How do i poach and egg without ruining it?

[AlCzervik]

[politicaholic]

1. Buy a poaching pot.

add a sliver of butter to each cup.

[AlCzervik]

4. I really don't want to buy a poaching pot

how about with just a regular pan?

[clydefrand]

2. Do you have a pan just for poaching eggs? If not, it is a two-piece

pan. The bottom part of the pan holds water and the top has indentations to hold your eggs. Break the eggs and cook them over the water to the way you prefer them.

This is the only way I've ever done them.

[RubyDuby in GA]

3. thank gawd that I watched Wickedly Perfect last Saturday night

According to Bobby Flay, you need to use vinegar in your water when poaching an egg. Also, crack your egg into a small bowl first to make sure it doesn't break.

I love that show. So tacky.....

[AlCzervik]

5. ok, i can do that! Thank you.

[goddess40]

7. I love my cuisnart egg cooker

my family loves deviled eggs and this thing cooks up to 7 eggs at a time, from soft to hard depending on how much water you put in it. It poaches up to 2 eggs at a time too. Except my mom insists on making them in a small frying pan - so you don't have the high sides to manuver over.

I heard about the vinegar method too, I wonder if it really works?

[fairfaxvadem]

8. Yup, gotta do the vinegar trick if you don't have a poaching pan.

The poaching pan does make it easy, but the vinegar works fine. it may be in a basic cookbook, too.

Definitely crack the egg in a small custard dish and lower the dish close to the boiling water and gently pour it out.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

12. Vinegar also works well if you're hard-boiling eggs

If there's a crack in one of the eggs, the vinegar will plug it up (ie cook the white before it seeps out) so that your water isn't contaminated with long strands of solidified egg-goo.

[JVS]

6. You need to tickle the chicken to steal the egg

[donsu]

9. I poach mine in milk and serve it over buttered toast, with some of

the hot milk.

I just use a small saucepan.

[radwriter0555]

10. Lower the heat. Eggs are best cooked slowly and gently on low

heat.

Use a small sauce-pan and gently heat about 3/4 of an inch of water in it. Add in a couple of drops of white vinegar, and I do mean DROPS.

Once the water is to a gentle boil, crack and drop the eggs into it, then tilt the pan gently so they cook together, for a couple of minutes, then scoop them out with a slotted spoon, let them drain a moment, place in a warm bowl and lightly salt and enjoy on a piece of warm toast!

Yummmmmaaaaayyyyyyyyyy!

[pnorman]

11. I just Googled this:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/ck_dm_basic/article/0,1971,FOOD_9799_2370821,00.html

I may try it tonight or tomorrow.

pnorman

[radwriter0555]

15. YES. WHAT I SAID. Geesh.

**sigh**

I get no respect.

[Calico Jack Rackham]

13. OK, I make a poached egg on a slice of WW

every morning for breakfast. I'm going to tell you the absolute best way to poach an egg without using a poaching pan or the nasty ass boil it with a bit of vinegar method.

Alls you need is a pan w/lid a metal ladle and some PAM.

First take a shallow pan fill it a quarter or half way with water and bring it to a boil.

Take the ladle and spray it generously with PAM

Put your egg in it. I use one whole egg and one egg white.

Place the ladle in the pan with boiling water and put the lid on top. I balance the ladle by letting rest against the back of the stove and the lid keeps it from tipping over. Cook for at least 4 minutes or until you reach the desired consistancy.

Ussually I can just tip the egg onto my toast but sometines it sticks alittle at the bottom so just use a teaspoon to nudge it loose.

[EC]

14. take a sauce pan fill half way with water

put in a coffee cup, with about a teaspoon of water, put in your egg. Cover and Boil until done the way you want it....no fat, no special pan or equipment. Also, works if you use custard dish...or use custard dish in micro wave (I like it better on stove, micro can get it tough)

[sam sarrha]

16. put a 2 tsp of butter in a skillet and heat till it just bubbles.. best to

use AA grade eggs, have a pan of boiling water ready to cover the egg plus some, gently ease the egg out of the shell onto the skillet..it should just be turning the egg white, not bubbling.. push the edges in to keep an attractive shape till it quits running.

gently add about 1/8 of an inch of boiling water to the side of the egg ..turn up the heat till it is gently bubbling and cover with a smaller lid to trap the steam to firm up the top of the egg, so when you ad the rest of the water no wisps of egg are disturbed.

this happens fairly quickly.. when you see the film over the yoke gently poor in the rest of the water to cover the egg cook till done ~~about 4 minutes, depends on stove etc..

I do this with an egg in a fairly large heart shaped cookie cutter, only you need the water in first..figure it out, get the Big whole wheat bread and cut it into the biggest heart..sidewise..make it full and plump.. cut some apple and orange, kiwi.. slices in hearts edges overlapping in a chain around the side of the plate.. and have some nice juice... Happy Valentine.. and good luck.

with practice it doesnt take any longer if you are just doing it for yourself, than doin it the other ways

this makes PERFECT glossy flat eye up look'n at you undisturbed eggs. perfect !