Eggs-cuse me, but before I get eggs-cited about this and shell out for one, can any eggs-perts tell me, based on their eggs-perience, if this will hard boil eggs to my eggs-acting standard? After all eggs come in different sizes, so is it realistic to eggs-pect them all to be cooked properly? Won't the smaller ones eggs-plode?. I lead a busy life, so I don't have time to eggs-periment.

Eggcelent price!

I'm not egg saturating! :smile:

Anyone had any egg-sperience with these?

Really egg-cited by this deal, but seriously how lazy have you got to be! Just put them in a pan for christ sake!:smiley:

Eggs-b -Alidotious!
How ever you cook them.

These make great eggs.

:pirate:CJ:pirate:

worth every penny i bought one of these a few weeks ago from Lakeland £9.99 And love it

Am I missing something? Don't you just put eggs in a pan and boil them for 5 minutes?

okay enough with the egg banter.

Are these only available in store? i can see online but not 'buy' button :disappointed:

This thread is becoming quite egg-asperating. Sorry, couldn't resist it. These things are great, they take the randomness of boiling in a pan and you get perfect soft boiled eggs every time. Hot....

I'll give them a try!
Have some heat!

If you boil eggs regularly then these are much more convenient. First off you use a fraction of the water you would need to boil when using a pan, also, as previously stated it is a regulated process with a buzzer that goes off when the eggs are done, so you get the same consistency of dippiness.

Should you forget or get distracted these will not boil dry and burn.

As useful to a kitchen as a toaster if you ask me.:thumbsup:

Too may yokes

It's not a lot to shell out .Looks good ...

this is bang tidy... going to get one.

Lets all give a standing ovulation , hot deal.

Eggs-cuse me, but before I get eggs-cited about this and shell out for one, can any eggs-perts tell me, based on their eggs-perience, if this will hard boil eggs to my eggs-acting standard? After all eggs come in different sizes, so is it realistic to eggs-pect them all to be cooked properly? Won't the smaller ones eggs-plode?. I lead a busy life, so I don't have time to eggs-periment.

whats wrong with a saucepan and some hot water over the stove?

gonna buy some for the local yokels, sam and ella, for christmas....

Cheaper solution.... Get a pain out and fill it water and boil the egg to the right time. Simple!

Wonder if this was the one shown on Dragon's Den a few years ago?

cracking deal

egg-cruciatingly poor puns. you're all gonna end up with egg on your face.

(Mr Burns: egg-cellent)

Does it boil bunnies too?? ;-)
seriously though, how long does one of these gadgets take to cook an egg so its runny?

How long does it take to cook an egg to medium boiled?

You would get this for the same reason you would buy a toaster or a plug in kettle instead of using the grill or hob. Less hassle, less cleaning up and more efficient, saving you money in the long run, on electricity/gas bills. You could use a pan, but you are wasting all that water and time heating it up a whole pan. The egg cooker uses no more water than is neccassary and gets to the boiling point quicker because there is less water

Got one of these from lidl ages ago, use it all the time, might get anouther one as I haven't seen one for this price anywhere else.

surely people use a kettle to heat the water and not the cooker :w00t:

and what washing up is there after boiling an egg :?

[QUOTE=spraint]Surprised it doesn't come with an egg piercer to stop the eggs cracking.

/QUOTE]
Includes measuring jug with egg piercer

people buy toasters but own grills, people buy kettles but have hobs, people buy microwaves yet own ovens, people buy washing machines but have sinks, people buy tumbledriers but have clothes lines....... its a bit of a silly argument

No. People use a grill for toast and a kettle on the hob for hot drinks. Anything else seems a waste of time or 'lazy'. Apparently. Or this forum is a Luddite ghetto.

As for washing up after boiling eggs in a pan, don't you love the taste of calcium deposit on anything that goes in after the eggs? Yum.

dont be ridiculous!

I have never seen anyone boil cold water in a pan when they have a kettle :whistling:

oh, I forgot it takes all of 2 seconds to wipe the calcium deposit line off the pan lol :roll:

was thinking maybe if they saw no use wasting money on this they wouldn't want to waste money on a plug in kettle :-D


Well if you want to go in-depth, sometimes you get a bit of a ring around the pan when you boil an egg and maybe the utensil you use to get the egg out the water? Or am I just using some dirty eggs?

Oh does this one egg-ceed the one that was on dragon's den?

Why dont you just use a steamer, does the same job and can also be used to steam fish, veg etc You can pick one of these up for less that a tenner as well a much better deal IMO :thumbsup:

Someone's not reading very carefully. :smiley:

It does Mr Magoo :stuck_out_tongue:


* For cooking up to 7 eggs
* Cooks eggs to your taste, hard-, medium- or soft-boiled
* Alarm sounds when eggs are cooked
* Stainless steel hotplate with keep warm setting
* Overheat protection
* Includes measuring jug with egg piercer
* 3 year manufacturer's warranty

No it was this one. http://www.eggxactly.com/ It uses no water to cook an egg.

