Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Big Boss 8864 Genie Electric Egg Cooker, Purple



brilliant
It's great, it cooks eggs to perfection in about 7-10 minutes, aand buzzes once it is done and used all the water for steaming the eggs.

Works as advertised
Bought the Egg Genie after seeing it on a groupon, but it didn't have the color that I wanted and bought it on amazon. It is much faster than boiling the eggs and comes out the same. Probably spend less than half the time to do a batch of eggs. It is weird that you have to prick the top with a pin attached to the lid, but its not really an issue. There is a very loud buzzer that lets you know the eggs are done, loud enough to hear it from another room. Also, it allows you to boil the eggs to different softness, but I have only used the hard boil. The only minor negative is that the part that is used to hold the eggs is a little difficult to clean. Overall, if you cook a lot of hard boiled eggs, this is a must have.

Makes perfect eggs every time.
It only took a few tries to get the eggs just the way we like them. My wife likes the eggs steamed to a 5 on the top scale, I like a 5 on the medium scale. I am embarrassed to say it, but our dogs like theirs at a 6 on the medium scale.

The package contains the steamer base, the 7-egg holder and the cover which you would use for cooking an egg in a shell. Additionally, there is the four-egg poacher, and finally the steamer plate (we have not used this).

The process is very simple and just takes a bit of experimenting. Measure water to one of the graduated lines on the measuring cup, put the egg base on, take up to seven eggs from the refrigerator, puncture them with the needle in the egg-plate then place them hole side up, install the cover, plug it in and wait for the buzzing noise when they are done. Sounds like a lot of work, but I can accomplish all those steps for four eggs in less than 30 seconds.

When the buzzer sounds, very quickly get the...

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