Krups 230-70 Egg Express Egg Cooker
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Krups 230-70 Egg Express Egg Cooker
Customer Review: Krups Egg Cooker
Summary: 5 Stars
I just love this item, very easy to use and cooks eggs just the way I like them, Thank You Amazon for a great product.Customer Review: Excellent little egg cooker
Summary: 4 Stars
I have had a number of egg cookers over the years, and find that the Krups which I recently purchased is compact and easy to use. I have already used it to hard boil over 3 dozen eggs, and it has performed perfectly.Customer Review: If an alarm buzzes in a kitchen and there's nobody there to hear it.... Does it still make a sound?
Summary: 4 Stars
I love eggs.
Perhaps that's not correct. I love EATING eggs. I like them hardboiled, the boyfriend likes them poached. The problem is, I don't like babysitting a pot.
I recall a time in college where I had set some eggs a boiling pot of water and forgot to set my kitchen timer. Next thing I knew, I had forgotten my poor little pot of eggs and became absorbed in homework (yea, right... television), not realizing the impending doom of the evaporated water until the dry eggs started exploding in my kitchen.
Needless to say, an automatic egg cooker seemed like the perfect companion to my clutzy kitchen skills.
The problem is, the timer is just that -- a kitchen timer. And a quiet one (at least in my opinion). The device does not turn itself off at the end of its cycle. I've gotten a couple slightly rubbery eggs due to the assumption that the machine will shut itself off (much like my rice cooker switches to "keep warm" after the cooking cycle) and the low buzzing sound doesn't penetrate through the dining room and living room to reach my boisterous entertainment room. The buzz is annoying enough, to be sure, just not LOUD enough.
So, like the standard kitchen timer, I'll likely have to keep this egg cooker in the same room that I'm in, so that I can hear the alarm as it goes off.
Even so, it's still a good cooker. The boyfriend loves the poached eggs (since heaven knows I don't know how to cook them right), and I love not having to fish the eggs out of boiling water right on time. You still do have to babysit the timer, and turn the machine to "keep warm" manually after the alarm sounds, but it's still better than being chained to a pot in the kitchen. At least now I can cook eggs next to my television without missing anything.
Customer Review: Simplicity at its finest
Summary: 5 Stars
I have never been able to make a hard boiled egg with beautiful yellow yolks...until now. This small machine is so easy to use and makes beautiful eggs every time. I do not use the warm setting as I think it will cook the eggs longer; as soon as the buzzer goes off, I remove the eggs from the machine and run them under cool water or put them in the fridge. The eggs are also much easier to peel than traditionally cooked eggs. All in all - this product is wonderful!Customer Review: Attractive design
Summary: 4 Stars
This egg cooker provides a convenient means of cooking eggs properly, something that should be easy on a stove top but usually isn't. This cooker tends to cook eggs a little more that the instructions suggest. If you want a soft-boiled egg, go with the measurements for really soft eggs and you'll get medium soft. The little poaching trays work really well, but once again go easy on the estimate for cooking time. Two things: Both times I've hard-boiled eggs, one of them has broken. Also, piercing the shell before hard boiling the eggs as instructed does not prevent a slight greening of the yolks (and I was using really fresh, free-range eggs). Since this is the first one of these things I've had, I can't compare it with anything.