Nordic Ware Microwave Egg Boiler

Update 4/28/2022:I bought this product in 2014 and it is still making hard-boiled eggs flawlessly, today.I used a magic marker to mark the water level on the inside of the base so I don't have to measure it everytime. There is a raised mark on the inside, but it's white on white, so it's difficult to see in a dimly lit room.I fill it with really hot water from the tap. Eggs come out more consistent time after time if you start with the hottest tap water that you can.The egg will be very hot if you remove it too quickly from the microwave oven. You might want to wear kitchen gloves. I just soak my hands in ice cold tap water and then I've got about 10 seconds to move the egg cooker from the microwave to the sink before my hands start to burn. If it's still too hot to move this way, then it's still too hot to take the eggs out. The yolks are still cooking for a while after the microwave is done. The sooner you try to cool the eggs, the softer the yolks will be.Often there is a nice vacuum seal around the lid when it's done cooking. It can be difficult to get the lid off after the egg cooker has had a chance to cool down a bit. It has to do with the inner contents cooling and the air inside the cooker contracting to create a vacuum inside the egg cooker. The lid refuses to come off easily -- sometimes. Just put cold tap water in the little hole at the top of the cooker and the lid will pop right off after a couple of seconds.Then turn the base upside down. Carefully (to avoid cracking the shells) pour the hard boiled eggs into the inverted lid and turn the shelf upside down on the upside down base. The inverted lid will be fairly stable when sitting in the middle of the 4 egg positions when the lid is inverted. Turn on the tap water (cold) and let it run for a few minutes into the inverted lid to cool the hot hard boiled eggs. I find this eliminates the need for another bowl to cool the eggs in.This inverted stack of parts is also a great position to let everything drain and dry after you're done with the egg cooker.End of update.I LOVE this!! Makes 4 hard boiled eggs, easily. If you handle the eggs carefully, then they won't break or crack during cooking. If they don't break or crack, then I don't always wash this after using it. The water in the bottom does a good job of sterilizing the surfaces inside.

This Microwave Egg Boiler is the coolest thing! I don't know how $14.65 could possibly buy more joy! It works perfectly! The eggs never taste like they were cooked in a microwave. They actually taste better than when I boil eggs in a large stock pot on the stove. Now I enjoy perfectly hard boiled eggs every day. The best part is the eggs are super easy to peel, and they taste so much better when eaten immediately. We used to boil a couple dozen eggs and eat them throughout the week. By day #2 they were already cold and rubbery. But this Microwave Egg Boiler makes cooking hard boiled eggs so fast and easy that I now cook them "to order" so to speak. When I want hard boiled eggs, they're done in 9 minutes, and I eat them immediately. All you have to do is, after removing the cooked eggs from the microwave, place them in a cold water bath for 30 seconds. Then they're ready to eat. They're still a little warm, but not hot by any means. And the egg is so tender, fresh, and delicious that way. The instructions do a great job of recommending cooking times based on your microwave's wattage, but you may want to tweak that a little. If the yolks are a little soft for your taste, add a minute to the cooking time. No big whoop. TIP: Use "medium" eggs. Don't use extra-large eggs. Think about it. This thing is designed to hard boil "typical" eggs. If you put extra-large eggs in there, it takes longer to cook the center, and by that time the outside is over-cooked. If you use medium eggs, the recommended cooking times (based on microwave wattage) will be much more reliable. Here's what I do... I put 4 medium eggs in the cooker, mic on high for 9 minutes, and when the timer goes off, I leave the microwave door closed for 2 minutes. This is the recommended "cooling down" time in the instructions so that you don't try to open the cooker when there is still too much steam inside. By keeping the door closed for 2 minutes, the eggs continue to cook a little more during the cool-down period. Think of it as putting them on "simmer." Then, after the 2 minutes, put the eggs right into a cold water bath for 30 seconds. So the total cooking time, for me, using a 1,000-watt microwave, is 11 minutes (9 minutes on high, plus 2 minute cool-down period). Perfect eggs! Every time! One more thing... If you take your Microwave Egg Cooker to work and use it in your break room, you will never have a shortage of conversation. EVERYBODY will want one, and they will have a thousand questions. When people see it, they're mesmerized by the clever design. I couldn't be happier with this thing.

