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How to Get Perfectly Poached Eggs

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By sabrinacareer
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Getting perfectly poached eggs is not that hard but sometimes even if you carefully crack the eggs in a small dish and slowly lower them into the water, what should be your poached eggs always seem to feather or spread and it can be quite irritating. This happens to most but there is a trick to get perfectly poached eggs. A poach egg is an egg that has the white part solidified but the yellow yolk in the middle needs to stay soft.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • eggs
  • vinegar
  1. Step 1

    Take a sauce pan and fill it with water (about 1 cup) and let it stand on low heat for a minute, and then move it up to medium heat for two minutes.

  2. Step 2

    Add 1 tablespoon of vinegar into the simmering water, as the vinegars’ acids will help the egg set faster and hold their shape at the same time.

  3. Step 3

    Crack the eggs in a small dish and slowly lower them in the simmering water, right after you pour the vinegar.

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