Are Poached Eggs Healthier Than Boiled?

Avoid Excess Calories and Fat. The biggest benefit of poaching your eggs is that you’ll cook them directly in water, with no added fat required. While fat is a healthy part of your diet, cooking your food in it also packs in the calories – just a tablespoon of butter has 100 calories, for example.

However, I can imagine that, on a PER VOLUME basis, a hard-boiled egg could be slightly more caloric than a poached egg, since the former may have lost some of its moisture in the cooking process while the latter would have picked up a bit of moisture.

An egg is boiled by adding it, shell and all, to a pot of boiling water until the inside is cooked. ^ This is a poached egg. An egg is poached by cracking it into simmering (not boiling) water and cooking it without the shell.

If you’re ready to try directly poaching in water, though, make sure to add vinegar to the cooking water to hold the egg together, and poach the egg in barely simmering, but not boiling, water. Once your eggs are poached to perfection, season them with pepper, garlic salt, cayenne, cilantro or even a little fresh basil.