Microwave poached eggs

When I first started uni, I was missing the egg poacher we had at home and set about trying to find the easiest method to poach eggs. I actually looked at this b3ta feature on how to do it, and yeah, the traditional method did not work for me either. Nor did vortexting it. So I settled with doing it in food wrap for a while, until it occurred to me that even the microwave safe stuff isn't actually supposed to come into contact with food when it cooks. I hadn't yet come across a Daily Mail scare warning me that boiled cling wrap gives you cancer, but I thought it best to stop doing that, and instead started poaching my eggs in a ladle (which works reasonably well, but means you have to hold the ladle the whole time).

However, a few days ago I found out how to make perfect poached eggs in the microwave, and it is SO easy. So here we go:

Get a bowl full of boiling water. Crack the egg in it. Microwave on high for 30 seconds to a minute (depending on the strength of your microwave and how well cooked you like your eggs. Ours is 700W and I like my eggs with the yolk completely runny, so I do it for about a minute). Remove from the water with a slotted spoon.

Don't even think about bothering with one of those awful plastic microwave egg poachers. I once bought one from tesco and the eggs came out all disgusting and rubbery. So yeah. If you like eggs, this will change your life. If not, then you're a disgrace. How can you not like eggs?! Get off my blog.