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Spilled Milk

Episode 42: Poached Eggs

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Food, Comedy, Arts

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2011

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Molly and I'm Matthew and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something

0:10.1

delicious eat it all and you can't have any and today we're poaching some anything

0:13.0

and today we're poaching some eggs.

0:15.0

We are poaching eggs people.

0:17.0

Why are we doing poached eggs today?

0:19.0

I don't know how to poach eggs and I'm very embarrassed about it

0:22.0

because it seems like the sort of thing

0:24.1

that a food person should know how to do and I'm hoping that you can show me how to do it so

0:29.8

that nobody finds out that I can't.

0:31.8

Well and the truth is that I I have gone through

0:35.1

Helen back learning to poach an egg really I have been you weren't born

0:39.2

poaching I was not I I have I have walked a mile in your shoes man.

0:45.0

I was wondering what happened to my shoes.

0:48.0

And anyway, so I'm really happy to share with you today what I've learned.

0:52.0

I mean, let's talk about what goes wrong when you poach eggs.

0:56.3

Okay, Matthew.

0:57.3

What goes wrong when I poach eggs is the yoke gets nicely cooked and the white gets nicely cooked but they're like several inches apart.

1:07.4

So I, you mean you have like a...

1:11.0

I have like a trail, I leave a trail of egg whites it's it's a disaster it's an

1:17.3

embarrassment it's a disgrace your egg blows to pieces my egg blows. Well I this is the problem that I used to have and I have tried

1:27.0

lots of different methods. I mean maybe we should talk for a minute about all the

1:29.9

different methods. Right because I realize I'm not alone in this deficiency.

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