When I was a kid (during the 80’s) I bought a “square egg maker” at a garage sale. It was a plexiglass cube with cranks that could be used to reduce the size of the cube after placing a hard-boiled egg in it. After some time passed (hours? maybe a day?) the egg could be removed from the cube and the egg would be compressed into a cube shape. Even the yolk inside the egg would be cube shaped.

And that my friends is how you fit a round egg in a square hole.

This show represents the golden age of Australian educational broadcasting. I wish we had Deane and Rob on TV today.

This is why egg-coloring kits come with a dye tablet you dissolve in vinegar then soak the egg in the vinegar solution for a minute or two. The vinegar softens the hard shell enough for the dye to penetrate and stick. Without it, the dye won't stick. FYI you can use regular food coloring and vinegar, and you can make the wire thingies you use to move the eggs in and out of the vinegar out of large paper clips.

I love the heavy action music 5 second egg factory montage at the end. Really tied the whole lesson together.

The idea of an egg being stored in a bottle doesn't seem to odd, but an egg being stored in a square box seems cursed in my mind

"Hey Mary, what's your claim to fame?" Why, I was Egg Carton Girl on Curiosity Show back in 1986 and again in 2021.

I remember doing this experiment with my brother & sister after seeing this episode. Mum was furious that we'd wasted so many of her "good eggs".

I can't believe I found this episode after two decades! I really miss the days I would sit eagerly waiting to watch the curiosity show!

Why this was an eggcellent show.

nice info, THANKS DEANE! awesome ending with the energetic egg packing music!

I love how he says “carbon dioxide” like it was just discovered

Have fun taking the egg out the jar now...

I very much enjoy this kind of stuff. So glad that I found your channel! This relates to my other interest, magic.

When he asked "can you think of a way to make square eggs" I immediately thought "force chickens into small boxes".

A very cool video with some interesting, easy to reproduce results. Thanks for sharing with us a lovely simple experiment that is safe for all ages. :-)

Toy channels need to pay attention.

Good thing I didn't learn this when I was a kid. Those water balloon fights would have gotten more interesting. 😁

I love how this is always suggested after a new Curiosity Show video where Deane is the host. That said, I tried this and forgot it for 2 days. The egg grew and the white of the egg turned to vinegar.

Love how the eggs got its own music montage at the end 😂

loving the egg montage at the end

So glad I got recommended this show. Would’ve love this as a kid.

These are the television programs which inspired the scientists of today. This show, Mr. Wizard here in America, and many others made science fun and entertaining. I’m very happy to see them live on in KZfaq for our children to enjoy and learn from.

watching this high is a trip

I bet Senku has been watching these when he was younger. I really love these science shows. It prepares us for an unknown future.

For their next trick, how to get the rubberized egg, out of the bottle :)

Used to do this all the time as a kid, love seeing this video

Wish you would have explained exactly what was going on to shell. Like is the shell completely gone and that's just an interior lining that's made of a similar material as reptile eggs? Or did you chemically change the calcium of the shell and that made it soft. Guess I'll have to give it a goog and find out

Kids, make sure to spill some vinegar on mum's marble bench top and watch her reaction!

How 80's is this? Everything was square in the 80s!

I saw this trick on a book when I was a kid. The book mentioned that the egg would have bounced, but it didn't mention to do it from a low height. So I let the egg soak in vinegar overnight (horrible, horrible smell) and the next day, lo and behold! the egg is in fact rubbery. Confident, I pick it up and throw it on the floor, only to see it break and make a mess. Moral of the story: don't always trust what you find in books.

"The Ooh Ahh bird is so named because it lays square shaped eggs." Classic line from '70s Brit sitcom The Good Life where Margo reads out Tom's homemade Christmas cracker joke.

This was my favourite after school show back in the 70's

Those acid washed jeans sure bring back memories. My goodness, I miss the 1980’s.

I used to love this show as a kid

I never saw this show. Yet it still made me feel nostalgia for the tv I watched as a kid.

I've seen rubberized eggs before.. they normally have a wire running from it to a controller.

