A perfectly poached egg should feature a runny yolk paired with an opaque, firm white. Usually, poaching an egg requires ...

Step 1: Fill a ramekin with a half-cup of salted, room-temperature water. It must be enough to submerge the egg. You'll want enough water to submerge the egg but not spill over the top of the ramekin.

Not all cooking hacks are created equal. This one-minute microwave egg method is so fast and easy, I do it almost every day.

For a lot of us who've been casually baking for a long time, who learned at the hands of our mother or grandmother (or in my case, great-grandmother), it's all too easy to sometimes overlook the fact ...