Absolutely! After the eggs have finished poaching, just place them in an ice water bath and store them in the fridge for 4-5 days. When you’d like to eat them, just add some hot water to a small bowl or cup and add the poached egg until it’s warmed up (about 20-30 seconds).

2 days

Once all of your eggs are chilled, you can transfer them to a sealable container and top them up with cold water. Cover and store in the fridge for up to five days.

You’ll see your egg begin to cook immediately – don’t worry if the edges look a little scruffy. A really soft poached egg should take around 2 minutes and a soft-to-firm one will need 4 minutes (it depends on the size of the egg and whether you’re using it straight from the fridge).

How Do You Poach An Egg Without Vinegar? You can poach an egg without vinegar by substituting with lemon Juice! It might give your egg a slight lemony flavor, but lemon juice serves the same purpose as vinegar when poaching eggs.

One is to make the solution (the water) more acidic—and vinegar, which is quite an acidic entity, can do just that. So by adding vinegar, we get a double effect of heating, combined with increased acidity to help the egg white coagulate and form a solid white.

This is because egg whites are mostly protein, and protein starts to set (coagulate) as soon it meets heat. Adding vinegar to poaching water makes the whites firm even faster to prevent them from dispersing in the water.

Bring a pan of water filled at least 5cm deep to a simmer. Don’t add any salt as this may break up the egg white. Stir the water to create a gentle whirlpool to help the egg white wrap around the yolk.

Not having the water at the right temperature when you add the eggs. If you add eggs to water that’s at a rolling boil (when it’s too hot), the egg white will break apart, leaving you with a pot full of wispy bits. If you add the eggs to water that’s too cool, the white and yolk are likely to separate from one another.

In fact, to poach multiple eggs at once, ATK has a neat trick. Crack your eggs into individual teacups first, and then holding two or more by the handles in each hand, slip all of them into the skillet at the same time. Your perfect poached eggs will be ready in about 4-5 minutes.

Instructions

1. Boil the water, adding a tablespoon of vinegar.
2. When the water reaches a boil, reduce it to a gentle simmer.
3. Gently keep the water moving with a spoon while the eggs cook.
4. This one is optional—if you’re cooking eggs for a crowd, don’t stress.

four inches deep

4 minutes yields a poached egg with a soft white and runny yolk. 5 minutes is a bit more set and jammy rather than runny. Hard – 6 minutes produces eggs with a firm white and a yolk that is soft but not runny, or only slightly so.

To check whether they’re done, remove one carefully from the pan with a slotted spoon and give it a gentle push with a teaspoon. If it feels too soft (use your instincts), put it back and give the eggs a minute or two more in the water to firm up.

The “perfect” poached egg has a runny yolk, with a hardening crust and no raw white remaining. Broken into water at the poaching temperature, the white will cling to the yolk, resulting in cooked egg white and runny yolk.