Looking for an electric egg poacher to help you achieve those perfect poached eggs featured in your favorite cookbooks? Fortunately, the days of suffering at the hands of a traditional pot of boiling water in the hopes of it producing a perfect egg are long gone. Electric egg poachers are a great appliance for any poached egg lover.

Instead of relying on stove-top cooking, you can achieve perfectly cooked eggs each time without minding your stove top to ensure that you don’t overcook your poached eggs.

Our Favorite Electric Egg Poachers

Tested in our own kitchens, we’ve found that two electric egg poachers deserve some much needed love.

Topping the list is the Oster Egg Cooker (Model #4716), which allows you to take advantage of its steaming ability to poach up to 4 eggs in one go around. Additionally, if you decide you’d like to make the switch to hard-boiled eggs, you can easily adjust the settings as needed.To ensure that your eggs are cooked just the way you like them, the Oster Egg Cooker will manually alert you when you eggs are fully poached and immediately shut off to ensure that no overcooking occurs. Now that’s what we call an intuitive egg-cooking machine!   (more…)

Electric Egg Poachers with Style

Second in line of the best electric egg poachers is the Maverick Henrietta Hen Egg Cooker.

Cute design aside, this electric egg cooker possesses a poaching tray that allows you to poach 4 eggs according to its high-tech power base that will cook eggs to your desired level — soft, medium, or hard.

Additionally, you never have to worry about your water over boiling due to the Henrietta Hen Egg Cooker’s ability to adjust water levels to the length of time needed to poach your eggs.

That’s one smart hen if you ask us! (more…)