How To Easily Poach an Egg — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

When I eye a dish and think, "That would be so much better with an egg on top," what I usually have in mind is a poached egg. Poached eggs are cooked by slipping them naked into a bath of gently simmering water, and they come out with silky, easily pierced whites, and golden, gooey yolks.

I dearly love poached eggs, but they have a reputation for being difficult or finicky. Hardly. Let me show you how I poach an egg; there's really nothing to it.

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