Is it a slow news day?

[Oldfellah]

How come this is news, I have been poaching my eggs like this for years.

https://tinyurl.com/2gorqz6y

[king1]

and why it needs more than one sentence to explain is beyond me...

A rewrite might look like this...  poach your egg in the microwave

[Olive]

I don't understand what is so difficult about poaching an egg in simmering water in the time-honoured way.

[Roscoe]

I don't understand what is so difficult about poaching an egg in simmering water in the time-honoured way.

From reading the article it seems that they have some strange reason to do away with the saucepan which I find hard to understand. Besides - as you say - what is so difficult about poaching an egg?

I am not a cook and have never wanted to be a cook which is one of the many reasons I married a good cook, but even I have no problem poaching an egg. What is so hard about that?

[Lilith7]

I'm really not sure why, but it seems that some things we take for granted are entirely unknown to some people in other parts of the world.