Well, that was a culinary mess. And it’s all my fault.
Last week, I tried one of those new “if you haven’t tried this method for cooking your fill in the blank, you should try it” method.
Yeah, didn’t work out as planned.
Normally when I want hard-boiled eggs, I put them in boiling water on the stove top and boil for the proper length of time. This is what you’re supposed to do.
Then someone suggested I try using a muffin try and baking the eggs in the oven. You can cook several eggs at once, they said, and it works marvelously.
I’m willing to try this. I have eggs, let’s try this.
I put three eggs in the cups of a muffin try, then put the tray in the oven. Followed the temperature and timing rules.
And five minutes before the recipe said my eggs were done …
BOOM
A few moments later, another BOOM. And a third BOOM. All coming out of my oven.
Yikes. What the hell’s going on here?
I opened the oven door … yeah, don’t do this cooking hack any more. The eggs exploded in the oven. Egg membranes and eggshells all over the place. Ugh.
I get it. Sometimes these hacks can improve your culinary wherewithal. And other times … it’ll just make a big fat steaming mess all over your oven, and now you’re out three eggs.
Sometimes the simple way to do something is the correct way. No reason to make three left turns just to achieve a right turn.
Man, now I gotta clean out the oven. Ugh. Eggshell fragments, burnt eggs, and I’ve probably ruined my good muffin tin.
That’ll teach me, won’t it?
Chuck The Writer 
Somehow, some way, payback is out there just waiting for your instructions, Chuck.
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I’m curious who thought this was a good idea in the first place.
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PS – But if you want to replicate the explosion, want to witness it and keep it contained – you know, maybe for a photo project? – same results in the microwave.
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