# Poached Eggs - Alarming Foam Mountain!
**URL:** https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/poached-eggs-alarming-foam-mountain/544
**Category:** Anova Precision® Cooker
**Created:** [July 4, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/poached-eggs-alarming-foam-mountain/544 "2015-07-04T14:42:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@The\_Wiener\_Lady](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/The_Wiener_Lady)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/poached-eggs-alarming-foam-mountain/544/1 "2015-07-04T14:42:05Z")
I just got my cooker yesterday - we made beef tenderloin for 4 and it was amazing.
This morning I was like "Look! It does poached eggs!!"
We did not put the eggs in bags - the recipe directions didn’t suggest it, and wouldn’t you then get a weird shape ?
Is bagging really necessary ? What went wrong here ?
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### Author:  [@john.jcb](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/john.jcb)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/poached-eggs-alarming-foam-mountain/544/2 "2015-07-04T23:17:26Z")
Did you remove the eggs from the shell? Eggs are normally cooked in the shell or if removed from the shell you can cook them in a Ziploc bag. It looks like the impeller that moves the water around whipped your eggs.
Nothing except eggs in their shell are cooked in the heated water without a bag.
Be sure and remove the sleeve and clean everything.
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### Author:  [@The\_Wiener\_Lady](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/The_Wiener_Lady)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/poached-eggs-alarming-foam-mountain/544/3 "2015-07-28T18:15:24Z")
Whoops.
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### Author:  [@john.jcb](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/john.jcb)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/poached-eggs-alarming-foam-mountain/544/4 "2015-07-28T21:48:58Z")
Well at least it wasn’t an expensive cut of meat.
I have found eggs to be very time/temperature critical and even the size can make a difference. When you get them right I think they are excellent. Soft and hard boiled are my favorites. I get jumbo eggs from a farm and we get a lot of double yolks.