How to poach an egg

I had never tried to poach an egg before today. I'd occasionally heard conversations about how hard it is to poach an egg nicely, and just sort of shrugged my shoulders, because I’d never tried and so never experienced the difficulty. (I rather like a fried egg myself, but figured this could be slightly healthier.)

But, you can learn all sorts of things from reading craft blogs, and I subscribe to this one called Attic 24, because she crochets things and enjoys life's simple pleasures, somewhere beautiful up in the North of England. A while back she wrote a post on how to poach an egg, so today I decided to have a go. They turned out perfectly and I am a complete egg-poaching novice! It didn’t involve any tricksy water-swirling or fancy silicon equipment or half-a-dozen attempts. So, if you want to poach an egg easy-peasy, try this.