Posted by tpc at July 12th, 2006

An article on finding a formula to calculate the optimal time to soft-boil an egg. It’s pretty interesting and novel, but unfortunately it begins with

To obtain a simple formula the problem must be idealised somewhat, so the egg will be treated as a spherical homogeneous object of mass M

Spherical! It’s almost like a bad mathematics joke.

Near the bottom of the page, he explained why the yolk of hard-boiled eggs sometimes looked green. Interesting.