Oster 4716 Egg Cooker
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Oster 4716 Egg Cooker
Customer Review: One of Best Innovation for Women!
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this tool for my kitchen awhile ago and found it very useful. This product is very easy to use and easy to follow. Base from the scale on the plate, I can decide how I want to cook my egg, from medium, medium well, and well done. It made boiling eggs for egg salad much simpler.
The downside of this product:
1. After several use of the product,the main plate of the product gets dirty and hard to clean.
2. When the water boil out, you will need to pick up the plastic top and turn off the machine right away because the hot plate will melt the cover after all the water ran out in the machine. This is one of top reason I only gave it 4 stars.
Overall a very useful tool for anyone who want to save time and make nicely done boiled eggs.
Customer Review: It works, but with lots of bad features
Summary: 2 Stars
I previously had a West Bend Egg Cooker and will be buying that again (after years of great use, just died). I wanted to try a new brand and it is a mistake. This egg cooker has no plastic handle edges so you have to use a tong to remove eggs and dirty another bowl to rinse them. Then in order to cook less eggs you have to guess the amount of water to decrease by. The West Bend egg cooker had a nice cup to measure the amount to match the number of eggs you want to cook. Also because the bottom is not flat in this model (which it IS in the West Bend), to clean the yellow residue out, you have to wipe in the grooves at the bottom, which is best to do while hot to get it out. PAIN!!! I returned both that were holiday gifts and am ordering West Bend models.
Customer Review: Great little egg cooker!
Summary: 4 Stars
I grew up with one of these egg cookers and now, finally, have another one! I didn't realize how much I'd missed it!
If you follow the directions (use the correct amount of water and take the eggs out as soon as the cooker finishes), you'll have perfect eggs every time! Hard-boiled eggs are especially good--the yolks are perfect, never green, the whites don't get "rubbery", and (if dropped in ice water immediately after cooking) they are easy to peel!
We loved "poached" eggs, and this is the easiest way ever to make them!
Great little product. I do wish it had a little bell or other alarm to indicate when it's done cooking, though. That's the only reason for four instead of five stars!
Customer Review: Oster Egg Cooker
Summary: 4 Stars
Oster 4716 Egg Cooker This egg cooker is GREAT for hard boiled eggs. I have not used it yet for anything else but the hard boiled. I kept having problems with the shells sticking to my eggs over the holidays and I was soooo frustrated, but no more with this cooker. The only reason I gave it a 4 was because, the appliance doesn't have a dinger on it to let you know that the eggs are done; this would be extremely helpful because they say to remove the eggs as soon as they are done to avoid them being overcooked. I guess I will have to stay near one time, and time it myself so I know how long it takes in order to check back in time.Customer Review: Cooks great eggs; unit poor quality
Summary: 2 Stars
I had a love-hate relationship with my egg cooker. Loved the way it cooked eggs but it was very difficult to clean. The poaching tray was terrible as it was impossible to clean. Supposedly it is teflon but it is not. I don't know what it is, I just know it's not teflon and egg sticks horribly even with butter. The inside aluminum tray for boiled eggs is difficult to clean and the paint or coating on the base unit started flaking off into the eggs. I used it frequently for about 3 years and threw away the poaching tray. The only way to actually clean it is to put straight vinegar in the base and let it run a cooking cycle. But then your house stinks of vinegar.
Bottom line - great design, very poor materials.