Cuocere un uovo per insegnare la fisica - Cooking an egg to teach physics

The wide range of phenomena involved in food processing can provide countless ideas for introducing new topics of physics, capturing the interest of students with everyday examples. We show that studying the cooking of an egg with a thermal camera can be surprising and instructive and provide non-trivial examples of heat transmission, thermal properties of materials, and of concepts such as latent heat and phase transitions. The experiment can be an engaging activity for high school students, but can also be proposed as an inquiry-based activity for university students who will have a chance to apply their knowledge of physics to a real phenomenon.