Eggnominious Failure

Last weekend, having bought a coffee and a hot bread roll, I set out to make myself a bacon and egg roll. Now the plan was to do this using the microwave, so that it could be done quickly and made with the roll still warm.

Bacon was quickly done to perfection but a medium-high minute later, catastrophe! Egg explosion. Everywhere! Clearly, despite the yolk having been punctured and the container having been covered, one minute on medium-high was way too long. It was in fact enough time for the yolk to reach egglear fission-achieving temperatures with the cover being blown off and mutant egg fallout strewn throughout the oven.

The most depressing thing was not the minimalist bacon roll that I had been reduced to or even the substantial mess that needed to be cleaned-up afterwards. No, the most depressing aspect of the whole sorry saga was being confronted with the irrefutable evidence that yet another piece of knowledge, humble though it have may been, had been lost from my mind.