OT: Before you buy that new EV.....

Interesting comparison. I've not seen anyone use an egg poacher in 40+ years. As Delia Smith put it "Egg poachers not only came out of the ark, but they never did the job anyway. What they did was to steam and toughen the eggs, not poach them – and did you ever try to clean one afterwards? The dried-on toughened egg white was always hell to remove."

Ramekin, knob of butter and a microwave overn.

fine - but not like an egg poached in water

Just shows what a tosser SHE was. mum had one for years in the 1950s. A wipe with a butter paper stopped eggs sticking

Not sure about microwaving them, Doesn't that cook just the yolks?

As I remember them, they produced an egg like a soft-boiled egg. So what is the point of taking them out of a shell to put them in a poacher?

Poaching in a pan of water is quicker, less cleaning, and tastes better.

The trick I didn't learn until quite recently, was to use a frying pan full of water rather than a sauce pan, if poaching more than one.

Have one of these:

I wasn't around at the time of the ark :-) (or very much for Delia, for that matter)

Delia too

Our egg pacher makes nice poached eggs. I agree there is a bit of a cleaning overhead, but that's because the egg containers are non-stick and SWMBO doesn't like to put them in the DW (I would, I have to say).

D'ye mean boil the water (e.g. in a saucepan), then crack the egg into it? Or perhaps previously crack the egg into a glass and slide that into the boiling water? SiL suggested adding some vinegar to the water but I think SWMBO overdid the vinegar as thet eggs tasted vinegary. She's not tried since, gone back to the poacher.

Thass similar to ours but includes a pan and a lid.

These days I use a frying pan with about 3 cm water barely simmering. No vinegar. Crack in carefully/slowly unless cooking for guests. Take off heat after 2 minutes and leave to stand for c. 10 mins.

D'ye mean, wait another twn mins after removing from heat, before removing the oeuf from the water?

yes. But it depends of course on how you like your eggs, its size, and very possibly loads of other things like the size and weight of the pan and the temperature of the kitchen. And whether the toast and smoked haddock are ready :)

Told off by whom?

The owner of a house has no right to reserve the spot outside his house.

My most recent EV one BTW was to find a car park I use every so often crammed full, I was lucky to get a space as someone left.

There were empty spaces. A couple for disabled, and about a quarter of the car park reserved for EV charging.

Andy

EV charging places aren’t parking places, any more than a petrol station forecourt is a parking place.

Tim

The owner. The street is one long dropped curb, and it has a sort of drive, but that's been used to build an extension - so no space for a car.

So the owner had a point - maybe, I'm not sure, I just apologised. A sign would help.

You can't reserve space on the public highway.

But only the owner of a driveway can park across its dropped kerb?