2019 update: Ok so reading some comments over the past 2 years, some of you have mentioned that some of the poached eggs were over cooked. When filming this video it was all done in multiple takes, as I moved the camera around to get the right shots for filming, which ultimately meant that some of the eggs were sitting around longer than I wanted, meaning they continued to cook a bit more in the residual heat. Also some of you are concerned about using clingfilm to poach the eggs. This is an age old chef's trick, but obviously you would use food safe cling film. If you are still concerned......simply don't use this method.
@@petuser1 it helps keep the egg whites together especially when you spin the water, when I just do straight up water I lose more egg whites and the egg doesn't look as smooth. Though some people don't agree
Just watched your youtube video. I've tried others ways on cooking poached eggs and watch vids on here and tried but yours is the easiest to understand. Loving the cling film method...simple and tidy....off to do it now as im super hungry now lol!. I'm subscribed to you now so I'll be watching for more tips and recipes. Thanks Adam 🤘😉🍽
Been using the cling film method for many years, easy to do multiple eggs in one go. A bit fiddly at first, but now it’s quick and easy with no floaty bits in the pan. And yes it’s a food safe product.
I use the cling film method. It's a bit more fiddly but it produces a neater result, and you have less water on the egg which otherwise makes the toast soggy. Plus you can prepare multiple eggs and cook them all at the same time much more easily.
Eggspert!😊 I fry mine with about 10mm of hot water in a small frying pan with a glass lid. The steam cooks the top. No need to votex. Bring to boil, turn down to simmer, put egg in, apply lid. Check occasionally, till done.
Love a poached egg and I’ve used all those methods myself though personal preference is the (1st) traditional free flowing “let’s see how it goes” method 😄 , but I’ve a friend who loves poached eggs and despite every effort hasn’t a clue so bought him silicone poachers! Time to send him your masterclass! Well done on a straight-forward, no over-egging it (pardon the pun) how-to 👏🙌🏻
Hi Adam, I love the plastic wrap (cling film) way of poaching. I've used that at home. One of the ways, however, that I learned (no matter what method you use) is to crack your egg into a strainer to remove the very thin part of the white. Most eggs have a small amount of thin white and then a lot of thick white (raw, I mean). Once you strain off the watery, thin white, you don't have a lot of wispy areas floating in the water. Thanks so much for your great video!!!
It's overall the best thing to do, especially if you are wanting to make multiple eggs. If you use really fresh eggs (in the US, there is a number on the side of every egg carton, eggs collected on January 1st will have a 1, and December 31 will have 365) separate the outer white from the inner white with a fine mesh strainer, you can poach 4 eggs at once in the pot. Pop them in an ice water bath to stop them from cooking, and store in the fridge for 8 hours..when needed, just pop them in simmering water for about a minute to heat, done.
I love poached eggs, so thank you for sharing a variety of ways of cooking them. Your videos are really fun, entertaining and educational, keep it up! Thank you! 😋👌🏻
I made poached eggs in water for the first time this morning. (I have made them before but always in a tiny pan where you put water in the bottom, the egg in a 'scoop' on top and with a lid over it.) Today's effort came out very tasty but with a lot of nasty stringy 'foam' that I threw away. So I Googled how to do it properly for next time, and you came up! I love your simple, clear way of explaining how to do it and can't wait to try the cling film method tomorrow! Many thanks, it was very good information, I like the way you explain and show how to do things. Appreciated and subscribed!
No need to tie the clingfilm, just twist so you can use less. Also melted butter instead of oil works well. My favourite poaching method (and easy to do several eggs at the same time). Alternative method: Use an old fashioned egg poaching pan!
Wow! I will do poached eggs for my family! It's good u have 4 ways i will add 1 how i poached an egg i just put 1 Tbsp water to my soup bowl & microwave it for 2 min & its done!💕
I have developed a method using a macro-wave oven. It is similar to the ramakin method, but used a deep glass saucer and a margarine wiped interior surface, and SLOW heating for 3 minutes. Prick the egg yoke to avoid "explosions". If the eggs comes directly from the fridge, add an extra half-minute.
