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I found this article fascinating – but then, I am truly a geek:

How to cook perfect boiled eggs
…Nearly every basic cookbook offers conflicting techniques on how it should be done—start the egg in cold water, or gently lower it into boiling water; add vinegar to the water to lower its pH, or add baking soda to the water to raise it; cover the pot, don't cover the pot; use old eggs, or use new eggs, and on and on—but very few offer evidence as to why any one of these techniques should work any better than your average old wives' tale. Apparently, boiling is not...ahem...an eggs-act science.
- J. Kenji Lopez-Alt at Serious Eats

The article goes on to painstakingly address every step in the process of making soft and hard boiled eggs, from a scientific perspective and with illustrative photographs.

If you can’t make the perfect egg after reading this…you should probably stay out of the kitchen.