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.

A perfectly poached egg should have a runny yolk and an opaque, set white. But there's a much simpler way to poach eggs - and ...