Blech!
I just had to complain somewhere.... so it might as well be here!
I have a Cuisinart Egg Cooker , which I absolutely love. It takes the guesswork (OK, remembering how) out of making hard boiled eggs. You pour in a specific amount of water, depending on the number of eggs you want to HB, pierce the wide end of each egg you are going to HB, set the eggs in the tray, put the lid on, and turn the unit on. Then, when the beeper goes off, you turn the unit off, carefully remove the hot eggs, cool them in a large bowl of cold water, and clean the unit. Simple. Easy. Thought-free.
Unless one of those eggs leaks into the water reservoir under the egg tray. When that happens, apparently, the water boils over the edge of the bottom half of the unit and onto the counter. And then? When the beeper goes off, you remove the eggs, find the mess of cooked egg white, cool your eggs, crack one open, and discover that it's not quite hard boiled completely. Blech!
I realize that the eggs are safe to eat, as you can eat a sunny-side-up egg where you break the yolk open and dip toast or something into the liquid yolk. And I've eaten sunny-side-up eggs when I was younger. But a HB egg that isn't quite hard boiled? Ick.
So now? I have 5 "hard boiled" eggs left... as the one that leaked was disgusting and full of water, and I peeled another egg and tried to eat it. *urp!* I'm not sure I can bring myself to eat them, and I'm not sure I can bring myself to throw them away... as some of them might actually be OK. However, 2/7 of them weren't OK... I'd make more, but I only have about 4 eggs left, and I want to save them in case I need them for recipes during the week. Guess I forego the HB eggs this week....
*shudders*