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- Clear top allows you to view eggs while cooking
- Egg Tray allows you to easily transport and serve eggs
- Base with stainless steel water tray effectively hetas water to cook evenly
- Built-in steel piercing pin
- Includes: see thru lid, poaching tray, piercing pin, measuring cup and base.
Product Description
Now you can cook perfect soft, medium and hard boiled eggs at the touch of a button. Egg Genie cooks up to 7 eggs at once-with no guesswork, no underdone or overdone eggs. Just add the indicated amount of water. Press “on”and your work is done.
The Egg Genie automatically steams eggs and alerts you when they’re ready. Great for breakfast, snacks, appetizers and more. Features built-in timer, auto-off and steel piercing pin.
Comes with measuring cup and poaching tr… More >>
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EggGenie Egg Genie Electric Egg Cooker
The Egg Genie sounds like it is going to make life simpler with the invention of an easier way to boil eggs, right? WRONG! The TV commercial and the instructions on the box are both misleading, and fail to tell you about some additional steps that make this appliance much more difficult to use than simply boiling eggs in a pot the old fashioned way.
First, before you place the eggs in the Egg Genie, you must pierce each egg with a special included egg-piercing tool. (A step not necessary when simply boiling eggs in a pot.) Second, even though the amount of water that you add to the Egg Genie controls the amount of cooking time, unbelievably, the unit does not automatically turn off when the eggs are done (and the water is used up). Instead, an annoying timer-buzzer goes off continuously until you turn the unit off manually. If technology exits that allows coffee pots and other similar electronic applicances to turn themselves off automatically, then surely this device could have been designed with this feature as well.
But the extra step of egg-piercing was the main deal breaker. I bought an Egg Genie from a local chain drug store after reading the misleadingly simple sounding instructions on the box. But after getting home and reading the complete instructions in the instruction manual inside the box and determining that this device was actually more difficult and more inconvenient to use than boiling eggs the traditional way, I returned it to the store for a full refund.
Any device that makes life harder actually deserves no stars, but one star is the lowest rating that Amazon allows, which explains my generous rating here.
I know it seems silly, but the Egg Genie is a real godsend. No more wondering if I remembered to put the eggs in the pot, no more wondering if I turned the stove on, no more trying to figure out how the faucet works, no more accidently pouring boiling water on the cat, no more eating raw eggs straight from the refrigerator, no more wondering if I’m actually in the kitchen and not just hallucinating somewhere on a stretch of deserted highway…… well, you get the idea.
For someone like me this product couldn’t be handier.
I purchased this product because I can NEVER get the eggs boiled right. I am very happy with this product. My first time I measured wrong for the water but it was very close to being hard boiled so no issues.
I had read earlier in the Amazon reviews that someone was dissatisfied that it continually buzzes until you unplug it. I’m hear to say that is true. I must say that if you don’t listen to that buzzer and let it go it will in fact keep heating your eggs and once the water is gone you’ll burn them and the plate that hold the water. So, to the person that was complaining about the buzzing (which is tolerable for the sound, and is no where near the volumn that our fire alarm has), it’s there for a reason. Otherwise you will ruin this machine and your eggs if you don’t unplug it shortly afte your buzzer sounds. I haven’t ruined mine but I did not hear the buzzer because I was 2 rooms away (left it to do it’s business while I worked on something else) and finally heard it and unplugged it. No issues but I’m guessing it had been going off for about 3-4 minutes after it was done… Ooops! My plate turned brown in spots where the water had boiled off.
I haven’t noticed any discoloration in my eggs. As long as you follow the directions as they say, you should have a perfect egg each time. BTW I only use this for hard boiled. I’m not a poacher. :0)
This product cooks up to seven eggs that are never underdone. My soft-boiled egg was perfect with the egg white solid and the yellow runny. It’s awesome.
I haven’t been much of a kitchen gadget person, but a friend got me a rice cooker for Christmas, and it made things so much simpler and better that I decided to try an egg cooker, too. I got the Egg Genie because it’s cheap and was available locally, meaning I could try it out the same day I thought about buying one. I don’t have much to add to the positive experience of others; I, too, get perfect hard-boiled eggs, medium boiled, and poached eggs by simply following the directions. The poaching cups hold a large egg with no spill-over, and the cooked eggs slide out easily with no remaining residue other than a thin film of butter I had greased the cups with. I have no idea why hard-boiled eggs peel so easily, but for the first time every egg I cook for deviled eggs is useable. Preparation, cooking, and clean-up time/effort is greatly reduced compared with using pots and pans, and it’s no longer guesswork on how the eggs will turn out.
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