Cooking the perfect poached egg can be a tricky task.

Gert it slightly wrong and you're looking at a disintegrated mess in a pan of boiling water. But Cindy, a food writer and founder of Salt and Serenity, has revealed that there's no need for any special kit to create a beautifully tender and intact poached egg - it can all be done in a microwave.

She said: "Poached eggs are not something I ever made at home until a few weeks ago. They always seemed so complicated to make. Swirling the simmering water into a vortex and then gently lowering the egg into this seemed like a recipe for disaster.

"But then I started seeing people making them in the microwave all over Instagram. I wondered if it could really work. It took me over a dozen eggs until I finally cracked the code! (a little

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