OXO Good Grips 2 Piece Silicone Egg Poaching Set, One Size, Yellow

I thought I already knew how to poach eggs without difficulty, but this product makes it super easy. I break an egg in a water glass, and I recommend adding a tad of vinegar to the egg in the glass before you put the egg in the egg hopper. This will easily hold your white together. Three minutes in boiling water, and you'll have a perfectly poached egg. Enjoy!

I could not understand the 4.2 average review rating. So I read the AI summary. There are some valid points. They are rather large, if they were a little bit smaller I could fit three in my pot. Yes the holes are probably larger than they need to and yes some of the egg whites leak out through the holes. If there were smaller holes and if the Bell was smaller could it be improved? Probably. I thought I could make a better egg poacher myself, but after a few failed attempts, I realized I would stick with this one because it works quite well. In my experience, 3 minutes and 30 seconds - 4 minutes turns out a nice soft poached egg yolk with all the whites cooked. Yummy!

Works 95% perfectly...some egg white gets stuck in the bottom container though. You need your fingers to find and remove the parts trapped in the base of the outer container. No biggie!

I've been poaching eggs freestanding in water with a little vinegar for years with widely varying results, so I thought I'd give these a try. They are fantastic! They're very easy to use, produce consistently great poached eggs, clean up easily, and collapse for compact storage. The only thing to be aware of is that they require about a three inch depth of simmering water, so if you're cooking a single egg, a smaller-diameter high-sided pan works best (my All Clad stainless steel 1.5 and 2 quart saucepans are perfect), and if you're cooking multiple eggs, you'll need a fairly wide high-sided pan to fit at least two of the poachers. I've cooked multiple eggs with just the set of two. You can lift them off after about a minute, once the whites have started to set, and cook more eggs in them; the only tricky part is keeping track of the timing.

The base of these poachers is 3.75 inches in diameter. Standard large eggs will normally not spread out that much when carefully dropped into barely simmering water without any poacher. The result is that the shape of the poached egg is somewhat flattened rather than coming out closer to a spherical shape. It's about the same shape as using no poacher. If the base were much smaller in diameter that would help keep shape of the egg closer to being, well, egg-shaped. There's really no advantage to using these if you already know how to poach two eggs together without them. The large size of the base also means you need to use a much larger pot just to poach two eggs together. And a larger pot means a longer wait time to reach a boil or simmer. Updated 6/13/2022: These work best for frying eggs. The advantage they have over egg rings is that they cover the egg while it's frying. Steam gets partially trapped by lower part with the holes and cooks the top side of the egg. After 30-45 seconds of frying on medium-high heat, so the eggs are bubbling, they are set well enough to prevent the whites from running. At that point the poachers can be removed and a lid place on the pan to finish cooking off heat for perfect sunny side up fried eggs. It also helps to first filter the eggs through a fine mesh strainer to remove the watery parts of the whites before frying them. This is the same trick to I've used to poach eggs without ending up with strings of egg white. The egg white sticks together better in the water if you first remove the watery part of the whites using a fine mesh strainer.

A bit of context: from my background in Computer Science, I have been indoctrinated by the "Unix Philosophy" and one of its most important rules is that you want to strive, for a product, that it "Do One Thing and Do It Well." I think this explains my approach to the kitchen fairly well: yes, I am guilty of collecting "one-trick pony" appliances such as this one. Naturally, thus, I am a big fan of OXO, since this is exactly what they are doing. If you are on this page, maybe you feel the same way. In that case, I won't try to convince you that you need this, but that it does a really good job. I love the idea of "breakfast" but in our daily lives I just never find the time to sit down in the morning, and make what I traditionally think of as breakfast, or brunch (eggs, in particular poached, are a strong feature—perhaps because I eat mostly vegan otherwise). This item has helped to make breakfast easier because it makes poaching eggs a can't-go-wrong endeavor. I can do this straight from out of bed before I have woken up. The procedure sounds long, but once you've done it once, you can do it eyes closed: 1) Fill in a pan with water up to the indicated level. 2) Bring to a boil, then put on simmer. 3) Add a splash of white vinegar into the opening (optional, but highly recommended). 4) Crack an egg in a bowl and pour it in the opening (some might be courageous enough to crack over the opening, but not me). 5) Wait a fixed amount of time (for my pasture-raised jumbo eggs, this is between 4 min. and 4:30 min—by the way, some reviews mention that size is an issue, maybe I do not notice this because I use jumbo eggs). 6) Pull the poacher out (can do with bare fingers because it is silicon). 7) Use a slotted spoon to fish the poached egg out, drain it, and place it on some paper towel (you can also delicate remove the strands of cooked yoke that may look messy). The result is perfect, I find (or at least superior to what I could do on my own). Attached is a picture of my first poached eggs, used for an avocado toast (OK, so I'm a millennial, sue me! :-). Final thoughts: — If like me, you do not yet have a slotted spoon, you might want to get one, such as OXO Good Grips Nylon Slotted Spoon . (Nylon is a good choice if you may end up using this with non-stick cookware.) — These fold onto themselves and can be stacked atop another, so as to take only a quarter of the space. — If like me, you love avocado toasts, perhaps you can compromise, save on brunch, but allow yourself the opulent decadence of also owning this tool OXO Good Grips 3-in-1 Avocado Slicer, Green , or go on ahead and buy the combined pack (these OXO people sure are attentive to consumer demand, they were AFAIK, the first to market such a combo!). -- PS: If you found this review useful, chances are there'll be a day I'll stumble on one of your reviews and find it useful too! Thank for in advance!

Excellent item, good value. Easy to use, clean and store

I appreciate Oxo's usual quality and attention to detail, which is why I was eager to try this product. After three attempts, following Oxo’s instructions explicitly, I returned the item for several reasons: 1) While not stated in Oxo’s instructions, I found that a Teflon-coated pan is recommended to avoid egg whites sticking to the bottom, even after removing the pan from heat after adding eggs. 2) Even with the addition of white vinegar, egg whites tended to separate, so the results did not resemble those depicted in Oxo’s product video. 3) Poaching eggs using this method proved to be time-consuming and messy and produced inconsistent results. On a positive note, I appreciated Oxo’s commitment to innovation. Overall, these issues made the product challenging to use and unfortunately, it did not meet my expectations. I hope this feedback is helpful for those who may be considering purchasing this item.

Encore un super ustensile d'OXO. Les oeufs pochés sont iratable, plus besoin de vinaigre ou autre, il suffit de les faire glisser à l'interieur quand l'eau commence à frémir, quelques minutes plus tard, le tour est joué. Repliés sur eux même, et l'un dans l'autre, ils prennent peu de place. Un basique de nombreuses salades ou tartines aux oeufs pochés dans ma cuisine qui m'a largement simplifié la vie !

Funciona muy bien, solo hay que bajarle al fuego para que no se muevan con el agua hirviendo

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Utilissimi per preparare uova in camicia ed eggs benedict, senza errori e senza grassi. Utile anche che i pezzi siano due per le famiglie numerose. Si lavano sciacquandoli, oppure in lavastoviglie e si piegano per occupare poco spazio nei cassetti della cucina. Consigliatissimi.

These things are magical!! Poached eggs are by far my favorite, I have a Dash steamer and although it makes amazing hard boiled eggs the poached (steamed in this case) is just so-so. I don’t have the knack for dropping the egg directly in the water as it tends to fall apart on me. I love these because I don’t have to separate the loose egg white, I can drop the whole egg in and it’s perfect every time. They are bigger than I expected, but that does not bother me at all.