Poached Eggs

[CusworthRovers]

Following on from the Pork debate.

I've recently just learnt to do Scrambled Eggs in the microwave. I could now do with knowing how to poach an egg. I've ended up buying a microwave poacher, but there not the same as my dad used to make and end up rock hard.

I've asked around over the last few months, and I've emailed Marco Pierre-White, Gordon Ramsay and Michelle Roux, however they haven't replied for some reason. I've been told a frying pan, shallow water, big pan with deep water. I've been told swirl the water and pour in, then don't do that. I've been told to add vinegar, also salt/pepper.

So come on readers, what's the best and easiest way.

[RobTheRover]

Big pan of boiling water, few drops of vinegar, swirl the water vigourously then crack the egg into the middle.  Goes a bit raggy on the edges, but that just holds the tomato dip better.

[RedJ]

No, no, don't do that! ;-)

[billdoor]

Pan of boiling water. When it boils,turn down the heat slightly to a  simmer,so that you can see a current in the water. Add a few drops of vinegar and drop your egg into the current. Remove the egg with a large spoon,otherwise it will break when you try to take it out of the water.

Or you could just buy a egg poaching pan. Melt some butter into the egg dish and then add your egg. This is idiot proof poached eggs.

Yours Ex chef Mcd

[BillyStubbsTears]

Pan of boiling water. When it boils,turn down the heat slightly to a  simmer,so that you can see a current in the water. Add a few drops of vinegar and drop your egg into the current. Remove the egg with a large spoon,otherwise it will break when you try to take it out of the water.

Or you could just buy a egg poaching pan. Melt some butter into the egg dish and then add your egg. This is idiot proof poached eggs.

Yours Ex chef Mcd

Old Mother Billy's family recipe.

Nick the eggs from the Fairway. If they are going be be poached, then they have to be poached in body and soul.

Put a pan of water on to boil.

Boil water.

Pour boiling water over the ant's nest under the back step.

Laugh manically at the tortuous writhing of the members of the formicidae colony.

Chuck eggs away.

Make yourself a f**king MAN's breakfast, like 5 slices of toast anf kipper smeared in peanut butter and Branston pickle.

[jucyberry]

Runny eggs make me gag, I can't even look at them ..

My eggs have to be cooked till they scream in the pan... A bit like BST's ants I guess....lol..

[not on facebook]

r lass likes her eggs fertilized first thing in the morning.

[Mr Brightside]

I've looked into this before, I got my advice from this article , tried the cling film method and it worked pretty well

[Sheepskin Stu]

r lass likes her eggs fertilized first thing in the morning.

I knew you wouldn't let us down fella.

[i_ateallthepies]

Easiest thing in the world...

Boil the water don't put vinegar anywhere near (unless of course you like your eggs tasting of vinegar).
Turn down the heat and crack your egg carefully into the water.
Keep the heat low so the water isn't moving, (it's the moving water that makes the white break up).
Keep an eye on it until it's set to your liking, (opposite to Jucy, I can't abide hard egg yolks but runny they're to die for).

[RobTheRover]

just looked up Heston Blumenthal's poached egg recipe...

Take an Golden Eagle's egg, and crack it into liquid nitrogen.  After 5 seconds remove the egg and wrap it in magnesium shards exposed to the air, and serve with a baked bean coulis.

So simple.

[Bentley Bullet]

Crack a raw egg onto a slice of bread.
Turn toaster on it's side
Carefully slide the bread with the raw egg on into the toaster
Turn toaster on
Hey presto grilled egg on toast!

[RobTheRover]

Uh oh, I feel a broadside of toaster related posts coming on.....

[CusworthRovers]

Everyones contradicted the other one.

Current - No current
Vinegar- No vinegar
Boiled water- calm waters

I'll give them all a bash

[BillyStubbsTears]

I've looked into this before, I got my advice from this article , tried the cling film method and it worked pretty well

Aye.

I tried the cling film method an all, and it left me changing shitty nappies toneet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/3473415.stm

[RobTheRover]

Bloody Hell, Billy, have things gone so badly you have to \"roll your own\".

I'm sure I have a half finished economy bulk pack of Mates at the back of the wardrobe I could donate.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Bloody Hell, Billy, have things gone so badly you have to \"roll your own\".

I'm sure I have a half finished economy bulk pack of Mates at the back of the wardrobe I could donate.

Y'know. One of those nights. The mood takes you and you have to improvise.



Anyway, it was several orders of magnitude more sophisticated than the lad from Wombwell I went to school with who used a Mars Bar wrapper for the job at a party.

Me, I wouldn't have bragged about that like. Mebbe a Kettle Chips grab bag...

[RobTheRover]

Could have been worse. He might have only had a Cadbury's Fudge in his pocket.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Could have been worse. He might have only had a Cadbury's Fudge in his pocket.

Judging by the state of some of the lasses there that neet, I'd have wanted a Milky Way wrapper complete with the cardboard insert to be up to the job.

[RobTheRover]

Or a Smarties tube!

[BillyStubbsTears]

Or a Smarties tube!

Speak for thisen chuckie egg. I was just saying I would have just needed a bit of encouragement, not a 360 degree cardboard splint.

[RobTheRover]

I was thinking more for the absolute protection from anything resembling a STD.

OK, OK, maybe a Pringles tube then!  Or the centre core from a roll of A0 Oce Red Label (untaped to core) paper.

[Sandy Lane]

Pan of boiling water. When it boils,turn down the heat slightly to a  simmer,so that you can see a current in the water. Add a few drops of vinegar and drop your egg into the current. Remove the egg with a large spoon,otherwise it will break when you try to take it out of the water.

Or you could just buy a egg poaching pan. Melt some butter into the egg dish and then add your egg. This is idiot proof poached eggs.

Yours Ex chef Mcd

Old Mother Billy's family recipe.

Nick the eggs from the Fairway. If they are going be be poached, then they have to be poached in body and soul.

Put a pan of water on to boil.

Boil water.

Pour boiling water over the ant's nest under the back step.

Laugh manically at the tortuous writhing of the members of the formicidae colony.

Chuck eggs away.

Make yourself a f**king MAN's breakfast, like 5 slices of toast anf kipper smeared in peanut butter and Branston pickle.

Peanut butter?  Billy?  Billy and peanut butter???  Almost fell off me chair!

Anyway, for me English cousins try peanut butter and jelly (jam) on toast!  Yum.  Must be strawberry jam, btw.

[bobjimwilly]

buy a pair of silicone egg poachers from amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fusion-Brands-Poachpod-Two-Pack-Silicone/dp/B000P6FD3I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303284431&sr=8-1 - perfect, round poached eggs every time, and no need for messing around with vinegar. You might even find 'em in asda?

[CusworthRovers]

If I don't gaffer those eggs soon, I'll be trying those very buckets from toy diggers