The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

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BOILED EGGS


Boiled  eggs    are about   the simplest    recipe  in  any cook’s
repertoire, right?

Eggs    boiled  for 30-second   intervals   from    0   to  12  minutes.

But how often do you get truly perfect boiled eggs? Hard-
boiled eggs should have fully set, but not rubbery, whites
surrounding yolks that are cooked through but still bright
yellow and creamy, with no hint of chalkiness or crumbling,
and certainly none of that dreaded sulfurous green tinge at
the yolk-white interface that overcooked eggs acquire. Soft-

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