To think this egg is not poached?

[Hawkie]

There are ZERO runny bits

Well it's like a BBQ the sausage maybe black but it's still cooked. It's a very poached egg in this case and perfect for me as I hate the runny bits!

Overpoached?

YANBU.

Definitely over cooked

Poaching is the cooking method, not a indication of how runny the egg will be in the end

It definitely is poached, just for too long if you wanted a runny yolk.

poached but overcooked. How disappointing

It is poached, but a bit overdone. Depends how you like your yolks!

It is very disappointing! I love it when you do a fork puncture and then the egg soaks into the bread...

I will ask for runny poached eggs in future!

I had a lovely (runny) poached egg this morning
YANBU

JESUSCHRISTWHATTHEHELLISTHAT?!?!?!?!?!?

That's not an EGG, surely to God?

I'd be your complete opposite - I need mine cooked with no hint of moisture left!!

I'd be so disappointed. Poached egg on toast is one of my favourite meals, nothing like a lovely runny yolk.

Send it back.

It looks poached but it has been left in the hot water far too long so the yolk has cooked and gone solid. It would not occur to me to ask for a runny poached egg as they are meant to have a runny yolk, surely?

Yep I agree it's not really poached

They sprinkle flowers and chilli flakes at a place I worked...why spoil a perfect egg

It looks like scrambled egg. I'd have been gutted to get that if I'd been expecting a poached egg! This is how a poached egg should look.

Sigh. Trying again.

And of course now it's there twice. Sod's law.

It may have been poached. Its certainly ruined.

Its poached, just very disappointingly

I thought they were meant to have a runny yolk too! I thought that was the whole point of the poached egg concept... However, maybe I was wrong.

I was expecting fluffy whites with a runny yellow like in the pictures @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g posted.

Check out the bacon, what does everyone think of the bacon?

I didn't send it back because I was somewhere that is a small local business and they've had quite a stressful week; I wasn't going to let a little overcooking make it worse for them.

Nigella's Turkish eggs are incredible.

As Pps have said poaching is the method- what runniness the yolk is, is something different.

TBH you ought to have taken a photo before it was all smashed over the bread!

The shape would show if it was poached- it looks now like a hard boiled egg someone has spread on bread.

You can't complain abut it 'not being poached' but you can complain about how LONG it was poached.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g that doesn't look poached to me.

Te yolk is contained within a film of white, poaching would make that opaque- that is not the case in the photo, although other parts of the white are cooked.

Eggs that look like that ( including fried eggs) have a thin layer of uncooked white over the top, mucous/snot.

I love runny eggs, but all parts of the white need to be cooked.
If I cook a fried egg with a soft middle I will spoon some of the hot oil from the pan over the yolk- not enough to cook the yolk, but to cook the layer over the yolk.