How to poach an egg

There are some things that I never really thought to include on my site. Poaching eggs for breakfast was one of those things that I presumed everyone knew how to do although it was something that I hadn't done very much until recently.

All of this anticlockwise or clockwise water swirling action  put me off and the idea of wasting several eggs in the pursuit of doing one perfectly poached egg was something I thought was best left to the professionals.

Then on my story about Whisk & Pin a reader commented about the difficulty in poaching eggs so I realised that there may be more out there that have wasted countless eggs, swirled vinegared water, prayed and crossed fingers.

Mess free poached eggs

This method is a foolproof one and one that has been successful for me ever since I came across it in the new Masterchef cookbook and they have noted that this is how the professionals do it for breakfast .

I do find that using good quality cling film i.e.

the name branded stuff works better as it is just that bit stronger than others. I used an Aldi cling film once

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