Mobile Phone Cooking

Cooking time: This very much depends on the power output of your mobile phone. For instance, a pair of mobiles each with 2 Watts of transmitter output will take three minutes to boil a large free range egg. Check your user manual and remember that cooking time will be proportional to the inverse square of the output power for a given distance from egg to phone.

The level of temperature increase is an order of magnitude less than that obtained during the exposure of head to direct sunlight. The brain's blood circulation easily disposes of excess heat by instantaneously increasing local blood flow. However, the cornea of the eye does not have this temperature regulation mechanism. Premature cataracts is known as an occupational disease of engineers who work on high power radio transmitters at similar frequencies. Despite this, cataracts have not been reported to occur in users of mobile telephones.

Fred, Just to say thanks for featuring me in 'Just For Grins' this week. That Egg Cooking page, published on the site in 2000, has really taken off this year. It started with big hits from Australia last September (50,000 in one week) and since then has chugged along at around 1,000 hits per week. In early February it was featured on Slashdot and the page got 250,000 hits in one week! It's bit like a harmless virus that spreads from forum to forum!

Just out of interest here is an article about the page and me:
http://tinyurl.com/9m6zw

Also, thanks for LangaList! Best wishes, Charlie.