Jan 17
In the last few months I’ve poached a flock’s worth of eggs for ourselves, our friends and our customers so I’ve now got to the point where I’m 99% successful with them. So, Hilary, this is how you do it:
- Only use the freshest eggs you can. Whenever you buy eggs check the boxes to make sure you get the ones with the latest due date. The whites go watery and look awful as eggs get old.
- Put an inch of hot water in a frying pan.
- Bring the water to a mild boil (not a rolling boil because that will break up the eggs).
- Crack 4 eggs in a large frying pan, 2 in a small one.
- If the top looks like it isn’t cooking, spoon some hot water over the egg, avoid getting hot water on the yolk.
- Use a fish slice to carefully part the egg from the pan, they should float freely
- Take ‘em out when they’re done. Mine take about 5 minutes.
No stirring, no vinegar, and no fuss, and if you don’t believe me, ask Delia.
Wot? No vinegar?!
Nope, not needed if you’ve got fresh eggs. Here’s Delia’s link, it’s slightly different to my method, but she gets it right in the end. http://www.deliaonline.com/how-to-cook/eggs/how-to-poach-an-egg.html
i wonder if her success rate is greater than 99%? it certainly isn’t with Norwich City.
Now that’s true…
Ok, here we go, put water in the pan (I add a little salt) bring the water to the boil, when boiling simply crack the egg on the side of the pan and chuck it in the water.
Keep your eye on it and take out before it burns/pan goes dry/egg shrivels up, with a spoon when it looks ready (if you have one with holes in it so much the better, it saves your toast getting too soggy) Put on the already buttered toast.
Smother with red sauce (optional) then eat and enjoy….
This method has been tried and tested for many a year.
It’s not rocket science to poach an egg, why do these so called telly experts make such a palaver over it!
Ben: you always have to lower the tone and bring football into it. Next you’ll be complaining that liverpool was robbed.
She also knows how to scramble them with smoked salmon.
Thanks for that. We’ll give it another go at the weekend
When I was looking at this blog title in my blog list, through not-yet-cleaned glasses with sleep fogged eyes, the title looked like:
“How to Punch an Egg”. That caught my interest right away. Imagine my disappointment.
Actually Norwich beat Colchester 5-0 at Colchester this weekend to go second in League 1 (the old 3rd division pre-Premier League). Delia was present and very happy.
The old 3rd division.
How the mightt have fallen.
mightt – oops typo.
i prefer Mink’s fried eggs to be honest…aroy mak mak.
Switzerland Simes?
Swiss company. All our servers are over there.