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 Ashlyn Straughn  Is it possible to fry an egg with only the sun?

Cooking an egg is easy. But it matters by the heat on the stove, the type of material to cook on, oil to use, and time. This project looks at which surface could cooks an egg faster under the beating ray of the sun. 3 surfaces were tested in this project aluminum foil, cast iron skillet, and a ceramic bowl. Before the project was tested __we__  put “pan” oil on the bottom of each of the objects that were going to be cooking the egg on. Every 15 minutes __we__ we checked to see what the temperature of the egg was. At the end of the hour the hottest egg was the iron.

Question/Hypothesis Is it possible to fry an egg under the sun? Before I took the experiment I thought the aluminum foil would cook the egg, because the aluminum foil to me was like a mirror it reflects off of the sun onto the aluminum foil. I was wrong though, the iron had the most reaction to any of the other material. Temperature of the eggs after 15 min Materials
 * 1) Eggs
 * 2) Aluminum foil
 * 3) Ceramic bowl
 * 4) Cast iron skillet
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pam (baking oil)
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paper towels
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spatula
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sun
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thermometer
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cooking thermometer
 * 11) Camera

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Procedure
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first thing to do is spray all the objects with pam (cooking oil) where the egg would be placed on it.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then cracked an egg on each of the objects used (aluminum foil, ceramic bowl, and cast iron skillet).
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Check the temperature of each egg and the temperature outside and record it on a piece of loose leaf paper.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Every fifteen minutes check the temperature of the egg and outside and record it, do this for 4 times or until it hits an hour.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't forget to record down when a cloud passes by, it usually interferes with the project.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After it hits an hour use the spatula and flip the eggs to see which material actually worked faster.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Results, Analysis, and discussion

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I had thought that the aluminum foil would be the one who would cook the egg, but i was wrong the cast iron did, people usually use a cast iron to cook eggs and it's one of the most amazing idea yet, because now that I know that an egg can cook pretty well under the sun, imagine how fast it takes to cook on the stove. Some interruptions during the experiment were some clouds, as you can tell on the graph the egg got to a high temperature then dropped, because of the clouds, some of them for a pretty long time. At the end of the project, I was able to flip the eggs to determine the consistency of the egg. The aluminum was gel like, but no white. Which was really surprising because it started to form in the beginning but it stopped toward the tenth minute. The ceramic was not to surprising, when trying to flip the egg it had no form and turned out to be very liquidy. The Iron was not really surprising but if we fried the eggs in hotter conditions it would most likely fry, toward the end it started to get a little white, when flipped it was starting to form, but was still liquidy so therefore it wasn't all the way done.

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