Vinegar is useful to set white when it is floating free in large pot but I think it would be unnecessary in these circumstances. I am told it has the unwanted side effect of toughening the white.

Correct...vinegar is not necessary if cooking in the oven..however if poaching on the stove top..the acidity helps to coagulate the whites..preventing too many wisps from forming...

I didn't say it was necessary.....I simply like the taste of poached eggs cooked with vinegar in the water.

A vented microwave lid with a hole keeps foods moist and stops them from drying out.

Also it does stop the splatter of the microwave ... which sometimes happens.

i love eggs,   but cant eat them poached,   they look like two big eyes staring at you,   hubby loves them,  and i cook them for him,     i make a nice baked custard in the microwave,   easy peasy,  and no mess,  

Note it is not a tin but a flexible silicon muffin pan. Presumably that would make it easy to pop them out. I notice they didn't show that vital step in the video. Good luck.

I noticed that too Eclair which made me wonder how easy or not it would be to get them out. 

Radish - My friend's daughter has just gone back to W.A. and found her hens had laid 70 eggs in 10 days. They were all stocked in the fridge door , family didn't know what to do with them, waiting for Mum to return home. Looks like eggs are on the menu for the next few days. 

I had forgotten I had one of those once hmmm may have gone out in a decluttering blitz.

Jandate  by using a fry pan with enough water for the egg to be covered, creating a whirlpool in the middle of the boiling water withawhisk and dropping the egg into the middle of the whirlpool - then they come out round like In restaurants. 

Thank you Vivity, good to know, but I think I willl stay with my flat ones. 

My son told me he asked a chef in a restaurant near his place how he got the poached eggs so round, he said he oils good quality cling film then adds the egg to it and wraps it into a ball and dangles it into the simmering water, it usually takes a couple of minutes to cook, undo the cling film and the egg comes out in a lovely ball. I have yet to try it.

Have seen Jamie Oliver do them in the cling wrap.

BTW I did bake two in my mini oven ...what I did to ensure they would come out was to spray the tins (probably unnecessary) and then I put a piece of baking paper in each and then the egg (I put the egg into a small cup first...easier to put in the paper).

No problem taking them out at all...just lifted out the paper and off the eggs came.

Would not bother for two people but as I said previously if cooking for a large number (which probably will not happen now) it would be fine.

Agree Alula :)

Keep a few hens in your backyard

Viv

Did not know that you had so much expertise in the egg cooking department

... next time I am up your way,

I will definitely drop in for brekky

Ha Ha Abby have to make sure my grandson around then, it's called the things my grandson taught me cos he works in a restaurant part - time also his scrambled eggs are the easiest creamiest ever he only mixes eggs and cream together no milk or butter whacks them  in the micro 50 secs stirs then back in the oven for another 50 secs beautiful creamy scrambled eggs.

He loves cooking and has just got into UWA (Perth) to do Sciences so I offered to have him live with me in anticipation of more meals cooked by him.

Robi

what about doing a review to Hola's recipe with  these others ?

"oil good quality cling film then add the egg to it and wrap it into a ball and dangle it in the simmering water, it usually takes a couple of minutes to cook, undo the cling film and the egg comes out in a lovely ball."

Thanks for the cooks review Robi. I wonder how Holas egg package is dangled in the boiling water?

Hi Viv ... here's one demo of cooking eggs in cling film/boiling water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui2l6-OW4Mw

Perhaps a method similar to Nigella ?

Wouldn't your hands get burnt off?

Viv, that is precisely why I didn't do the third egg Hola's way. I couldn't work out how to dangle it.

Abby, I could not possibly fit another egg in. How about you review Hola's method for us?

I just tried Hola's method as per the video I posted above. Worked beautifully for me ... yummo. Used tongs to put in, lift out. Boiled for 5 minutes. As per my pics of process below. 

Well done RnR

5 minutes sounds good to me

RnR - Well done. My son cooks his eggs always in this manner. If you tie the top off in a knot when it's finished you just have to cut the knot with some scissors.

...also..in my Brownie camping days...we were taught how to poach an egg in a ladle on a little camp  stove..came out  perfect every  time!

Thea - great. Those poached eggs look yum. I much prefer them to boiled eggs. I used to own an egg poacher which had 4 compartments which you just had to grease up and when the water was boiling, just add the lid for a few minutes. Perfect every time.