Consider cooking an egg in a pan over heat as an endothermic or exothermic process, and answer with the appropriate validation: Cooking an egg is an endothermic process because energy is released into the environment.

Cooking an egg is an endothermic process because energy is absorbed by the egg from the environment.
Cooking an egg is an exothermic process because energy is released into the environment.
Cooking an egg is an exothermic process because energy is absorbed by the egg from the environment.

Cooking an egg is an exothermic process because energy is released into the environment.