Cuisinart CEC-10 Egg Central Egg Cooker, Brushed Stainless Steel

Set it and forget it cooking, easy to peel hard boiled eggs (the shells almost fall off the eggs), eggs cooked perfect inside and out. I rarely write online reviews of any kind but after using the Cuisinart Egg Cooker I felt compelled to give a shout-out. I am old school when it comes to cooking and try to stick with the tried and tested methods I learned from my Mom. Over the years I’ve had ~ an 80% success rate when it comes to making hard boiled eggs (the conventional way) with enough cosmetic appeal take to family functions as deviled eggs. I am really glad I read the majority of the positive AND negative reviews before purchasing my cooker. The main thing I learned that was the most useful is “READ THE DIRECTION FIRST”. I’ll be honest, I had to read through them 3 times before I felt confident that I knew how to proceed. The first thing I did was make 10 hardboiled eggs. Each of them turned out PERFECT. As soon as the timer went off I unplugged the unit (based on a negative comment someone made - saying one of this things will burn your house down). As soon as the eggs cooled down just enough to transfer them to a cold water bath I let them soak until able to pick them up comfortably. I could not believe how easy the shell almost “FELL OUT” the egg. Besides the set it and forget it cooking process and the easy of peeling all the eggs were cooked properly. I’ll admit I did make one bone-head move during that first attempt. I did use the piercing device on the bottom of the provided beaker – BUT – dummy me didn’t take the protective plastic off the needle. The second batch was FLAWLESS. My daughter watched me the two times I used the cooker. When I got up the next morning, she had already used the cooker to make soft boiled eggs for herself and my grandson. Again, easy to use and the results were outstanding. GREAT product!

I've been using Cuisinart products for years, and am pleased with their performance. Cuisinart's "Egg Central" might cost a bit more than the simple egg cookers, but, given the extra functionality and Cuisinart's track record, I thought I'd try it out. My main reason was to make soft-boiled eggs, although I consume a fair amount of hard-boiled eggs, as well. Both of these consistently come out as expected: perfect! (By the way: the hard-boiled eggs come out beautifully, no matter if you're doing one, or ten.) I was curious about the omelet-making function, though: how do you steam an omelet? I was extremely pleasantly surprised when I saw the results. To be sure, Gordon Ramsay would probably call you a donkey, because it's not flipped and fried, etc.; maybe, in a technical sense, it is not a "true" omelet. But what I do find is: whip up 2-3 eggs, add some grated cheese and diced ham, and whatever spices you'd like, hit the button, and in a matter of MINUTES you have a gluten-free, carb-free quiche! As an added attraction, there is absolutely NO mess! I would absolutely recommend Cuisinart's Egg Central. 👍

Love this so much, use it all the time!!! For hard boiled eggs (shell comes off easily without destroying the egg) also use regularly for scrambled eggs. Don’t be afraid to adjust how much water used to achieve what you want! Awesome product, even bought one for my Son’s birthday.

Bought this egg cooker because I thought it would be easier and more consistent that boiling or steaming eggs on the stove. And it is! PROS: Super easy to use - add water, add eggs, put on cover and start. My eggs were pretty easy to peel. Very easy to clean up - rinse parts and wipe base. Haven't yet tried the poached option but expect it to go well too. Also, it looks like a little space ship, which is cute. BTW I put 2 cups water and 2 cups ice in a bowl. Submerge just cooked eggs and leave for 15 min. Dry off and put in fridge. CONS: There are some annoying design elements to this product. The measuring cup for water has lines and titles that don't line up or make much sense. Also, there is a sharp point in the bottom of the measuring cup to prick eggs. This is not recommended by chefs because it introduces bacteria. Also, it's in the bottom of the cup, so the cup does not sit flat on the countertop. Why make this simple product complicated??

