HEAT AND EGGS
Though some people claim that adding salt, vinegar, or
baking soda to the water when you boil an egg can affect its
final texture, in my testing, I found that the only factors that
matter when boiling an egg in its shell are time and
temperature.
To find out exactly how fast an egg cooks in boiling
water, I cooked a dozen and a half eggs, removing them
from the pot at 30-second intervals before splitting them
open.
Now, there are a few things you’ll notice immediately.
First and most obvious is that the longer you keep an egg in
boiling water, the hotter it gets. But here’s something more