How is egg inside lemon inside orange trick done?

Answer 1

Just my guess. If your talking about the one on YouTube of the guy in the cowboy hat, I'm prety sure the lady is a plant and she picks the orange which already has the lemon, egg and chick inside. The cowboy hat magician has the talent to make the egg dissapear, probably up his sleave and the same for the lemon. Often magicians do this with a bungee cord that sticks to the egg/lemon and goes up his sleve. He then cuts open the orange that he carefully placed the chick/lemon in before he got to the supermarket.

---The chick is not in the egg! Firstly, new chicks never look like that. Their feathers are more prickly, they have more skin showing through, and they're wet. This bird was smooth, fully-feathered, and dry. Also, it could stand and walk perfectly. New chicks do not do this right out of the egg, either. Finally, there aren't any chicks in store-eggs--they're checked--and if a chick egg got through accidentally into store eggs, it would most certainly not survive, as they need heat to live inside the egg.

The magic in this illusion is AMAZING slight-of-hand by the magician. The magician used excellent slight-of-hand to make the chick "appear." He didn't know the assistants and collaborate with them. He didn't need to.

Fun fact: the bird in the video is not a chicken. It has a curved beak. My guess is a yellow parrotlet or budgie.

Ian Major

(Magician debunker and chicken expert)

--Actually, I'd guess the clerk was in on it, based on carrying around that sharp knife (as opposed to a box cutter or something retractable). Also if you watch him shake the egg, you can see he shakes very slightly and carefully. Though I agree it was slight of hand to get the chick to appear as if it were coming out of the egg, the clerk (IMO) revealed his fore-knowledge of the trick by his gentle shake.

~ leprasmurf

--Yes but how did he get the orange sealed back up after he put the lemon in it? Surely there would be evidence of the first opening? Same with the lemon... I agree that it makes no sense for the store employee to carry a fixed blade kitchen knife around with him, but assuming that the kid wasn't a plant, how can you open an orange up enough to insert a lemon without anyone noticing? Perhaps the whole thing was staged and it's only meant for video...