Was it hot enough on Saturday to “fry an egg on a sidewalk” in Austin when the No. 11 Texas Longhorns took on the Rice Owls at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium? Because of its concrete composition, a sidewalk likely tops out at about 145 degrees Fahrenheit. The cooking temperature of most egg proteins is at least 150 degrees (yolk proteins begin to condense near 150, while the albumen proteins ovotransferrin and ovalbumin thicken near 142 and 184 degrees, respectively…to which the Rice readers all replied: “duh”).
So while the answer is pretty definitively NO on the egg fry, we know three things for sure:
- It was significantly hotter than 145 in DKR
- “Why does Texas play at 2:30 in September” is the new “Why does Rice play Texas?