What’s the trick with these things?

[kabbes]

WTAF no it doesn't. Dippy is soft boiled, you eggy bellend

Not boiled eggs with sausage and bacon, you horrorshow.

 

[twentythreedom]

Not boiled eggs with sausage and bacon, you horrorshow.

I agree. But a dippy egg is a soft boiled egg. That's just how it is.

 

[kabbes]

I agree. But a dippy egg is a soft boiled egg. That's just how it is.

I wasn’t naming the thing, I was using the word dippy as an adjective. I was saying that with sausage you need something dippy, which means it needs to be poached or fried. Relax, you can carry on with your childish name for a soft boiled egg to your heart’s content. Read the actual post, not what you assume it to be.

 

[twentythreedom]

I wasn’t naming the thing, I was using the word dippy as an adjective. I was saying that with sausage you need something dippy, which means it needs to be poached or fried. Relax, you can carry on with your childish name for a soft boiled egg to your heart’s content. Read the actual post, not what you assume it to be.

Oooooooh get you!

In future I suggest you use 'runny' as the adjective. 'Dippy', to most right-thinking people, means soft boiled.

See breakfast thread for references to dippy eggs

 

[kabbes]

There’s no way I’m going near that breakfast thread.

 

[ringo]

Had enough of those things the egg sticks to. I bought my girls an egg cooker for Xmas. Mrs R has used it for poached eggs and says it's great but I've always been at work when they've had them so far.

Egg Boiler, BESTEK Electric Egg Cooker, Poacher Eggs and Omelette Maker Bowl,Auto Switch Off ( 6 Eggs,Black)
£23.99

 

[wtfftw]

Better results than what? I already end up with a well-defined, neat egg not wholly unlike a boiled egg without its shell. I often do four in the same pan, so I have no desire to complicate it by making the water whizz around really fast.

I don't know what is happening for the rest of you, in all honesty, I really don't.

Do you have hard or soft water?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

This again?

 

[Cid]

Despite all the cautionary tales against it, I keep my eggs in the fridge. If you do that, it'll still poach nicely after three weeks.

I think (reluctantly) you might be on to something here... In China I'm keeping my eggs in the fridge (not much space, summer gets very hot). I've not done a poached egg as such, but I'll sometimes add an egg to instant noodles (habit from Korean friends), and have noticed that it maintains it's integrity far better than my uk efforts at poaching did. Despite not being very fresh and being in a pan of noodles.