It's a controversy that has created turmoil in Britain. For centuries it was widely assumed that it took three minutes to boil the perfect boil egg. It was a fact backed by several A-list chefs. A piece of wisdom that every decent Englishman and Englishwoman stood by. I may be going out on a limb here, but it was darn near part of the national character.
So you can imagine the reaction when British TV cook, Delia Smith, announced that six minutes -- not three -- is the optimal time to boil an egg. Suffice it to say, it has shaken the very foundations of British society.
To resolve the issue -- and prevent a possible civil war -- the Royal Society of Chemistry enlisted the help of a group of students from Sherborne Girls' School.
Iram Hasan was one of the students involved with the egg project. We reached her on her cell phone at Sherborne School in Sherborne, England.