What I’m Trying – Fusionbrands Poachpods

Written by Diana - August 22, 2012 0 Comments

Poaching is one of lower fat ways to prepare eggs. I love eggs over medium, cooked in olive oil but left still runny. I like poaching, but they’re always messy when I do it, leaving little trails of egg floating around and sometimes sticking. Forget cooking a bunch of eggs at once. I’ve been eyeing Fusionbrands Poachpods wondering if they work. When I was offered a chance to try them out, I went for it.

The poachpods are food safe silicon cups – that you place the uncooked egg in before dropping it in the pan to poach. So no swirling tentacles of egg all over the pan, it’s all contained in the poachpod. You boil the water, drop the poach pod with the egg into the pan, top with a lid and when it’s poached, pull it out of the pan, turn it over and flip the egg out.

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I’ve been playing with it a little, and these are my observations.

It takes a little longer to use the poach pod – but you have to keep an eye on it because like regular eggs it goes from ready to over cooked pretty quickly, but not too fast if you are paying attention.

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You can use it as a way to boil an egg without the shell – in the microwave. A couple of pokes into the yolk, and then cook in the microwave. My son was sure it would spit and splatter but it didn’t for me. (These might make a great gift for someone in a dorm looking to cook eggs up in the microwave.)

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The egg is a little weirdly shaped after it is cooked, one side is flat, and the other oval. I’m not complaining, I can take weirdly shaped, but I thought I should mention it.

They go into the dishwasher for easy cleaning, it would have been a deal breaker otherwise.

Stackable and storable – silicon flexible they stack inside each other really well.

There’s a red white and blue set for those that are patriotic, or celebrating the Olympics, or just like red white and blue – actually the individual poachpod cost is less for three.

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All in all, it’s a cool product.

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Disclosure: Fusionbrand Poachpods were sent to me for a review. This is an unpaid post, my opinions are my own.

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