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We just bought an Egg Genie to cook hard boiled eggs and it is one of the best products we have purchased in the last while. We used to hard boil eggs the old way or the standard way depending on how you look at it. A pot of boiling water, put some eggs in and hope they don’t crack while they are cooking and hope they are fully cooked when it was time to take them out.

Almost every time we cooked eggs this way, one or more of the eggs would crack and there would be white egg material all over the pot floating on top of the water. It was almost gross to look at. Basically what would happen is that the eggs would be moving around in the water bumping into each other and if the water was boiling too hard, they would crack and create a mess.

We like our eggs with the white part fully cooked and the yoke cooked, but still soft. Lop off the top add a little butter, salt and pepper and you have a great soft boiled egg. Well it is very hard to get the eggs just right and the egg would often be over cooked which you can handle, but sometimes the egg is undercooked leaving a messy loose white material floating around. No soft boiled egg for us!

Enter the Egg Genie

This little appliance costs about $25.00 cooks up to 7 eggs to perfection in a matter of minutes. It is so simple to use and it always gets the eggs just right. We cannot say enough good things about it.

This is a really simple device. It consists of a circular concave hot plate to which you poor some water into, then you add the egg tray which holds the eggs while they are cooking. There is a measuring cup which you use to measure the water that you then add. It is very important to get this step right. Basically you add the right amount of water to cook the number of eggs that you are cooking to the desired level.

The water is poured into the concave base and the egg tray is placed on top of the base. Next each egg must be pierced using a piercing pin that is included as part of the egg tray. All you need to do is pierce the top of the egg at the small end and place the egg in the tray with the hole pointing upwards. Once you have all of the eggs pierced, which only takes a few seconds, place the clear plastic lid on top and plug electric chord of the Egg Genie into the electric wall socket.

That’s it, nothing more to do except wait until the eggs are done. The water heats up , cooks the eggs, the steam goes out of a vent on top of the clear lid and when all of the water is gone the Egg Genie starts to vibrate and you unplug it. Wait a few minutes for the lid and the eggs to cool a bit and your eggs are ready to eat!

Soft, Medium or Hard Cooked Eggs

The Egg Genie is easily programmed to cook soft, medium or hard cooked eggs simply by controlling the amount of water you add to the base. The measuring cup that comes with the Egg Genie is very specific. You add water using the measuring cup to match the number of eggs you are cooking and the hardness of the eggs.  Just a little bit of water is required, perhaps ac couple of ounces, no more than that.

Don’t forget to pierce each egg with the steel pin that is in the egg tray. This steel pin is very sharp and you need to be careful that you do not accidentally hurt yourself on it. By piercing the top of the egg, the steam that is generated inside the egg is allowed to release through the hole that you pierced. If you forget to pierce the egg, chances are that it will crack and spill the contents of the egg all over the inside of the Egg Genie.

Poached Eggs

There is also an open plastic tray that holds up to four eggs for cooking poached eggs. Cooking poached eggs is also extremely easy with the Egg Genie.

Place water in the base up to the medium line for one to four eggs. Crack open each egg and place the contents in the open plastic tray, one egg  for each compartment. Place the poaching tray on top of the egg tray on top of the base and then cover the eggs with the clear plastic tray.

Plug in the Egg Genie and wait until the Egg Genie begins to buzz which means that all of the water is gone and the eggs are cooked. While the eggs are cooking, keep your hands away from the vent at the top of the clear plastic lid to avoid being burned by the hot steam coming out of the clear plastic lid.

Once it starts to buzz unplug the Egg Genie, and allow it to cool for a few minutes before removing the eggs from the Egg Genie.  The eggs can be removed from the egg tray using a spatula.

Other Helpful Tips

Only use fresh eggs when cooking with the Egg Genie. You can tell if an egg is fresh or not, by allowing the eggs to float in a bowl of water. Fresh eggs sink while older eggs will float.

Hard boiled eggs can be stored for up to one week in the fridge. Cooked eggs should not be left at room temperature for more than two hours to prevent bacteria from forming.

Peeling hard boiled eggs can be a bit of a trick. Gently roll a hard boiled egg on a flat surface placing just enough pressure to crack the shell. Dip it in a bowl of cold water and then gently peel the shell from the egg.

Tags: cook hard boiled eggs, Egg Genie, hard boiled eggs, medium boiled eggs, Poached Eggs, soft boiled eggs

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