This egg cooker is rated as the best in at least 3 outside- of -Amazon reviews of best egg cookers. Mea culpa, the metal needle IS under a protective cover, if you read the manual. Be sure to keep track of the little plastic tube cover! Ours arrived with the metal needle that is supposed to protrude from the water measuring cup, with which you can pierce the egg to prevent it cracking and leaking during cooking, broken, though you could see metal in the plastic tube. Be aware it SHOULD be there. (it IS). We had tried to pierce the egg with just the protruding plastic, unaware it was missing, which does not work very well. A woman would have designed it with the needle inside the cup, which would protect the needle and the users. The measuring cup will not sit flat on the counter even without the needle there, so I imagine with the needle, this questionable design would be worse. When I called Cuisinart, as Amazon directs you to do, to send a replacement piercer, I was upset upon being told I must return it to Amazon, and get a replacement, instead of them just sending us this part. I was afraid we wouldn't get the $13.73 off coupon price for the replacement, and wouldn't have it to use while waiting for a replacement. We have chickens, who produce many eggs, and use the cooker several times a week. Fortunately, Amazon is already processing the order to arrive in three days, without our returning the other one first, so we can wait until the other one arrives to return it! So despite being inconvenienced for a problem that is their fault, the inconvenience is much less than I feared. I was only going to give a one-star rating if we would have had to pay more for the cooker, because it is not worth it. We don't like that poached eggs and omelets have to be cooked in plastic containers, but this seems to be true of all egg cookers which have this feature, until Instant Pot makes one. It would be a stretch to fit 3 eggs in the omelette cooker, as claimed capacity, especially if you add veggies, but perhaps if you use quail eggs you can. ;-) . This fact is noted in the more astute outside reviews, But overall, this is a great cooker, which handles everything well. My partner somewhere got a stainless still dome from an older version of this same cooker, and it is much thicker and heavier metal, so it is good for the environment and for their bottom line that less metal is being used, especially with the tariffs on steel.

