KRUPS: Simply Electric Plastic and Stainless Steel Egg Cooker 6 Eggs 400 Watts Hard, Medium, and Soft Boiled, Poached, Scrambled, Omelets, Rapid Cook Black

I sat on the idea of buying a dedicated egg cooker for a few months before pulling the trigger. At a mere $30 it wouldn't be much of a loss even on my small income even if the device did not work as well as the reviews claimed. Well let me be one to say: This thing is amazing. Preface: I have only used this to make HARD COOKED EGGS and that isn't going to change any time soon. Let's start with the device. It's pretty small. Smaller than I expected actually. I use large eggs and they fit no problem but jumbo sized ones might not. Come to think of it, I don't know if other sized eggs will cook differently, but I always use large and they always come out perfect. The main device is three different pieces. The heating element on the bottom, the plastic piece in the middle that holds up the eggs over the heating element, and the lid. The egg cooker works by boiling water and steaming the eggs to cook them. Along with that there is a small tube that it comes with. This tube is what you use to measure out the water needed to cook the eggs (the number of eggs changes the amount of water you use) and it is also what you use to pierce the eggs. On the bottom of this is a small pinpoint that you must pierce each egg with. The instructions say to pierce the pointier side of the egg, but reviews say to use the fatter, rounder bottom of the egg instead, which is what I have always done. The cooker itself has two settings. To the right you cook, and to the left you hold. I've never used the "to hold" setting because I always run my eggs under cold water when they are done. When set to cook, the rightward setting, the device buzzes very loudly to let you know they are done once it senses the water has run out. Once my eggs are done I remove the lid, grab the cooker by the handle and a bit of the other side (the eggs are insanely hot, but the plastic is bearable to touch) and run some cold water over them all for a couple of minutes. The eggs will still be pretty toasty but I just toss them in the fridge or eat them right then and there. Cleaning it up is quick and easy. The heating element will usually be a bit dirty for one reason or another but I've never had to do more than take a sponge to it one or two wipes and call it done. Rinse out the plastic that holds the eggs and the lid and let it all dry piece by piece. Everything still looks clean and works great. Now the actual eggs. NEW EGGS OR OLD EGGS, either way, they PEEL GREAT. It's well known that you use older eggs to boil because they peel better but with this little thing there has just been no need so far. The eggs peel great if I'm eating them while they're still warm or if they've been sitting around for a few days. And just to top it all off (and the most important part of all): They are cooked perfectly. Every single time. Just make sure you cool the eggs enough when they are done cooking so they don't KEEP cooking in their own heat. Now for the issues/downsides, which do not take away from the product at all: 1) I have had... maybe 2 "weak" egg shells that have not "pierced" properly and instead just crumbled. I felt it coming either way. 2) I have had one, single egg not peel well out of many. It happens, but it's very, very rare. 3) The device buzzes loudly when done, but does NOT turn off. You need to be there to tend to the eggs to stop them from overcooking.

Like most of you I never thought I really needed an egg cooker. Appliances that do one job are just really not my thing. Well you can forget about all of that with nifty little egg cooker. I love this thing! When I cook hard boiled eggs, I never cook less than 6 at a time anyway. That is what made me look into these little cookers. I am so glad I did. Now I can't imagine life without it. This egg cooker does a few things. First and foremost it makes boiled eggs. I've tried them all three ways and they come out perfect each way. The measuring cups a little hard to see but works well. It's a little bizarre that it takes more water to cook less eggs and vice versa. It works though. I recently used the poaching dishes. They are really more like over easy. They slide out of the poaching dishes easily and are quick and easy to cook. The drawback is that they aren't really poached. More like over easy. (See the picture). This is minor and I am more of a poached egg purist so I will poach my eggs in water if that's what I want. This works great for what it is though. I have also put scrambled eggs in here and they come out a little strange looking but good. All in all this is a great appliance and will be used until it wears it. I really will never again boil water to cook eggs. One last note. The buzzer is very loud on this. It works very well. Just be aware that it is supposed to be this way.

