Poached Eggs

[Tilly2]

This morning, I had two poached eggs on toast and very nice they were too.

I had seen a hack on Tic Tok which suggested putting a sieve in a saucepan of bubbling water and dropping two eggs into the sieve. This I did. The eggs cooked beautifully and were delicious. However, the Tic Tok hack did not tell me how to remove the concrete-like egg white from the tiny holes in the sieve! 

Any suggestions, apart from using a cocktail stick to push it out of the hundreds of holes?

What a pain!

[Toorak]

Dishwasher?

[Redhelen72]

Old toothbrush?

[DTCwordfan]

some fairy liquid in the sieve to soak in and then pour boiling water through?

[royfromaus]

Did you think something else was going to happen?

 

And what purpose did the sieve serve?

[Buenchico]

Any help?
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/how-to-clean-fine-mesh-sieve

[royfromaus]

I've got some brick acid if you want to give it a try?

[pastafreak]

I'd have suggested a toothbrush also.

[Countrylover]

I keep all our old toothbrushes.  They have multiple uses in homes garages and workshops!  

[naomi24]

A new sieve - and don't do it again?

[newmodarmy]

put the empty sieve back in the boiling water on the hob, add a splash of washing up liquid and boil for 30 seconds?

Or just put the sieve upside down under the tap with the water at full blast.

 

[newmodarmy]

In practice though I just put it under the tap and scrub it with my bristle brush with the water runnning

[Tilly2]

Your answer made me laugh, Naomi. Thank you.

Also thanks to everyone else for your helpful answers. A good soak and a scrub seems to have sorted the problem.