Dr. Seuss was right! There is such a thing as green eggs! And I think Sam I Am was nutso for liking them. Yicko.
That, my dear reader, is a green egg. My son read about an experiment with vinegar and a raw egg, and wanted to try it. The experiment was about OSMOSIS. Can you say OSMOSIS, boys and girls? 
Anyway, the raw egg sits in a jar of vinegar for a few days. The shell totally disappears. It’s gross. The vinegar dissolves it into this foamy stuff at the top, and then dissipates into, uh, my kitchen air. :-p
After a few days, he drained the vinegar and add water. The experiment said to add corn syrup to the jar, but I didn’t have any. Se we used food coloring. My son chose green. A nice, slimy color very fitting for this experiment, I think.
So after a few more days, he drained the green water. And we got the egg. We thought it was like a boiled egg, solid all the way through. My son placed the egg on the kitchen counter (see photo above) and attempted to stab it with a knife.
“Wait!” I said.
I placed the egg in a small dish. JUST. IN. CASE.
Hohboy, am I glad I did that! We poked the egg, and >POP<.
That’s even grosser. YUK!
So it wasn’t solid inside. But the jelly stuff inside is green. I guess that’s OSMOSIS. The food coloring passed through the egg’s thin membrane, and affected the liquid around the yolk. Science is so disgusting.
26. April 2010 at 10:59 pm
EEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! That is sooooooooooooo disgusting. I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them, Sam-I-Am! I would not eat them in a house, I would not eat them with a mouse! I do not like them, Sam-I-Am!
Wow, still remember it after all these years. ;)
26. April 2010 at 11:00 pm
Gosh, that’s pretty interesting! And weird! Good call on the dish!
27. April 2010 at 7:53 am
Yuk, my kids were never a fan of Dr. Seuss, I wasn’t either! But that certainly is interesting!
Visiting from TB!
27. April 2010 at 10:03 am
Okay. Green eggs. I’ll give the ham a miss. Now that I look at those pictures, I’ll give green eggs a miss too. An interesting experiment. Maybe that’s why I went into electronics–it’s not as messy as biology.
27. April 2010 at 2:46 pm
When the kids were younger I made green eggs. But I just scrambled them with a little food coloring. Your experiment is way cooler. And grosser.
27. April 2010 at 5:26 pm
Hmmm… that is, well, interesting! We used to have that Dr. Seuss book, and I always thought, “Green eggs and ham? Disgusting!” I guess your experiment proves me right! ;)
27. April 2010 at 6:03 pm
That is cool! Kids love stuff like that–that is a very cool experiment.
27. April 2010 at 8:16 pm
Yuck! It might have looked nicer coloured yellow or orange, but green? I bet it would have looked OK hard boiled though.
28. April 2010 at 7:57 pm
So…is it still edible?
29. April 2010 at 12:00 pm
You guys crack me up! Get it? Crack me up? Hahahahhaa!!!!
OK.
Um, NO. We did not eat the egg. *retch*
Babs, I should have hard-boiled it, yes! That would have been cool.