I loved this show as a kid

What were the odds on him actually having 1000s of those boxes, and 100s of those jars?🤔

It’s easier to just warp the local space around the egg by transforming it from Cartesian to inverted polar coordinates. That way you get cube like eggs. Not perfect but it works well enough. The only thing you have to be careful of is switching back to regular space when cooking them or a singularity might form.

"And thus, you have captured the egg within a glass void from which there is no escape".

The ending makes eggs so exciting.

Omg the CURIOSITY SHOW I used to watch this after school back in the 80s lols I feel a little old, but I have to say this brings back memories wow 🤩

Can we talk about that absolute banger of a theme song?

Thank you! You are awesome

Liked the egg montage at the end.

Nice job! Next episode: taking the egg out of the jar

Okay genius, I'd now like to see you try to get that rubber egg out of that jar without breaking the egg or the jar...

Gotta love that 80's "education-video" riff at the end 😄

This just blew my mind!!! 🤯🤯🤯

Very cool, I’ll try it!

That was pretty cool.

It's chic to be square! 😬

I came here to see an egg cooked into a perfect square on a frying pan. I left with so much more.

I always watched this show in Germany in the 80s!

Well I bet it’s pretty hard to get the egg out of the jar, lol, love this series!

This would be a hell of a Dragon's Den pitch: "I'm asking for £50,000 for 20% of my company Egg in a Box"

This reminds me a little bit of that legendary Donald Duck comic "Lost In The Andes", by Carl Barks, where Donald and the nephews find square eggs that are made by square chickens.

I'm not sure your new business proposal of square eggs will take off.

5:04 is the most hype egg factory production I've ever seen

5:00 “it might have a slight vinegary flavor, but that might even improve the taste” This sums up how the British tastes British food.

I wonder if it's healthier to eat the eggs whole like that, once cooked. I'm wondering if the membrane under the shell has a higher concentration of nutrients but since it stays attached to the shell when cracked normally, are we throwing away the best part? Like peeling vegetables?

I’m glad after taking the eggs out of the perfectly suitable egg container, I’ve got somewhere suitable to store my eggs

That is actually interesting

Back when people used to make things

Having an absolute dig at Julius Sumner Miller

“Hey I’d like a box of eggs” “There you go, a box-shaped box of egg”

Wait just a minute now, show me how you plan on getting it back out of that glass jar sir

remind me a magasine for kid some years later who offers some interesting toy with it , and once they game a box for make egg square (related to the main story in the issue of magasine) if im remember correctly in was a Picsou Magasine , around 1997 maybe

I love this channel. It will always remind me of my childhood 👍🖐

Actually if you wish to try this trick you'll first need to teach your 🐔 chicken the principals of geometry.

This show is so damn cool

deadpan humor level 1000

Australians! Answering questions nobody ever asked since 1972.

Thanks! I can use this to fit all of my square eggs into circular holes now

An oldie but a goodie😉

This video is wild for folks who’ve never seen an egg before.

Yes now I can carry my boxes and jars of eggs to travel with wherever I need to go! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

shortly after this aired, the chicken industry put into practice large scale acid washing of eggs, and thats why we buy eggs today from the shops in little square boxes and jars, instead of cartons

And this was a eggcellent video.

The Curiosity Show (1972-1990 ) hosted by Rob Morrison and Dean Hutton was an entertaining kids science show produced before Australia became an authoritarian regime . Good ole days down under .

if ya got a square box you also need square chickens, *man starts playing minecraft*.

Try it with nitric acid ! You won’t need to wait overnight 🤪

the cartons fine... I've always liked it.

Eggstraordinary!! ✨

Tremendo soundtrack xd

5:04 - Starts the Top Gun left over soundtrack.

Me : I’m gonna go to sleep early tonight! Also me at 2:00 A.M. : Watching this

Good luck with getting the egg out of the jar :D

This shows beginning to make me curious

KZfaq recommending a random video at 2am be like:

How can I fit an egg into a small square box? I'm glad you asked!

Who else is hungry for an egg now?

Very cool!

love the outro

can this method improve the conservation of the eggs?

Qualification to work in the egg factory: Must be a slow mover😂

*HOW DO YOU GET THE EGG OUT OF THE JAR?!*

This video saved my life

if you hard boiled one of those soft eggs in a sqaure container, would it stay sqaure when its removed