Bought this product because frankly, boiling eggs is 1) hugely inconsistent on my electric range; 2) very time- and effort-consuming, and lastly, 3) an energy hog. Heating elements and A/C motors are some of the most inefficient loads in your home... so removing a burner on for 10 mins to boil eggs from room-temp water, does save quite a bit of electricity x 30 days...Anyhow... reading the reviews, I went and got one...Pros:-- more consistent than the boiling I've been struggling with for months now. No need for warming from room temp, adding salt or baking soda to the water, nor an ice bath after cooking to make the shells fall off the white-- very affordable for the consistency it gives you. No more babysitting your breakfast just to prevent sticking shells.-- 8 mins vs 20 start-finish for boiling. No need for any fancy techniques, it's all done in 6 cooking + 2 cooling-- Microwave ovens are far more efficient than the most efficient electric coil burner... so this method is greenerCons:-- some small design changes would allow this device to get full marks from me... such as the egg shape, which is nearly impossible to open when you're forced to hold the top with a towel to keep from getting 2nd-deg burns (steam is far more dangerous than boiling water for burn injury). Some texture, or even a couple of slight crosshatched raised lines molded into the 'shell', would keep this from being annoying to use-- as mentioned in another review, the fill line for the water is far too shallow to be seen easily. There was a Japanese version of the English wording molded in the bottom half, what's a millimeter extra on the fill line? A must-have for version 2.0...-- the instructions are far off for cooking time (at least for me). I understand a bit of variance but a whole minute more cooking time? My 1250W Panasonic Inverter microwave (excellent for other foods) should've been faster to cook it all but instead needed 6 mins to get the white completely congealed, a touch of cooking on the outer 2mm of yolk (medium). Otherwise though, the shells slid off easily and completely, a far cry from boiling with various methods.Nice unit, but I'd pay another $5 easily for the design flaws to get addressed.

This works like a charm. I eat more hardboiled eggs than any others, and I hate to cook them on the stove - I'm never sure if I will over- or under-cook them. The shells come off easily with this. I'm as happy with this as I was with my old Oster.With this, you are not buying another appliance. It relies on the power from you microwave oven. So when it's done, it turns off. It cooks by not the amount of water you put in, but your microwave timer to shut the power off when they are ready. My first batch of hardboiled eggs I cooked at 10-minutes, and they came out perfectly. The shells come off easily, and you do not even need to poke a hole in it before cooking. And I've yet had one break open while cooking. I think the only way one would break open while cooking would be if the shell has a weak point, such as a fine crack.I would recommend this to anyone who has a microwave oven and loves hard- or soft-boiled eggs. Simplicity at it's best. And it was only nine bucks when I bought it.==================ADDENDUM: I'm not going to change my rating of this, but it does take some experimentation. With a regular egg cooker, you put the amount of water in that is used for soft-boiled or hard-boiled eggs, and they either shut off or buzz to let you know they're done. All the water evaporates.This cooking relies entirely on the wattage of your microwave oven, and your estimated cooking time. When your eggs are finished, you will still have plenty of very hot water in the cooker. Be careful. They evidently put more thought into the aesthetics of the cooker than the safety.So, one must expect to experiment to get the eggs they want. I originally said that I took a chance and set it for ten minutes to get hard boil eggs, and they came out beautifully. But as I keep experimenting with the times, I discovered something I didn't expect. After cooking four eggs for my ten minute hardboiled egg supply, I quickly took them out of the oven and showered them with cold water until I was able to carry them to the fridge.Those four eggs did not come out as hard-boiled, but soft-boiled (though fairly excellent soft-boiled eggs).So in closing, plan to do some testing until you get your times right, including the cool-down times. When I got my hardboiled at ten minutes, I let them cool down normally.Gosh, I never thought I could write so much about an inexpensive egg-cooker.==================ADDENDUM, Jan 2014: I have had this for almost exactly one year, and use it once or twice a week. The rim around the bottom of the cover and around the top of the base is becoming distorted. It is beginning to bulge out a bit on both sides, so it doesn't fit together quite as it did new. Twice I've come back to it and the cover had come off while cooking. It's a nice little egg cooker, but its life expectancy is up for debate.HARD-BOILED EGGS: I cook nothing but hard boiled eggs. A good starting point on getting great hardboiled eggs is to set your microwave oven to exactly ten-minutes. Since they are extremely hot when the ten minutes is up, they are still cooking. Let them cool down to room temperature to end up with perfect hardboiled eggs (don't put them in the fridge as they will cool down quickly as soft-boiled eggs.).

