Chef'sChoice Automatic Electric Egg Cooker 7-Egg Capacity with Electronic Timer, Audible Signal & Nonstick Stainless Steel Design Hard-or Soft-Cook 7 or 3 Poached or Scrambled, 350-Watts, Metallic

I will begin by sayinng that I have NO REGRETS about buying this thing!First time I saw someone use an egg cooker was at work about 20 yrs ago. I thought that is the silliest thing I've ever seen. What a gimmick! How hard is it to boil eggs? Well I've learned, it can be very difficult. To make matters worse, I live at high altitude where water boils at a lower temp. Thus, getting the science right is a challenge: Standard sea level recipes don't work up here. And I don't have time to sit and watch eggs boil. It shouldn't be this difficult!I love jammy eggs. That's really my prefered way of eating boiled eggs. How do I define "jammy"? It's a completely cooked egg white, about a millimeter of custardy yolk, and the rest is creamy and runny. Sadly, while trying to achieve this on my (gas) stove using boiling water in a pot, my success rate to actually getting JAMMY EGGS is about 1 per dozen at best. Extremely frustrating, especially when they are undercooked. I have tried the following techniques: Bringing the eggs to room temp first and/or starting the eggs in cold water first, or adding them when there is a rapid boil and cooking for a certain amount of time, or adding them to a rapid boil, shutting off the heat, and letting them sit in a covered pot. Oh yeah, I've also tried sous vide (this method works, but is hugely impractical if I only want to eat 2 to 3 eggs for breakfast). I am currently on a diet plan where I eat a ton of eggs, so the fact that I only have a success rate of about 8% is extremely frustrating. I was extremely frustrated...and kinda desperate.It was time to suck up my pride and my skepticism and see if these egg cookers really work. I heard that they are plug and play and that the results are consistent. But a lot of the models and reviews were around their ability to cook mainly hard boiled eggs very well. What about my jammy eggs? Will I ever find the solution to consistently perfect jammy eggs every time? Or am I just asking too much from the egg world?Along comes the Chef's Choice egg cooker. Pricier than most, but the process is timer based, not water level based as other models had. I was especially interested in it's claim that it has a variable cook feature: You can cook soft, med, or hard boiled eggs in one batch. I got it on a Black Friday sale for a bit of a discount, and decided it's time to give this thing a test drive. I was still skeptical.This morning, hubby and I tested it out. We set it right smack on MED setting and filled it with water. We tried 2 eggs first. The alarm when finished is LOUD, but I like that. I can be in my office at the front of the house and hear it easily in the kitchen, which is a plus. Again, I want to know when it's done cuz I don't want overcooked eggs! The cooker doesn't stop automatically when it beeps either. You actually have to manually shut it off.We noticed minimal water was used when our eggs were done cooking. A quick plunge in cool water to stop the cooking and we dug in. EASIEST EGGS TO PEEL EVER. How? What is this sorcery? And we didn't even have to prick the bottom of the eggs to make a hole first? Wow! And oddly satisfying.You probably already know how this story ends. The eggs were cooked essentially perfectly. And again, so easy to peel! So delicious! We inhaled the first two. The water in the cooker was still hot so we decided to see what would happen if we immediately made a second batch. Would it throw the timer off? I backed it down to one hashmark below MED (that would be a "9" on the slider scale) to see what would happen. Turned it back on and away it went. Result? Could an egg be cooked even more perfect? Yes, YES it can! So from now on, this is my setting: a 9 on the scale and the ideal jammy egg every time! Why is this so simple? Why have I been a fool for 40+ years?So in conclusion, here is my summary:a) If you eat a lot of boiled eggs and you want a quick, reliable way to make them (unattended) that doesn't require standing over a stove. then buy this cooker.b) If you struggle with peeling eggs after they're done and are sick and tired of eating warm but mangled looking eggs, then buy this cooker.c) If you're a family where everyone likes their boiled eggs cooked in different ways, then buy this cooker.d) If you're a gadget lover, then buy this cooker.e) If you're not a gadget lover but are willing to invest in simple technology that will last seemingly forever, then buy this cooker.Note: I haven't tried the poach feature yet, but I suspect the results will be equally impressive. I don't have struggles with making poached eggs so my goal was to solve my jammy boiled egg crisis. Also, there is a very faint mark on the slider knob that is hard to see when you're positioning it to your desired setting. I took a dab of white nail polish and made a line over it so that it's easier to see it and position the slider to the exact setting that I want. This step is not necessary at all but it makes it easier for me to see and makes me feel better.Lastly, be careful when removing the lid. Like the warnings say: the steam underneath can scorch you if you're not careful. Other than that, I'm embarassed that it took me so long to get one of these. Could've saved me dozens of eggs and years of disappointment.

