Bosch Egg Boiler : £7.97 [CLOSED]

bootman

Jay-Jay wrote:

Do you let it boil then wait a bit and boil it again or do you empty out the hot water, re-fill with cold and re-boil?

Sorry.... I just need to know

I boil it from cold first. Leave it for a minute then flick the switch again.

By the time I have buttered my dippy soldiers the egg is ready to have the top cut off.

I have never had one crack. And no my kettle does not smell of eggs.

Give it a try and see :T :T

timmo44

I have an electric egg boiler and I can tell you it is excellent and I use it all the time. Mine takes up to 7 eggs and makes soft, medium or hard boiled eggs.

The best bit about it that there is no washing up. You put a small amount of water in (using the measure which tells you how much to put in depending on how many eggs and how you want them done - soft, hard etc) Then the egg are suspended above on a plastic rack and are cooked by steam. Once it's done ( basically when all the water has boiled away - less time than it takes to boil a saucepan of water), you lift the eggs out and put the thing away.

Couldn't be easier - we now always buy eggs when they're reduced in the supermarket and and hard boil all 6 for salads and sandwiches because it is so easy to do. I might might buy another as ours is bound to break one day!

Note. An interesting feature is a small metal spike sticking out of the bottom of the measuring pourer. You have to pierce the very bottom of the eggs - at the thick end before you cook them. This is because there is a pocket of air in eggs at that end and that is what makes eggs crack when you put them into boiling water. The air expands and breaks the shell. So even if you don't buy an egg boiler, still make a pin !!!!!! at the end of the egg and they won't crack.

Sheel

innovate wrote:

Egg boilers are, in my book, one of those useless gadgets that just use up space in the kitchen.

I have to disagree. Of all the kitchen gadgets I have , the egg boiler gets used most and I agree with timmo that it's excellent

When you've got a 2 second memory span like I have it's ideal as I frequently used to forget i'd got eggs on to boil and also you don't get the eggs cracking and half the whites coming out :rolleyes:

timmo44

Me and Sheel know best! As for taking up space - it takes up less space than one small saucepan.

rizla01

Might get one of these for my daughter and might even treat OH to one .

Thing is that i learned that if an egg floats on the water then you know that it's 'off'.

No telling with this thing.

Oh well. salmonella, here we come.

Sheel

rizla01 wrote:

Thing is that i learned that if an egg floats on the water then you know that it's 'off'.

No telling with this thing.

Oh well. salmonella, here we come.

That's true , but if you were unsure of the freshness of your eggs you could always test them in a bowl of water

dellboy102

This is going to sound like a dumb question, but I used to eat soft boiled eggs for breakfast (you know, buttered bread then dip it into the egg yolk)
well basically, I just want to confirm that this egg boiler can make soft boiled eggs!

ScotBoy

You can decide how 'boiled' your egg is - soft, medium or hard. A measuring pot tells you how much water to add depending on how many eggs you are doing and how you want them done. I have one and on my first go I wanted medium - eggs came out with the outer edge of the yolk hard and the inner yolk runny - absolutely perfect and highly recommended!!!

dellboy102

thanks scotboy, thats exactly what I need, I keep getting the timing wrong so its either too hard or too soft!.

Postage and packing at £5!, might as well add something else to trolly so delivery becomes free.

Redrum_2

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