/ck/ - Food & Cooking

hahaha,
first of all I like to Thank the OP for making this thread, at first I was thinking that this thread is silly,
of course this line made me smile and lough >>8390912
>Fucking 240 years as a country and you still can't figure out how to poach an egg for breakfast. Enjoy your fucking vinegar eggs, freedom faggots.

I got introduced here to home making poached eggs (of course I had poached eggs before in restaurants) but I never poached them at home, I boiled or fried them.

One mistake I was making when practising I had the water boil very rapidly, and from other posters here I learned that the water should be just simmering >>8391758
>>8391767
>>8391802
>The water needs to be just barely simmering.
>>8391806
>The water needs to be just barely simmering.
>>8392063

Reason I was eating boiled eggs over fried is that I've heard a scientist explaining that when eggs are fried the high temperature
destroys some of the nutrients because of the heat and direct exposure to oxygen,
(I can not find that source right now),
And when eggs are boiled the shell protects those nutrients .

Sometimes I do like fried eggs for the different taste they have especially when fried with butter,
but poached eggs are more appealing to me now over boiled because I can examine visually and smell the egg to make sure that is fresh.

As I said it here >>8393637, I did had bad egg from the same carton in the past, but only 2 or 3 times in the past two years and I do buy good quality eggs, but somehow it did happened,
so poaching them eliminates missing bad smelly egg if I crack them first into the glass before poaching.

So Thanks again to the OP and to all of you anons for sharing your ideas.

I'm still all day and evening today drinking/tasting those 3 brandies
and will probably make Brandy Thread tomorrow,
but I'm not sure if there is interest in it tho.

Cheers anons