There's More Than One Way to Crack an Egg

Cracking Eggs 101

[S]cience has finally come up with an explanation for what comes naturally to most home cooks: Eggs crack best around their equators, says MIT mechanical engineer Pedro Reis, because of their geometry. He and a young colleague, Arnaud Lazarus, have just published a paper in Physical Review Letters demonstrating a link between an eggshell’s geometry (it belongs to a class of shapes known as ovoids) and a mechanical property called rigidity—the quality that, along with strength, determines how much force an object can withstand before it cracks.

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  1. … yeah. This reminds me of the classic problem which occurs when trying to make a cone out of a plane (perhaps paper) without disrupting the plane. I think this is quite apparent. Also like suction cups being stuck inside out.

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