Fun little Oster Egg Cooker

[magic_clean]

from the department of small appliance redundancy; an electric egg cooker. Actually, for those of us who can't reliably keep an eye on a boiling pan of water with eggs, this gem shuts itself off when the eggs are cooked to your liking. No more exploding eggs, ruined saucepans and other acrimony in the household! It works perfectly. The steam cooking process helps the egg shells peel very easily.

L.P.

 

[tomturbomatic]

These are neat appliances

I have a Sunbeam version of that, but I hard cook eggs using my steamer basket in a covered 2 liter Silit Diamant saucepot. I use 5 ounces or so of water to keep it below the bottom of the steamer basket and put the eggs in small end down since the air bubble is at the large end. Once the water comes to the boil, I turn the heat down to between medium and low and steam them for 15 minutes. Explosions are rare and since the eggs are not in the water, if I hear one start behaving badly, I can lift it out with a spoon and nestle it in a cupcake liner and put it back in to finish cooking without it running all over the pan.

The reason I stopped using the Sunbeam is that it has to boil away the water to trip the thermostat and, in the summer, I did not want that much hot steam added to the air in the kitchen.

 

[foraloysius]

Neat indeed! Is that a glass lid? Most of them have plastic ones. It looks very modern, apart from the base. A bit of an odd combination.

 

[polkanut]

I've had a vintage Oster egg cooker for about 2 years, and I love it.  I got mine at an estate auction, and it also came with the poaching insert.  It takes all the guess work out of egg cookery.  Mine has a clear plastic cover and a brown base.

 

[petek]

Nice find.. I have a Hanscraft and another more modern egg cooker with the auto shutoff. The thing about these is that they use VERY little water. About an ounce or less to hardboil 6 eggs.. There might be graded markings on the bottom as to how much water to add, ie 2 tablespoons for soft boiled etc. They both came with egg poaching cups as well. Not sure if the Oster Sunbeams ever did or not.

 

[gansky1]

I gave my sister a Sunbeam egg cooker for Xmas a few years ago and she loves it. I doubt she ever put it away, which is another story but she says she uses it at least once a week. Hers has the poaching insert, and they use that too.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Pete, the Sunbeams have the measurements.

 

[polkanut]

My Oster came with the original poaching insert.

 

[bajaespuma]

Thanks for posting this. I've been considering buying one of these because I love soft-boiled eggs but am too easily distracted to do the timing right and wait for the pan to reach a full boil. Saw one at a thrift store and considered buying it for three minutes. Do these soft-boil well?

 

[petek]

Heres my oldie
The partner who isn't keen on small appliances likes this one for when it's time to make deviled eggs.

 

[petek]

Making poached

 

[petek]

Boiled

 

[petek]

A finished product

 

[magic_clean]

Integrated

water level measurements for soft, medium / poached & hard cooked eggs. Works perfectly on all.

Please excuse the dicoloration of the vintage 1970's non-stick coating.

 

[magic_clean]

Poached

egg tray. Cooks Illustrated tested egg cookers a few years ago when an updated version of this Oster was still available. They preferred the West Bend model as it was said to make a better poached egg and had an end-of-cooking signal.

This Oster makes a nice poached egg too & its more than good enough for the few dollars paid. Made in USA too.

 

[sudsmaster]

I have a "boil-dry" egg cooker I got about 10 years ago. The water kept on leaving nasty deposits the pan, so I eventually replaced it with a Chef's Choice timed egg cooker, which works much better and more predictably as well. But it's been parked for a while... I tend to go through phases when I crave boiled eggs. The Chef's Choice also has a four place poaching insert; the plastic poaching cups are egg shaped and not round. But it works well for making runny eggs to serve on top of buttered toast.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Wow Pete, I have never seen one of those aluminum Hankscraft egg cookers, only their Fiesta style earthenware models.

Totally off the topic, but did the big house by you ever sell?

 

[laundromat]

I prefer these over stove top methods. You can set it and forget it. It automaticaly shuts itself off. No shell cracking or egg whites bulging out. My home economics teacher taught us how to hard cook as aposed to hard boil eggs.

 

[bajaespuma]

I love it!

Because of this thread I went out and bought an "Egg Genie" that was at my local thrift store. Amazing! It works! I hate waiting around for a pot of eggs to boil so I can time them and hit or miss perfect soft-boiled eggs! Now I know how people must have felt 100 years ago when they perfected the toaster.