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Poached eggs - a disaster

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    #92
    shamrock2004
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭shamrock2004


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Does the egg actually come in direct contact with the water? Cause if it's just sitting in the bag cooking by indirect heat then it's not poached, imo.

    Yes, the paper bags are permeable and allow the water through. In fact, I've been having poached eggs most days! Where can you buy really fresh eggs around the sutton / howth area?


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    #93
    shamrock2004
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭shamrock2004


    CaliforniaDream wrote: »
    I guess I'm one of the lucky few who can 'naturally' poach an egg.
    • I boil water in a saucepan,
    • reduce the heat so water's not bubbling,
    • crack eggs in,
    • leave for 3 minutes
    • take them out with a slotted spoon.
    I use eggs I've bought in the shop, no searching for ones laid that morning or anything.

    I don't get how this doesn't work for people. My brother won't poach them even though we could both use the same pan, water and eggs.

    I dont get how it can be so seamless. My volition to succeed without using stabilisers (poached egg bags) knows no bounds.

    During the week I tried without the bags and it was again, a disaster. Egg white diffused in the water and they were horrible. I am convinced it's the eggs.


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    #94
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    shamrock2004 wrote: »
    Hi all

    I have tried countless times to make poached eggs, but each and every single solitary time, the water becomes an nebulous milky white (from the egg whites) and it results in a mess. I can't see the eggs anymore and when I manage to remove what is left of them, the pot is covered in egg white.

    I habe tried using / not using a vortex when feeding the eggs into the pot.

    I have tried adding vinegar.

    I always use large free range eggs.

    I have tried praying to the madonna.

    Nothing works. Did anyone else have this problem before? Any other suggestions?
    Hi.
    I had given up on making poached eggs for exactly the same reason...I couldnt bloody do it!
    Until i got myself a few chickens and the trick really is as simple as having very very fresh eggs. A day or so old . The fresher the better.
    Its as simple as dumping em in the water. No vinegar or lemon juice needed.
    But what does work if you cant get uber fresh eggs is to get a few of those single egg frying pans and do the poachies in those.


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    #95
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    RasTa wrote: »
    Microwaving eggs should be illegal.

    You'd be one of those people I often meet in the office kitchen telling me I can't put eggs in the microwave. The same people who have a stroke when I'm making boiled eggs and I go, "Its ok, Im wrapping them in tin foil".


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    #96
    flunkyfearsome
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭flunkyfearsome


    I usually do the cling film trick, no bloody sticking to the bottom


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    #97
    RasTa
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    syklops wrote: »
    You'd be one of those people I often meet in the office kitchen telling me I can't put eggs in the microwave. The same people who have a stroke when I'm making boiled eggs and I go, "Its ok, Im wrapping them in tin foil".

    Oh I would tell you every single time, then report you to HR for crimes against something.


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    #98
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    RasTa wrote: »
    Oh I would tell you every single time, then report you to HR for crimes against something.

    Any particular crime?


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    #99
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    syklops wrote: »
    Any particular crime?

    Something egg-tremely dangerous!


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    #100
    Kat1170
    Registered Users Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Kat1170


    syklops wrote: »
    You'd be one of those people I often meet in the office kitchen telling me I can't put eggs in the microwave. The same people who have a stroke when I'm making boiled eggs and I go, "Its ok, Im wrapping them in tin foil".[/QUOTE]

    Sorry, what now :confused::confused:


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