<Tr> <Th> Main ingredients </Th> <Td> Eggs </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Cookbook: Coddled egg Media: Coddled egg </Td> </Tr> <P> In cooking, coddled eggs are gently or lightly cooked eggs . They can be partially cooked, mostly cooked, or hardly cooked at all (as in the eggs used to make Caesar salad dressing, which are only slightly poached for a thicker end - product). Poached eggs are eggs that, arguably, are coddled in a very specific way: they are very gently cooked, in simmering water . </P> <P> There are two methods of coddling eggs . The first is to cook the egg in its shell, by immersing it in near - boiling water . This can be done either in a pan where the water is kept below boiling point, or by pouring boiling water over the egg and letting it stand for 2 to 5 minutes, based on starting temperature of the eggs, number of eggs cooked at once and amount of boiling water used . </P>

What is the difference between coddled and poached eggs