How do you poach your eggs?

[Newbornbairn]

Poached eggs done right are a delight but it's all too easy to Hibs them. I use a saucepan and simmering water with a dash of vinegar added. Swirl the water and crack the egg in. 2 minutes and 30 seconds later and it's ready. Perfect.

 

Do you use this method or some other inferior one?

[Richey Edwards]

I was taught that method on a cookery course at college when I left school.

[Richey Edwards]

If you poach your eggs in a microwave then you are probably Kirk Broadfoot tbh.

[Rugster]

Poached eggs done right are a delight but it's all too easy to Hibs them. I use a saucepan and simmering water with a dash of vinegar added. Swirl the water and crack the egg in. 2 minutes and 30 seconds later and it's ready. Perfect.

 

Do you use this method or some other inferior one?

That but white wine vinegar rather than normal vinegar.

[Black and White Tragic]

Deary me, that is the peasants method. What you want is the full blown pan with four little holders so you can poach en masse. Well, for four anyway. Im sure I didnt need to remortgage as it was around a tenner.

[Shuggie_Murray7]

Just like that.

[Smurph]

I buy mine

[P45]

Poached eggs are the devil's work.

[Deeboy]

Now we're fucking talking P&B.

Eggs Benedict ftw.

[Newbornbairn]

Now we're fucking talking P&B.

Eggs Benedict ftw.

 

Yup. With salad cream, none of that Hollandaise pretentiousness

[Worktheshaft]

I prefer my eggs Paisley style. You fry an egg, eat it and then get on a bus and masturbate until you get kicked off. 

[killienick]

Egss Benedict. Hollandaise sauce, black pepper and a wee sprinkle of smoked paprika to finish. (you can keep the chive nonsense).

 

 

BTW Salad cream??? Gadz.

[well fan for life]

Why vinegar the water resulting in a vinegar-y egg? Just use fresh eggs and swirl the water. Easy as that.

[Cardinal Richelieu]

I sneak into the farm late at night and squirrel away from the henhouse. 

[P45]

Salad cream on an egg?

 

Beast thread for that chat.

[jamamafegan]

Deary me, that is the peasants method. What you want is the full blown pan with four little holders so you can poach en masse. Well, for four anyway. Im sure I didnt need to remortgage as it was around a tenner.

This. With balsamic vinegar.

[Deeboy]

Why vinegar the water resulting in a vinegar-y egg? Just use fresh eggs and swirl the water. Easy as that.

Vinegar stops the egg white seperating/spreading, supposedly.

[MEADOWXI]

Rather than use a saucepan I use a frying pan to boil the water,

 

Makes it easier to get utensil under egg and lift out rather as shallower than a saucepan,

and you can see better to lift out before it overcooks and goes hard.

[throbber]

I use a yellow sheath with a bit of lubricant and boil for 4 minutes

[milton75]

Fresh eggs are the key.

 

But also this:

 

Rather than use a saucepan I use a frying pan to boil the water,

 

Makes it easier to get utensil under egg and lift out rather as shallower than a saucepan,

and you can see better to lift out before it overcooks and goes hard.

 

You don't even need to swirl the water with a frying pan. Cracking the eggs into a small bowl then gently tipping them into the simmering water also helps ensure better cohesion.

 

Anyone using a regular pot should be shot, imo.