Much easier is to add water to about an 8 oz cup. Enough to cover your egg with water once removed from its shell. Pop it in the microwave for 60 sec (less for a runnier egg). Experiment with the cook time until you get the egg you wish. Toast your English muffin or bread. Use a spoon with slits to remove the egg after the microwave is finished & place the egg on a paper towel to rest while you butter your toast. The towel will absorb excess water. Move the egg from the paper towel to your toast. Add chopped chives. Break your yoke a little & enjoy. Takes 70 seconds.
Thanks for the tips. One advise though..research shows that plastic use is cancerous especially at high temperatures so boiling it in water is not a good idea.
Oh my, TY! I used a ladle & cannot believe oiling it prior wasn’t all that’s needed to succeed 🤦🏽♀️; I’m looking forward to try again using your genius method. 😉
Great video, thanks! Surprising and educating :) I've been using method #1 for a few years now and I recommend adding a tiny bit of vinegar to the water + not salting the water. (That said, I just treated myself to a cheap but effective 'egg poacher' - which is basically a small pan that comes with a metal surface that holds tiny plastic bowls - similarly to your ladle technique - it works really nicely!)
I use small ziplock bags with a bit of butter in one corner. Lay the bag down and rub bag to spread butter around in the corner. Add egg, close nearly completely and immerse in boiling water for approx 4min. Remove and scissor cut bag just above the egg to let it drop onto your toast. You can add a good shot of vinegar before the egg goes in if you're weird like me cause I always liked that flavor to my poached eggs. I like this method as it's quicker than plastic wrap but still allows you to get a batch ready to go ahead of time. I usually do 6 and when time is up I just grab all 6 bags out of the water at once.
Thanks so much, I was so tired this morning I forgot to do the swirl thing and the egg whites just kind of broke up into a million pieces. Great tips I hope to see more of your food hacks because this one was amazing. :)
*Method 5* 1) Boil the kettle. 2) Using a non stick, low wall frying pan, add the smallest amount of water, literally so it just covers the floor of the pan. 3) Bring that to boil. 4) Turn your cooker off. 5) Take your pan off the hob and add as many eggs to the pan as you like. 6) Gently put it back on the now cooling hob until the base of the eggs start to set. Literally like 15 seconds. 7) Take the pan off the hob again and gently fill the shallow frying pan with Boiling water from your kettle until the water covers the tops of the egg yolk. 8) Leave for 1 minute max. 9) Scoop out with a flat spatula. 10) Enjoy the most PERFECT looking poached eggs you've ever seen! The initial shallow water keeps the egg white nice and flat. The result is like a perfect sunny side up fried egg minus the oil. Enjoy!
No need to to use literally twice, but apart from that well written. The shape ideally should be egg shaped, not disk shaped. If the shape does not matter then you can literally just use a poaching pan which is easiest of all. Now you have got me doing it ... grrrr ....
It’s made my mouth water as I watch in bed this morning in lockdown I always have two eggs so what’s the best way doing them together. Maybe the cling film method?
Buy a poaching pot,has 4 plastic cups where the boiling water comes up around, all end up perfect round and all done at the same time to enjoy two or more at a time. 4 to 6 minutes depending if you like real runny
Amazingly new techniques for me to learn! Thanks for the simple instruction! Can't wait to try your methods of which I knew not. God Bless the Chickens🐓🐣🤭
I’ve always made mine with a coffee cup and a microwave . Put a pat of butter in cup microwave 20 seconds to melt it, crack an egg in the cup poke the yoke with a toothpick and cover ( saucer, paper plate, plastic wrap etc.) microwave 45 to 50 seconds that’s it.
Brilliant methods. I Usually use twirled in water but adding vinegar (man said it helps form the whites). For a flavor twist I steam or oven bake in ramekin layered to eat & dip right out of w/ my soldiers. When I need much more I bake multiples in oven so family can choose their own. You can steam 3 or so in large pan. Nan would twirl in 5 in vinegar water. Modem tip: if you can’t be bothered w/ all that, I microwave it. Nearly full Ramekin cook on high for 1 min to test. Microwaves power can vary so just try. Maybe 1:10 or 0:50. This is sumo for eggs & soldiers. Oh ya, use a splash cover as it can pop at the lay moment till u get it right
I go with the last method but using little jars or cups or whatever is handy - for not producing so much plastic rubbish as with using the cling film. Thanks a bunch, that was very helpful and not having so much mess and waste of egg compared to the vinegar in water method 👍💕
After looking round for you tube for a really easy to follow nothing fancy way of poaching eggs, I watched Adam and he made it look achievable. Gonna practice all 4 methods next time I'm making brekkie 😊
Great video! I believe your last method is actually a forgotten one called coddling. I picked up a few vintage egg coddlers in charity shops a few years ago, they are adorable.
