Nancy2 wrote on 26 Mar 2007 in rec.food.cooking
Quoted message said:jmcquown said:Rusty James said:Can someone offer suggestions on an appliance that will cook eggs
and also poach them?
It's called a pot and water. Good lord, what did people do before
there were all these fancy appliances?
I love my Oster egg cooker because I can go to the store and get 3
dozen very fresh eggs and hard boil them and every one will peel
without taking a single piece of white with it. It makes it very easy
to do spur-of-the-moment deviled eggs or eggy potato salad, which I
like to do.
Each to own, and all that, Jill. You can use your pan and water until
the cows come home, but a super-fresh egg will never peel properly.
N.
I don't do soft boiled eggs.
To poach eggs I use a pot and some boiling water.
Directions: Get the water boiling.Just before adding the egg get the water
swirling by stiring the water gently. Then crack open and carefully add
the egg. If you like you can crack the egg into a shallow dish then add
the egg to the swirling water from the dish.
Some think a little vinegar in the water helps to keep the eggs together.
There are some 2 dollar+ egg poacher gizmos that you crack an egg into
then lower into the boiling water if you feel poach challenged. These
gizmos hold up to 4 eggs at a time.
To hard boil eggs I use an electrical veggie steamer as I've found this
method allows for easy peeling.
Directions: add eggs to steamer basket ensuring only one layer deep;
Ensure the steamer is plugged in and then select 20 minutes on the
timer....go do something else untill you here the 'DING'.
