Eggs can be enjoyed in many different forms – there’s fried, boiled, scrambled and poached.
For many who have poached an egg before, the chances are they’ve not been successful when cooking them in a saucepan.
According to a chef on TikTok, there’s an easier way to poach an egg – and it takes less than one minute.
Chef Erica Wides, otherwise known as @chefsmartypants on TikTok, has shared how she poaches her eggs every day using the microwave.
She said: “Maybe you don’t want to boil a pot of water every morning, poach your egg in the microwave. This is how I do it every day.”
Erica starts by cracking an egg into a small glass bowl. She pointed out that for this hack you need something that is “at least twice as deep as the height of the egg”.
The next step is to pour water over the egg. You want to submerge the egg by “at least half an inch to an inch”.
She warned that if the egg is not submerged by water you risk the egg exploding in the microwave.
As Erica puts the egg into the microwave she explains that every microwave is different, but to poach an egg in the microwave she has it takes 44 seconds.
She noted that finding the perfect time to cook the poached egg has involved a lot of trial and error as her old microwave only needed 36 seconds to poach an egg.
However, an egg can be poached in the microwave in about 35 to 50 seconds, households just have to play around with timings.
Erica said that the timings also depend on how you like your eggs. She said: “I like mine perfect because I’m a chef and it has to be perfect. This means firm whites and runny yolk.”
Taking the egg out of the microwave after 44 seconds and showing the camera, the chef said: “Perfect poached egg.”
Slicing into the poached egg, Erica showed the results and it looked cooked to perfection.
Taking to the comments section, TikTok users shared their thoughts on this egg poach hack. @stephenmalone142 said: “Game changer, thank you.”
@MR200 wrote: “So many times I failed with poached eggs. This one just works perfectly! Thank you!”
@mike_boylan commented: “This changed my life. Unreal. Thank you!” @dobf46 claimed: “That worked a charm.”
