side of his plate. Shortly thereafter I hear “crunch crunch” and I look at my son whose mouth is full of egg, shell and all. “this egg tastes good Daddy” “John, you’re not supposed to eat the shell!” The knowledge we take for granted.
They really exploded? Once I left them in a man at night and the water vaporized, leaving a horrible black mess. The stink was so bad we had to visit Walmart at 3am to buy a floor fan. And i discovered that there are certain times of the year where Walmart doesn’t stock nice big floor fans (!!!!).
Yes, and you can burn them and a good pan as well….took forever to get the smoke detector batteries out as the dogs were howling that their ears hurt. At least our kitchen did not catch on fire!
I know three minute eggs, 5 minute eggs, but I do not know how many minutes for exploding eggs:-) this news is eggsplosive…yoke yoke :-)
How long did it take ? Just askin’…….
Did that. I also microwaved them making them look like fried without the oil. The white formed a membrane covering the yolk. When I poked the yoke, that also exploded into some many little scalding pieces – some of which stuck to my face.
Haven’t tried this myself yet, but if you get those eggs boiled without exploding them, here’s an easy way to peel them:
http://www.wikihow.com/Blow-the-Shell-off-a-Hard-Boiled-Egg (see the 11-second video at the bottom)
I think you have to be one very dutiful person to sit around and wait for the eggs to be done. I suppose I could employ a timer every once in a while, but that might take away from the excitment of the whole process.
And microwaving cold hard boiled eggs to heat them up can do that too, very shortly, even when you are watching them!
Careful… keep blowing things up and you’ll end up on the no-fly list. Or in this case perhaps, the no-fry list.
Oops! No, I haven’t exploded and egg (I’m not a big fan of eggs) but I have exploded baked potatoes. Seems like it doesn’t matter how many times I prick the spuds, I get one that explodes now and then. Cleaning the oven (not microwave) is one of my least favorite tasks!
OH MY! I had no idea eggs were so dangerous. This calls for a media frenzy and a government warning label on every one of these things!! Lawsuits! How about insisting for licenses to obtain and have such dangerous things…
If you get some eggs out of the fridge and you’ll not sure if they’ve been boiled or not there is an easy test to find out: put the egg on a level surface and spin it: if it hadn’t been cooked it will not spin.
mattmcg-did you mean ‘van’ instead of ‘man’? Probably a typo there…
I never boil eggs-I only fry ’em. But they will make a ‘popping’ noise if the heat under the pan is too high! And you’d better stand back, or you’ll get hit by flying grease! Don’t have a microwave, anyway.
My mother always told me to lower the flame on the stove when I cooked-she’d say to me, ‘You’re just like your father’…meaning that he always kept the flame on high, too!
Had to stifle my laughter here in the library reading these….
Would the eggs boil in a box?
If you watched the time on clocks?
Are they burst, like waves on rocks?
Or scrambled, just like Matthew Fox?
Gosh! No, Father, I didn’t know.
There’s always something to learn in life …
My daughter once accidently froze stuffed eggs (I hate calling them deviled.) She was really tired and I told her to put them in our extra fridge. She accidentally put them in the deep freeze. When she brought them too me the next day you could actually see through the white part! I gleefully showed them to our company who’d never seen anything like that before.
I did not know that
@ penance2
I know three minute eggs, 5 minute eggs, but I do not know how many minutes for exploding eggs:-) this news is eggsplosive…yoke yoke :-)
… you mean yolk yolk ;-)
And did you know if you place an egg into a cup of water and it sinks it’s fresh, if it floats it’s an old egg?
How hot was that water into which you put the egg(s)?
Once while trying to multi-task, I put some eggs on to boil and went downstairs to my computer and got lost in my work.
Blam! Then Blam! again. Not sure what had happened, but sure enough, my eggs were exploding after the water had boiled away.
I think exploded eggs are an indication of a writer. Non-writers don’t have this kind of thing happen to them, do they?
Looks like the yoke’s on you :) da da tsssss.
I completely understand if you ban this comment for excessive lameness.
Yahhh …. I blew out a microwave in a hotel once trying to boil the egg. I heard later — and have NOT tried — that if you prick a hole in one end of the egg, it will not explode.
As for boiling — I’ve only ever had the eggs crack and the white leach out and get poached.
Be a good egg, now!
–Guy
I heard later—and have NOT tried—that if you prick a hole in one end of the egg, it will not explode.
HEY! ….. That would be a good…. eggsperiment.
chcrix: “I’ve done it myself, but that was not the result I observed. Instead I saw them scorch and adopt a consistency close to that of vulcanized rubber.”
I microwaved an egg (no shell) without poking the yolk first once. After I took it out and put my fork into it, it exploded and the yolk shot across the room – turned into something like a rubber ball.
Father, I am not even going to ask how you discovered this. Glad you’re OK!
Love the funny stories! Here’s a tip, really – very fresh eggs that are hard boiled are a nightmare to peel; hard boil eggs that you’ve had for a while and the shells come off in a couple of big pieces. The easy way to hard boil eggs is to bring the water to a boil, turn it off, and let them sit until the water cools or almost cools. I read that years ago and have done it that way ever since.
You oughta try the microwave method. Back in the eraly days of the microwave oven (1976) my Mom thought this would be a good idea and caused a really remarkable exposion. What’s really fascinating is the amount of pressure that the eggshell is able to contain before breaking…
I never knew that! My mother taught me well with the “7-minute rule”.
mmmmm eggs aka Liquid chicken.
I’ll have to try it. I could use something to lighten my day today!
yes. And it makes a horrible mess. Could have ruined the pan too and smells REALLY bad.
Eggstraordinary.
Thank you for this tip on what not to do in the kitchen.
My brother did that a while back. Boy was it LOUD too! We were in another room and thought they might be gunshots outside. We were so relieved when we saw egg all over the place.
This does not happen with egg-beaters (fake, liquid, low cal and zero cholesterol egg stuff).
Never done this. Think I’ll try it sometime when life needs a little jazzing up…
This happens with hot dogs, too. Who knew?
When I discovered them, I tried to pass them off as a new delicacy to the kids – “Hey, look at this! Tonight we’re having POPPED DOGS!”
They would have none of it.
Happened to me about a month ago. I put four on to boil, got busy and forgot them. Suddenly there was a sound like a gunshot! Boy, did that get my attention. Only one exploded, but it was all over the kitchen, on , under and behind everything. What a cleanup job! So – I also ask, “How did you find this out?”
Hahahahahahahaha! Father, I am sure you made that comment from experience.
Hen-fruit hand grenades.
Gives the comic strip title “Savage Chickens” a whole new meaning.
Wow.
Exploding un-fertilized chicken ovulations. My goodness!
Eggs are yellow and white spheres of slimy evil. When I was a kid, I was forced to eat a cold fried egg. I’ve loathed them ever since. I’ll cook with them, but I won’t cook them, much less eat them (shudder).
Wow – so many eggsperiences! And some good tips too! I have had boiled eggs explode in the microwave when re-heating them. What a mess! But I have learned to cover them and only set the microwave for 15-20 seconds…
Stuffed eggs is what the medievals called ’em, so Liz F isn’t far off. Except they thought you should put cheese and herbs in the paste, and that once you restuffed ’em, you should fry the eggs in oil. Sauteed cheesy deviled eggs. Sounds good, if you’re working hard and don’t mind a meal a bit high in cholesterol….
The old dictionaries say that “deviled” just means that you put in a lot of spicy flavor. I guess that’s the paprika and mustard….
I know I already posted on this-but these accounts are hilarious! Have to keep from busting out into laughter here in the library, and my eyes are watering as I’m stifling myself….
Ellen-I hated eggs as a kid, too. Had to cook one for home economics class in seventh grade, then refused to eat it…I even had to stay after school for that! Oh, how I cried!
But now I LIKE eggs…who knew? Yet I won’t microwave them-I’ll cook them in a pan on the stove! Gotta keep ’em from exploding! : )
Back in college one day, I was boiling some eggs after coming home from class all tired. I rested myself on the couch. Not long, a loud explosion woke me up from my sleep. I was thankful something woke me up. Otherwise there would have been a fire :D
I’m laughing again at the eggsperiences of others. I just remembered today the time my first pressure pot exploded all over the ceiling. It was years before I had the courage to use one again. Maybe that’s another blog topic, Father!
Just about a year ago, I had to work a twenty-four hour day. When my boss sent me home, I thought about visiting a local pancake house for an omelette, but decided to just go home and make some hard boiled eggs instead.
I get home and start the eggs. I sit down in the bedroom and pick up a magazine, to pass the time while waiting for the eggs to boil. I doze off.
I awaken to an odd odor and a funny sound. “My eggs!” I go to the kitchen and behold a gaggle of scorched and shattered eggs in an empty pot. The water had completely evaporated. Then I notice the bits of egg spattered around the kitchen. I was still fiding spatters just before Christmas.
Big fun.