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FWIW I get the right answer on Google right now when I try:

Can you melt an egg?

No - if you heat an egg it's not like melting ice (or metal). Because an egg contains a substantial amount of carefully folded natural proteins in their native state.

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I get the following snippet: Yes, an egg can be melted," reads the Google Search result shared by Glaiel and confirmed by others. "The most common way to melt an egg is to heat it using a stove or microwave. Which is still wrong but hilariously links to an ars technica article about the aforementioned tweet.

“Carefully folded” is curious phrasing. Wouldn’t that imply they were folded by some other entity?

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