60 Eggs for ONE cake!

I did NOT kill anyone in the lab yesterday although I was tempted.

I had a group of 3 students who were having some trouble separating eggs for an angel food cake they were supposed to make. They got some yolk in their whites and I told them that they needed to try again because they would not be able to beat the whites to the right consistency to have a successful cake. I was helping some other students get started with their projects when I turned around to see them with 3 large containers full of a mixture of yolks and whites. I asked what they were doing and they told me that they had a lot of trouble with the eggs (they blamed the eggs saying there was something wrong with them and they would NOT separate). There were 4 eggs left on the second flat of eggs that I had gotten out for all 24 students to use, which meant they used somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 eggs to get 10 ounces of whites (that should have taken approximately 10 eggs). There were no other eggs in the kitchen because I had calculated what we would need and that is what was purchased. I had 8 students left that had not even begun their angel food cakes and obviously they were not going to be successful in any way if I couldn't lay my hands on some other eggs. One student turned to me and said (in a slightly sarcastic tone) that she was sorry and did I want her to go and buy eggs. No I told her, what I wanted was for them to ask me when (after 20 eggs) they needed help and I would have come right over.

I borrowed another 5 dozen from another department and we replaced them that afternoon. This incident followed another from the fundamentals lab earlier where a student took a rather large roast (about 4 pounrds) that was needed in another class and used it for braising instead of the 6 ounce one I had defrosted for her and showed her where it was. Her reply when I asked her about it was this one looked more like the ones she had seen her mother used so she picked it to use. I didn't kill her either - it was not that great of a day at BYU-Idaho.