I was sceptical of this before I bought and tried it. My husband loves boilled eggs so I got him this egg maker to bring to his shop and he can make fresh boiled eggs right in the microwave in the break area. He loves it and uses it 2 or 3 times per week. I feel better because eggs are healthy and gives me a break from making him lunch. i would highly recommend this egg cooker.

These little items work very well. I've used one of these microwave egg boilers for years. I've normally done four eggs at a time -- its capacity, but two have worked just as well. Once you know how long you need to set your particular microwave for how you like your eggs, you'll get consistency every time. And that's the key with boiling eggs.Our previous egg boiler finally needed replacing and I bought this.It looks exactly the same. But it clearly isn't made as well as the previous one.First, the plastic is thinner; it's an indication of cutting back to make it as cheaply as possible. It effects the working of the thing to the extent that it's VERY hot when you take it out of the microwave. You'll need pot two holders, one in each hand, to remove it without burning yourself. That wasn't an issue an all with my previous one. It felt very warm, but could take it out of the microwave with my bare hands.Secondly, there is supposed to be a water fill line inscribed on the inside of the bottom piece, but there isn't. (The directions assure me it's supposed to be there, and there was a fill line on our previous egg boiler). That's not a big deal for me because I know from the previous egg boiler how much water to put in it. But for somebody who never had one before, they will wonder, and may have to experiment. (Fill to roughly 1/2 inch below the silver egg holder.) I'm not sure the one I got somehow missed getting that inscribed on its inside, or if they ALL are missing the fill line.Thirdly, when I used this the other day for the second time, the silver tray expanded when it got hot to the point that it was stuck into the bottom water reservoir. (That didn't happen the first time I used it.) That was an issue when the eggs were done and I wanted to remove the tray (with the eggs in it, as I've always done), and briefly run them under cold water to loosen the shells. I ran the cold water over the tray/bottom together, then removed the eggs, but I still couldn't get the tray separated from the bottom -- and the bottom was still full of near boiling water. I had to dump the water out through the little steam holes in the tray. I finally got the two pieces separated by prying a knife under the edge of the tray. (I guess I could have waited a while for the thing to cool and contract, but it seemed like that was going to take quite a while, and I wanted to clean up and put the thing away.)In short, these little items do boil eggs nicely, but not nearly as nicely as they used to. I guess that's just another indication of manufacturers cutting corners to save money. Too bad.

What a wonderful product. I got it for a little over $5 due to a slickdeals alert and I am glad I purchased it. I boil eggs very often and it was always a pain to boil them in a pan. Sometimes, I would forget and the water would boil off and then I had to add more water and wait again before adding eggs. Then sometimes the eggs cooked too long if I was busy. And all my stainless steel saucepans would turn black and scaly after boiling eggs in them. No more since I got the NordicWare Egg Boiler.It's literally fill water, place eggs, set microwave to 8.5-9 minutes and forget about it. Then whenever you like - preferably after the eggs have had a chance to cool down a little, get it out of the microwave. The eggs cook by steaming so I just hold them under water then bounce them up and down in the sink to crack them and off comes the peel. No more struggling to remove egg peel. What joy, and precious minutes saved in the morning! The design is cute too.If I use AA grade brown eggs from Costco I have to set 8 minutes 30 seconds for perfectly done eggs as they're a bit smaller. If I plan to leave them for 30 minutes or more and let them cool down then I set it to 8 minute 15 seconds. I have a 1000 W Microwave.Usually, I am always careful to let it cool for 2-3 minutes before getting it from the microwave as I don't want the boiling water to burn me. Don't fill past the fill line on the container or the boiling water can seep into the egg holder plate and may burn you.I am partial to egg salad and now I can make perfect egg salad with evenly cooked eggs. I use an IKEA egg slicer for perfect slices. I have been using it for over a year and I am really happy with it. Recommended!

THIS IS THE BEST WAY EVER TO BOIL YOUR EGGS “SO GOOD I BOUGHT MY 2 One to be SURE I have a Spare on hand!!!

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This item needs a microwave to boil eggs. It is just a device that can withstand microwaving. The item shows no wire connection. I failed to appreciate that while ordering. Better to buy electric egg boiler, unless you have a microwave of a size that will hold the boiler, and you are convinced microwave boiled eggs are healthier.

bastante util, lo recomiendo}felicitaciones al vendedor

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