Testing Three Egg Poachers!

Welcome back, everybody. Today I'm back with three different egg poachers to see how they really work

I've got kind of a variety of different types here. So let's take a closer look at these three contestants

This is the Eggland egg poacher by Ototo. I paid about 12 bucks. It's the lowest of the bunch. It has about a 3.8 star rate on Amazon as of this time

All you do is put the egg in there, put in a pot of boiling water, and supposedly you have a poached egg

Now on Amazon, people who like it, they love the cute design. They say it does indeed create poached eggs

People who didn't like it, some people said it took a lot of trial and error to get it right

Others said it was kind of slow. Some people said that you can only make one egg at a time

And some people said it sticks even with spray. Next up, this is the Scoo Egg Poaching Cup. It came in a four pack

This one can supposedly be used on the stove, microwave, or instant pot

They say it's sturdy, well made. Includes handles, unlike other egg poachers

People on Amazon who like it, some people said it's easy to clean. Others said it makes perfect poached eggs

Those who didn't like it, some people said it cooked unevenly. Others said it tips over or water got into the cups

or egg white spilled into the water. We shall see about that one. Now this is kind of the wild card

This is the microwave egg cooker and poacher. I paid about 30 bucks for this one

It's the highest rate of the bunch. It's got about a 4.3 star rate on Amazon

It's also on Amazon's choice. Now the curious thing about this one is the Amazon listing says egg poacher

The instructions say it's an egg fryer. So I'm not even sure if it's gonna poach eggs or not

But the claims are that can poach, fry, or scramble eggs. is good for small kitchens, new homes, dorms, RVs, silicone handles, nonstick surface

On Amazon, those who like it, a lot of people praise it for simplicity, versatility, and speed it

which it makes eggs. Those who didn't like it, some people said it doesn't really speed up the process at all

All right, so I think what I'm going to do is start off with the weirdest one first

So the instructions say to put a layer of oil or butter in the unit itself

Boil water to a gentle boil, put it and cover it for five to five to seven. seven minutes. Now people on Amazon were saying the times varied a lot for them. Some people said

as low as six minutes. Some people said as high as 12 minutes. So I'm going to kind of go in

the middle, go around seven minutes and see how it goes. All three of these are going to be probably trial and error. So the first round may not be very good, but I'm going to show you my results no

matter what. First thing I'm going to do, based on the instructions, I'm going to spray this pretty heavily and make sure it nice and sprayed because some people were saying that it stuck even when it was sprayed We got a lot of oil in there All right here we got I going to looked it by the palm tree I guess I can So they say put it in there for I gonna go seven minutes

And cover and that's it. Timer is going. So let's, uh, I'll be

I'll be really curious how this looks. We are ready. See we got here

That seems kind of hot to pick that up, I'm going to use a spoon. It looks poached, but we shall see

Let's cut it open and see what we got. I'm not totally convinced yet. I think I need to go a little bit longer

You can see those whites are a little bit runny, so I'm going to say no on that. Maybe I need to try to again go longer

The good news is that it didn't stick in there. That was some people had a problem with that

I didn't have a problem. Of course, I was pretty ample on my spray on there. I'm going to try what someone on Amazon did

they put it in there and turn the water off and let us sit for 10 minutes we'll see how that goes

If not, I'll keep trying. Here we go. Now according to these instructions, you put it in there, cover it, turn the heat off, and let us set for 10 minutes

So we're going to try that and see how it goes. All right, here we go

Let's see how's it look. Maybe it's done. Let's see. Let's get that out of there and see if it's actually poached

The spoon technique seems to be working for all of them. Let's see what we got here

This is much better consistency than the first round. So I think the person that said to let this sit in their water without boiling

may have been on to something. All right, it's a little more set than maybe I would have liked

but it certainly has a poached feel to it. Some people like that texture

It's more of a medium firmness, but I think that technique worked pretty well

So far, I think that's better than the first one. The first one was too runny. This one is a little more firm

Maybe if I take it out earlier, it would work better. But I do think that that technique seems like

it's a little bit better than the first one. So I'm not quite sure I got the results I want

I'm going to try it one more time and see if I can get it right. Here we go. We're going along

this time. I were at nine minutes. Let's see how this goes. That's what we've got. Let's take it

out of there. Oh, it broke. I think that's in the realm of poached. Not bad, really. I would say

yeah I would call that a poached egg I still think that after several attempts I haven got it quite perfect I think I can get better I mean it getting better but I don think I quite there yet

