My very favouritest eggs. Never cooked one due to all the dark arts involved.
However a casual google found the following recipe.
Boil kettle,put 2 inches in a bowl, break egg into water and microwave for 35 seconds.
They came out perfect and my life is complete.
Even better if you use [url= http://www.lakeland.co.uk/12116/Original-Green-poachpod?src=gpcoo&gclid=CLWF9NL2zrYCFRTMtAodVDgA1w ]these nifty little thangs[/url] 🙂
Good eggs indeed. I don't own a microwave though. I find the best method is a deep pan of boiling water, remove from heat (and turn off or down to lowest flame if gas), crack a fresh egg and let it gently sink through the just boiled water, put the pan back on the ring for a minute. Fresh eggs are the key to them holding together.Yum.
Never cooked one due to all the dark arts involved.
Eh? Please tell me you're taking the piss.
Boil water. Crack eggs into water. Wait a couple of minutes.
Seriously, have a word.
you're going wrong by using water that might already have been boiled once and I am sure you mentioned a microwave.
Poach pods are pants! Mine are redundant in the drawer...
The ONLY way to poach eggs is the cling film method...
Yep - cling film user here. Never had a prob or a complaint.
Cling film?
Vinegar in the water holds the egg together
+ Boiling water
+ Fresh eggs
+ Ladle
+ Spoonful of vinegar
Add vinegar to pan of boiling water. Lower egg(s) into water using ladle.
Dark art my ar5e.
Poaching pods are for people who don't use fresh eggs 😉 for the crack into water method your eggs MUST be fresh or they go all mingy.
How to cook the perfect Sunday morning poached egg.
[u]Preparation[/u]
• Turn on TV for the kids and provide enough entertainment for the little sods to leave you alone for 20 minutes.
• Turn on radio to 5LIVE or 6MUSIC with volume set at “background level”
• Fire up the Gaggia
• Select the good bits from the Sunday paper
• Break egg into tea cup
[u]Execution[/u]
• Simmer 1” of water in pan
• Lift pan and angle slightly
• Gently decant egg into “the deep end” of pan
• Level off pan once egg has started to whiten
• Remove egg with slotted spoon and shake off excess water
• Place cooked egg on to buttered wholemeal toast
• Add side order of mushrooms thinly sliced and fried with chilli flakes and a pinch of salt
• Consume with a fresh black coffee
Good thing about the cling film method is the yolk is totally surrounded by the white. I haven't had that much success with just water, no matter how much vinegar I use.
Cling film.... used this method for a few years and it's almost foolproof. Plus you don't get a load of water making your toast soggy - yuk!
Deep pan of slightly simmering water, a few splashes of vinegar and then slowly crack the eggs into water from as close as you can get to the water without hurting yourself. In the time it takes to toast bread the egg is done.
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IT'S RADIO 4 ON A SUNDAY MORNING.
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And breath.
Microwaves?
Poaching pods?
Clingfilm?
Why do you have to make life so complicated?
You people sicken me.
🙂
Deep pan of slightly simmering water, a few splashes of vinegar and then slowly crack the eggs into water from as close as you can get to the water without hurting yourself. In the time it takes to toast bread the egg is done.
^^^ this
Reiterate - fresh eggs are essential (and yes, the white will still envelop the yolk).
I use an egg poaching pan, with little plastic cups for 4 eggs, which works perfectly. This being STW, I suppose someone will be along soon to accuse me of being 'over-panned'. 🙂
Vinegar does nothing - complete myth
Vinegar taints the egg and is unnecessary. The secret for success is to only use very fresh eggs, which avoids bits of white floating off when you break the egg into the pan.
I like the PoachPods too!
I hear the best method involves a lab grade water bath and stirrer, this lets you maintain the swirl that gets you the contained egg and keeps a perfect cooking temp. Apparently in use in a number of decent breakfast places.
I'll go with 80% of perfect with a decent pan of water salt and stirring. It was easier on the Aga than electric but gas is perfect. Hardest thing is getting the toast to pop at the right moment and the toms and bacon ready together.
As I don't always have day old eggs in the fridge I find the clingfilm method to be best.
Egg, pan, water, nice bread. As it goes, I've just had one. With tea controversially!
As I don't always have day old eggs in the fridge I find the clingfilm method to be best
Keeping eggs in the fridge? Good greif man are you some sort of barbarian?
Eggs in fridge?
Shakes head.
As I don't always have day old eggs in the fridge I find the clingfilm method to be best.
Get yourself a hen!
If your eggs aren't quite fresh, you could crack one into a finely slotted spoon - the accumulated water will run off which reduces the scummy floaty bits in the pan.
put the egg (in shell) in boiling water for 10 seconds before cracking 🙂
I use two pans if i want them to look and taste good.
The first has some vinegar in
Once firm enough put them in the second pan with just boiling water to finish off
Removes any vingar flavour
Clobber - MemberTry the clingfilm, you won't go back...
I'd rather eat my own feet. 🙂
People have been poaching eggs for hundreds of bloody years without using sodding clingfilm.
Pan full of boiling water & an egg.
You can dress up in latex and frotter yourself against the furniture, light the gas with a ten pound note or only use eggs from Buddhist chickens who are fully briefed on the Schleswig-Holstein Question, but it won't make your eggs taste any better.
Has to be served on a plain white plate. This is very important.
I always crack them in a cup first.....(just the thought of eggshell getting in there's wrong).
Other than that, fresh eggs, fresh boiling water, slightly swirl the water, gently drop eggs in.
Chris
It's the fresh eggs and vortex of the water that helps. I think the pro's cut off any straggly bits but I don't.
If you use those cups I think they're technically baked?
It doesn't matter what method* you use, if the eggs are from the fridge it will go wrong! Unless you cheat with a pod or cling film.
*Except after an accidental discovery last year. I started boiled eggs then remembered I was meant to be doing poached. I whipped the egg out the boiling water, then cracked it straight back in. Despite the boiling water and hurried cracking, it made the best one ever. The next egg went in cold after the water came off the boil and turned into a throthy mess.
So now I always dunk the eggs a few times on a spoon, then the white starts setting and holds it all together. 🙂
Pop the eggs (in their shells) in the boiling water for 30 seconds, retrieve and then crack open as per above. The initial cooking helps them keep their shape when you crack them into the water.
spooky_b329 - Member
It doesn't matter what method* you use, if the eggs are from the fridge it will go wrong! Unless you cheat with a pod or cling film.
Rubbish made perfect ones straight from the fridge or straight from the chicken*
*Not exactly straight from as it's hard to crack them on the pan mid drop.
Don't you get bits of chicken poo in your egg with the "double dunk"?
I'm all for organic but eating little bits of bird shit is a niche too far IMHO.
😥 shakes heads at the amateurs round here
Try the clingfilm, you won't go back...
I'd rather eat my own feet.
People have been poaching eggs for hundreds of bloody years without using sodding clingfilm.
That's only because cling film hasn't been around for hundreds of years... welcome to the future of egg poaching...
Witchcraft.
That's only because cling film hasn't been around for hundreds of years... welcome to the future of egg poaching...
You're being sold a consumerist dream.
Somewhere, a clingfilm manufacturer is cackling with delight at your blind acceptance.
Break free of your clear, stretchy mental chains.
Throw off the clingly, hard to tear yolk (sic) of petrochemical imperialism and let your eggs breath freely.
Not sure how well you can breathe in boiling water....
Good point. It does tend to #### over a lobster.
Clobber - MemberNot sure how well you can breathe in boiling water....
😀
Strawman argument - reported to the mods.
You're the kind of pervert who uses an electric can opener aren't you?
