little mason jars

The small mason jars used for the single serving creme brulee's etc are handy little things. While making my evening snack it hit me that had some left over coffee butter and..well, we all know it takes allot of oil/fat to poach an egg yolk or two in the water bath using a hotel pan taped to the side and a ziploc can work but has it's limitations. So I tried poaching an egg yolk in coffee butter in one and it was convenient, efficient and didn't have to use a ton of butter (or oil). With the larger wide mouth jars this may be an option for more than one yolk. I simply never thought of it until I was putting some jars away......my apologies for the poor quality pic

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HammeredChef_DEFINITELY_does_NOT_work_at_22134

Great idea!

bkeene12

Interesting! So, you put the coffee butter into the mason jar, dropped in an egg and let it go? Did it plop right out or did you just eat it out of the jar?

tshewman

I put the butter in the jar and put into the bath until it melted (I was prepping other things and doing some work). Once melted, I put the egg yolk in and walked away for ~50 minutes. Took it our and put it on some veggies and topped it with fresh parsley and scallions. Feedback was it would be better with bacon, or on a piece of toast....or both....well, duh! Bacon, eggs, toast and coffee in one bite. :-)

Now all that said, I'm working on another idea now that I've done that. More on that hopefully tomorrow. It's resting. :-)

pjmaguire3

Think bacon fat would be a better oil to pouch the egg in? Or did the coffee flavor come through nicely, and your taste testers simply wanted it paired with bacon?

tshewman

The coffee flavor came through nicely. When served the comment I received was "what is it....it's so familiar but I can't place it and it's really good" (note-they are a coffee lover). Bacon fat would work well, almost anything. I'm a big maple fan and maple smoked oil has also worked well. When eating at Coi earlier this year, they smoked their oil with fig wood and the egg was delicious. Taking it a step further with curing and dehydrating also adds more possibilities.

richard.fine

This is with the lid on the jar, yeah?

tshewman

Yes with lid on. The alternative is to place or tape a tray into the water bath with water in it and place the jar in the trau. Either way will work and requires less oil for just a serving or two

Jack_Mayer_85396

Todd, do you unscrew the lid by a quarter turn like in the PC recipes?

tshewman

No just finger tip tight.