I bought this as a gift for my husband for his b-day because he loves egg whites. So he loves hard-boiled and poached eggs because he can just remove the yolk once they're cooked. (Not to mention I was thinking about how nice it would be to be able to hard-boil 10 eggs at a time come Thanksgiving.) Anyway, we were both very excited to use it (myself more so I think than my husband "wink" "wink"). So I read the instructions on how to hard-boil first. The first time I "went for broke" and did the max 10 eggs. I filled the water beaker up to the line specified for 10 hard-boiled eggs and poured it into the base, I punctured the eggs at the "top" like instructed, stacked them all up, put the lid on, switched the lever on and waited for the magic to begin. Well....the magic that I got was what seemed like every drop of water I put into it leaking out all over my counter. So as that batch finished cooking I placed a dish towel on the counter around the base to catch the water and waited. When the beeper sounded alerting me that they were ready I removed the lid and almost all of the eggs had cooked egg whites pouring out of the holes at the top of the egg and the shells had cracked. I also had quite a bit of stuck on, burned egg white in the cooking base. So I removed all of the exterior egg white from the eggs and began trying to peel them. This was not an easy feat and the shape of the hard-boiled eggs was very displeasing to the eye to say the least. They were barely edible but were in no way anything I would ever be able to use for deviled eggs and I was a little skeptical that I would even be able to get my husband to try them. I ended up cutting them up and using them in a tuna salad and they were fine. Later I was determined that I had done something wrong and tried another batch (not quite so many this time just in case). I thought "Well, maybe when I punctured the eggs at the top my hole was not directly in the center and faced directly up while they were cooking, causing the egg white to kind of run out the side??" Sounded vaguely plausible but hey I was determined to figure this out. So I got a few more eggs, poured the correct amount of water in the base and took my time making sure I punctured them all as close to what looked like the center of the top of the egg as I could (thinking "I actually hope this doesn't solve the problem because with the time it's taking to do this I might as well be boiling them on the stove.'). So again I put them in and put the lid on and turned it on and waited for the magic. I also placed a towel underneath it this time just in case. As I watched for a bit to see what it would do I was glad that I did because almost immediately the lid began to raise up and down a little causing water to bubble out of the sides and run down on to the towel. Again most of the water had come out of it and when they were finished I took the lid off and had the same results I had the first time. I decided to get online to see if I could figure out what was going on and if it was actually supposed to give me the results I was getting. Finding very little on the internet other than reviews on Amazon I became even more discouraged. - There are lots of reviews regarding the water leaking issue followed up by people saying they just go ahead and put a towel beneath it and let it do its thing. But I couldn't imagine that Cuisinart actually made an appliance of any sort that was designed to make a huge mess in your kitchen. - There are some saying if you have one that leaks water then you more than likely have a defective one and need to return it to the manufacturer for another. If this was the case, with as many people saying that theirs leaked water all over the place it sounded to me that there are actually very few out there that are not defective. So this didn't sound right either. So I pulled my manual out again thinking maybe there was a step I missed somewhere. I read the instructions for making hard-boiled very carefully, moved on and read the instructions for making poached and the same with omelets. I hadn't missed one step and I had done it exactly how the manual instructed. So unfortunately I decided that it did, in fact, look like Cuisinart had just made a crappy appliance and that I should have read the reviews before I bought it and got all excited about it. Very saddened by this I continued to flip through the manual, daydreaming about what it could have been like had this little sucker actually worked when....I saw something.... Right there on page 5 under "Tip and Hints" 3rd and 4th bullet points!! - The eggs should be in the carton large end up – this will help them stay fresher longer and will keep the yolks centered. This is a suggested method for storing eggs. - ............Always pierce the top of the egg, as in the side of the egg which was facing up when stored in the refrigerator. How did I not know this? The large end of the egg is the TOP?! Seriously? You have got to be kidding me right now! Determined to prove this was not correct I pulled out my carton of eggs, which I just knew ALWAYS had the small end at the top, and you can imagine my complete and utter surprise! The large end was facing up on every single egg. Every one of them! So I immediately grab a few eggs and tried it again. Put the water in, punctured the eggs on the real TOP, stacked them in, turned it on and waited. No water bubbling out at all....not a drop! Beeper went off and I took the lid off and PERFECT!! All of them Perfect!! Started peeling and the shells all but fell off. Oh.....I was so excited you can't even imagine. I couldn't believe that the whole problem was my ignorance of which end of the egg was the top. Unbelievable! So having a few days behind me (because at that point I had more eggs cooked than we could possibly eat) I decided to try my hand at poaching some eggs. Even the reviewers that raved about the hard-boiled eggs flat out said this thing will not make poached eggs, don't even try. But my husband prefers poached to hard-boiled so I had to try as this was a gift for him in the first place. So I tried it according to the directions only I added a little more water than the beaker suggested for poached eggs thinking "If people are having trouble with their poached eggs not being cooked through then the obvious answer is to add more water so that they cook longer, right?". WRONG! Oh they looked great from the top but I started pulling them out and they were nowhere near cooked on the bottom. About a third of the egg was still raw on the bottom. At that point I was just happy that it perfectly hard-boiled my eggs without making a huge mess and that I didn't have the expense of a funeral for the egg cooker that could have been. A few weeks have gone by now and I am loving my Egg Central. I've perfectly hard boiled dozens of eggs and we love them. Still hadn't tried cooking them any other way again until this morning while I was loading the cooker for hard-boiled eggs again and I accidentally crunched one's shell so badly that I didn't think it would be a good idea to put it in to hard-boil. So I decided to try poaching again. I sprayed the poaching tray with a little olive oil but this time I filled the beaker to the level for hard-boiling just to see what happened. When the beeper sounded I took the lid off and they appeared to be cooked, but I'd obviously been fooled once before. So I got a fork and carefully started pulling the edges away from the tray and it looked like they were cooked all the way through this time. So I pulled all of the edges away from the sides of the tray and pulled them out on to a plate. They were all PERFECT! Completely and perfectly cooked all the way through! VERY IMPORTANT: If you have hard water even filtered water will leave a residue in the base after the eggs are cooked. At first I tried a wet paper towel to scrub it out. Then I tried a cleaner and nothing worked. I finally as suggested poured a little water and a little white vinegar and as soon as I poured the vinegar in the stuff on the bottom began lifting off of the bottom. I let it set for a few minutes and using my finger and a paper towel wipe the bottom and then pour the water/vinegar out into the sink. Wipe dry and it looks like I just took it out of the box. So after this very long review I can say that I was very disappointed at first with the performance of the Cuisinart Egg Central but after a little tweaking and learning how to use it properly I am more than happy with it and have decided to purchase more as gifts for others I know who love eggs.

