Hmm... I five starred a video of an egg being poached. I feel like I've been had.

dude u r so good at cooking ur so good at cooking

I would give one of my kidneys for a season 3 of that show.

Boiling the camera still has huge optical advantages; every time a light path crosses a material interface you get more refraction and distortion, and when you're using a Pyrex container you have two more interfaces than you would otherwise (lens-air, air-glass, glass-water vs. lens-water). It's especially bad when the interfaces are curved, as they are in the case of most cookware.

So, this way you get way less distortion, and thus a much better view of the egg being poached.

(This is also why this view is so much more awesome than just looking from above, sorry undecided)