cell phone egg cooking

[bluegray]

I can't post an url, so just search for 'Lagovski Moiseynko egg'.
I saw something like this before. I can think of a few differences between an egg and a human head though. Size, different skull/shell thickness, circulation inside the head etc.

Anyone tried to duplicate this?

Also, does anyone know what the difference in SAR for eggs and the human head is?

Vladimir Lagovski and Andrei Moiseynko from Komsomolskaya Pravda Newspaper in Moscow 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 journalists 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.
After, 15 minutes: The egg became slightly warm.

25 minutes: The egg became very warm.
40 minutes: The egg became very hot.
65 minutes: The egg was cooked. (As you can see.)

Conclusion 1: Cooking eggs with mobile phones is possible but very expensive ($4.55 or 123 Rubles)​

Conclusion 2: All this talk of danger is exaggerated; even if your brain gets cooked, it would take a couple hours of talking on a cell phone.
Conclusion 3: We do not recommend carrying cell phone in your pants.

 

[MetalPig]

In the Discovery Channel show Brainiac they buried an egg under dozens of ringing mobile phones, and nothing happened to the egg.

There may be a difference in radiation between using a phone for speaking and just letting it ring; I don't know.

 

[MRC_Hans]

A normal cell-phone has a max output power of 2W. If it is placed in a set-up where most of this power is dissipated into the egg (as in a screened setup) the egg will eventually be cooked.

However, this has only limited relevance to the user situation. For several reasons:

- The max output power is seldom used; to concerve battery power, the cellphone will adapt its output power according to the distance to the base station.

- The cellphone is not constructed to transfer energy to the user, quite the contrarty; it is constructed to radiate as much energy as possible away from the user.

- A human head is much larger (even the brain .. usually) and much better cooled than an egg. Remember that our tissues are thermostatted to 37degC, and any local heating will be countered by increased blood circulation and sweating.

Hans

 

[Ladewig]

I can't post an url, so just search for 'Lagovski Moiseynko egg'.

I googled and came up with this description:
http://www.googirama.com/mobile/news/phone-radiation-cooks-eggs-153.html which had an active link at the bottom which led me to this page: http://www.gelfmagazine.com/mt/archives/how_to_cook_an_egg_and_create_a_viral_sensation.html which says the whole thing was a hoax written to show how silly cell phone claims are.

"I really underestimated how many people would take it seriously," he tells Gelf over email. "No other page on the site has grabbed people's attention and ire button as much as this one. What seems to be happening is that it 'travels' from blog to blog, forum to forum. It was big in Australia last year and seems to be big in the US right now."

 

[bluegray]

Yip, the pic at gelfmagazine.com is the one I remember, thanks!

 

[bluegray]

According threewisemen.ca/egg/ it does not work at all - I was planning to test it anyway

But now I'm much less optimistic of anything actually happening