This is my first review on Amazon.1st I purchased my Chef's Choice 810 from here, not Ebay or some other online site and not used at a garage sale.2nd I read reviews from 3 site before making this purchase, more positive then negative ones, and most of the negative ones made me laugh.Now on to the review: Devil Eggs ... I normally am the person at a get together that brings them, I also love soft and hard boiled eggs. I have been looking for an automatic egg cooker that will cooks hard boiled eggs perfectly and in my personal opinion I found it. Read the instructions, set it up, and I was on my way. Basically add water ( about 3/4 cup) to the base, place egg stand over water add 1 to 7 eggs, set time, wait, enjoy your perfectly cooked eggs. Pealing the eggs was easy, when the buzzer went off, I switched the power button to off, tipped the lid (read instructions) to release the steam, removed the cover and carefully lifted the egg holder off and into a large pot of ice water.FOR EASY PEALINGThe pot I normally used to cook my eggs before now is used to cool down the eggs after the Chef's Choice 810 did its job. When I say ice water, that is what I mean .. a pot with 1 or 2 trays of ice cubes, and water, must have room for the eggs to be placed in the pot, so I would use 1/3 to 1/2 ice then fill the rest with cold water. After cooking then cooling down the eggs so they cool to the touch, they pealed easy, not 40 little egg shell bits and pieces stuck to the egg everywhere. I ran out bought fresh eggs to see how this cooker would work with a dozen of eggs just bought. Normally, we all know fresh eggs don't peal thus why having them in your fridge weeks prior to making hard boiled eggs is the normally way of life. Not with this machine! The newly bought eggs pealed effortlessly, 3 to 4 large pieces of shell, and only 1 to 2 little pieces from when I cracked the egg to start pealing it.Other reviews (mostly negative) rate it for what it doesn't do, and never stated it did those things. IE 1 Star does not have an automatic shutoff, it does not. Never stated where it did, rate your reviews on what the product(s) functionality. Because it could use a added bonus would warrant a 4 Star but 1 Star really? that would be like be posting 1 Star because I could not make toast with this item. And what are these people doing while cooking the eggs, washing their cars, shopping or taking a nap that your house could burn down (yes I read that in one comment) Now a few commented on it does not make soft boiled eggs, and I tested that as well, one egg at a time to learn the machines settings. I slide the timer to SOFT which is about 7 on the scale, and my first egg came out almost perfectly cooked if I was making a hard boiled egg. I was confused it took the setting of 15 or 17 to make a hard boiled egg, and yet at 7 it appeared to be hard boiled, so the next egg I tried 5 and it was slightly more runny then I liked, and now I learned with my egg cooker 5 1/2 is perfect. So test the times with one egg at a time to work out the variations from one to another machine in the timing, I stared out at setting 17 and am at 15 working my way down to make hard boiled eggs. BTW the yokes cooked at the settings 17 and 15 looked alike, nice bright yellow, no green (showing you over cooked) and not runny but a nice ( flakey ) like you want them when making Devil Eggs, when you hit them with a fork they crumble.

I bought this several years ago. It’s still working great. I use it at least once a week. Longevity is the key when buying a small appliances.:)