Scientists say they’ve found the ideal way to cook boiled eggs to maximize consistency, taste and nutrients of the egg white and yolk. You can even test it at home.

Researchers developed a ‘periodic cooking’ method using alternating hot and cold water cycles to cook eggs evenly while preserving nutrients and optimizing texture.

Hard-boiled eggs can be one of the simplest and also one of the trickiest things to make. (There's a reason you see so many hard-boiling egg hacks out there!) Getting your eggs to just the right consistency and making them easy to peel can require a lot of trial and error,

Taste experts were stunned to try out perfectly boiled eggs cooked using a new ingenuine method discovered by scientists.