Video

Had one of these things since I saw one in Germany 20 years ago....they are brilliant and I will probably get a new spangly one if I get to Lidl this week.

Heat added (just not enough to over cook the eggs!) :-D

Good deal, some comments have been over-egged though.

bought one similar for my work as no space for a hob :smiley: good price I paid £20

Couldn't have put it better - rep given!

If you have room for a kettle, you can boil an egg in that.

Or do what this guy does ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMhQc8T7tqQ

OMG thats brilliant. Not sure about the raw yolk mind :oops:

Just popped to lidils and no sign of egg cooker

lmfao

think its said from the 08/10/09 mate.

Eggcellent.

Very hot!

That is amazing.

BTW raw egg is fine - people fret far too much about raw eggs. I have eggnog shakes all the time.

Thanks, will snap this up come Thursday!

tried to boil an egg before in a kettle in my old work and it burst all over lol . that video was class

Should have put a small hole in the egg.

LOL That's almost as funny as the old Viz Top Tip below:

"Pop a few teabags in your hot water tank and you can make a hot
cuppa anytime by just turning on the tap.":thumbsup:

I ate an egg that had been cooked using this machine and it was horrible.

I don't like eggs though so please bear this in mind before stopping yourself buying one solely on the strength of my negative experience.

whats the cleaning involved with this machine

Lool, a great review! :-D

I've got two of these - similar but not exactly the same but they all work in the same way. I took my other one into work when I got a new one last xmas - any of the 'why do you need one if you have a hob' crowd take note, can you make soft boiled eggs in your office?

They cook the eggs with steam so you only put in a fraction of the water you need to boil if you cooked them in a pan - I have no proof but I would imagine they therefore use a fraction of the energy to boil and therefore cook.

Also, they are always perfectly cooked using the provided measure (the spike to pierce the eggs is on the bottom.) I usually hard boil any eggs I have nearing sell-by date as it's no fuss and BEST of all, no washing up. The water boils dry (which sets the buzzer off) so nothing to clean at all.

Sounds like a ridiculous gadget but once you own one, I guarantee you'll never boil eggs in a saucepan again - it takes too long.

so how long does one of these take to make soft boiled eggs in these from scratch?

my antiquated method using a pan and water takes 5 mins (1 min to boil the water in my kettle)

i dont disagree, but why not just use a steamer, exactly the same but more versatile (can also cook veg, fish etc) and costs about the same?

Altho I do agree it would be no good for office tho! :smiley:

I'll have a hard boiled Mr. Magoo, then :smiley:

I'm eggs-hausted reading all this.........:giggle:

Because you have no way of measuring the exact amount of water, no way of piercing a small hole in the egg, no idea when they are soft/medium or hard boiled, no way of stopping them rolling about/ a steamer costs twice as much even for a cheap one.........is that enough reasons to spend a whopping £7.99?

Question for anyone who has one of these:-

so how long does one of these take to make soft boiled eggs in these from scratch?

my antiquated method using a pan and water takes 5 mins (1 min to boil the water in my kettle and 4 to cook the egg)

Thanks

It will take a similar amount of time but use less water, less power and you get the egg spot on every time.
Even if you boiled 7 eggs in this at the same time, they would all be cooked the same, try that in a saucepan.

Around the same time but it uses less energy as already mentioned due to using less water. That's the first bonus. The second is it cuts out when done so no possibility of over cooking. The third is that it cannot boil dry like a pan can which is a useful safety aspect, especially for people with learning difficulties for example. The fourth is there is no pan to wash up saving more time afterwards.

fair enough although I doubt an electric device like this uses less energy than a gas hob as gas is far more efficient :thumbsup:

Egg cookers only use a few ml of water, the one I currently have uses 140ml or 1/4 pint to do 4 hard boiled eggs, whereas a pan needs a good pint to cover the egg, more if you don't use a small pan like a milk pan.

EDIT: Just remembered. You say gas is more efficient, but you are also using your kettle which uses electric, so you are using electric and gas, nothing efficient about that :thumbsup:

yes but the water in a pan is in direct contact with the egg as very efficient

cant see how steam still manages to cook the egg in the same time ;-)

I simply luv it :-)

and this has a lid so no heat escapes out of the top like a pan.. :whistling:

It probably uses less electric to cook the egg completely than your kettle does before you even use any gas.

How many more people need to tell you they are great before you believe them?

