For example, the chance is smaller that an egg will break if you drop it

According to scientists, their research can help if you want to make hard -boiled eggs: if you drop the eggs horizontally in the pan, the chance is smaller that a crack will arise and they start ‘leaking’, which is not the intention.

We often think that eggs are the strongest in their ends, after all, that is how they are in the package in the department store. The idea is that the bow -shaped underside of an egg reduces the power and soften the blow in an impact.

But when scientists pressed the eggs during a pressure test in both directions, they broke under the same amount of strength, according to Hudson Borja da Rocha of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which helped to perform the experiments.

The researchers also carried out simulations and dropped the eggs horizontally and vertically from three short heights. And what was the result? The eggs that fell horizontally burst less.

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« It is logical that the egg is stronger in a vertical direction. But they have proven that this is not the case, » said material expert Marc Meyers from the University of California in San Diego, who was not involved in the new study.

Whether that all means something about the egg that you eat at breakfast in the morning? Not really. Because a break in the middle of the egg is still the best way to let the yolk and the protein run out.