Whipping them up on the stove is a breeze, but there's always that peril of overcooking and making them dry ... the lead of a method found in the book 3 Hands-Off Ways to Cook Eggs for a Crowd.

Italian scientists say they have developed an egg-cooking technique dubbed the "periodic" method for optimally cooking ... They found: Hard-boiled eggs were less wet, more adhesive and powdery ...

Researchers developed a new method dubbed "periodic cooking," which involves transferring the egg back and forth between 212 degree Fahrenheit water and 86 degree water every two minutes for a ...

If you think you have your egg-boiling technique down to a science ... the code with a technique known as periodic cooking. This new method involves alternating the eggs between hot and lukewarm ...