A childhood memory - tidy eggs
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (369660)
Rockingham, Australia
January 19, 2026 8:08pm CST
January 26 is a holiday in Australia as it’s Australia Day. There was some controversy about the name for a few years but that seems to have died down.
We’ll be spending three nights away with friends at their seaside house so we’re looking forward to that. We’ve been getting together regularly with these friends and, if we spend a night away, Vince always cooks the breakfasts. Which led me to a childhood memory of having ‘tidy eggs’. These were poached eggs but cooked in a special poacher. I just looked and you can still get these poachers.
We poach our eggs in a pan of water which Mum would do sometimes but done in the poacher they were much ‘tidier’ hence the name ‘tidy eggs’.
The photo is of a very ‘untidy’ hen.
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@DaddyEvil (166016)
• United States
20 Jan
I've never heard of "tidy eggs" and haven't eaten poached eggs, either.
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@coolimrose (655)
• Australia
5h
What?? Never had poached eggs?? I dont know what to say . I thought every eggitarian has had it at some point. If you can do try them out
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@DaddyEvil (166016)
• United States
3h
@coolimrose No, I don't think so. Poached eggs are still raw. I won't eat raw eggs.
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@JudyEv (369660)
• Rockingham, Australia
1h
@DaddyEvil I would have said they are just as cooked as fried eggs although I always like both with runny yolks which is perhaps what you might call 'raw'. I'm not suggesting you try them if they don't appeal. 
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@snowy22315 (201617)
• United States
20 Jan
I always eat tidy eggs . Have never poached them without a cup.
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@coolimrose (655)
• Australia
20 Jan
A very untidy hen..hahahah..I think she looks beautiful with full, fluffy feathers. I ate a lot of poached eggs in NZ. Just dip eggs in boiling water, but the white separates quite a bit. I never had any mould, so I haven't used them. Where did you see the poachers, in which shop?
@JudyEv (369660)
• Rockingham, Australia
1h
I think you could buy the pan in any kitchenware shop or department.
@xFiacre (14113)
• Ireland
20 Jan
@judyev My current and persistent eggs memory is of my mother putting eggs in a bowl of water to see if they sank or floated to determine if they were good or bad when the “egg woman” came selling eggs at our house in the bush. She did the same with the eggs our own hens laid and every time I buy eggs in the supermarket that thought comes to mind.
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@Deepizzaguy (117479)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Jan
Nice picture of the tidy eggs on this post.
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@JudyEv (369660)
• Rockingham, Australia
1h
Hopefully the hen would lay some nice eggs for poaching.
@Ineeddentures (13959)
•
20 Jan
Pan of water every time Judy, tiny drop of vinegar.
Yvonne has a poacher which does heart shape eggs.
Enjoy the seaside and your 3 nights away.
Does Vince do poached or does he do fried?
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@JudyEv (369660)
• Rockingham, Australia
1h
When we're away with our friends, it's always fried eggs but everyone likes theirs differently. Some want them 'easy over' or 'sunny side up'. One wants hers dried out and flattened and so it goes.
I always put vinegar in the water too when I'm poaching eggs.
@JudyEv (369660)
• Rockingham, Australia
1h
She's a very flully hen, isn't she? She looks like she got caught in a windstorm.
A poached egg is one broken into boiling water and cooked.
@wolfgirl569 (128206)
• Marion, Ohio
23h
Those chickens are funny looking. I got the first egg of the year yesterday
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@JudyEv (369660)
• Rockingham, Australia
1h
It's a good name for them. Mine cooked in a pan of water can be quite untidy sometimes. lol
@JudyEv (369660)
• Rockingham, Australia
1h
We haven't them occasionally if we don't feel like a big meal.
@JudyEv (369660)
• Rockingham, Australia
1h
I like them. It's one of my favourite ways to have eggs.
@LindaOHio (211261)
• United States
20 Jan
I hope you have a wonderful time with your friends. I don't care for poached eggs.
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@JudyEv (369660)
• Rockingham, Australia
1h
We've had a lovely day, thanks. Poached eggs aren't everyone's cup of tea.
