Can't boil an egg?[INVENTION]

The ‘Gogol Mogol’, named after a Russian egg dish, was created by a Russian team of inventors known as KIAN, and designed by Evgeny Morgalev.

 

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• The outer layer is made from the sort of paperboard traditionally used to make egg boxes. 
• Beneath this there are three more layers. One is infused with calcium hydroxide and other chemicals, and the other is a ‘smart layer’ containing water.   
• Between these two inner layers is a membrane which is removed by pulling a cardboard tab. 
• Once this is taken out, the calcium hydroxide reacts with the water in the smart layer to generate enough heat to cook the egg inside. 
• The technology has been used in the past to create self-heating cans of sausages and beans, which are popular with campers. 
• But this is the first time that designers have been able to apply the chemical heat generation, known as an exothermic reaction, to an egg. 
• Although the egg is cooked after just two minutes, the heating process inside the packaging will continue for up to three minutes. 
• Depending on when they decide to twist off the cardboard cap, users can go for a runny or hard-boiled yolk.  
• Either way, it’s a fraction of the time it takes to boil a pan of water then wait four minutes for it to cook.  
• The Gogol Mogol cannot be reused and must be thrown away after a single use, but has been created out of recycled materials to reduce waste.