[jsankey]

It takes less time to make 7 (or 3, or 12) perfect boiled eggs in a saucepan, it's trivial to do and to clean! I note your cooker also poaches eggs, though, which is much trickier in a pan (unless you have your own chooks, or a similarly fresh source of eggs).

[lfowles]

Does it take less time? I have a similar cooker and it uses ~1 cup of water for completely hard boiled eggs (total capacity 10 eggs[0]). The cooker rings a bell when the water has completely boiled off, which is closer to 10 minutes than 20 minutes for this model. I think total capacity is 10 eggs.

Now, in a saucepan the water doesn't have to boil off completely, but you also have significantly more water.

That isn't to say I use this unitasker all the time, I usually don't remember to have eggs around often enough!

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