Electric egg maker for poached eggs - convince me?

I love mine. Love it.

Galaxy

I love mine. Love it.

That's what I wanted to hear Galaxy - great!

What make have you got?

It's a salter. It never fails to do good poached eggs, I use it for boiled eggs too. I sound a bit lazy here

I tried for years and failed miserably. I asked people for tips and now make perfect poached eggs in a deep frying pan. Use very fresh eggs and crack each egg into a shallow bowl and gently lower into boiling water. Cook for 3 minutes and remove with a slotted spoon onto paper towel to dry then gently transfer to plate. Perfect every time 😘

Had a Lakeland one for years, until it fell to bits. Just have a cheap Lidl one now £6.99. The Lakeland one I used to burn my fingers taking the lid off. Lidle one has a plastic knob that doesn’t get hot, plus a carry handle inside to transfer the eggs into a bowl of water. Oh I can do an omelette in the lidle one but have never tried that option.
Well worth the money

KGee that's exactly how I poach eggs and they're always perfect.

I use Poachies, buy them cheaply by the 100 from Ebay. Always give perfect results. They are bags into which you break the egg then immerse in boiling water which seals the bag. If you always buy the same size eggs the timing is the same each time.

The secret is fresh eggs. Simply slide them into a shallow pan of simmering water and cook to taste. If the eggs aren’t fresh you will get better results with something that keeps the whites from spreading, like a poacher. I’ve never had any success with them - even ones with non-stick cups.

I make my poached eggs in silicon cups but I use a sauté pan. They cook perfectly because it has a glass lid and I can see what is happening.

I have tried all of the other methods and this works every time.

I just “fry” mine in shallow, salty water.

My little plastic ones in the shape of a broken egg shell are perfect. They just float on simmering water. I too use a transparent saucepan lid so that I can see when the egg is cooked.

I do mine in my microwave. I bought an egg poacher from Lakeland .. 30 sec for a large egg! No fuss!

I used to have some poachies,no idea what happened to them,i only know i had'nt used them all...🤔

gave mne to charity shop, pan and boiling water best

Mine works fine thankfully as I no longer have a cooker. Use a mini oven on worktop & microwave for anything I need as my hands are very arthritic now & sometimes cannot do very much. So happy to have my alternative!

Here are some Poachies. It might be worth trying them before splashing out on yet another gadget. I love them.
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=poachies&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p4624852.m570.l1313

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Why don't you just boil some water in an omelette pan, create a vortex and break an egg into the centre of it.
Job done. What's difficult? You can do it.
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I'm 69 and 3 years ago I learned how to do poached eggs the 'proper' way in boiling water. I had to as hubby managed to ruin the egg poaching pan by not putting water in it. So glad he did as I so prefer the poached eggs now. Hubby likes the poaching pan for his but as he ruined a second one I've told him this one is the last I'll buy as they're expensive for induction hobs.

I love mine for hard-boiled eggs but find it hopeless for anything else. It has a little tray for "frying" an egg and a divided tray for poaching. Both of them just produce a hard-boiled egg in different shapes! I suspect the trays were only included in the design in order to to make it seem like a multi-purpose gismo (and thus more saleable).

Barbadosbelle

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Why don't you just boil some water in an omelette pan, create a vortex and break an egg into the centre of it.
Job done. What's difficult? You can do it.
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Because as I originally said in my opening post, there's no method I haven't tried. There's nothing on this thread about poaching eggs that I haven't tried. Which is why I specifically asked about egg cookers. In the hope I wouldn't get a load of posts telling me how I should be poaching eggs.

Apparently if only I used fresh eggs I would succeed. My neighbour 4 doors away keeps chickens, doubt if I could get fresher eggs. All I need to do is this, that blah blah. I CAN'T COOK POACHED EGGS.

Thanks Galaxy and the others who have actually answered my question.

Just another gadget to clutter your kitchen. Unless you have one every day, why?

FranP

Just another gadget to clutter your kitchen. Unless you have one every day, why?

Goodness, I am actually being asked to justify why I want to buy something.

With the greatest respect, what I do or don't do is really none of your business is it?

As long as the egg is imersed in water I should imagine they are all fine. The ones where you place the egg into anything else are essentially not poached.

I used to fail miserably at this but then tried Poachies and was very surprised at how well they always turn out. Wouldn't use anything else now.