I mainly have them scrambled or fried over-easy. I love them poached, but can never manage to do it at home. They always end up looking like aborted foetuses.
There's some tricks you can try when poaching to get them to look prettier (might even help them cook better too):
1. Crack the egg into a ladel, then lower the ladel into the boiling water for 5 or 10 seconds so the egg starts cooking before you empty it into the pot.
2. Use whatever you dumped the egg into the pot with to try to fold the runaway whites into the egg mass for the first 30 seconds it's cooking.
Option 1 always helps. Option 2 might or might not help, but it will never make anything worse.
I also add a tbsp of vinegar to the boiling water because the internet says it helps, but I feel like this is more of a superstition than something that actually accomplishes anything.
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I mainly have them scrambled or fried over-easy. I love them poached, but can never manage to do it at home. They always end up looking like aborted foetuses.
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Have you tried poaching them in plastic wrap?
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Omg that marsey should be banned.
No, I've never tried that. I have a sous vide machine, so I'll give it a try.
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There's some tricks you can try when poaching to get them to look prettier (might even help them cook better too):
1. Crack the egg into a ladel, then lower the ladel into the boiling water for 5 or 10 seconds so the egg starts cooking before you empty it into the pot.
2. Use whatever you dumped the egg into the pot with to try to fold the runaway whites into the egg mass for the first 30 seconds it's cooking.
Option 1 always helps. Option 2 might or might not help, but it will never make anything worse.
I also add a tbsp of vinegar to the boiling water because the internet says it helps, but I feel like this is more of a superstition than something that actually accomplishes anything.
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