Mobile Cooking: The College Student’s Solution
Monday, February 6th, 2006
Have you ever wished that you could boil an egg, but were without a pot, water and a heat source? Fear not! A UK Website, Wymsey, has figured out that you can boil an egg with only two mobile phones.
The only other items you need are an egg cup and an AM or FM radio. You’ll need to place the egg on a flat surface, and books or pieces of wood may be necessary to adjust the height levels of the mobiles in order to position them well in relation to the egg. From Wymsey’s guide:
- Take an egg from the fridge and place it in the egg cup in the centre of the table.
- Switch on the radio or hifi and turn it up to a comfortable volume.
- Switch on phone A and place it on the table such that the antenna (the pokey thing at the top) is about half an inch from the egg (you may need to experiment to get the relative heights correct - paperbacks are good if you have any - if not you may be able to get some wood off cuts from your local hardware shop).
- Switch on phone B and ring phone A then place phone B on the table in a similar but complementary position to Phone A.
- Answer phone A - you should be able to do this without removing it from the table. If not, don’t panic, just return the phone to where you originally placed on the table.
- Phone A will now be talking to Phone B whilst Phone B will be talking to Phone A.
- Cooking time: This very much depends on the power output of your mobile phone. For instance, a pair of mobiles each with 2 Watts of transmitter output will take three minutes to boil a large free range egg. Check your user manual and remember that cooking time will be proportional to the inverse square of the output power for a given distance from egg to phone.
- Cut out these instructions for future reference.
The only cost, aside from the price of the egg? Here’s hoping you’ve got free daytime minutes.