All right, let's try this in the microwave, shall we? Now, they do have microwave instructions here

So they say to spray the nonstick cooking spray into the cup and then crack an egg in there

And for the microwave, you're supposed to use these lids. These are only for the microwave, and that's what I'm going to do

The lids are only for the microwave though, so we'll put that there

I think that's all we're supposed to do. They say place it in the microwave and test different powers

So we want to three minutes. So I'm going to split right in the middle and go too and see what happens

Nothing more interesting than an egg in the microwave. And we're off

We shall see. We're 30 seconds in. I'm already hearing a lot of activity in there

It doesn't sound good. Oh, that's bad. That is not good. Look that

I'm already seeing egg just... Oh! That's it. Wow. That is a no go on that one. Whoa. It's everywhere. That's bad. Okay

I'm going to say no to the microwave poaching. Some people on Amazon said that happened to them. It happened to me

It's already disqualified from the microwave, but we still have the stove to do, so hopefully it works better there

Well, that's a disaster. Not good. Wow. Okay. Now I got to clean that up too. Terrible

Look at this everywhere. It's everywhere. Not good. I'm gonna miss. All right, so clearly it's not good for the microwave, but how about the stove top

Their instructions say five minutes, people on Amazon say seven to ten. Since I have extras, I'm gonna do it both ways

I'm gonna try one for five minutes, one for about eight. We'll see which one's better

Alright, here we go. Now they say to have about an inch of water and you want this to basically be touching the bottom

so it doesn't tip over. And it seems like they are. So I'm gonna put the pink one in for five and the green one in for eight, and we'll see how it goes

And we're off. Alright, it's a five minute mark. Let's take the pink one out and see how that looks

Well, the handle is, it's pretty hot. It's pretty hot. Alright, here we go

Five minutes. See, we got. There's the five minute poached egg. Let's cut it open

I don't think, I think five minutes is not enough. It is not enough

That is not done. All right, we're down the last few seconds of the eight minute one

A lot of people said that there's tipped over. I didn have that problem I guess because it supposed to touch the bottom Maybe theirs weren touching the bottom I not sure why there tipped over And it done Here we go eight minutes And the handle once again

is pretty hot. It should be to just dump it right out. It looks more formed than the first one did

Now that looks, that looks more like it, I think. That was the five minute, that was the eight

minute. What do you guys think? There's the due contestants, five minutes on the right, eight minutes on the left. That seems much better to me

And now for the big wild card here. Is this going to be a friar or a poacher? We shall see

Now the first step is to preheat it for two to three minutes. Two minutes and then we get started

Now they say to lightly oil it. That's what we got. And let's cover it up. Put in the microwave

We're going to go two minutes. They say two to three. I'm going to go on the low side because you never know

Here we go. Well, it didn't explode. That's a good thing. All right, I kind of kind of hear a sizzling in there

So that's a good or a bad sign. At this point, I don't, I'm not taking anything as a good sign at this point

Here we go. Let's see. Let's see if I can get these out of there and see what we got. It seems like the spoon is the way to go to get this out of here

There's a final result. Is it poached or is it a fried over easy egg? That is the question

It doesn't really have the consistency of a poached egg to me, though. It's good

It's certainly edible. but I don't, is a poached? I'm not sure

I would say that that is the egg white of a fried egg and not a poached egg

I don't think that's really a poacher. That'd be great for a breakfast sandwich. I just don't think you can consider that poached

It doesn't seem poached to me. All right, so let's take a look at all three of these, shall we now, as far as the egg cooker goes

This is more of an egg cooker, I really wouldn't call it as an egg poacher

The results weren't really like poached eggs. The instructions don't want any mention poach eggs

even though they do on Amazon. So to me, this is not even an egg poacher. I'd say the skew was probably the bowed

best of these three had had the most poach-like egg results although I would say the

microwave option is a no-go that was a disaster and finally this one the O Toto I

really like the design of it it's just pretty cool it's not perfect I feel like I was

getting there I was getting close I never quite got there I feel like I still had some more a trial and error to do I do think you can get post eggs out of here but it's a

little bit more work but that's all I've got if you try to these three tell me you think in the comments below I appreciate you watching and I'll see you next time