my wife tells me poached eggs are the worst in professional kitchens, but i have this huge wide mouthed electric kettle we can boil like a dozen eggs in at a time. it means cleaning out the kettle, but poaching eggs is so damn easy in that thing. bring it up to boil, turn it off, wait for the bubbles to stop, crack in an egg, wait three minutes, pretty damn good poached egg.
i am an electric kettle evangelist though because people out here in the San Francisco bay area don’t seem to understand their utility.
Oh wow I didn’t know you were serious, that’s kinda cool I like it. I usually boil the kettle at home and pour it into a pot on the stove to poach my eggs quickly
Poached eggs can be a nightmare, you’ve got this giant pot of vinegary water you’re always scrapping scum out of, if someone bombs it with too many at once it just fucks the temperature and the eggs emulsify in the water like someone splooged in the bath, gotta get a new pot on asap which takes up another burner that could be used for other shit
You’re generally using shitty eggs because of costs so the rate of failure in terms of them looking/being bad is 1/3, you have to crack an extra egg everytime otherwise the whole dish mistimes and fucks up.
Great if you’re on a bulk though
Then youve gotta stir the pot in a calm and pretty level manner before cracking the eggs in, which is hard to do amongst all the chaos. Something about calmly stirring a pot of vinegar cum water in that environ does challenge your inner resolve.
oh yeah, if i’m just doing one or five eggs i don’t use the vinegar trick (i can’t remember who told your secret but it wasn’t my wife, she’s no snitch), and i don’t think i’ve tried it in the kettle. i don’t want to acid up my kettle. i remember it doing better eggs the one or two times i tried it, but like, three minute eggs versus effort.
my wife tells me poached eggs are the worst in professional kitchens, but i have this huge wide mouthed electric kettle we can boil like a dozen eggs in at a time. it means cleaning out the kettle, but poaching eggs is so damn easy in that thing. bring it up to boil, turn it off, wait for the bubbles to stop, crack in an egg, wait three minutes, pretty damn good poached egg.
i am an electric kettle evangelist though because people out here in the San Francisco bay area don’t seem to understand their utility.
Oh wow I didn’t know you were serious, that’s kinda cool I like it. I usually boil the kettle at home and pour it into a pot on the stove to poach my eggs quickly
Poached eggs can be a nightmare, you’ve got this giant pot of vinegary water you’re always scrapping scum out of, if someone bombs it with too many at once it just fucks the temperature and the eggs emulsify in the water like someone splooged in the bath, gotta get a new pot on asap which takes up another burner that could be used for other shit
You’re generally using shitty eggs because of costs so the rate of failure in terms of them looking/being bad is 1/3, you have to crack an extra egg everytime otherwise the whole dish mistimes and fucks up. Great if you’re on a bulk though
Then youve gotta stir the pot in a calm and pretty level manner before cracking the eggs in, which is hard to do amongst all the chaos. Something about calmly stirring a pot of vinegar cum water in that environ does challenge your inner resolve.
oh yeah, if i’m just doing one or five eggs i don’t use the vinegar trick (i can’t remember who told your secret but it wasn’t my wife, she’s no snitch), and i don’t think i’ve tried it in the kettle. i don’t want to acid up my kettle. i remember it doing better eggs the one or two times i tried it, but like, three minute eggs versus effort.