Cooked Eggs vs. Raw Eggs

As we saw in earliar sections of Science Experiments website, egg experiments such as an egg drop experiment and a floating egg experiment are very popular science experiments.

This section of Science Experiments constains another type of easy egg experiment: the cooked eggs vs. raw eggs experiment.

The purpose of this cooked eggs vs. raw eggs experiement is to differentiate the characteristics of cooked eggs vs. raw eggs.

How can you tell the difference between cooked eggs vs. raw eggs?

Do you have to break the eggs to be able to identify cooked eggs vs. raw eggs? I hope not. There is a simple science egg experiment you can do very easily which will help you differentiate between cooked eggs vs. raw eggs.

Determining cooked eggs vs. raw eggs

Egg Experiment - cooked eggs vs. raw eggs

In an egg experiment, you spin each egg in turn on a plate. The egg that keeps spinning for longer is the cooked one. Now spin the eggs again but quickly stop them spinning. then immediately let them both go again.

What will I observe of cooked eggs vs. raw eggs in this science egg experiment?

The contents of the egg have more inertia when they are liquid as in the case of the raw egg, than when they are solid (cooked egg). The higher inertia slows the raw egg down so it stops spinning before the cooked egg.

But when the eggs are stopped and let go, the liquid in the raw egg was still moving. This movement started the egg spinning again.