We finally got word that the Australian Egg Corporation is going to sponsor Brian to fly out and help them break his current world record in egg balancing! The event will take place on Sept. 14, and will be filmed by the Today Show down there, so anyone on that side of the world, keep your eye out for my husband! And if anyone is in the Melborne area, he says you're welcome to come help balance and break the record.
[ September 19, 2005, 12:14 AM: Message edited by: divaesefani ]
Posted by Shawshank (Member # 8453) on :
That's awesome! Tell us how he does, I hope he breaks it, that's really cool. Best wishes for your husbands endeavors.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:I hope he breaks it
But not the eggs! Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
That is really cool! Yay for him, and yay for free trips to Australia!
(What happens to the thousands of eggs after he's done balancing them?)
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
That's so awesome! I didn't even know they had a world record for that!
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Okay, I've got to ask. What got into him on the day he decided to set the record for egg balancing?
It's just such an unusual endeavor...
Posted by divaesefani (Member # 3763) on :
If only I knew what got into him!
His brother showed him how to balance an egg when he was a kid. He and his best friend kept doing it. I guess he just got bored in college!
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
So when he's about to perform, do you tell him to break an egg?
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Eggcelent!
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
How very...strange...
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Is it the equinox already? Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I would come watch but am 3000 km away...
Still very eggcited for him. Posted by Wendybird (Member # 84) on :
Wow. That is pretty cool!
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Haha, afr, that made me giggle out loud.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Well, the date is near the equinox. I'd be curious to see an attempt on the solstice, just for giggles.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Well, it certainly is an eggcentric pursuit.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Let's have an ovation for all the punsters in this thread. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Yeah, we certainly have a lot of yolksters.
Posted by divaesefani (Member # 3763) on :
Brian got back from Australia yesterday. He broke the record for the Most Eggs Balanced Simultaneously By an Individual by balancing 439 eggs. This was a change of plans....he was going to break the group record again, but the PR company couldn't find enough volunteers to help, so he went for the individual. So now he holds the group record, the individual record, and he set the record for the Fastest Dozen, which he did in 4 min 2 sec! So technically he holds the record for the most egg balancing records at a whopping three!!
And if you google his name, you'll find articles from all over the world...everywhere except the United States, that is!! From England to Italy to Turkey to India, Taiwan and more! Cool, huh?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Very cool.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Cool!
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:So technically he holds the record for the most egg balancing records at a whopping three!!
Wow! The Trifeggta!
Posted by RackhamsRazor (Member # 5254) on :
That is crazy! wow!
Posted by DarkKnight (Member # 7536) on :
That is really amazing, I don't think I could balance one...I can barely balance a block let alone an egg Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Amazing!
Since I have chickens, so I often have four or five dozen or more eggs in my fridge at a time -- I will have to try this to at least see if I can balance ONE.
Ask Brian for me -- are some varieties of eggs easier to balance than others? The larger Rhode Island Red brown eggs, for instance, easier than the smaller white Leghorn variety? Or does it matter at all? What kind of eggs does he use when doing the balance? USDA rated small, medium, large or extra large?
Congrats to him!
Farmgirl
Posted by Mintieman (Member # 4620) on :
How do you balance an egg?
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I don't know if this is amazing, but it is Eggciting, eggzilarating, and most likely, eggsausting.
Just want to say Eggsellent work. Its always good to have a celebrity on the board.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
quote:he set the record for the Fastest Dozen, which he did in 4 min 2 sec!
He must have really scrambled for that one!
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
Dan's eggstremely reaching for the funny yolks with that post.
Posted by rCX (Member # 8503) on :
Wow! How do you balance them?! Is there a certain technique? Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I'd be shell shocked.
Posted by Hamson (Member # 7808) on :
Whoa! That was your husband? I saw that local paper article linked from some other site. Nice.
Posted by Brian (Member # 8629) on :
Cool. I'm famous! Hello all. My name is Brian, and as you can see, I am the egg balancer. Thanks for all the eggscelent yolks.
In answer to your questions:
Mintieman: Here is a picture of the technique I use. (That's me, balancing the third egg in Australia.)
Farmgirl: I have found that smaller eggs seem to be easier to balance. When we set the group record a couple of years ago, we used medium, white, (caged) hen eggs from the grocery store in Utah. When I broke the individual record last week, I used brown, free-range Aussie chook eggs, 600 gm. For those of you who are lost, they're pretty much the same, just brown. And upside-down.
-Brian
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Are they cooked or uncooked?
Posted by Brian (Member # 8629) on :
Uncooked. Cooked ones would either not balance because the yolk is off centered, or not count because those are the rules. Frankly, I've never tried it.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
Hi Brian! Congratulations!!
But what do you do with all those eggs when it's over? They don't spoil during the balancing time, do they? Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
quote: But what do you do with all those eggs when it's over?
You do a very thorough number on the previous record-holder's car/house/face.
--Enigmatic
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