Hamilton Beach Sous Vide Style Electric Egg Bite Maker, Hard Boiled Egg Cooker & Poacher with Removable Nonstick Tray, Makes 2 in Under 10 Minutes, Teal (25511)

This is a great little product. I use it almost daily. I love making egg bites for breakfast. I can add spices or cheese and they are ready in about 6 minutes. I pop them in a ziplock and toss them in my lunch bag. Sometimes I put them on an English muffin with a piece of cheese. I also use them weekly for hard boiled eggs for salads and snacks. Works great. So easy and perfect eggs. The color is cute and it is easy to store, although it just stays on the counter. We have chickens, so eggs are a staple.

I bought this to replace another electric egg cooker (that came with a plastic dome), and I'm happier with this one. It's easy to make egg bites, though they don't quite turn out like the sous vide bites sold at a major coffee chain (texture is a bit different, spongier). You really can't beat the convenience: instead of standing over a stove to make scrambled eggs, I pour them in and go do the Wordle while they cook. I primarily got it for the hard boiled egg feature. It accomodates XL eggs (my old one did not). It also makes perfectly jammy medium-boiled eggs (this is how my wife likes her eggs). I used this to make deviled eggs for Thanksgiving, and it made it really, really easy. My only complaint: why not have a chime or ding when the eggs are done? On this one, a light cuts off to alert you that it's done and that's it. It does get quiet when it's close to being done (steaming/boiling noise to quiet), but if you're not paying attention you might get discolored yolks or overdone eggs.

I'll start off by saying that this works for what I need and I'm happy I bought it. I mainly bought it to do boiled eggs. I never could get them quite right in a pan.There were a few surprises in using the machine, for me at least.As I said, I mainly bought for boiled eggs. I have used the double cups for cooking two poached eggs. I would definitely recommend spraying the cups with cooking spray so the eggs fully release. Without spray my eggs stuck and left residue in the cups.Instruction book: You HAVE to keep the instruction book close and with the machine as the way this machine works is by the amount of water you put in the base. For example, if you want soft boiled eggs you use less water. Medium or hard boiled you use increasing amounts of water. If you are cooking a different number of eggs that changes the water also. The charts to tell you how much water to use are in the book and so you will need to reference each time depending on what you are cooking.For 6 eggs hard boiled the amount of water is 120ml. Strikes me a bit strange the measuring up does not go to this amount. Goes to 100 and so you have to do the 100 and then the 20 to fill the base. Not a biggie, but you'd think the measuring cup included would just go to the highest capacity needed to use the cooker.This is perhaps a preconception I had, but I expected the pieces of the cooker to solidly mount together. They don't. To cook boiled eggs the tray they fit in has sort of a silicone base piece on the plastic that sits in the water heating well. Then the lid piece just sort of sits loose propped on top. Obviously you need some ventilation of the steam or it would just explode, but I did expect a more positive fit rather than the lid just propped on the top.In use the machine can emit quite a bit of steam and be quite hot. NOT something you want to use in an area easily accessible to children or near something that you don't want steam getting on.Also, I wish the machine was a bit more high tech. You plug it in and it is heating and working as soon as you do. So, fill with water first, put your items to cook in and when you are all set to go, then you plug it in. When you want to turn the machine off, you unplug it.In use, you put the water in, load the machine, get everything propped together and then plug it in. The Red and Green lights come on. The red light is the power light and the green light is the cooking light. When the machine runs out of water the green "cooking" light goes off (thus the need to vary the amount of water depending on what you are cooking). You have to unplug the machine to turn it off.I would have much preferred the machine to:1. Have an on and off switch2. Have a power light that came on that indicated that the machine was on and cooking and then,3. Have the green light come on only when it needed to indicate the item was cooked.4. When the green light comes on for cooked, the machine would then automatically power off without needing to be unplugged.5. Maybe picky, but would be nice if the machine gave a short noise of some type to let you know that it is done.Sure, maybe there are other machines out there that do all of that. I would assume at a higher price, don't know. This machine got good reviews and so I went with this one. As I said at the start, it works for what I need and I'm happy I bought it. Just wish I did not feel that I had to hang around and watch it to make sure I caught it when the eggs were done so I could unplug it. I've started timing it (done once so far) and once I have a couple of times under my belt I'll get it going and then set the timer to let me know when to go back and deal with the cooked eggs.Quality of cook? In boiled eggs I've only done 6 at a time so far. I've used the water amount that was for medium boiled and hard boiled. Both came out perfectly. Only issue was the medium, even though I placed the eggs in ice water as it said, but the time I could get the last couple of eggs peeled, they inside was starting to get more solid than I wanted. Otherwise, no complaints. Nice to have consistently cooked eggs.Would I buy again? Sure. It works for what I want. It is pretty basic to say the least, but then perhaps there is consistency in basic.

I used to frequently purchase egg bites at Starbucks for a quick breakfast on my way to work. This has been such a great investment in my time, health, and finances. By making my own egg bites at home I'm able to pop in as I finish getting ready, not have to wait in line at Starbucks, save $5.25 each time I make them at home compared to the cost at Starbucks, and have a healthy breakfast. I simply chop up the add ins and keep them in a container in the fridge. I like ham, bacon, spinach and bell peppers. I simply toss that in a cup add 1 or 2 eggs and dine milk and cheese, stir, pour and plug it in. I like that I can be sure I know what's going into my body.I already used to have the Dash Egg Cooker to make hard boiled eggs. It recently broke, my fault, and so this replaces that as well. I love that I can use this having for egg bites, hard or soft boiled eggs, as well as poached eggs.My only criticism is that you have to watch for the light to go off to unplug it even it's done cooking. I wish it would beep or auto shutdown.