Egg Poachers

Let's face it, getting your eggs to turn out the way you want is not as easy as everyone says it is. We've all faced slimy, broken, inedible eggs, especially when trying to poach or boil them. Luckily, today there are appliances to aid in your egg cooking needs. Egg poachers are designed to both boil and poach eggs by maintaining a constant, even temperature that is not always possible on your conventional stovetop.

How Egg Poachers Work

Basic electric egg poachers consist of a pot with an electrical heating element within its interior, somewhat like a crock pot, or slow cooker. Electric egg poachers also typically feature a rack for boiling eggs, or cups to hold poached eggs. For boiled eggs, the appliance is then filled with water and covered with a plastic dome lid. Most electric egg poachers have settings for soft, medium, or hard boiled eggs, so choose your desired setting and wait for the timer to tell you when they are ready. For poached eggs, you follow basically the same method. Fill the appliance with water, and then spray the poaching cups with nonstick cooking spray before cracking the eggs and placing them in. Egg poachers typically have a single setting-poach. What could be easier than that`

Single Egg Poachers

Maybe you live alone, or are simply the only person in your household who likes their eggs prepared this way. Then there might not be any reason for you to invest in a large egg-poaching or egg cooking appliance that is designed to poach or hard-boil up to a half-dozen eggs at one time. Perhaps a single egg poacher is all you really need. Single egg poachers, obviously, only have a capacity of about one egg. Single egg poachers feature a tiny 5-inch pot with a durable, nonstick poaching insert. The pot itself is like any other regular sized pot and is typically manufactured from stainless steel while the poaching insert is generally made from a nonstick material such as Teflon. Most single egg poachers are dishwasher safe. They also come equipped with a stainless steel lid in order to trap the heat during the egg poaching process.

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