I enjoy my egg cooker very much. There's no 'auto-shutoff' to speak off. It stops cooking when the water is boiled away and uses a loud buzzer to alert you that its done. The buzzer doesn't shut off automatically. My only criticism is: a) the water measuring cup is clear plastic, so sometimes, its hard to read the water marks; and b) the poached egg feature allows you to cook only 2 (1 in each cup) at a time. Thus if you wanted 4 poached eggs - you have to run this twice. I called and asked Krups how would I could 4 poached eggs (2 in each cup) and how much water to use - they said no, only 1 egg per cup. So if anyone has already tested this - I'd appreciate your guidelines before I start experimenting how to cook 4 poached eggs in one shot. Update - I've been making my wife the poached eggs (1 in each cup). The only negatives are that the eggs stick (i coat the poached egg cups with olive oil - a few drops smeared around). I have to 'softly' push the eggs out with the goal of not breaking the yolk sack. So, that's a minor inconvenience. And. . .finally, while the poached egg cups are dishwasher safe, they don't come out that clean. I surmise its the curvature of the egg cups (think half moon shape). Overall, 3.5-4 stars. For just boiled eggs - 5; but for poached 3.5-4. Six month followup. I enjoy the egg cooker. Eggs are cooked well, medium and poached (in shell). never resolved how to use the poached egg cups beyond one each. But cooking poached eggs in shell works well. The only advisory I give is that after cooking the eggs, there is 'crud' that accumulates on the black surface. You have to use a wet towel to wipe it off; be careful using water faucet to clean it out as it is an electric device. The crud comes from the egg; it's either the wax or something else (?) that is on the eggs. It's a small amount, but you need to clean it off. If you don't, you'll notice the water boiling with 'brown' tinge on it.

I just bought this mini egg maker and I have already used it twice and it’s great! Eggs were perfectly cooked each time. It only takes a few minutes to make eggs in a variety of ways. It’s super fast and small but fits extra large eggs Ruth no problem. Super easy to clean too. Love it and already recommend it to friends and family!

I liked the small size and the parts that it came with and a buzzer when the eggs are supposed to be done when the water is evaporated...it is easy to clean, easy to use and not loud BUT didn't work for what I bought it for. I only bought it to do poached eggs because they are a pain to make otherwise. I have tried twice now and the first time they came out with whites not cooked all the way even though the yolks were a bit overcooked. I tried a second time with a little more water but by the time the whites were not runny the yolks were very well done and not runny at all. I have a pressure cooker which does hard boiled eggs so really don't need it for that...but tried it for that anyway. The (hard boiled) eggs came out medium boiled and were difficult to get the shell off...maybe because they were organic and cage free eggs, I don't know...I have no problem peeling the eggs cooked in a pressure cooker however. I won't buy eggs that are not from chickens that are not humanely treated so I don't know why others say their eggs peeled easily and mine did not. This item is not working for me AT ALL. My husband likes the poached/steamed egg whites fully cooked and yolks runny and this didn't do that. I don't think any more experiments with water amounts will change that fact. More water=hard yolks, the suggested water=not cooked whites and almost fully set yolks, and less water would just make everything not cooked. Perhaps my 6000 higher altitude is the problem...if you want hard boiled eggs just let them cook longer and it would work...but poached is a disaster.

When I told my friends that I bought an "egg-boiler" online they all laughed at me, no doubt an "egg-boiler" is probably the last thing on a lot of people's list for kitchen accessories. But I work out everyday and after exercise pretty much all I eat is hard boiled eggs, so I thought an egg boiler may save me some time and a few cents on energy. When I got this my first reaction is it's smaller than I expected but it looks sharp and fits perfectly in my kitchen: it's well designed and you can tell the quality and material of this thing is very good. and most importantly, it makes hard boiled eggs. Well, until now it sounds like a 5 star review but it's really not, after a few times i used it i found several things that i really hate about, and here they are: 1. Like a lot of other customers complaint about, this thing only makes a humming sound when water dries up. This could potentially be dangerous and cause fire since it will keep heating up until you turn it off manually. I mean how difficult is it to put a automatic shut off device in it? 2. It's very difficult to clean. The Teflon material below the egg holder will get nasty every time after use, and it's almost impossible to clean. 3. Be careful when it's done cooking! the cap is loose and the water vapor could hurt your bare hands. 4. It supposed to make rare or medium boiled eggs when you add less water, but all it does is hard boiled eggs. Overall I still want to keep this, i will update the review if the bell dies as others have compliant.

