Stig
Condimentalist
You may have ruined the picture but the idea is still good
...totally see what you mean though!
Aww sorry. Look on the bright side though eh, it's a christmassy ashtray, someone's dropped a segment of tangerine in it.
Coddling eggs without an egg coddler
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Aww sorry. Look on the bright side though eh, it's a christmassy ashtray, someone's dropped a segment of tangerine in it.
Second coddler has just arrived
Have you used your coddler yet?
I ended up with two, one from eBay and one from a charity shop. I have coddled a few times but to be honest I find it a faff and have gone back to having boiled eggs.
The first coddle is currently at the preparation stage.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Plenty. It's cooked in a different way and to a different degree.
I coddle mine in a cup. I just pour boiling water on cover and leave it.
kittyP
Pluviophile
I have just checked them and they are not quite done.
I never make soft boiled eggs as they are always over or under done.
The beauty with the coddler is that you can check them and put them back. Plus mine have ham with them.
Will post picks when they are done.
I had a bit of trouble fitting in ham and the egg in to the small one.
1. Coddling away on the hob
2. The bigger coddler is served up
3. The bigger coddler moment of truth
4. The smaller coddler is served up
5. The smaller coddler moment of truth
Initial feedback is that the coddled egg is delicious, I really enjoyed it more than a boiled egg.
The smaller coddler is not really big enough it seems so on the hunt for more now. I think even the big coddler could have been eaten twice over. It has been emotional.
2. The bigger coddler is served up
3. The bigger coddler moment of truth
4. The smaller coddler is served up
5. The smaller coddler moment of truth
Initial feedback is that the coddled egg is delicious, I really enjoyed it more than a boiled egg.
The smaller coddler is not really big enough it seems so on the hunt for more now. I think even the big coddler could have been eaten twice over. It has been emotional.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Yes, a poached egg is cooked directly into boilinmg water whilst a coddled egg is cooked in a container which is immersed in boiling water. What most people think of as an egg poacher:
Is really just a very crude coddler (or pipkin as mentioned in the OP)
Nope. Coddling is about the water temperature and the final state of the egg. You can coddle an egg in it's shell. Boiling water is never a part of the coddling process. To coddle you heat the egg in (in it's shell or a coddler) in water that is below really even simmering.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
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RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
I missed this thread first (and second) time round. We used to have coddled eggs sometimes when I was little, in coddlers like the ones pictured. I seem to remember we usually put a bit of cream and butter in with them, this being the point of doing them that way as opposed to just boiled or done in a poacher.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
you've gone coddling crazy
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I really want eggs for tea tomorrow. I should eat eggs more often, I love them.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
you know what they're like, you get two, leave them alone for a while and you come back to a clutch of little coddlersNow have 11 egg coddlers
High Voltage
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