That final method is very close to coddled eggs, though they (coddled) take slightly longer because the egg isn’t spread out. I actually make poached eggs in a tin cup most of the time (also tried a coke can with the top removed - it works, but no handle, and cans are flimsy nowadays), because it takes such a short time to heat the water, and it tends to turn out a nicely rounded egg.
I don't stir the water - just add about a teaspoon of cider vinegar (white vinegar = no taste of vinegar ) - bring to a boil again and immediately turn it off - optional lid for a few seconds to whiten over the yolk #2 - 40 seconds(approx.) in the microwave ,in a half cup of water ,I pierce the yolk gently with a fork ,so the egg won't explode. I prefer the first method ,because it works out with the toast (I do toast in the oven)
Poached eggs for breakfast are my all time favourite and I've been running several taste tests recently and it's good to be able to pick up some helpful tips, many thanks indeed.
Great only a suggestion in order to not waste a lot of water you can use a toaster oven by simply putting some water into a little bowl the egg salt pepper and heated
I loved the video, just thought that the cling-film version is not very environmentally friendly and I use as little as possible in the kitchen for the obvious reasons as it ends up in the landfill. Oops! Thanks for sharing. I love poached egg and it's part of my diet.
This video is wonderful!!!!! Thank you so much for posting it. I will definitely be using the cling film method and a few others as well. Thank you!!! 🤗
The 2 minute microwave egg poacher is really good,honest. I don't even know what it's name is so I'm not advertising. I luv poached eggs dunno ramekin,. The very best poached eggs are with a drop of vinegar in the water. And the video eggs looked perfectly done in my opinion. Gaz.
Poach the egg in its shell by pricking a small hole in it & submerging in boiling water for about 5-10 seconds. This gels it enough for you to then crack it into the boiling water without the whites swirling away
A Japanese chef told me a 5th way is to put an egg in a ladle, hold it in the boiling water for about 40 secs or so, take out then crack into water and cook for a further 2 mins. Careful not to burn your hands though.. Keeps its shape as the outside is already partially cooked.
There is nothing nicer than 3 big hot, soft and perfectly cooked poached eggs on a great big perfectly cooked piece of Scotch fillet steak oozing with marble and all lightly sprinkled with freshly grounded black cracked pepper for breakfast!! Yummy!!
Great methods. Thank you. Have you tried the white vinegar method. It’s the method I use almost exclusively to date. Also, fresh eggs are always a good idea, but not always possible. However, the vinegar method solves that issue too.
Hi Adam, partially pre-cooking the white, by immersing the whole shell-on egg in boiling water for 30 seconds, before poaching, is a useful way of keeping the white together. Thanks for sharing these useful tips, Rick
I love poached eggs and I don't do it any of those ways and I cook them in advance and can serve up 10 perfectly poached eggs at the same time. My eggs come from the fridge at approx 2C and I plop them into my saute pan 2 at a time into water just off the boil with added white vinegar and watch them carefully until the whites start to set. Out into iced water and do some more, they will sit for a long time like this. I like to trim the raggy bits off at this stage for presentation sake. Just before serving back into boiling water for about 30 seconds or until you like the feel of them and serve. Her indoors likes the whites fully set and the yolk to fill the plate when stabbed. Very fussy about eggs is my Mrs.
Adam you are a brilliant person I tried all four methods and they all worked I just have one problem I can’t make up my mind which is the best your star in my book thank you sir... knighthood should follow soon!
@@Adam_Garratt Yeah the girlfriend makes candles using em. Cant wait to try your methods out - am i sad! I bought some of thay silicone poachers and the plastic capped ones on ebay but you need to add oil to em otherwise the egg just sticks to em and its a pain to clean so cheers dude you shortened my poaching by at least 5 mins! lol You should do one on microwaving a poached eggit it looks even quicker and saves leccie as my ceramic hob uses 4kw as opposed to microwave! Always a good day when you learn something new. It was a good day yesterday thanks dude! And if I can bring one smile to one persons day then my day has been successful! And your youtube vid is up on the hotukdeals website so should get you a few more likes lol
