That's why it's key to know how to cook them properly when you do find eggs at a reasonable price. Luckily, a new scientific study is showing us all how to prepare the perfect boiled egg.

The research — published Thursday in the journal Communications Engineering — compared a hard-boiled egg, a soft-boiled egg, the sous vide version that fancy restaurants use, as well as a ...

“Many times people say that they don’t like the rubberiness of the egg white, or the graininess of the yolk in a hard-boiled egg,” said Nelson Serrano-Bahri, a chef and the director of ...

And you can order or make eggs in a dizzying array of styles, from over easy to hard-boiled. Of course, any discussion of eggs these days has to start by acknowledging that, yes, they are crazy ...

Photographs of the raw, hard-boiled (red), soft-boiled (yellow), sous vide (green) and periodic (blue) eggs. Credit: Pellegrino Musto and Ernesto Di Maio “[Sous vide] gives a very peculiar ...

Hard-boiled, soft-boiled or poached. Scientists have studied how to cook the perfect egg and have come up with a new recipe that they say optimises its taste and nutritional quality. Cooking ...

A new study reveals a technique called "periodic cooking" that balances yolk and white to perfection. The only catch? It’s a ...

The perfect boiled egg has a velvety yolk paired with a soft, solid white. Achieving this balance can be a challenge because the yolk cooks at a lower temperature than the white. Hard boiling an ...

The perfect boiled egg has a velvety yolk paired with a soft, solid white. Achieving this balance can be a challenge because the yolk cooks at a lower temperature than the white. Hard boiling an ...

It’s a recipe you can test for yourself — though the timing isn’t ideal with soaring egg prices in the United States from a bird flu outbreak. The perfect boiled egg has a velvety yolk ...