Trying these egg cups out for kids breakfast. Not the way my stepmom did.

When you Poach them do you sneak up on them with a spotlight? We just cook ours on each side and put our eggs over easy on Toast with Squirrel Gravy over the whole thing.

Yes we do,and burned out on squirrel gravy as a kid in west by God! Nuke is quicker and less mess.

Eat them all the time for breakfast.

I probably do them the way your mommies did.

Crack the eggs into a simmering deep frying pan of water. Scoop them out with a slotted spoon when the yokes jiggle just the right amount.

I've tried all kinds of dedicated poaching systems. They either didn't work as well, or took up too much space.

My mother had a dedicated egg steamer back the '50's. It made the best eggs ever, but took up way too much space for what it did.

Secret to a good poached egg is a capful of vinegar in the water.

I prefer over easy or sunny side up to poached eggs but over toast with some link sausages is one of favorite breakfasts

While the egg is simmering in the pan of water...I spoon the hot water ovah the yolk until I get a white haze

was my dad's favorite meal.

I like vinegar in the water too

The vinegar provides an acid that tends to keep the whites together and keep the yokes from over-cooking. I really doesn't affect the taste at all. Personally, (if I feel like it or even remember) I'll add a splash of lemon juice, which does the same thing.

if you cant taste it your not adding enough

Thank you for chiming in.

Never had them

We made eggs Benedict with the daughter and SIL a while back

Used the method Cowboy Kent Rollins show on his YT channel

Basically pot of almost boiling water witha splash of vinegar. Get the water swirling real good and pour cracked egg from a small bowl into the vortex. Makes it all hold together

I prefer poached deer, myself.

When I made poached eggs I just cracked them in a pot of hot water and cooked until done. Or sometimes if I was in a real hurry I just cracked them in a bowl/cup of water and nuked them. If you overcook them in the microwave by just a little bit though, you better have the yolk broken, because if not it will explode in the microwave.

As a younger bachelor I used to take an egg, crack it into a half a bowl of water, put in the microwave for a minute, and while it was cooking crush up a package of top ramen. When the egg came out with just boiling point water I would dump the top ramen in the bowl and mix it all up, chopping the egg into little pieces as I did so. Two bowls of that would make a good, quick, protein rich breakfast.

I think the secret is a couple tablespoons of bacon grease and leave out the water.

Lol. Poached is only when there's hash...put the eggs on top of hash and have the toast on the side for yolk dunking and plate cleaning.