Maverick Automatic Egg Cooker Poacher - EC-200  Product Reviews

"This has become one of the heavily used items in my kitchen. I love poached eggs, and this cooker provides perfect ones in a very easy routine. The key is to follow the instructions (very easy) correctly, i.e. use the right amounts of water with the measuring cup and let your eggs warm up to room temperature before you poach. The cooker has been reliable and easy to clean as well. I love this gadget!"

"That's wonderful. It's really easier to used and quickly to fixed the eggs for my family. I like it so much."

"The poaching cups are small. It took several tries to learn to make eggs that didn't spill over; sometimes I had egg white in strings all over the machine when it was done. If you buy smaller eggs it helps. Now that the machine is a year old or so, it has started malfunctioning. The buzzer keeps going off as the eggs are cooking; I think the lid has gotten just warped enough that a seal isn't quite forming? For whatever reason, the machine keeps on thinking it is done, buzzing, and shutting down, so that I have to stand over it pressing down and trying to shift the way the lid fits on. It works well some days and gives me fits other days. I don't know if we put the parts in the dishwasher or if it's just a troublesome little machine; but if you have multiple family members taking turns washing dishes you may not have control over whether the egg machine gets warped. When it works, it's a favorite kitchen gadget--and I'm NOT fond of gadgets."

"I have owned a Maverick EC-200 for about eighteen months and have been very pleased with it. The EC-200 holds 7 eggs in shell and 4 in the poaching tray. It comes with a combination measuring cup/egg piercer. The measuring cup has markings for every combination of doneness (soft/medium/hard) and number of eggs (1-7). Cooking time depends on amount of water used. The alarm is steady "chirp" that gets your attention. I have hard-boiled at least 300 eggs with this cooker and the alarm has never failed. A cycle for 7 hard-boiled eggs is around eighteen minutes, but I have never timed a cycle since I listen for the alarm. This unit is NOT designed for unattended cooking. The unit does not turn itself off after the alarm sounds, so you need to be there. Instructions say to rinse eggs in cold water to stop the cooking process, but I usually just turn off the unit and remove the lid to let the steam out."