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A perfect boiled egg in 32 minutes? Don’t let science ruin the joyful imperfection of home cooking | Alicia Kennedy

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The pearls came to mind while reading about an experiment conducted by Ernesto Di Maio at the University of Naples in Italy .

His team found that if you swap an egg between boiling water and 30C water every two minutes for eight cycles, totalling 32 minutes , the egg will be perfectly cooked between white and yolk.

“Food science” differs from the restaurant-driven style of molecular cooking because it’s usually focused on nutrition, flavour chemistry and shelf stability to the most common ends of creating industrial products.

Cooking is an experiment, every day , in how water, oil, salt and so many other elements can come together for the purpose of making something delicious.

Weather, moods and attention all influence how a human cooks and there’s a lot to enjoy in the imperfections.

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