my wife tells me poached eggs are the worst in professional kitchens, but i have this huge wide mouthed electric kettle we can boil like a dozen eggs in at a time. it means cleaning out the kettle, but poaching eggs is so damn easy in that thing. bring it up to boil, turn it off, wait for the bubbles to stop, crack in an egg, wait three minutes, pretty damn good poached egg.

i am an electric kettle evangelist though because people out here in the San Francisco bay area don’t seem to understand their utility.