An Egg-cellent Finding!

By Amanda Leake
Problem/question
Does the
temperature of an
environment matter
to an eggs shelf-
life?
 • It is my hypothesis that a warmer
environment will make an egg go
Hypothesis expired quicker.
 • Materials you'll need to complete this experiment:
• Three eggs
• Three cups
Materials • Water
• Three different temperature environments
• Optional: A cool dad for support
Procedures
• Step 1: Acquire three eggs
• Step 2: Leave one egg in a normal
temperature room in a cup of water (I
used my kitchen which was 75 degrees)
• Step 3: Leave another egg in a slightly
warmer room in a cup of water (I used my
garage at 90 degrees)
• Step 4: Leave the last egg in a very hot
area in a cup of water (I used the lovely
outside weather of Nevada (average 105
degrees)
• Step 5: Leave all three eggs in their
assigned area for 3 hours
• Step 6: Put each assigned egg in its own
cup of water to test if it rotten or not.
 RESULTS 1.2
Time it takes to become expired

0.8

0.6

My results showed that the 0.4

cold egg stayed the same 0.2

quality after being stored in a 1

cold egg
2

warm egg hot egg

3

refrigerator for one hour. The

warm egg became slightly
expired (it floated halfway up
the cup) after one hour in 90
degree storage. Finally the hot
egg that was stored in 105
degree weather became 100%
inedible after one hour of
storage.
Conclusion
• My conclusion is that the data
revealed that my hypothesis was
correct. Warmer weather does play
a factor in making eggs expire
quicker.