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We’ve been having record reaching heat here in the central Virginia area. Yesterday, when GB and I left the bowling alley the thermometer read 105 degrees. With the heat index, it was supposed to feel like 115 degrees.

Today is not much better. The thermometer only reads 102.7, but it’s so humid and miserable. GB and I thought it felt as hot as an oven outside.

Ding! Ding! I feel an experiment coming on!

Have you ever heard the saying that ”it’s hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk”?

Well we decided to find out if you could, indeed, fry an egg out in this miserable heat.

I’m much too practical to just crack an egg on my driveway. So I brought out my cast iron skillet.

I preheated the skillet from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.

Then we cracked the egg into the skillet and left it for 15 minutes…… nothing happened.

This time we waited an hour and went out and checked it again (it’s WAY too hot to sit out there and watch, you know).

The edges were flaking and curling up. But the main part of the egg was still clear.

So we waited another hour…

Guess what we found out?

It is NOT hot enough to fry an egg outside.

But……

It is hot enough to dehydrate an egg outside. When we checked again, this is what we found. The white part of the egg was all flakes and no substance. And the yolk looked like a disgustingly reduced lump of something. Not too appetizing.

So we just busted this myth.

Just like the tv show, but not as intense….LOL!