OK - I'm sold. Off to lidl in the morning.

cant beat a good egg in the morning :wink:

which one is you? :giggle:

So you don't know that steam is hotter than boiling water then?. :roll:

er......yeah, but not when its got loads of air with it too :whistling:

I doubt its in a vacuum lol :roll:

basic chemistry 101 chum lol big time

Tut tut, even I tried to get you to see they are worthy of a purchase. You only had to get one and if you didn't like it take it back. No need to call people muppets is there, and all over a poxy egg cooker lol

Surely you mean basic physics?

:-D

Explain then why a 7 minute operation only takes 3 in this?.

basic biology anyone :whistling:

water into steam = chemistry lol :roll:

seems you all wanted to join the above pic

whats the plural of an idiot lol

yeah - the above 3 posters

surely there must be a way of clearing the imbeciles of this site?......................

now go get a life :whistling:

I'll let you know if it makes a soft boiled egg in 3 mins tomorrow

since when did 5+1 = 7 doh!

I suspect you are just a troll of the worst kind - get back to school :w00t:

I usually grill bread for toast, mainly because it leads onto cheese on toast so easily.

This egg thing seems perfect for a household where lots of eggs are eaten for breakfast. Get up, put the egg-thing on, put the kettle on for coffee, go shower without worrying, come back down, eggs are ready, perfect.

What's an egg piercer? Does it include an egg tattoo artist as well?

No. Water into steam= physics:roll:


It can't be long since you left school obviously you didn't learn much when there.

It really is physics.

He hasn't left school yet, he's only 13 :whistling:

Get a life?. With nearly 17000 posts on here (most of them derogatory, I might add) I think we know who needs to get a life!.

What are you on about you sad early school leaver. It's physics you clot.

Your a yolker.

The plural of idoit is CSIMAN.

Is that what you watch all day in your bedroom in your mams flat saddo.

Looks like there is and it has been successfully applied to you:thumbsup:

All you lot really need to grow up by the looks of it!

quite pathetic

Back on topic. I got mine earlier, just had 2 soft boiled eggs with tiger bread soldiers. Absolutely spot on.


Lol @ csiman being suspended. Good work mods :smiley:

EDIT: Just seen csiman is unsuspended, that didn't last long!

Has anyone used it yet? Why are the numbers on the measuring cup the wrong way round? It says to fill it up with less water for six and seven eggs than for one, is this right?

Yes it's right, it weird I know but that's how egg cookers work. I used mine as per my above post.

There will be less space for steam as the eggs will be taking up the space, less steam = less water needed. :thumbsup:

hi, can anyone help as to what i'm doing wrong

first egg i tried, pierced the top and cooked perfectly. since then evry egg still cooks great but an amount seems to come out form the top as if it is being sucked out from the small pin pierce at the top.

what would happen if i didn't pierce the egg and is there an better alternative way to pierce the egg (or different place)?

thanks in advance

what a load of junk, took top off egg thought it looked slightly over done but was great just beneath surface, then got down past half way was runny as hell, junk junk junk

I'm glad i didnt buy one now. Returning an item to Lidl is an experience in itself lol

gotta say despite the small issue i mentioned earlier every egg has been cooked perfectly using the watercup levels including hard boiled

My old one of these that I got from Germany does that with some eggs (small bit coming out of the hole) It's not the cooker, it's the egg.

It's just the expansion of whats in the egg and nothing to worry about. If there is spare space inside the egg it won't do it, if there isn't it will.

Thats why you have to pierce them, otherwise the egg will crack/pop - it's just to release pressure.

Viny, yours is either faulty or you have done something wrong. I always go for the medium on my measuring cup.

I'm glad you didn't buy one too..

I'm glad for you. Do you ever post anything positive?.

First eggs out of mine today. Perfection!.

16,000 odd posts of negativity, if you have nothing positive, helpful or interesting then why bother posting anything at all.


On a positive, helpful but maybe not so interesting side of things, I have used mine 5 times now and every egg has been as I was it, not egg coming out the hole either.

I can put four eggs into the smallest saucepan they'll fit into, with enough water just to cover them, bring them to the boil and then remove after exactly two minutes. Perfect. (That's for a gas ring; your mileage may vary, etc.)

+1 :thumbsup:

and saving made of £8 :-D

Another negative comment. Come on!!.

This great fun and it works. I have one in my office and the guys I work with think it's the business.

You need to get a life.

And you need to get an insult. :smiley:

But seriously - how long does this thing take to cook four eggs? Or one egg for that matter? I've no experience of them but can appreciate that they could be useful in some circumstances.

lolz - I need to geta life yet cooking an egg is "great fun" . jeez, some people

Some of us don't have stovetop facilities at work so these are a great idea and easy