Buying egg cookers? These are the 10 best of 2023

The No. 1 in our test is the Emerio EB-115560 egg cooker. You cook six eggs with it, hard or soft. With most egg cookers, it is very important how much water you fill them with. Not so with the Emerio EB-115560. You fill it with two measuring cups and turn on the device. And then it comes: The Emerio EB-115560 tells you in Dutch the hardness of your eggs.

Say you want 3 soft-boiled and 3 hard-boiled eggs. Then you wait until the device says the eggs are soft-boiled and you take out 3 of them. You leave the other 3 until it says the eggs are hard-boiled. Check lights also indicate the hardness of the eggs. This way you make a perfectly cooked egg for everyone.

We think the best value for money is the Severin EK3051 egg cooker You can use it to make six boiled eggs at once. You add the right amount of water depending on how many eggs you are cooking and whether you want them hard- or soft-boiled.

When the eggs are ready, a signal sounds. Thanks to the non-stick coating on the heating plate under the egg rack, the Severin EK3051 is easy to clean after use. The included measuring cup has an integrated egg piercer.

The Tristar EK 3076 egg cooker is highly recommended for people on a small budget. You can use it to cook seven eggs at the same time. depending on the amount of water you add, the eggs are cooked hard, semi-hard or soft. With the included measuring cup you can see exactly how much water you need to add for which amount of eggs.

When the eggs are ready a signal sounds. A handy egg piercer is built into the measuring cup. This electric egg cooker for 7 eggs has a steam outlet in the transparent lid. Therefore, be careful not to put the egg cooker under a kitchen cabinet. The steam might deform the laminate of the cabinet.

The HR Goods Egg Cooker Electric is a large one with room for up to 14 eggs, but use is possible from as little as one egg. In less than ten minutes the eggs reach the desired hardness, where you pre-set whether you want soft-, medium- or hard-boiled eggs. The appliance can also steam vegetables, fish, rice or couscous. The interchangeable trays allow for multiple capacities. When you hear the buzzer, the eggs are ready to be peeled.

If you don’t want to cook more than three eggs at once, then the Severin EK3161 is the best egg cooker you can choose. This small egg cooker provides the perfect egg for breakfast in no time. You pour the right amount of water into the device, wait for it to heat up and place the eggs inside.

With a selector switch, you determine whether the eggs should be cooked soft, medium or hard. It’s that simple. Just be careful: there is a valve in the lid from which steam can escape.

With the WMF Stelio egg cooker you can cook up to seven eggs at the same time with the desired hardness. In doing so, it doesn’t matter how you want eggs. If you want three eggs soft-boiled and four hard, the WMF Stelio can make those at the same time.

You can hear a buzzing sound when the soft eggs are ready and take them out of the egg cooker, then the remaining eggs continue to cook until they are the perfect hardness. When the cooking time is over, another buzzer sounds. The cap of this handsome egg cooker for 7 eggs is made of WMF’s in-house developed Cromargan stainless steel.

Are you looking for the cream of the crop when it comes to egg boilers? And do you also have quite a bit of money to spend on it? Then the Cuisinart CEC10E is really for you. With this electric egg cooker you can cook as many as 10 eggs at a time, much more than with an average egg cooker.

Depending on the particular hardness and number of eggs, you can measure out water. The Cuisinart does the rest for you. Not exceptional, but with most egg cookers it stops there. However, with the Cuisinart CEC10E you can also cook 4 poached eggs and even make an omelet from 3 eggs. It is easily the best egg cooker in our test, which can do much more than just boil an egg. Only the purchase price keeps it from first place.

Some egg boilers stand out immediately. The Krups F234-70 is one of those. Not because of the number of eggs you can cook with this egg cooker. Nor because it is the only egg cooker that lets you cook the perfect egg.

For all its simplicity, it is the best egg cooker in terms of design. Maybe because of the removable water tank with built-in egg piercer, or because of the cord storage. Design is sometimes something elusive, but we love this egg cooker. Besides that, of course, it’s just a good egg cooker that will cook the perfect egg.

If you usually need to boil an egg just for yourself, then the egg cooker from WMF KITCHENminis comes highly recommended. You can cook 1 or 2 perfect eggs in a short time with this device. Depending on the size of the egg and the desired hardness, you fill the egg cooker with water.

When your egg is ready, you will hear a signal. There are also egg cookers for exactly 1 egg, but we chose this egg cooker for 2 eggs as the best. After all, you never know if someone unexpectedly stays over at your place, right?

Mika Max is an egg cooker that is not actually an egg cooker. In fact, you place an egg in it and then heat it in the microwave. If you have one anyway, why not use it to cook an egg? With the MIka Max you can. Especially for single person households, this is an attractive solution.

You don’t have to bring out your egg cooker for that one egg. For a hard-boiled egg, calculate 5 minutes in a 1,000-watt microwave and 5.5 minutes in an 800-watt microwave. For a soft-boiled egg, the times are 3 and 3.5 minutes, respectively. Be careful, though, because the Mika Max gets very hot in the microwave, even on the outside.