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This is a real thing I do. It feels weird if the weight of the carton isn’t evenly balanced when I take it from the fridge.
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Balance is everything, I don’t want the carton to flip on me cause the eggs are placed randomly
not autistic but I picked up a very unbalanced egg carton once and realized we shouldn’t have unbalanced egg cartons. it’s just sensible.
There’s another way to egg?
And if you are left with a prime number of eggs?
2 is a prime. I think you meant odd.
Of course, how could I forget about the oddest prime!
Always removed in two, there are. No more. No less.
I do this too for weight distribution, but I don’t make sure it’s symmetrical. I’m worried someone in my family will be surprised by the uneven weight of the carton when they pull it off the shelf and drop it.
I guess a three-egg omelette is out of the question then
Whoa look at Mr moneybags here, flexing with an 18 eggs container
Per egg it is cheaper than buying the dozen.
How are you going to rearrange the eggs when you take out the next egg?
you take out another egg
Start from the corners one at a time.
There is always a relevant xkcd.
My wife insists on true neutral and I can’t think of a worse way of doing it. I try to counterbalance with lawful good whenever I have eggs, bit I’m always playing catch up…
Chaotic good here.
Yep, I’m an Autist.
… Also had a mom with pretty severe OCD, so I always remember that ‘good enough is good enough’, in scenarios like this.
EDIT:
… Also also, I find the lawful evil solution to be utterly diabolical and actually makes me angry just being exposed to it conceptually… which I guess does make sense, opposite sections of the chart.
Did your mom also have a neverending project of slowly removing the old layers of lead paint from the inside of the house by scraping it off a little at a time with a razor blade?
… No?
She had different kinds of cleaning routines/phobias/rituals.
I disagree with most of those. Lawful neutral is evil for example, as it imbalances the carton away from the hinge.
Knowing Randall, I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually got his own DnD group, or conducted some sort of poll, where he actually asked people already in certain alignment categories to describe their own egg carton balancing patterns… or lack thereof.
That would come closer to the actual alignments self representing…
But also I have no idea, this is just my head canon now rofl.
According to this I am chaotic neutral, not sure what that means? I aim to balance the weight evenly, when pulling out of the fridge, the carton stays level.
I use Lawful Good for the same reason. Both keep the center of weight in the middle, but your method is more evenly distributed.
I’m chaotic good. Balanced haphazardly and without order.
Per this example I’m lawful good
it’s just sensible. if you take from one end, you run the risk of unexpectedly grabbing the ‘light end’ and accidentally dropping the partial carton on the floor next time you take it out of the fridge.
So always put the heavy (short, not long) end facing the door, so you always grab the heavy end, and never have this problem.
Bam. Right here. It’s all about that weight distribution, simple as. First time I grabbed a carton by the light end, my stomach dropped. Not having that, no way.
This is why I do it. It’s not necessarily symmetrical, just roughly even weight distribution to prevent a heavy side.
I’m positive there is a correlation between ocd and autism. This seems like it’s hinting at a more ocd thing. Still it’s not entirely irrational itself.
Huh, maybe I should give it a try……
I think with this carton you can get a weight-balanced arrangement for any number of eggs except one and seventeen. So whatever you do at the start and end of the carton, it better involve at least two eggs
When it must be inbalanced due to the number of eggs, as long as the extra weight is towards the hinge then it retains the safety benefits of being balanced.
Since I get eggs while holding the carton I tend to take from the ‘outside’ row first, starting at the ends, and work my way into the center by the hinge. This puts the weight in the hand I’m using to hold the carton and works well even for 18 and 24 count cartons. If I set the carton down before yoinking eggs, I would go for more balance.