I hate boiling eggs in a pot, they never peel right. With this egg cooker they always come out perfect, and peel perfect. It's only been a few weeks and I have cooked probably 3 dozen eggs with no issues.

Update after several more tries: So you can make medium boiled eggs with yolk soft like jelly without much liquid oozing out. For me (using XL to jumbo size eggs) the sweat spot on the water measuring cup is just a hair under the "90 (1-10 eggs)" line (see picture). I've included a picture in case you use jumbo eggs and like the yolks soft but not runny. I still can't give it more than 3 stars though because of how flimsy the stainless top is compared to the price. But I'll give it one more star because it will cook eggs the way you want after enough experimenting. This electric egg cooker is considerably more expensive than similar models. I thought paying more for a name brand would mean a better device with consistent results. Wrong on both accounts. First off the design is good. The idea of making the dome top taller and adding a shelf so you can cook a few more eggs is smart and works great. I can fit 10 jumbo sized eggs all at once and the lid still closes completely after fidgeting a bit with the arrangement of the eggs. Good job Cuisinart! Also it does achieve cooking the eggs, ok well done. But: The stainless steel dome lid is made of such incredibly thin material that it's a couple gauge short of being stainless steel foil.. I could literally wad this top up into a ball with one hand. It's so thin that if you dropped in on the floor it would crease. I'm not exaggerating either. It's about as crush resistant as the plastic blister packaging your toothbrush came in. It's a ticking time bomb of inevitable structural failure that will render the device useless at slightest provocation. Of they are going to go this cheap with materials, you may as well make it out of plastic. It's pathetic. Also I'm my 4 sessions of making eggs so far, it will not make anything less than hard boiled. Period. I don't know if it's because they used the temperature protection of the water boiling dry as a timer, or if they went cheap on that too. I use only jumbo sized eggs and typically make 6 at a time. First run I filled the provided water measuring cup to half way between hard boiled and medium boiled and the eggs turned out hard boiled. Ok I did leave them in the cooker for a few minutes after I turned it off when it beeped because I was busy cooking dinner. The next try I used the same amount of water but this time I used gloves to remove the eggs and put them in a cold water bath immediately when it beeped. Still hard boiled. The next time I filled the measuring cup to medium boiled, the eggs are still hard boiled. The next time I loaded it with with the max of 10 eggs (all jumbo size) and filled the measuring cup to halfway between medium and soft boiled. All the eggs are still hard boiled. I always used could eggs straight out of my 37°F fridge just like it says but it doesn't seem to matter. Using the overheat boil-dry protection as a timer just doesn't work with this device. At some point it's just easier and faster to use my 1,500 watt water boiler to preheat water and then boil the eggs in a pot for 8.5 minutes than to good with this thing and then wash all the parts. The boiler plate always collects minerals from the steam dripping off of the eggs and burns into a brown crust so you'll have to scrub that too with steel wool. By the way, it doesn't actually shut off... Ever... It only beeps when it boils dry so you can flip the switch yourself. I wouldn't leave this thing unattended because I'm not sure it ever shuts off at all. Of you're ok with cooking 6 or 7 eggs then just get one of the plastic ones for less than half the price of this one. If you might cook more than that I recommend trying one of the rectangular machines maybe, still ten bucks cheaper than this.

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Súper practico y rápido muy recomendable

Great product!

Used today first time, until I started second batch of eggs, worked for around 30 seconds then packed up… no heat only blue on light ! £114- later empty pocket no item.. Doesn’t always pay to buy expensive!! Avoid!!!

Product looked as described however it was a 2 pin plug and not suitable for the UK.