The reason eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side - Hundreds of eggs were used to reveal the findings ...

But their results from controlled trials simulating the egg drop challenge in the lab calls this conventional wisdom into question. It is not an unreasonable assumption to make.

GoPro dropped into boiling water just to bring you amazing footage of a poached egg. By Brad Reed. Published Aug 26th, 2014 1:45PM EDT.

Water; Instructions. 1. Boil the egg. If you’ve ever boiled eggs before, you know how to do this. If not, ... Light three matches at once and drop them into the bottle.

Experiments with over 200 eggs reveal they're less likely to crack when falling on their side, potentially preventing those stray fissures that release egg white into the boiling water.