Making my lovely wife breakfast this morning got me thinking about eggs.  As I smacked two eggs together and one of the shells broke, I separated the shells and the egg plopped out onto the pan, I did it again with the same result and after three were in the pan, I had only one left and so I smacked it against the counter top.  I could have used the edge of the pan, but chose not to.  So there I had four eggs resting in the pan as it heated.

My mind races sometimes and this time it was really going strong.  Thinking to myself, I wonder if there is a world record for the number of eggs one egg has cracked before its own shell cracks?  I’ll bet that one has not been attempted yet.  If this gives you an idea to get the Guiness guys together go for it.  I’d like to see the results.  I’ll bet a beer you won’t get 10 eggs cracked before the one doing the cracking cracks.  Are we on?

So, of course after breakfast I attacked the internet to find out my answer.  Now, you must consider I am doing this for you as much as for myself because I seem to have more time on my hands than you do for such important things such as this.

I did not find anything that talked about using one egg to crack a bunch of other eggs.  So, I’m fairly certain you could easily get into the record book.  What I did find was these useful bits of information.

In order to enter into an egg cracking exhibition you have to know some basic rules.  You need to use both hands if you are going for a record of the number of eggs cracked in one hour.  However, you can use just one hand if you are going for the record of eggs cracked in one minute.

In both events, NO EGG SHELLS can enter into the pan/bowl or whatever during the time.

Pretty simple and straight forward rules.  I would expect the same to be true while using one egg to crack as many others as you can.  Just keep that in mind.

Ok, so back in 2011 the record for the total number of eggs cracked in one hour was broken by Bob Blumer.  That guy was an egg cracking sucker let me tell you.  He cracked a total of 2,318 eggs in one hour!  Of course using both hands and cracking without getting shells in the bowl.  When the judges got together they tossed out 248 cracked eggs because of shells and so the record stands at 2,070!

Also, in 2011, (it must have been the year of the egg) a man named Ross McCurdy broke the record of eggs cracked in one minute.  He cracked eggs in one hand and then in the other.  Like a machine he cracked eggs and plopped them into a bowl.  Like a young Dry Dog at the Red Baron Cafe making breakfast for the threshers, he cracked eggs!  32 eggs fell without so much as an inkling of an egg shell!  Now that’s crackin!

So, there you have it and you don’t even have to go anywhere else to seek out this information.  I have done the research for you and you are certainly allowed to quote this in any assignment you may have in your future.

I think you really should proceed with the record of the most eggs cracked using one other egg.  I found no record of that anywhere!

Bears Butt

May 22, 2012