After recently redis­cov­er­ing Hes­ton Blu­men­thal I’ve been read­ing a lot about mol­e­c­u­lar gas­tron­omy and, as such, Hervé This and Nicholas Kurti — the grand­fa­thers of mol­e­c­u­lar gas­tron­omy and Blumenthal’s inspiration.

Now it appears Hervé This has unboiled an egg.