Re: [london.food] Microwaves (was Re: Steaming vegetables)

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From: Nigel Rantor
Subject: Re: [london.food] Microwaves (was Re: Steaming vegetables)
Date: 15:54 on 17 Aug 2004
Marna Gilligan wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Simon Wistow wrote:
> 
>>I do an odd simulcra of poached eggs in a microwave - get a cup and 
>>butter it, crack the egg in and cook for about 40 seconds. Easy poached 
>>egg. Ok, so they're a weird mix between fried and poached egg but 
>>they're pretty good on toast.
> 
> 
> Does that work properly? I always thought one of the best things about
> poached eggs (or just about any eggs left whole, really,  was the runny
> runny raw yolk, and surely if it's getting microwave-levels of heat, and
> weird heating-from-the-wrong-direction (does that make sense outside my
> head?) the yolk cooks faster and is less runny and gooey and lovely.

Yeah, I was worried about that.

My second attempt was hard all the way thorugh but my final one had all 
the white nicely hard and the sentre still runny...*mmm*

   N

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