Background

When it comes to cooking eggs, a multitude of factors such as elevation, egg size, and cooking methods, all affect the time required to obtain a perfect hardboiled egg.  This is reflected in many cookbooks by their time required to perfectly cook a hardboiled egg, which ranges from 8 minutes to 20 minutes.  This experiment is intended to illustrate heat transfer principles through demonstrations of how different cooking and cooling methods affect the time required to cook a hardboiled egg. 

The purpose of the Background page is to familiarize you with the different modes of heat transfer used in engineering problems.  Additionally, information on egg properties are also introduced to give you a well-rounded understanding of material before jumping directly into the experiment. 

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