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Re: Foolproof Microwave Poached Egg.

Originally Posted by AnnieS ->
Also guilty as charged here! I wonder what happens if you put 2 in at once.
I nearly did that, as ended up having 2. The 2nd one I put in a ramekin, with just a little water and it cooked really fast, but was slightly overcooked.
I will experiment with times, but do the 2nd way in future. Totally hassle free brunch!
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26-05-2019, 05:13 AM
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Re: Foolproof Microwave Poached Egg.

I just use an egg poaching pan - boring perhaps - but it works perfectly!
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26-05-2019, 05:26 AM
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Re: Foolproof Microwave Poached Egg.

Originally Posted by Silver Tabby ->
I just use an egg poaching pan - boring perhaps - but it works perfectly!
Years and years ago, I was watching a cookery programme, and the chefs said that a poaching pan did not poach the egg, but steamed it.

To be poached, they said, the egg has to be immersed in water itself, not by proxy in a little metal container!

It was the first time I'd ever seen an egg being poached by immersing it in hot water!
They also demonstrated how hard it was to poach properly, without the white going all over the place.

Poaching really seemed to take off when they started making the "Four in a bed" programmes, as the "guests" always seem to ask for a poached egg, to test their hosts to the limit, and then were very scathing of the results!
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26-05-2019, 05:44 AM
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Re: Foolproof Microwave Poached Egg.

Originally Posted by Pyxell ->
Years and years ago, I was watching a cookery programme, and the chefs said that a poaching pan did not poach the egg, but steamed it.

To be poached, they said, the egg has to be immersed in water itself, not by proxy in a little metal container!

It was the first time I'd ever seen an egg being poached by immersing it in hot water!
They also demonstrated how hard it was to poach properly, without the white going all over the place.

Poaching really seemed to take off when they started making the "Four in a bed" programmes, as the "guests" always seem to ask for a poached egg, to test their hosts to the limit, and then were very scathing of the results!
Well - in which case - why are they called 'egg poachers' and not 'egg steamers' ? Anyway - call it what you will - mine works and the eggs taste delicious - so I will stick with it.

Going to have to go and cook some now!!
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26-05-2019, 05:56 AM
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Re: Foolproof Microwave Poached Egg.

Originally Posted by Silver Tabby ->
Well - in which case - why are they called 'egg poachers' and not 'egg steamers' ? Anyway - call it what you will - mine works and the eggs taste delicious - so I will stick with it.

Going to have to go and cook some now!!
Dunno!
Before that programme, I never knew there was any other way of poaching, other than using the poaching pan.
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26-05-2019, 06:09 AM
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Re: Foolproof Microwave Poached Egg.

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Dunno!
Before that programme, I never knew there was any other way of poaching, other than using the poaching pan.
As long as the taste is right I don't supposed it matters.
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26-05-2019, 07:22 AM
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Re: Foolproof Microwave Poached Egg.

Originally Posted by Silver Tabby ->
As long as the taste is right I don't supposed it matters.
You're right!

Some chefs are too purist, maybe.

I suppose the appearance would be different, but I wonder if, in a taste test, they'd know the difference between a 'poached' egg and a 'steamed' egg?


I suppose it's a bit like the difference between poaching fish or cooking it en papillotte?
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26-05-2019, 09:54 AM
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Re: Foolproof Microwave Poached Egg.

I suppose a TV Chef's version would be to crack the egg with the shell of a Rhinoceros beetle imported from the rainforest, tip the egg into the rarest boiling spring water from Peru, add a splash of 20 year old Banda Rossa Balsamic vinegar whilst standing on a shabby chic step ladder. Cook for 8.2 seconds and serve on a bed of African coal.

Yours for £385

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26-05-2019, 10:05 AM
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Re: Foolproof Microwave Poached Egg.

Originally Posted by Longdogs ->
I suppose a TV Chef's version would be to crack the egg with the shell of a Rhinoceros beetle imported from the rainforest, tip the egg into the rarest boiling spring water from Peru, add a splash of 20 year old Banda Rossa Balsamic vinegar whilst standing on a shabby chic step ladder. Cook for 8.2 seconds and serve on a bed of African coal.

Yours for £385



Don't forget you have to eat it using a rare pigmy abalone shell from Tonga.
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Re: Foolproof Microwave Poached Egg.

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Don't forget you have to eat it using a rare pigmy abalone shell from Tonga.
I forgot about that. That's why I'll never make it as a chef.
 
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