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Learning to cook eggs is not so simple. I worked as a short-order cook through high school and college. Mostly, what you have to master is saute skills. Pretty much every egg dish can be prepared in a pan. Poached eggs require the most technique, in my opinion. I have seen more people screw those up than any other egg dish. The concept is pretty simple: to essentially steam an egg so what it yields is a soft-boiled egg not in the shell. If you like that sort of thing, you can master eggs. The rest is just frying, flipping and/or scrambling. I was introduced to the three-minute egg traveling in Europe and Asia and it is a really perfect food, too. It is maybe too trying on the patience of a typical American (some folks I know don’t like to eat whole crab for this same reason).
Anyhow, here is a tip: if you like a poached egg, try basting instead. It’s easier, faster, cleaner. What you do is heat up a small non-stick pan (was it the Frugal Gourmet who used to say, “hot pan, cold oil”) on medium-high heat and toss in a bit of oil to coat the bottom (if there is more than the thinnest film of oil, swish out the excess) or, for more flavor, butter. If the pan isn’t hot, the eggs will stick. But, if it is too hot, they will burn. The butter will scorch, too. Now, gently crack in your 2–3 eggs. You might want to turn the heat down some. Let the eggs start to turn white. You can flip them now or leave them sunny side up. Take a lid or plate or what-have-you and drop about a teaspoon of water into the pan and cover for about a minute. You might get splattered if you aren’t careful. Steam should press out from under the lid. This technique works well for melting cheese quickly too, which is even more delicious on poached eggs or hamburgers. If my pan is too hot, I just turn the heat off at this point. Anyhow, it takes some tinkering to make these the way you might want them. The yolk should not be cooked really. Just a few minutes of cooking time. Toss on some coarse salt, some fresh ground pepper and some gorgonzola. Best served with something toasted that can sop up all that yolky protein that is going to smear all over your plate. English muffins or some fluffy fresh biscuits should do nicely. Say, this is making me hungry.
I can describe exactly how I make poached eggs, omelets, etc. if you’re interested.
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@jbfletcherfan I have a Dell which is super solid and no one can convince me otherwise and and their customer service has been top-rate.
Geniuses, eh, not so much. I also have a Macbook Pro laptop which I boot up windows in. As it turns out, most of my work (as an architectural designer) requires me to use a PC (software like Autocad (for 2d drawings) and Rhino (for 3d modeling) won’t run on a Mac and other software (Adobe Creative Suite, for example), commonly attributed to being Mac only run just fine on my PC). Still, I picked up the Mac because I was working in an office that was all Mac except for me and my design team. I wanted to learn and the potential for a happier interface is still a goal of mine. Hopefully, as I move up the ladder and gain more responsibility, I won’t be a CAD monkey and can move away from the PC platform. For now, Mac just isn’t versatile enough.
@iwamoto Not so fast. There have been documented problems with viruses and hacking with Macs just as well. I am not happy with all the monopolistic bullshit Apple is up to these days (thankfully, there is quite a backlash forming against that trend coming from Apple’s own fans and potential new customers (including me)). Let’s not forget that this contributes to less affordable software available. Also, the interface is actually a bit dumbed down, inefficient and chaotic for me in some regards. So, design wise, it is imperfect. The Mac platform architectural design software is laughable. (My nickname for Form-Z was Control-Z because it was just that crappy.)
That being said, the idea of the Mac appeals to me. It just has not been proven to me yet. We shall see. As my current goal is to move towards simplicity, Mac, conceptually will only do.
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