The perfect boiled egg
Published 5 October 2011
The perfect boiled egg takes precisely six minutes to cook – and that's official, according to University of Brighton's Professor Hal Sosabowski and student scientists.
Chefs around the world have been debating the issue ad nauseam but now Professor Sosabowski and pupils at Sherborne Girls School in Dorset believe they have come up with the definitive answer after conducting experiments to celebrate the opening of the school's new laboratories.
Their findings experiment made national headlines and attracted the interest of media around the world.
Professor Hal with Sherborne students testing for the perfect egg dunk
Professor Sosabowski, professor of public understanding of science, and his young scientists also discovered that margarine spread holds up better than butter when on bread dunked in boiled eggs. And white bread makes stronger "dunking soldiers".
Professor Sosabowski, attending the school under the auspices of the Royal Society of Chemistry, said he was impressed with the pupils' diligence and their insistence on checking and re-checking results to ensure no errors occurred.
He said: "It was a privilege for me to be there and I was very impressed by the pupils who I now consider to be members of the scientific community.
"You might say they were 'eggcellent'."
Photo by Neil Munns.
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