New York (AP) – Scientists say that they have broken the code for cooking the perfect egg.
It is a recipe that you can test for yourself – although timing is not ideal when egg prices in the USA increase a bird flu.
The perfect cooked egg has a velvety egg yolk with a soft, firm white.
Reaching this balance can be a challenge, since the egg yolk cooks at a lower temperature than the white. Hard cooking with an egg can result in a calcareous egg yolk while it can cook low and slowly.
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The researchers cooked hundreds of eggs and used mathematics to tackle this ongoing puzzle. A equation dealt with how warmth wandering between a hot surface and an egg; Another recorded how the content of the egg turns into a gel -like state between liquid to solid.
Your last recipe is to transfer between two water bowls to a steamer basket every two minutes – a cooking and a lukewarm lukewarm at 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) – a total of 32 minutes before cooling under running water and cooling.
“You could definitely do this at home with half a dozen eggs or something,” said Gregory Weiss, chemist at the University of California, Irvine, who was not involved in research.
In the method proposed by the researchers, called periodic cuisine, the protein was heated and completely adjusted. The egg yolk, on the other hand, kept firmly at a constant temperature and cooked to the creamy.
“You can almost spread it on bread,” said study author Emilia di Lorenzo from the University of Naples Federico II.
To confirm that they had cooked something new, the researchers tested the chemical make -up of the prepared eggs and served them alongside traditional cooked eggs of an eight tasters.
Research was published on Thursday in the Journal Communications Engineering.
This new technology could mean more time in the kitchen than a standard-cooked egg, said food scientist Joanne Slavin from the University of Minnesota. But the mixture of textures on the tongue could be worth the additional time.
“This is a slower process to achieve a better result,” said Slavin, who did not play a role in the study.
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