I'm not generally a big fan of over-specialized kitchen appliances, myself -- especially when the little mutants threaten to swarm the shrinking counterscape -- but... Hard-boiled eggs are an ideal breakfast staple for me. Most mornings I'm running around getting myself and my kids up and fed and out the door, that I don't always get a lot of time to eat something decent myself. Having hard-boiled eggs available to supplement my breakfast selections is a big plus for me. Thus, my interest in a small contained unit that could vastly simplify the hard-boiling of eggs. (I can do the boil-in-a-pot thing, but it's a bit more time and attention than I often have time for. Also, once having set them up in the pot on the stove, I have a tendency to forget that they're there, which leads to all sorts of interesting but less-than-ideal results.) The Krups 230-70 Egg Express Egg Cooker's biggest plus, to me, is that it is very simple and easy to use. The printed instructions are very simple and easy to follow, even for me (who tends to read all instructions twice before doing anything). The water cup is clearly marked with water levels according to cook level (soft, medium, hard) and number of eggs, allowing for quite a variety of cooking options (two eggs soft-boiled, six eggs hard-boiled, etc.). Its egg-piercing pin is also quite easy to use, and is mounted safely inside an egg-shaped concave curve within the base of the water cup. The timer takes care of everything else, triggering the heating mechanisms and bellowing quite loudly when its done. (I can hear it easily well across the house.) It's a bit loud when I'm sitting in the next room, but overall, I'd rather have it loud enough to make certain I hear it wherever I am, 'cause otherwise, I'm liable to forget all about having set the thing. It would, however, be nice if the unit automatically shut down when the timer expired; the fact that it doesn't inspires me to bolt across the house as soon as I hear its wail. One element of instruction that was not in the paperwork, however, is that eggs should ideally be around room-temperature when started in the cooker. When I first got the unit, I don't know how many times I loaded it with eggs straight from the refrigerator, then wondered why one or two eggs would crack or burst open during cooking every time. (Different arrangements of eggs, differing the amount of water, etc., seemed to make no difference.) I then ran across some mentions that eggs boil more stably when starting at room-temp, so now I let the eggs sit outside the refrigerator for awhile before cooking them, and bursting eggs have become much more of a rarity. The very simple disassembly, cleaning, and reassembly of the unit's few pieces (especially if you have a dishwasher for the top two pieces) is also a big plus for me. I've now had my unit for a little over two years, and it still works well. Overall, it's a good unit, and much simplifies (for me, anyway) the process of hard-boiling a handful of eggs. The only improvement I could think of would be to increase it's capacity, so I can boil more than seven at a time.

I love my Krups Egg Express Egg Cooker. For so long I had struggled with boiling eggs and getting them to turn out just right. Even if the eggs turned out okay, peeling them was always a nightmare. However, I now know how to get perfect hard boiled eggs every time. I already loved the Egg Cooker and was looking for a way to improve the peeling of the shell from the eggs after they were cooked so I searched online. I saw the most amazing video to get the shell off of the boiled egg. I wish I knew who invented this method so I could personally thank them or at least give them credit because it works every time. All I know is that this method was created by a professor at a university who figured out this fantastic method. To get perfect hard boiled eggs: (1) Add a FULL container of warm water using the water measuring plastic tool that comes with the egg cooker. (2) CRITICAL STEP: Add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda and stir until dissolved. Again, this step is CRITICAL. If you leave out the baking soda, you will not get the result you want. (3) Put the eggs on the egg cooker tray with the WIDER portion of the eggs pointing UP. (4) Use the egg needle pricker on the bottom of the water measuring tool to GENTLY prick your eggs while they are sitting in the tray. Put the cover on the egg cooker. (5) Turn the dial on the egg cooker to the right (cooking) and let the eggs steam until the buzzer goes off. (6) When the buzzer goes off, the eggs are done. Immediately put the eggs in a pan FULL of ice cubes and add enough cold water to cover the ice and cooked eggs. Let eggs cool until completely cold. Using ice water to cool the eggs prevents the green ring around the yolk. (7) Now for the magic: Take one of the cold hard-cooked eggs and lightly tap it on EACH END and remove a little bit of the shell from each end. Hold the narrower end of the egg to your mouth and BLOW HARD into the egg. If you are doing it right, the egg will pop out WITH THE WHITE PART OF THE EGG PERFECTLY INTACT AROUND THE YOLK. When I saw this on the internet, I didn't believe it would work, but I have done it dozens of times now and it has worked every time! (8) To easily clean your egg cooker after using, after the egg cooker has cooled, add enough white vinegar to cover the bottom of the egg cooker and to cover the stain that happened while the eggs were cooking. The vinegar will dissolve the stain and your egg cooker will be clean and ready for the next time you use it.