Joie Kitchen Gadgets Egg Boiler, White, 7x7x10cm

This review is fir the JOIE single egg microwave boiler. Took some confidence to use the egg piercer but with that achieved, it's the best gadget I've bought in ages. A 3-minute prefect soft boiled egg with no fuss.

Handy egg cooker for the microwave with no having to set timers and boiling a whole saucepan of water for one egg. If you prefer a harder egg, I would suggest using a medium sized egg as this size cooks perfectly, large eggs, from my own experience, only cook soft as the water is used up before they set harder. You could always refill the water and give it a few extra minutes, however. Looks cute sitting on top of the microwave.

Set at low level for 8 mins nice soft ce nter

Over the years I've bought several of these, to cook my breakfast eggs. [It's too dangerous for me to use a hob, limited movement]. I've tried the poachers, they're useless. Alas, I have found them a bit hit & miss. Two at the same time, each egg often turn-out differently, over/under cooked. Occasionally, despite having [properly] pricked the eggs, they've exploded. Not sure if I can mention [this], but, I've found the perfect solution, a 2 egg omelette maker.

Probably the worst egg boiler ever...and reads like it can explode if you don't follow the instructions explicitly...and when you do it barely cooks the egg. I can't even be bothered to walk to the shops to post it back...it's gone straight in the bin; together with the very undercooked egg (even though we set it for hard boiled).

Well Folks an excellent egg boiler. I put my 800w mircowave oven on for four minutes and the egg white was clear and runny, so I put another egg on for five and a half minutes and the egg yolk was perfect for me, the egg yolk was slightly soft.

VERY GOOD PRODUCT

Like many other gadgets I've had recently the two plastic parts don't locate properly when you try to close them. This is almost universal nowadays with this type of cheaper plastic item. Not the main complaint however. It just didn't boil eggs further than soft and runny , including the whites. The instructions specified 3.5 minutes for medium eggs on 1000 watts. Ok I had large size eggs and 800watt microwave. So I set it to 5 minutes : soft and runny including the whites. 6 minutes : soft and runny including the whites. 7 minutes : soft and runny including the whites. So it's obviously not going to boil a large egg properly on 800 Watt microwave. I won't waste any more eggs on this, as there is absolutely no improvement with increases in time. The manufacturer needs to specify better the capabilities of their product. A table of egg size v power v time would be useful. Also if it is no use on any less than 1000 watts say so. Update: I wrote the above but hadn't submitted it before I saw that another reviewer said to use hot water. So I retrieved the boiler from the bin. A further series of experiments resulted in the following findings for my large size eggs in my 800 watt microwave: 1. Don't use eggs from the fridge -room temperature only. 2. Use hot water. I use water from the boiling water tap. 3. It takes much longer than 3.5 minutes I found at 6 minutes the yolk and white were runny 7 minutes the egg was hard boiled 6m 30s yolk was slightly runny white was solid. So many variables!! Is it worth the bother, and wastage of eggs? Since I managed to eventually get an eatable boiled egg. I added a star. I now give it 2*.