Squeezing Eggs

Thursday, October 15th, 2009 We are still fascinated with eggs. We were wondering - if eggs are so delicate, why does the mother hen not crush them when she sits on them? We thought we should try and find out how strong they are. Each of us had a turn squeezing them with our hands. We squeezed as hard as we could, and to our surprise, not one of us could crack the raw egg! But we are kids.....so we gave the adults a go. They couldn't break the egg either. Someone was wondering if the egg would crack if we sat on it. We all wondered this, but didn't try it, in case someone had to spend the rest of the day with a crushed egg all over their bottom!