​​Why do Eggs turn hard when you boil them?


 ​​Why do Eggs turn hard when you boil them?


Eggs are rich in proteins, the three main components are the egg shell, the egg white and the egg yolk. All proteins are made of building blocks called as amino acids arranged in chains, the specific folding a chain of amino acid undergoes gives a protein its properties.
Now this structure can be modified by various applications of heat or chemicals and the process of changing the original structure of a protein is called as denaturing. Denaturation in simple words, alters the bonds between the amino acids chains in the original or native structure of the protein, altering the bonds alters the properties of the protein.

In case of an egg, the egg white which is a semi-fluid state in its native form, on application of heat through boiling clumps together and hardens, forming the white exterior of boiled eggs, the egg yolk which is also in a semi-fluid state hardens forming the hard yellow yolk we find in a boiled egg.
However food scientists have found that boiling eggs for different duration of time leads in different extent of denaturation, enabling them to experiment with dishes that have a slightly runny yolk or a slightly soft texture to the boiled egg.


Comments

Archive

Labels

#Android 16th Century 1969 80's 8th Century Adhesives AI AIr Air Fliter Albert Einstein Alpha Centauri Amazon Ancestors Android Antimatter Apollo 11 Apple Architect Battery Bioceramics BITCOIN Blue Carbon Bone Marrow Books Butterfly Call of Duty Carbon Caribbean islands. Celestial portrait Cellular Jammer Clouds Computer Technology cosmic clouds cosmic. CRYPTO LICENSE crypto metrics Cryptocurrency Cyclones Designs Tips Did you know Dogecoin Door Earth Egg Electric-vehicle Electronic ELON MUSK Engineering Equinox Facebook Facts Fathometer ​Floppy disks Fruits Gadgets Galaxy Gaming Gas Gigantic Jet Light Google Gun Gun Bullets History Holographic Horizon. Hubble Human Hydrogen clouds hydrogen gas Indian Ocean Instagram Ionosphere Jellyfish jupiter Latest Technology Lie detector Light Years ​Litecoin Lynds Dark Nebula 1251 Mars Martha Stewart Medical Science Meta Metals Microneedling Milky Way Galaxy Molecules Moon Moonbow Morse Code MRI Mummy museums NASA Nebula Neil Armstrong New Technology News NGC 6559: East of the Lagoon Perseid Personality Development Planet Planets Pluto Pools Popcorn Prymid Psychology Pubic Hair Quantum mechanics Quantum Technology Radar Radiation Radio Frequency Radioactivity Region Rubin Galaxy saturn Scientist skywatchers Smog Tower Snail solar system Sonar Southern hemisphere Space science Space X Species Spiderweave spieces Spiral galaxy Star Stars Stars system Steve Jobs Sun Supernova Swimmers Techniques Telescope Tetrapods Theory of Relativity Triangulum Galaxy Tv Shows Universe Videos Vienna weapons Weather Radar Whatsapp White hole Zoom

Contact Form

Send