Eli5 – Boiling differences between pasta and egg

Question

How come when you boil pasta it makes it soft but when you boil and egg it makes it hard

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Answer 1

Pasta is absorbent, part of what boiling pasta does is hydrate the starch in the pasta. Eggs are not absorbent, either in the shell or on their own, so the only changes you observe in them has to do with cooking/denaturing proteins and coagulation of fats.