Cowgirl Kitchen

Poached Eggs

 

Poached eggs are my nemesis.  I know that most cooks will say, “What’s the big deal?” But I can’t make  decent poached eggs to save my life.

However, I see no reason to master this skill.  There’s someone in my house that makes the perfect poached egg.  Yes, I’m married to him.  Where this cowboy learned to make the perfect poached egg, I do not know.  I willingly pass the slotted spoon to him.

 

You may ask, “Why do you want a poached egg?” Around my house, I can remember my dad cooking poached eggs on dry toast every morning but Sunday.  He tried to watch his weight because most of his job involved sitting. I think poached eggs on toast was on the weight watchers list of breakfast way back then and maybe it still is. However, my dad used a cheater pan. Which is the same pan I use if forced into attempting this culinary nightmare.

Soft-boiled eggs with or without the toast was also on the list of items you were served when sick.  I had numerous oral surgeries when I was young that burdened me with the notoriously horrible soft food diet. My mother, coming from parents that had an egg ranch, knew eggs to be an excellent source of protein. By the way, she couldn’t make poached eggs either.  I would get the soft-boiled egg that always had at least one piece of shell.  Wasn’t I abused? And my brother, that got his jaw broken and wired shut, also got the extremely soft-boiled egg he could suck through his teeth.  Just writing that made me nauseous.

But there are great recipes that call for a poached egg.  I can make Hollandaise sauce but not poach the eggs, go figure.  It must be a kitchen block.

Instructions with pictures really should help

How about a video on how to poach eggs from Jerry Stone? But he uses vinegar?  My cowboy doesn’t do that.

Here’s three ways to poach one from James Oliver?

Great recipes for using poached eggs

Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict