[Closed] Those electric egg boilers

Yup. Used ours today.

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Yeah, but it's not a [i]real[/i] boiled/poached/pretentiously****ted egg! :waaaah:

On the Christmas list!!

Got one but as a present...hoping to find out how good it is on 25th!

Me too!  Smoked salmon poached egg and fresh muffin with a glass of bubbly at 830 Christmas morning...

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Smoked salmon poached egg and fresh muffin with a glass of bubbly at 830 Christmas morning…

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I think that was my recommendation. Glad to be of some use for a change 🙂

I laughed mockingly at Mrs Binners when she bought it. Not for long. They’re ace! Perfect hassle-free eggs every time. Far from being shoved in the back of a cupboard, ours doesn’t half get some hammer

was this the one you got?

Aye, thats the one I got...

How long does it take to poach an egg?

We have a Tefal Egg N Toaster and that's spot on - soft boiled eggs and soldiers? No problem. Want to soft-boil or hard-boil a few eggs on their own? Easy. Just need you some toast? Job jobbed. 🙂 Only a max of four boiled eggs but that's generally enough for the two of us. 🙂

Just bought  a pair from groupon £22

they all seem pretty similar

Wait! You can buy an electric egg boiler??? <Heads off to Google>

EDIT: was going to ask about small ones (not going to eat 8 boiled eggs in one sitting!), but that one two posts up looks promising

Not sure what Argos are playing at with £25 as they're only £20 directly from Swan, posted 🙂

https://shop.swan-brand.co.uk/products/swan-egg-boiler-and-poacher-1

Thanks Bear, you just saved me a fiver.

was this the one you got?

No. Mine was a slightly cheaper one.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00L81TNSK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

EDIT: was going to ask about small ones (not going to eat 8 boiled eggs in one sitting!), but that one two posts up looks promising

You don't have to fill it. It will cook single eggs perfectly as well.

I think the idea that you should have a special appliance to carry out the simple job of boiling or poaching eggs is simply ridiculous and now I really want one.

I have one (can't remember the make) but it doesn't beep when it's done which is shite (I notice in the Lakeland reviews one it doesn't either), does that Swan one beep?

They're eggcellent for boilers but they aren't proper poachies, sorry.

Mrs Beardsley wouldn't stand for it, you annoying ****ing doyles.

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they aren’t proper poachies

BINGO!

We have something similar. Not sure where it came from, probably a "gift" from the grandmother-in-law who likes to buy anything that appears on QVC.
I can't fathom the thing out. There's a measuring beaker with it for water with markings on the side that are some kind of secret combination depending on how many eggs you are cooking and how well done you want them. No beep or anything when it's done so assume it boils dry in the bottom then switches itself off.
I was scared that I was going to explode half-cooked egg all over the kitchen and burn down the house so I've reverted to lobbing some eggs in a pan of boiling water and setting a timer for 6 minutes. Pretty much spot on every time whether there's one egg or six.

Looks ace, I want one.

The Swan one - does it boil off all the water you put in, and then go bing when its all gone? Or is the bing just on a timer?

It boils all the water off then makes a noise thats less of a bing and more like a duck being strangled

Strangled duck works for me.

I can’t fathom the thing out. There’s a measuring beaker with it for water with markings on the side that are some kind of secret combination depending on how many eggs you are cooking and how well done you want them

Hah sounds like my one, I can remember I couldn't work out the logic in the measurements (might have just been me being thick though)

Yes, that's why!

Looked a bit like this:

I couldn't understand why more eggs needed less water and it defied all logic, so I assumed it must be wrong (because obviously I know better than the manufacturer!) and just couldn't trust it/myself.

I couldn’t understand why more eggs needed less water and it defied all logic, so I assumed it must be wrong (because obviously I know better than the manufacturer!) and just couldn’t trust it/myself.

I think...... because they aren't really boiling, they are steaming. If you have only one egg in there (and therefore more open spaces for eggs) the steam can move up through the holes and out of the vent, so you need more water to compensate for the faster steam dissipation.

If they are fully loaded then the steam will contact the eggs (and probably condense and fall back in a few times as well) rather than disappearing so the use of the water is much more efficient.