West Bend 86628 Automatic Egg Cooker
by West Bend
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of West Bend 86628 Automatic Egg Cooker
Customer Review: Makes excellent eggs - good for busy people!
Summary: 5 Stars
I eat a lot of eggs. It's probably not the healthiest thing in the world, but I have to be at work at 7, and if I don't bring my breakfast, I either have to spend a few dollars a day to buy it (adds up fast!) or I need to get up earlier to eat before I go, and then I'm hungry by 10:30. I am NOT a morning person, so I make hard-boiled eggs to take to work. This is the easiest way to make them that I have ever found. Yes, I could just boil them... but I seem to forget that I'm doing that a lot, and overcook them, or leave the eggs sitting out all night. The industrial-strength buzzer in this machine makes that impossible. I haven't tried the soft-boiled or poached eggs yet, but I love it anyway.Customer Review: Mine was defective
Summary: 1 Stars
This egg cooker didn't work properly - the buzzer sounded before 10 seconds had passed and then continued to sound about every 10 seconds after that.
Needless to say, I returned it for a different brand.
Customer Review: NOT RECOMMENED
Summary: 1 Stars
Unit does not cook eggs properly. After two weeks of following directions and experimenting with patience - I returned the unit and bought the Oster 4716 which cooks and poaches eggs flawlessly everytime, all the time.Customer Review: Not for Poached Eggs
Summary: 1 Stars
If you're interested in poached eggs, don't buy this one. The egg wells are not deep enough to hold a decent size egg. I can't comment on soft boiled or hard boiled, I sent it back.Customer Review: Not worth it
Summary: 2 Stars
Instructions are terrible. The printed numbering on the water cup is reversed, and they have the instructions backwards..."for more eggs, use less water." Not true. Terrible quality control on the instructions. No timer. And the buzzer goes off at weird intervals; the water level sensor is very finicky. I basically ignore the instructions now and pour in about a measuring cup of the water, and just time it manually.
At the end of the day a simple bamboo steamer, some ramekins if you want to poach, and a stopwatch does the trick here. No need to spend the $30 on this.