Special form for poached eggs

Poached eggs are considered a popular, tasty and unusual dish. This option for cooking eggs suggests that it is boiled in water without shells. If this method of preparation causes difficulties, you can use special forms for poached eggs.

How to cook?

To simplify the process of preparing certain dishes, cooks sometimes use non-standard equipment. For example, forms for poached eggs. You can buy such a device, or you can use the means at hand and cook the dish yourself. To do this, you need:

1. Put the stewpan with salted water on the stove and wait until the water boils. But she should not be too seething.
2. Break one egg into a bowl. This must be done carefully so that the yolk remains intact.
3. After the water boils, you need to add 1 - 2 tablespoons of white vinegar to the stewpan.
4. Stir the water in a circle with a spoon so that a funnel forms in the center.
5. Gently pour the egg into the center of the water hurricane and wait a few minutes.
6. Remove the egg with a slotted spoon and place in warm water to wash off the remaining vinegar, but without removing the product from the spoon.

How to simplify the cooking process?

Consider a few more options how to cook this dish, if there is no special form for poached eggs.

The easiest option to maintain the shape of the egg during the cooking process is a pocket made of baking paper. You need to fold a small sheet of paper in half and bend it around the edges to make a small pocket. Lubricate the resulting device with butter from the inside and break the egg inside. Dip your pocket in boiling water and wait a few minutes.

Instead of a paper bag, you can use a plastic bag. Inside it you need to grease with butter and break the egg. The principle of preparation is the same as in baking paper.

Special form for cooking

There is also a special form for making poached eggs - poached. It is much more convenient to cook in it. This appliance is used to save time on cooking.

A special form for poached eggs is a small slotted spoon in which a broken egg is placed. It does not need to be pre-lubricated with oil, just break the egg, lower it into boiling water and let stand for several minutes.

Professional chefs use a coder to cook poached eggs. This is a special glassware that is immersed in boiling water. In this case, the product itself does not come into contact with water, which means that the protein does not spread. The poached egg shape is perfect.

Silicone Cooking

You can arrange the preparation of poached eggs in silicone form. This device is popular among lovers of French dishes. You can buy a silicone mold in the nearest supermarket, the device is inexpensive.

This mold is a small silicone bag. Sometimes the bottom is provided with holes through which the most liquid part of the protein is removed. To remove the heated base from boiling water, you need to be very careful: first fix the product with forks so that the bag does not completely immerse in water, and you accidentally burn your fingers.

Using a silicone mold is quite simple:

• You need to boil water and add salt to it. If desired, you can add vinegar, it will speed up the cooking process.
• Break the egg into the silicone mold and add your favorite spices.
• Dip the workpiece in hot water.
• Soak for several minutes in boiling water and can be removed.

Silicone poached eggs are considered the fastest and easiest option. The yolk and protein optimally retain their shape and are prepared in accordance with French technology.