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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.
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That's awesome! Tell us how he does, I hope he breaks it, that's really cool. Best wishes for your husbands endeavors.
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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!
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Well, the date is near the equinox. I'd be curious to see an attempt on the solstice, just for giggles.
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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?
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That is really amazing, I don't think I could balance one...I can barely balance a block let alone an egg Posts: 1918 | Registered: Mar 2005
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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?
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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.
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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.
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But what do you do with all those eggs when it's over? They don't spoil during the balancing time, do they? Posts: 952 | Registered: Jun 2005
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