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,

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.

The team used computer models of computational fluid dynamics, then tested out the painstaking—yet reportedly delicious—recipe for themselves

By carefully controlling heat flow, researchers in Italy achieved a perfectly textured egg that retains more beneficial compounds. The only trade-off? A slightly tougher peel, but for egg enthusiasts,

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