Comments on: Kalorik EK28441 7-Egg Electric Egg Cooker with 4-Egg Poaching Tray http://dekdum.com/wp/2010/06/01/kalorik-ek28441-7-egg-electric-egg-cooker-with-4-egg-poaching-tray/ Enjoy shopping online Tue, 17 May 2011 02:48:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Helen D. Setterfield http://dekdum.com/wp/2010/06/01/kalorik-ek28441-7-egg-electric-egg-cooker-with-4-egg-poaching-tray/comment-page-1/#comment-15142 Helen D. Setterfield Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:51:40 +0000 http://dekdum.com/wp/2010/06/01/kalorik-ek28441-7-egg-electric-egg-cooker-with-4-egg-poaching-tray/#comment-15142 Hoping for the best, we bought this primarily for poached eggs. I miss the old Sunbeam egg cooker! It was all metal and lasted for years. It knew what a 'poached egg' was. This one is relatively cheaply made (isn't almost everything nowdays?) It has a metal top, so at least it won't melt into the eggs. The water behaves itself and does not boil over. The steam vent is quite adequate. But although it does its best, plastic egg holders simply cannot poach an egg well. If the whites are completely cooked, the yolk just about is, too. If the yolk is runny, the way a poached yolk should be, at least part of the whites remain uncooked as well. The split handle on the side is well-designed, and the cooker does turn itself off....sort of. You have to unplug it to stop the buzzing and if you leave the plug in, the directions warn it will turn itself back on as soon as it cools off. We are installing a heavy-duty in-line switch on the cord so we don't have to unplug it, but how difficult would it be for the manufacturers do have installed a simple on/off switch in the cooker itself? The four-egg tray should be a three-egg tray for poaching, so that the eggs have enough room not to run over when cooking, or even when putting the poaching section into the cooker. <br /> <br />It will cook your eggs, and that part is nice. While the top gets hot, what else do you expect? It is not at all dangerous if simple care is taken. Cooking means things heat up -- it's part of the deal. <br /> <br />We'll keep and use the cooker. But if we ever find one which has a metal tray of adequate size, can turn itself off completely when done (ideally without that annoying buzzing), and can really poach an egg well, we'll junk this one in a minute and buy the other. <br /> <br /> Rating: 3 / 5 Hoping for the best, we bought this primarily for poached eggs. I miss the old Sunbeam egg cooker! It was all metal and lasted for years. It knew what a ‘poached egg’ was. This one is relatively cheaply made (isn’t almost everything nowdays?) It has a metal top, so at least it won’t melt into the eggs. The water behaves itself and does not boil over. The steam vent is quite adequate. But although it does its best, plastic egg holders simply cannot poach an egg well. If the whites are completely cooked, the yolk just about is, too. If the yolk is runny, the way a poached yolk should be, at least part of the whites remain uncooked as well. The split handle on the side is well-designed, and the cooker does turn itself off….sort of. You have to unplug it to stop the buzzing and if you leave the plug in, the directions warn it will turn itself back on as soon as it cools off. We are installing a heavy-duty in-line switch on the cord so we don’t have to unplug it, but how difficult would it be for the manufacturers do have installed a simple on/off switch in the cooker itself? The four-egg tray should be a three-egg tray for poaching, so that the eggs have enough room not to run over when cooking, or even when putting the poaching section into the cooker.

It will cook your eggs, and that part is nice. While the top gets hot, what else do you expect? It is not at all dangerous if simple care is taken. Cooking means things heat up — it’s part of the deal.

We’ll keep and use the cooker. But if we ever find one which has a metal tray of adequate size, can turn itself off completely when done (ideally without that annoying buzzing), and can really poach an egg well, we’ll junk this one in a minute and buy the other.

Rating: 3 / 5

]]> By: S. P. Marceau http://dekdum.com/wp/2010/06/01/kalorik-ek28441-7-egg-electric-egg-cooker-with-4-egg-poaching-tray/comment-page-1/#comment-15141 S. P. Marceau Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:21:45 +0000 http://dekdum.com/wp/2010/06/01/kalorik-ek28441-7-egg-electric-egg-cooker-with-4-egg-poaching-tray/#comment-15141 Kalorik EK28441 7-Egg Electric Egg Cooker with 4-Egg Poaching Tray This was the biggest waste of money I've ever spent! The cooking tray and poaching tray are cheap plastic. When I tried to poach four extra large eggs, most of the whites ran all over the place because the poaching cups were waaaay too small. I couldn't hard cook 7 extra large eggs either because that tray was too small too. Besides both trays being too small, nothing was properly cooked. I used their instruction book, followed their instructions to the letter and tried to find some redeeming feature but this cooker has none. I've owned other egg cookers before and never had a problem. Of course, Amazon took it back and even paid for the return shipping as well. So save your money and buy a good brand name...through Amazon, of course! Rating: 1 / 5 Kalorik EK28441 7-Egg Electric Egg Cooker with 4-Egg Poaching Tray This was the biggest waste of money I’ve ever spent! The cooking tray and poaching tray are cheap plastic. When I tried to poach four extra large eggs, most of the whites ran all over the place because the poaching cups were waaaay too small. I couldn’t hard cook 7 extra large eggs either because that tray was too small too. Besides both trays being too small, nothing was properly cooked. I used their instruction book, followed their instructions to the letter and tried to find some redeeming feature but this cooker has none. I’ve owned other egg cookers before and never had a problem. Of course, Amazon took it back and even paid for the return shipping as well. So save your money and buy a good brand name…through Amazon, of course!
Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: Joseph McKinney http://dekdum.com/wp/2010/06/01/kalorik-ek28441-7-egg-electric-egg-cooker-with-4-egg-poaching-tray/comment-page-1/#comment-15140 Joseph McKinney Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:50:31 +0000 http://dekdum.com/wp/2010/06/01/kalorik-ek28441-7-egg-electric-egg-cooker-with-4-egg-poaching-tray/#comment-15140 It did not cook eggs to medium doneness. When I poached them, the whites were not totally opaque. I tried it 3 different times. First was at the water level they recommended. Second was more. Third was for hard boiled eggs. They were still not cooked. I think it was because the lid did not fit tighltly and steam kept escaping so the temperature never was what it should have been. Regardless, I returned it. Otherwise is was compact and well designed. Rating: 1 / 5 It did not cook eggs to medium doneness. When I poached them, the whites were not totally opaque. I tried it 3 different times. First was at the water level they recommended. Second was more. Third was for hard boiled eggs. They were still not cooked. I think it was because the lid did not fit tighltly and steam kept escaping so the temperature never was what it should have been. Regardless, I returned it. Otherwise is was compact and well designed.
Rating: 1 / 5

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