Researchers claim that 'periodic cooking' is the optimal solution for evenly boiling an egg's yolk and white, allowing for optimal cooking of the egg in all its parts.

Scientists say they've cracked the code for boiling the perfect egg. It's a recipe you can test for yourself — though the timing isn't ideal with soaring egg prices in the United States from a bird flu outbreak.

A new method pioneered to optimally cook both the yolk and white (or albumen) of a boiled chicken egg has been published in Communications Engineering. The approach, which the authors call periodic cooking,