Poaching...

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slowmotion

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Crack a fresh egg into a small bowl.
Boil a kettle of water.
Pour water into a large saucepan.
Gently pour egg into saucepan.
Wait 3 minutes.
Fish out egg with slotted spoon.
Eat.

No vinegar. No cooking on the hob. No swirling... just poaching in hot water.

BTW, I've never had any luck with microwave speciality cooking gizmos. My patented porridge cooker went off like a small thermonuclear device before being consigned to the trash bin after one outing.
 
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Does anybody else's mother call an egg poached in water a 'coddled' egg?
I'd think a coddled egg would be one made in an egg coddler , but Wikipedia assures me it means lightly cooked, and poached eggs can qualify.

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A pan and some water?
I think it was some sort of yoke. He scrambled around to post a bad pun. It was not a cracking joke but omletting it go.
 

Poacher

Gravitationally challenged member
Location
Nottingham
Earlier this evening I, er, poached a couple of eggs apiece for me and Mrs Poacher to enjoy on toasted home made bread.
Individual plastic bowls were wiped with butter, an egg cracked into each, loaded into their tray and lowered into a pan of boiling water almost up to the level of the top of the bowls. Lid on the pan, simmer for five minutes or so, job's a good 'un. Maybe not classically poached, but damn tasty and no faffing around - well, not much, anyway. I haven't washed up yet, so here's a pic of the dirty apparatus:
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