How to cook an egg with a cell phone.

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http://www.wymsey.co.uk/wymchron/cooking.htm

Weekend Eating:
Mobile Cooking

with Suzzanna Decantworthy
additional research: Sean McCleanaugh

Many students, and other young people, have little in the way of cooking skills but can usually get their hands on a couple of mobile phones. So, this week, we show you how to use two mobile phones to cook an egg which will make a change from phoning out for a pizza. Please note that this will not work with cordless phones.

To do this you will need two mobile phones -they do not have to be on the same network but you will need to know the number of one of them. The only other items you will need are:

  • 1. An egg cup, (make sure that the egg cup is made of an insulating material such as China, wood or glass - plastic will do. DO NOT use stainless steel or other metal).

    2. A radio, AM or FM - you can also use your hifi.

    3. A table or other flat surface on which to place the phones and egg cup. You can place the radio anywhere in the room but you might as well put it on the table.



How To Do It:

  • 1. Take an egg from the fridge and place it in the egg cup in the centre of the table.

    2. Switch on the radio or hifi and turn it up to a comfortable volume.

    3. 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).

    4. Switch on phone B and ring phone A then place phone B on the table in a similar but complementary position to Phone A.

    5. 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.

    6. Phone A will now be talking to Phone B whilst Phone B will be talking to Phone A.

    7. 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.

    8. Cut out these instructions for future reference.
Note: We cooked our egg during the evening using free local calls, if you were to cook an egg for lunch it would cost £3.00 - not cheap but you do have the convenience.



Since I do not have all then needed equipment or eggs lying around, Someone tell me if this works or not.
 

Zanix

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Originally posted by: MX2times
I wanna know if this works too. Post pics if you can folks:)

I doubt this works, but I'll try it later.
 

DivideBYZero

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The phones wont have a direct connection with each other. That part is just plain wrong AFAIK.
 

BrokenVisage

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This works just as well as the car alarm remote signal through a cell phone trick.. which doesn't work BTW.
 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
The phones wont have a direct connection with each other. That part is just plain wrong AFAIK.

where is the part about a direct connection?

i think its just talking about using the microwave rays from the phones normal communications with the towers. you need two because one isn't really powerful enough, i suppose. plus you need two in order to continually be talking to the tower.
 

NiKeFiDO

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Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
sounds like shens to me

the phones talk to a tower which relays the signal, not to each other

was just about to type this. shens !
 

DivideBYZero

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Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
The phones wont have a direct connection with each other. That part is just plain wrong AFAIK.

where is the part about a direct connection?

i think its just talking about using the microwave rays from the phones normal communications with the towers. you need two because one isn't really powerful enough, i suppose. plus you need two in order to continually be talking to the tower.


Step 6. "Phone A will now be talking to Phone B whilst Phone B will be talking to Phone A."

This is really pointless, you could have the phones call the man on the moon and get the same effect. :p
 
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Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
The phones wont have a direct connection with each other. That part is just plain wrong AFAIK.

where is the part about a direct connection?

i think its just talking about using the microwave rays from the phones normal communications with the towers. you need two because one isn't really powerful enough, i suppose. plus you need two in order to continually be talking to the tower.
yep, i guess that is possible

though the way the have you point the attenae at each other thru the egg and the phrasing "now they are talking to each other" has the implication they are sending signals directly to each other through the egg

 

Googer

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Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
I tried it. It works but takes a long time.

The article said to use two watt phones but those have not been made since the motorola micro-tac cell phone of 1994. Most newer mintureized phones of today are .25 watt (1/4 watt) and it will take 8 times longer than their Analogue grandfathers.
 

spidey07

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Originally posted by: Googer
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
I tried it. It works but takes a long time.

The article said to use two watt phones but those have not been made since motorola micro-tac cell phone of 1994. Most newer mintureized phones of today are .25 watt (1/4 watt) and it will take 8 times longer than their Analogue grandfathers.

I remember having a 3 watt phone way back. Bet that would work better.
 

Googer

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Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Googer
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
I tried it. It works but takes a long time.

The article said to use two watt phones but those have not been made since the motorola micro-tac cell phone of 1994. Most newer mintureized phones of today are .25 watt (1/4 watt) and it will take 8 times longer than their Analogue grandfathers.

I remember having a 3 watt phone way back. Bet that would work better.

I bet that was mounted in your trunk.
 

spidey07

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nah, it was a handheld.

Motorola I believe. Very tall and slender but somewhat deep front to back. IIRC it was "the phone" to have back in 1992-3.
 

msparish

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Come on guys...a phone capable of "boiling" an egg as they put it, would burn your skin pretty badly. Oh crap...that's why I lost all the hair on the side of my head!

Edit: spelling
 

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Originally posted by: msparish
Come on guys...a phone capable of "boiling" an egg as they put it, would burn your skin pretty badly. Oh crap...that's why I lost all the hair on the side of my head!

Edit: spelling

Cell Phones operate on almost the same radio frequency as micrwave ovens, but with much less power.

Beleive it or not you could cook your dinner standing in front of one of These or These. I can Imagine it could be possible with a cell phone, but it might take a long long time. The egg would be rotten on the inside by the time it was done.