microwave a runny egg yolk?

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Hi! Recently discovered eggs. I've been trying to nuke 'em
in my microwave. Well, I succeed in nukeing 'em, but the
yolks usually end up hard. Can't seem to get the whites
cooked and the yolks runny. Is there some trick?

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I put a plastic microwave dishcover (Walmart) over the egg
while cooking. It holds some of the steam in and helps cook
the yolk. Nancree

Quoted message said:

Hi! Recently discovered eggs. I've been trying to nuke 'em
in my microwave. Well, I succeed in nukeing 'em, but the
yolks usually end up hard. Can't seem to get the whites
cooked and the yolks runny. Is there some trick?

Yeah, cook them in a frying pan on the stove. The only way
eggs are good cooked in a microwave is if they're scrambled.

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(Nancree) said:

Quoted message said:

Hi! Recently discovered eggs. I've been trying to nuke
'em in my microwave. Well, I succeed in nukeing 'em, but
the yolks usually end up hard. Can't seem to get the
whites cooked and the yolks runny. Is there some trick?

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I put a plastic microwave dishcover (Walmart) over the egg
while cooking. It holds some of the steam in and helps
cook the yolk. Nancree

I cook them in water, like poaching. :-)

In a covered corningware.

K.

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Quoted message said:

Hi! Recently discovered eggs. I've been trying to nuke 'em
in my microwave. Well, I succeed in nukeing 'em, but the
yolks usually end up hard. Can't seem to get the whites
cooked and the yolks runny. Is there some trick?

Due to the way microwaves cook, it will be very difficult to
do that. In a pan, the white is getting more heat and cooks
faster; in a mw, it is all getting zapped equally. Ed

Brandon Van Every said:

Hi! Recently discovered eggs. I've been trying to nuke 'em
in my microwave. Well, I succeed in nukeing 'em, but the
yolks usually end up hard. Can't seem to get the whites
cooked and the yolks runny. Is there some trick?

Thanks, Brandon Van Every

Eggs are one if the things that won't cook properly in the
microwave. The fat in the yolk absorbs energy faster than
the water in the whites. Rgards. Ken

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Ken Davey said:

Eggs are one if the things that won't cook properly in the
microwave. The fat in the yolk absorbs energy faster than
the water in the whites. Rgards.

You ain't kiddin'! I've been doing Egg Research [TM]. In my
microwave, I find that it can take 3 minutes (!) to
completely cook the whites of a single jumbo egg, whereas it
only takes 30+ seconds to cook the yolk. I've tried all
sorts of tricks, hoping that spreading the whites out in a
thin layer would help with cooking them, and covering the
egg on a plate to get a steam effect. I haven't perfected my
techniques yet, but here's where I'm at currently.

Crack a "Grade A Jumbo" egg at the middle as cleanly as you
can. A sharp rap on a hard surface usually does the trick;
one must crack with confidence to get a clean break. Empty
the whites onto a plate with a little bit of depth to it.
Keep the yolk inside half the shell. Most of the whites will
slide right out of the egg, but some will remain around the
yolk. You can use the soft tip of your finger to keep the
yolk from spilling out as you try to drain whatever last
bits of white you can. Don't poke the yolk with your
fingernail, and don't let the yolk hit the sharp edges of
the shell. You can get almost all of the egg white out onto
the plate this way.

Do this for enough eggs that you've got an even depth of egg
white on the plate. Keep all the yolks in half-shells in
your egg carton for later use.

Cover the plate and nuke it for X minutes until the egg
whites are *completely* cooked. I don't know what X will be
in your microwave. In mine, it took 3 minutes just for the
whites of 1 egg, and parts of those whites got badly
overcooked. Egg whites have this annoying tendency not to
cook evenly, there's usually a "hole of goop" at the center
that needs more cooking time. Haven't quite found a way to
deal with that, I'm working on
it. I hope that an even depth of whites across the plate
will make it less of a problem; maybe I'll have to
spread the goop out with a fork, then cook again.
Anyways, the point is you're cooking all the whites
separately. Do whatever it takes to get that job done;
this is a subject of further Egg Research [TM]!

I emphasize the egg whites must be *completely* cooked. They
are darned stubborn to cook, and if you don't get 'em
cooked, you're going to ruin your yolks trying to get that
last bit of white cooked.

Ok, now plop your raw egg yolks on top of the cooked egg
whites. Don't break 'em, slide 'em out nicely from their
half-shells. Shouldn't be a big deal, just do it with
confidence. Worry is what breaks the yolks! Cook the whole
ensemble for Y minutes. Y is probably 35 seconds in my
microwave for 1 jumbo egg yolk - far, far less time than it
took to cook the whites.

Now you've got microwaved "fried" eggs, sunny side up! Mmm.
Egg Research [TM] !

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DJS0302 said:

By the time you go to all that trouble you could have
easily fried them in a skillet on the stove.

But then I would have oil spatters on my stove, and a pan to
clean. Plus you have to transfer the eggs out of the pan.
With the microwave method, I can cook the eggs right on the
dish I'm going to eat off of. And, no extra oil in your
food, if you care about that (I don't). One less thing to
clean (matters to people who don't have a dishwasher.) Plus
I'm not sure, but even with the futzing the cooking time may
be faster. And, if I can perfect the egg whites part of the
problem, the cooking will be perfectly controlled. I'll
always know it's exactly 2 minutes for X amount of egg
whites or whatever. I've got the time down pat for the yolks
at least, they're easy.

There is also the intellectual satisfaction of knowing how
to do something that others think can't be done. :-)

I microwave almost everything. The only things I don't
microwave are things that I boil or toast.

Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Brandon Van Every had something important to tell us on Sat, 3 Apr
2004 15:01:46 -0800:

Quoted message said:

Hi! Recently discovered eggs. I've been trying to nuke 'em
in my microwave. Well, I succeed in nukeing 'em, but the
yolks usually end up hard. Can't seem to get the whites
cooked and the yolks runny. Is there some trick?

Buy a microwave egg poacher. It's not perfect but with the
white piled up around the yolk it shields it from the
microwaves, so you can end up with a cooked white and a
runny yolk. I don't really like the taste of microwaved eggs
(they're a bit sulphury) but I used to eat them all the time
because they were very quick and easy.

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