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The Incredible Egg (encore)

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The Magic of Eggs

Before artificial lighting and refrigeration, eggs went bad. So humans all over the world devoted a lot of ingenuity to preserving them. The famous Chinese century egg isn't actually preserved for 100 years. Although the technique has been around for a few hundred years. We've got the science behind the magical culinary powers of the egg coming up after this break.

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