General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

if not that I had seen it with my own eyes:

This morning, I performed a task which I must have done thousands of times: cracking an egg.

I struck the shell against the edge of the pan, levered apart the two halves of the shell either side of the breach which I had created.

And the contents, as expected fell into the pan.

Except that, they were still wholly contained within the membrane. There, sat in the hot oil was a roughly egg-shaped, but not rigid, sack, containing my egg!

Perhaps I should have tried to cook it within its sack: something different.

But to add insult to injury, when I used my fingers to rip the sack apart, I also broke the yolk!