Egg cooking method: I need a name for it?!


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Egg cooking method: I need a name for it?


Shallow pan of simmering water on stovetop.

Crack egg into small dish.

Place egg dish into simmering water (no water enters the dish)

Egg comes out perfectly round and with an over-easy doneness.

What in the world is this cooking method called? 6 culinary students sure couldn't figure it out.

Please help! We're going crazy!

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10 hours ago
No. Not poached. A poached egg is dropped directly INTO the water. The egg remains in the dish for the cooking part.

10 hours ago
Not double-boiled. That doesn't really make sense... as a large bowl is held over simmering water for this. The whole dish is dropped INTO the simmering water.

10 hours ago
Andrew L- you are my hero. As soon as it lets me choose a best answer, you shall have your 10 points. THANK YOU!!!


Answers: 10 hours ago
No. Not poached. A poached egg is dropped directly INTO the water. The egg remains in the dish for the cooking part.10 hours ago
Not double-boiled. That doesn't really make sense... as a large bowl is held over simmering water for this. The whole dish is dropped INTO the simmering water.10 hours ago
Andrew L- you are my hero. As soon as it lets me choose a best answer, you shall have your 10 points. THANK YOU!!! Coddled egg. You can buy porcelain egg coddlers, or there are special pans with ceramic dishes. Pouched casuyaw So it's not poached? double-boiled... I think.

You melt down chocolate the same way

For every one that said Poached. You poach an egg by placing in a hot skillet and place a tablespoon of water in the skillet and cover it with a lid. What is described here is not poached, but pretty close.

Good luck i think it is called <poaching >the eggs i'm really not sure if it's poached... this is called coddling. I call it soft boiled but I'm not really sure that is exactly correct. I think you are messing up to many dishes just to cook an egg. However I would call it a sizzled egg. That`s what it has been called in my family for generations. poached It is poached
I have an "egg poacher" it is a shallow pan with a tray to hold removable "egg cups" you can either put a bit of butter in the cup and add the egg plus salt and pepper
because of a lid you can cook these soft to hard
finding these specialized is getting harder (they were very common when I was a kid) so some cooks have come up with the method you mentioned if you use a deeper pan with a lid and still used the dish you could cook the eggs hard if you wanted the only difference is the cooking time

They came up with this kind of method for those of use who love poached eggs but do not like the wet eggs I do find poached eggs in water bland.

They do have different names for this in different countries so it really depends on where you are from. I think the real term is Steamed. Like a steamed veggie is not immersed into the water either.
I have "Poaching Pan" that does the same thing.
Traditionally the egg is poached in a liquid but this works too.
Coddled Eggs are cooked in the shell & usually very close to raw.



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