They do have insulating properties, I grant you, but I fail to see how somethig sat in boiling water for 4-5 minutes can fail to pass through most of the heat in the water. Even cling film is a barrier of sorts, and has some insulation value. It strikes me as a form of food snobbery where the silicone poachers are looked down upon because it makes the act just too damn easy.
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But if you enclose the egg in cling film (as you do) that's what you're getting. From everything I've read coddled eggs are cooked in a way whereby the egg never touches the water. Apparently coddled eggs are normally cooked in a porcelain ramekin. So using siiicone poachers is a kind of half way house between coddling and poaching.
I'm not particularly keen on the term coddled either...
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I think I prefer Coached...
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