Poached eggs

[Brendan]

Break rice into cup/mug, pour in boiling water, put in microwave for a bit.

[brum]

Could someone please tell me how to avoid getting sticky poached eggs? Whenever I poach eggs they always comes out sticky.

[candj]

Rinse egg in cold water, strain, then pop into rice cooker. Perfect egg every time. Just make sure you're using the right kind of egg, and not the sticky, overdone kind.

[HAL9000]

Use Basmati long grain eggs!

[vinceayre]

brum Wrote:

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> Could someone please tell me how to avoid getting

> sticky poached eggs? Whenever I poach eggs they

> always comes out sticky.

You weren't using Bob's rice cooker were you??

[jimmy two times]

Yes. I eat bachelor's rice.

[Y'man]

When I got married my Mum said, that woman can't cook and egg. Is that you Jemima?

[MrBen]

You can't beat Uncle Ben's (no relation) microwaveable rice from Budgens - it comes healthy as wholegrain or you get Mexican or Tandoori varieties. I use it with Mackerel fillets , spring onions, chilli , curry powder, hard boiled eggs and some peas to make an awesomely quick kedgeree. High in Omega 3, protein and perfect when you get in from the office at 1am.

[Annasfield]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Break egg into cup/mug, pour in boiling water, put

> in microwave for a bit.

Egg explodes in microwave - or in your face when you take it out.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Stop poncing about with demis tasses and just break an egg on to a saucer and gently slip in to shallow pan with water at rolling boil and couple of drops of vinegar. Turn heat down. Remove after 1 1/2 minutes. Drain and trim with two tablespoons. Perfect.

[Sue]

Am I dreaming, or didn't there used to be plastic poaching rings to keep poached eggs apart from each other?

And yes, the eggs have to be fresh or they go all frilly and stringy in the water.

[Brendan]

Annasfield Wrote:

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> Brendan Wrote:

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> > Break egg into cup/mug, pour in boiling water,

> put

> > in microwave for a bit.

>

> Egg explodes in microwave - or in your face when

> you take it out.

Doesn't that only happen if you don't crack the egg?

[HAL9000]

I seem to recall that albumen and yoke have different microwave energy absorption coefficients - so a naked egg cooks from the outside inwards yielding something akin to a hand grenade.

Don't quote me on this one, though.

[Michael Palaeologus]

HAL9000 Wrote:

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> I seem to recall that albumen and yoke have

> different microwave energy absorption coefficients

> - so a naked egg cooks from the outside inwards

> yielding something akin to a hand grenade.

>

> Don't quote me on this one, though.

Oops, sorry Hal ...

[Red_Cat]

Poached eggs. Always used to cook them in the microwave. Until one exploded in my face. Like a grenade. Don't do it.

[SimonM]

1. Arrive at posh country estate at crack of dawn

2. locate quails' nests

3. steal eggs...

B)

[Jeremy]

How do you make sure they're medium rare?

[david_carnell]

Pick a species that is slightly less close to extinction?

[cate]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Don't poach them in a saucepan. Do it in much

> shallower water in a frying pan. The egg won't be

> perfectly round (more like an oblate spheroid) but

> is much easier to handle. Don't spin the water

> either. Just put the egg in a greased espresso cup

> (or similar) first and gently(!) tip into the

> frying pan. Remove with a slotted spoon after

> about 1min and rest on kitchen roll to absorb

> excess water.

>

> Vinegar can still be used if the eggs aren't the

> freshest. But if that's the case maybe just do

> scrambled instead.l

This is more or less what I do as per my mum's example. She used vinegar although I never knew why. Shallow water in large shallow pan and put the kitchen roll under the slotted spoon before you put the egg on the toast or wherever else you eat it with. I read recently about using the cup method as well. It is important to allow some of the simmering water into the cup before you slide the egg into the pan. If I can't be faffed with poaching then I spray a non stick pan with Fry Light spray you can get (only 1 calorie a spray) and do a fried egg in there. Tastes great without swimming in grease.

[reetpetite]

I used to put vinegar in with boiled eggs suppose to stop them cracking.Had poached eggs in a cafe and they tasted strongley of vinegar yuk.

[jimmy two times]

How about perfect scrambled egg? Add milk and butter or just butter?

[Timster]

cook VERY slowly in some butter (or flora will do) and just a touch of milk

[SteveT]

Your quick witticism DavidC seems to have gone unheeded, but it made me smile.

[ruffers]

Cling film and / or very fresh eggs. Clicky linky

http://www.b3ta.com/features/howtopoachanegg/

[Annasfield]

Hate to say I told you so.