“The reason eggs, particularly poached eggs, explode in the microwave is due to the buildup of steam inside the egg,” says Trey Braswell, president of Eggland’s Best franchisee Braswell Farms.

With this simple microwave method and a few extra tips, poached eggs become so easy and speedy that they can be made on a lazy weeknight or busy morning.

It's a common kitchen mishap that's puzzles many of us: Why do eggs explode when heated in the microwave?

The secret to boiling eggs (without bursting) in the microwave has been revealed. Now, you can make soft boil eggs and hard boil eggs without any worry.

The main ideas: Egg yolks are more receptive to microwave radiation and thus get hotter than egg whites. And because of the way proteins clump together inside the egg, pockets of water vapor can form ...

If the idea of warming up a chilled hard-boiled egg in the microwave for a quick snack sounds like a good idea, let us be the one to tell you precisely how wrong you are: Microwaved eggs explode ...

Why does an egg explode at all? If you stick a potato in the microwave without piercing its skin first, steam pressure can build up under the skin and cause the potato to detonate.