Ordinary Gweilo

It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writiing (mainly) about Hong Kong

An educational and mildly amusing guide to poaching an egg.  What more can you ask?

Cling film is best, apparently.

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5 responses to “Good egg guide”

  1. E@L avatar

    Excellent find – was just in the process of working out how to do my favorite: poached egg on a slice of Vegemite toast! Don’t laugh, it’s delicious! Great for hangovers (curing not creating!)
    But without a maid and any optimal poaching devices, disaster would surely have followed… until this great find!
    E@L

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  2. brahma avatar
    brahma

    All I have ever used for the past 500 years is any old pot, water boiled at max heat, a dash of vinegar and then a really fat egg cracked straight in: two mins later, happiness, no probs.

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  3. Mia avatar

    Excellent, thank you.

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  4. fumier avatar

    I read somewhere that cling film’s direct contact with food should be minimised for health reasons. I therefore suggest using a condom instead. I believe that locally made condoms would be ideal for poaching quails’ eggs.

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  5. m avatar

    fumier ……. oh yes now I remember, years ago a friends mother kept telling us not to wrap cheese in cling film as ‘bad’ chemicals would leech into the cheese.

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