cooking verbs and how to poach an egg
hi everyone
welcome to the very first video lesson
from
english
i'm so excited that you're here
so excited actually i'm gonna do a dance
okay
today's lesson is going to be about
cooking verbs
and i'm going to show you these verbs by
cooking a very simple breakfast recipe
it's called poached eggs on toast
to poach something means to cook it in
liquid so poached eggs are eggs that are
cooked in water
so what do we need
two fresh eggs
1 liter of water
1 tablespoon of white vinegar
a medium-sized fry pan
a spatula
a stove
and to serve our eggs we'll need some
toast
not bread
butter
salt and pepper
ready
let's do it
first light the stove
put the fry pan on the stove
then pour the water into the fry pan
wait
until the water is simmering
so to show you the difference between
boiling water and simmering water
the water in this pot is boiling
so it's very hot there's lots of bubbles
and the water in this pan is simmering
so there's a few small
bubbles but it's not yet as hot as
boiling
then add the vinegar to the water
and stir with a spoon
crack the eggs into the pan carefully
poached eggs are served on toast so
toast is just a slice of bread
that has been toasted
in a toaster
spread some butter on the toast
okay it's time to get our eggs out of
our fry pan
i'm going to use the spatula to
carefully
lift
the eggs out of the fry pan
and let the water drain
away
and then
put the egg on the
toast
like that and repeat
so an egg has two different parts
the white part is called the egg white
and the yellow part here is called the
egg yolk
very important when you're making
poached eggs is that the egg yolk is
runny and not hard
so we can test that in a minute but
first let's add our salt and pepper
to our eggs
and
cut our yolk open and see if we have a
soft
runny egg yolk
perfect
okay so now i'm going to grab a coffee
and sit down and have my breakfast i
hope you've enjoyed this episode
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