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.

Best egg cooker. Turns out nicely cooked eggs. Had one for about 10 years that didn’t get into my kitchen shipment when I moved. Lucky to get it, I think it’s discontinued and I gladly payed the price for the one I purchased.

Works great for hard boiled. Haven't tried the others. It does burning the hot plate where it makes water evaporate(leaves black burn spot).

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.

This egg cocker is not of a good quality. I have purchased the Krups water cooker and the toaster and I was very happy with their quality but this egg cocker does not do the brand justice. The tray for the eggs slightly deformed after a few uses and the that leads to gaps between the egg cocker, the tray and the lid. This leads to uneven temperatures and cocking behavior. After 10 month of light use the acoustical signal for cooking completion broke and let to a lot of overboiled eggs. Again I highly recommend the Krups water cocker and the Krups toaster but this egg cocker is of inferior quality in my opinion.

For hard boiled eggs with a done center, you will need to add more water. Scrambled eggs will be dry probably due to not using butter. I’d say if I had to do it again, I wouldn’t purchase it.