Episode 42: Poached Eggs
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.4K 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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