The best way to prevent a green egg ring is by boiling and cooling the eggs just right. Kazaks says to start with fresh eggs, ...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign says that putting eggs in cold water, bringing them to a boil, and then covering them and letting them stand for at least 12 minutes can banish the risk of ...

So, if you happen to see a little ring around your egg, don’t worry! You can eat it without fear and try to get that perfectly prepared egg next time. This story originally appeared on Simplemost.

To figure out what causes the dreaded green ring and, more importantly, how to prevent it, we talked with Lisa Steele, a 5th-generation chicken keeper, founder of the Fresh Eggs Daily blog, author ...

If the yolk has a green ring around it, that means you’ve overcooked the egg. The green tinge results from a chemical reaction between the sulfur in the egg white and the hydrogen in the yolk.

So, if you happen to see a little ring around your egg, don’t worry! You can eat it without fear and try to get that perfectly prepared egg next time. This story originally appeared on Simplemost.