The scientists devised a way of cooking an egg that requires no special culinary skill or fancy gadgets. It took about 300 eggs, though the researchers “didn’t eat all of them,” said Pellegrino Musto, a polymer expert at the National Research Council of Italy.

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 egg can yield a chalky yolk, while cooking low and slow can produce jelly-like, undercooked whites.

If the ideal boiled egg has a meltingly soft centre and firm white, scientists have developed what they say is the perfect method. Alas, it takes 32 minutes.

There’s no single method to boil an egg, but a team at the Italian National Research Council’s Institute for Polymers, Composites, and Biomaterials now believe there is a “perfect” way to cook them. In order to make it, however, you’ll need some patience and a watchful eye.

Researchers say they've discovered a way to boil an egg that cooks both the white and yolk to perfection. Here's how you can do it at home.

Researchers lay bare their secret on cooking the perfect hard boiled egg after using over 100 eggs to test it out, and it's not like any recipe you've read before

Italian scientists claim to have found the scientifically best way to make a hard-boiled egg. After trying it for ourselves, we can confirm that the egg was delicious.

Discover the secret to perfectly boiled eggs with a revolutionary cooking method. Achieve set whites and a creamy yolk using this new technique.

With the price of a dozen going through the roof, you may want to take more care in preparing hard-boiled eggs. Science is on the case.

The perfect boiled egg is a matter of taste. For most people, it’s probably some variation of soft-boiled: not very runny, but not hard either. So how do you make your eggs? Do you just eyeball a 5-6 minute boil?