Sunbeam Automatic Egg Cooker -- Revisited

[philr]

It looks like it's made of stainless steel? Must be easier to keep clean!

 

[polkanut]

You only need to pierce them if using an egg cooker.  Stove top egg cookery doesn't require it.

 

[rp2813]

Tim, thanks for the clarification.  No wonder I had issues when boiling pierced eggs!

 

[retro-man]

Found a new and easy way to make hard boiled eggs. I make a dozen at time and they come out perfect. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place whole egg, shell included into muffin tins. One egg per round. 30 minutes in the oven. I know I never heard about baking eggs but I saw it on the internet and decided to give it a try. Will never boil an egg again. No explosions.

 

[polkanut]

The reason for not having to pierce eggs cooked on the stove is that the eggs slowly warm up as the water does also.  Thus it helps keep pressure from building up like in an egg cooker where the change in temp takes place more suddenly.

 

[rp2813]

Tim, that depends on the method you're using to boil the eggs.  I've tried both ways -- eggs in water from the beginning, and eggs lowered into boiling water. 

 

I prefer the cold-start method since plunging the eggs into boiling water, even room temperature ones, seems like you're just asking for them to crack.

 

If I have eight or fewer eggs to hard cook, I'll be using the Sunbeam going forward.

 

[ovrphil]

Although I haven't tried it, a method for soft boiling is heat water under boiling point, swirl the water with a spoon or other to create , a swirling eddy. Drop egg in middle- the swirl contains the egg as it becomes poached, preventing the whites from exiting to pan edges. It makes sense, I have to try it. The key is not to let the water boil, but keep it just under the boiling point. Hmm.

But a poaching pan is more sensible for more than one poached egg - above method sounds ok for single shots.

 

[sudsmaster]

The piercer that came with my Sunbeam evaporating water egg cooker was terrible. It was integrated into the water measuring cup, but too thick to piece an eggshell without cracking it.

I found a largely plastic egg slicer with built in piercer that is much more slender and never cracks an egg. And I'd say egg breakage in the Chef's Choice egg cooker is pretty rare with such pierced eggs.