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.

Switching between boiling and warm water every couple of minutes found to create the ideal consistency, shape, taste and nutritional profile ...

If you have the patience to repeatedly switch an egg between a hot and a colder pan, you'll be rewarded with an amazing taste and texture, say physicists ...

There are plenty of tips of how to cook multiple eggs at one time for several people, but sometimes you just need one fried ...

The approach, which the authors call periodic cooking, involves alternating between cooking the egg in a pan of boiling water kept at 100C (212F), and placing it into a luke-warm bowl kept at 30C ...

which would require a soft-boiled egg.” Periodic cooking switches an egg eight times each between a pan of boiling water and a bowl of cold water — and the experts say this is the golden ticket.

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.

A chef has shared a simple hack to ensure your fried eggs are full of flavour and taste delicious, and it involves adding one ...

Dubbed periodic cooking, the technique involves alternating between cooking the egg in a pan of boiling water kept at 100C, and then placing it into a lukewarm bowl of water kept at 30C ...