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How To Poach An Egg
By Leeanne Utiger
Learn how to poach an egg in as little time as possible. For that's just how long it does take to learn how to poach an egg. Poaching an egg, would have to be one of the easiest things you ever learn to do. The trick to knowing how to poach a good egg, is also knowing how each person who is going to be eating a poached egg that you cook, in fact likes them.
Some people prefer to have a soft poached egg, while others will prefer to have a slightly harder poached egg, while others still, will prefer to have a hard poached egg. We all have preferences and varying tastes is all. So it is how you go about knowing how to poach the perfect egg for all of these varying tastes at once.
When you choose to poach an egg or eggs, as the case may be, you will need to know what you require and how in fact to poach the eggs using your requirements. First up, I will explain how to poach an egg in a frying pan. You will need to put a reasonable amount of cold water into your frying pan, generally enough to cover the egg or eggs you are going to poach. Water covering the top of the egg, will in fact help the egg to cook through. Sprinkle a dash of salt into the frying pan which now should contain the required amount of water. Place your frying pan containing the water onto an element on your stove top. It is suggested to when you want to begin to poach an egg or eggs, have the temperature of the element up high, this is to bring the water to the boil. Once the water has come to the boil, you can now reduce the temperature slightly, and in addition add a drop of malt vinegar. When you poach an egg, the vinegar will hold the white in place more, as opposed to not using vinegar, the egg white may collapse and 'run' more, not giving as nice a consistency for eating. On placing the drop of vinegar into your frying pan, you can now add your egg, or eggs, depending how many people are wanting to try an egg you have offered to poach for them. Make sure you break the egg shell gently, and slowly let your egg slide into the pan of now boiling water. You can, if you so choose to spoon the water over the eggs, yet this is not a necessity. While your eggs are being poached, you can now place slices of bread into your toaster and get that under way. You do not want to over cook a egg because you forgot to cook your toast.
Place your toast onto a serving plate, and when your eggs are sufficiently poached (you will be able to tell by looking at them, or lightly touching the top of an egg with the back of a teaspoon), gently lift an egg out with a serving spoons with holes in it and place on top of the cooked toast. The spoon with the holes is used, so all water that an egg is cooked in drains away from the egg, prior to serving.
An alternative method, is to use a microwave egg dish. You simply place water in the bottom tray, place the egg tray on top of this, break your eggs or a egg, depending once again on how many eggs you need to poach, and place in the microwave for a minute or so, if that. You can cover these while cooking if you so choose. Every microwave is different, so it is really a matter of keeping an on the eggs that are being poached and seeing what time works best for how you like to have your egg poached.
Once you have managed to poach an egg, whether that be in the frying pan, or in the microwave, all you have to do now, is simply sprinkle with salt and pepper and enjoy.
Always remember to turn your element off after you have finished cooking on the stove top.
Hint: I always think when you poach an egg, it is much nicer poached using the fry pan method.
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