How To Cook an Egg with Mobile Phones

This article claims (incorrectly, see below, at the end of the article) to provide instructions for cooking an egg by placing it between two live mobile phones. It takes approximately 2 minutes of speaking on a cellular phone for the radiation to cross the protective lood rain arrier. !o when ever there is a land line available use it in preference to your cell. "ow Two #ussian $ournalists %ooked an &gg with their 'obile (hones) *ladimir +agovski and ,ndrei 'oiseynko from -omsomolskaya (ravda .ewspaper in 'oscow decided to learn first/hand how harmful cell phones are. There is no magic in cooking with your cell phone. The secret is in the radio waves that the cell phone radiates. The 0ournalists created a simple microwave structure as shown in the picture. They called from one cell phone to the other and left both phones on talking mode. They placed a tape recorder next to phones to imitate sounds of speaking so the phones would stay on. ,fter, 12 minutes3 The egg became slightly warm. 22 minutes3 The egg became very warm. 45 minutes3 The egg became very hot. 62 minutes3 The egg was cooked. %onclusion...13 %ooking eggs with mobile phones is possible but very expensive (74.22 or 128 #ubles) %onclusion...23 ,ll this talk of danger is exaggerated9 even if your brain gets cooked, it would take a couple hours of talking on a cell phone. %onclusion...83 :e don;t recommend carrying cell phone in your pants.

<pdate3 &sther said3 =%ell phones communicate with the cell tower, not each other. The egg shouldn;t be between the phones, it should be between the phone(s) and the tower for this to even have a snowballs chance in hell of working. >urthermore, a cell phone only spits out 2: of power for ?very? short intervals. ,s a matter of fact, cell phones try really hard to minimi@e their output power to ,) conserve battery life and ) play nice with the other phones on the network. Aou don;t want a phone close to the tower blasting all the other phone signals into oblivion.= <pdate 23 ,s many have pointed out, &sther;s explanation misses the fact that cell/phone antennas aren;t directional.