#involving

✨hot tip✨

if youre lazy and/or you cant cook with a stove for whatever variety of reasons but you want ✨tea eggs✨ and dont mind them looking fucked up/using a bastardized method ive just discovered as follows—

1) poach eggs in a microwave, so far my tester used 3 eggs at once for an eyeballed marinade (side note, i technically accidentally overcooked my eggs in this step a little bc haha im a disaster who has a hard time gauging doneness of things it worked out for me personally bc it did have more of that hard boil yolk texture that normally appears in a traditional tea egg, so…neat! basically this is just to tell you not to stress too hard about poaching perfectly lol, feel free to aim for whatever texture youre looking for personally)

2) the marinade was roughly (bc, again, eyeballed everything): 2 lipton black tea bags (im sure other black teas would work perfectly fine here but, cheap lol) brewed in about 20oz of hot water, 3-4 tablespoons soy sauce, a tablespoon of chinese 5 spice powder (i bought some off amazon, morton and basset brand specifically but like, use whichever if you’ve got some yaknow) **

2.5) let the tea steep for a bit first, then just dump all the marinade ingredients into the container ur gonna use for the egg marinating process (tea bags included) — i used one of those quart sized freezer ziploc bags placed in some tupperware — and mixy mix a little

3) dump your poached eggs in the marinade

4) wait for your eggs to take on flavor; i put the whole marinating container into my fridge like 20-30 mins after i initially introduced the eggs to the marinade; i had my first tester nearly 20hrs later and they were definitely infused lol, since ur working with shell-less poached eggs rather than the more traditional cracked boiled eggs the marinating process should theoretically take less time than the norm, HOWEVER there is the caveat that the eggs are not ever boiled a second time in the marinade like is normally customary so idk, i’d say experiment with time a little depending on batch size and stuff, ive only tested this all once so far haha