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Question: do you have to pierce eggs before cooking and can you use the lg and ex lg eggs
Document: I love this egg cooker. Couldnt be easier to use and thank goodness you do not need to pierce the eggs. I have had other egg cookers but none as easy to use as this one. Yes, as other have said if you overfill with water it will leak (what doesnt when overfilled) and not all the water steams away.
I won't go back to boiling or buying pre-boiled.The only issue is that the water reservoir has some sort of protective film that after a few weeks is already wearing off. but I don't see how it would affect anything as it's just water that goes there.Also make sure to pick up something to pierce the eggs so they don't crack under the pressure. This is the one I use:Fox Run Egg Piercer
It makes perfect, tender, easy to peel hard boiled eggs. And I use it almost every morning for 2 soft boiled eggs that I dump right into my hot grits! For me, a setting of 5 is perfect for soft eggs, and 15 for hard eggs. Once I used less water than recommended, and one of my eggs was undercooked. I really like that there is no need to pierce the eggs. Enjoy!
Getting used to timer and duration of cooking for various options. Have made medium boiled eggs and poached. Love the convenience. The timer arm does not move, but it does beep when the eggs are done. Not a deal breaker, just use another timer. Super cool kitchen gadget. I use it regularly.
Worst appliance ever. Within weeks the shut off switch failed, so it keeps beeping and cooking even when it's off (not safe!). You have to unplug it. Also, while many egg cookers use up all of a pre-measured amount of water to time the eggs, this one is based on time. This means there is still plenty of steamy water in there when it's done. If you fail to get to the cooker on time, it keeps cooking. There is no auto shutoff.
Once you figure out exactly what setting you prefer, it's foolproof. I use it once or twice a week to make a batch of hardboiled eggs. The only issue I have is that the cooker doesn't seem to be big enough to handle jumbo eggs, there's always one that cracks and makes a bit of a mess during the cooking process, so I now make sure to only cook smaller (i.e. large or extra large) eggs in this appliance.
I love kitchen gadgets, and actually use this one. Bought this one as it has simple pieces that fit together, and does not require puncturing each egg before cooking like many other brands. Cooks the eggs directly out of the fridge without having to bring up to room temp first. Not a single broken egg and cook up at least a batch a week since receiving 4 months ago. Love this thing.
genius.To use, add about 3/4 cup of water, place eggs in cooking tray, add lid. Slide the knob on the bottom to the type of egg you want ... poached, hard boiled, soft boiled. You don't need to know how long to cook the egg, just what kind of an egg you want. Turn the unit on. Walk away. When your eggs are cooked to perfection, the unit rhythmically beeps loud and clear.
The egg cooker is good, not great. It makes decent soft boiled eggs, poaches 3 eggs at a time (use pam or another cooking spay on the egg poacher insert). Hard boiled eggs are cooked to perfection. There is no thermal cut off, nor a switch that shuts off after the elapsed cooking time is done. The feature of shutting off after the elapsed cooking time should be mandatory for a unit like this, but it is not part of the basic cooker design.
Easy to use, different settings and you can walk off an do something else while your eggs are cooking. Just went through 2 weeks at our vacation spot where 10 people ate breakfast at various times and everyone wanted to use the egg cooker because it made fantastic healthy poached eggs and worked well for those who only wanted egg whites poached. I also love this cooker for hard cooked eggs because they are cooked perfectly every time. Love it.
Answer: you do not have to pierce the eggs before cooking although I found doing so prevented excess cracking of the shells. To be candid I have not used this since the first week. I don't like the smell it makes as it seems to be cooking plastic along with the eggs