What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[Gooner Girl]

I've even had on on-line LK masterclass on the art of poaching an egg, yet still I just end up with a pan full of bubbling scuzz.

Clearly your eggs are not fresh enough (or your cooking skills are crap ) About time you got some chickens of your own - Jonny will help get you started!

[Lord Kangana]

Never put salt in an egg poaching pan. Ever.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Never put salt in an egg poaching pan. Ever.

Why not?

[Lord Kangana]

The egg will start to disperse a bit. If you want perfectly round poached eggs (and this is desirable to make a nice perfectly runny yolk) you need some white wine vinegar, boiling water, and fresh eggs (Bruce!).

[thebish]

The egg will start to disperse a bit. If you want perfectly round poached eggs (and this is desirable to make a nice perfectly runny yolk) you need some white wine vinegar, boiling water, and fresh eggs (Bruce!).

now you're just copying me and Raymondo!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I've never found it a problem. The white's aren't perfectly round, they are slightly flattened and have a kind of Caspar the ghost tail, but my yolks are perfect; warm and totally runny. As I said, I'll try the vinegar method and will compare.

[thebish]

I've never found it a problem. The white's aren't perfectly round, they are slightly flattened and have a kind of Caspar the ghost tail, but my yolks are perfect; warm and totally runny. As I said, I'll try the vinegar method and will compare.

you could put vinegar in half the pan and salt in the other half...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I've never found it a problem. The white's aren't perfectly round, they are slightly flattened and have a kind of Caspar the ghost tail, but my yolks are perfect; warm and totally runny. As I said, I'll try the vinegar method and will compare.

you could put vinegar in half the pan and salt in the other half...

Or, as I intend to do, is have two pans! Extravagant on the washing up, I know. But sacrifices are required if domestic science is to progress into the 21th century.

[thebish]

I've never found it a problem. The white's aren't perfectly round, they are slightly flattened and have a kind of Caspar the ghost tail, but my yolks are perfect; warm and totally runny. As I said, I'll try the vinegar method and will compare.

you could put vinegar in half the pan and salt in the other half...

Or, as I intend to do, is have two pans! Extravagant on the washing up, I know. But sacrifices are required if domestic science is to progress into the 21th century.

i hope your eggs turn out like fannie's

[Lost Leopard Spot]

^

I have no rejoinder that doesn't have Zulu aiming his gun at me.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Here goes...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Here goes...

Yum. Results.
Having used near identical pans, and eggs (from next door's hen, who is in training and in her own run), the answer is....ta day: they taste the same. No difference in taste, no difference in consistency, no real discernable difference except the salty one is flatter with the yolk higher up the egg and more visible as a yolk to the vinegar one which looked more egg shaped with the yolk hidden within. Plus the salt one had more scum on the water surface prior to scooping out, but not that much more.
Oh, there was one difference. I had to add a bit (teeny weeny) of salt to my vinegar egg to get it to taste as equally, and nicely salty as the salt boiled one.

[Lord Kangana]

See - so the egg from the vinegar looled better, and into the bargain didn't leave egg piss in tha pan. Now the real test is.... Which one would you poach a second one in without replacing the water?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

See - so the egg from the vinegar looled better, and into the bargain didn't leave egg piss in tha pan. Now the real test is.... Which one would you poach a second one in without replacing the water?

Yes, the vinegar egg looked better if looking more like an egg is the parameter. And yes, from a commercial point of view sticking a second egg in, so's to avoid the bigger amount of scuz, it'd have to be in t'vinegar jobby. No doubt if I worked in a kitchen, or cooked for friends I'd adopt the vinegar approach. But as I'm not and won't, fxck it, I'll stick with the salty way just because I've done it for years (which I do realise is a pathetic reason... But).

[Bruce Rioja]

I've even had on on-line LK masterclass on the art of poaching an egg, yet still I just end up with a pan full of bubbling scuzz.

Clearly your eggs are not fresh enough (or your cooking skills are crap ) About time you got some chickens of your own - Jonny will help get you started!

Now why would I do something like that when I can ponse fresh eggs off of him?

[Bruce Rioja]

Oh excellent. Just been informed that I'm being taken for a late Birthday lunch on Friday............................... to Northcote

Awesome. Just reopened too after being completely refurbed....

The refurb is awful. Truly fecking dreadful. I cannot imagine how they could've done it any worse.

However, the food, the service and the wine were absolutely sensational. Truly magnificent.

[Gooner Girl]

I've even had on on-line LK masterclass on the art of poaching an egg, yet still I just end up with a pan full of bubbling scuzz.

Clearly your eggs are not fresh enough (or your cooking skills are crap ) About time you got some chickens of your own - Jonny will help get you started!

Now why would I do something like that when I can ponse fresh eggs off of him?

So you can have chickens to cuddle of course!

[Bijou Bob]

Ostrich burger. Not s great deal different to a quality beef burger sadly.

[Harry Genshaw]

I'm shocked at you dirty beggars poaching eggs in pans full of scummy water. Don't any of you own a proper poaching pan with the little plastic holders? Your eggs come out perfectly rounded with just the right amount of runniness

[Bruce Rioja]

I'm shocked at you dirty beggars poaching eggs in pans full of scummy water. Don't any of you own a proper poaching pan with the little plastic holders? Your eggs come out perfectly rounded with just the right amount of runniness

Are they not coddled eggs?