OXO Good Grips Silicone Egg Poachers (Set of 2),Yellow

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.

I LOVE these! They work eggsactly as they're supposed to. Easy to clean and durable. Highly recommend.

We enjoy a nice soft boiled egg or poached egg, and have successfully made both in the past, but I saw this OXO product and decided to give it a try. They do work, and make the process of poaching an egg super easy. If you’ve ever been intimidated at the idea of poaching eggs, you should definitely try this product. The poachers are bigger than I expected, so to allow them to sit in the pot (without crowding), and to get the appropriate water level (there’s a water line mark on the poachers), I used a stock pot. The “cage” part of the poacher keeps the egg corralled while it sets, which I think is the biggest benefit of using this product (no need to swirl, etc.). Cleanup is easy - the poachers wash up easily and can be “folded” into themselves (forming a cup shape) for compact storage. FYI, there will still be egg white residue in the cooking pot, just like with the normal egg poaching process. You might need to experiment with cook time (a guide is included with the product) to get the exact cook you prefer. We cooked large eggs for 3.25 minutes (timing started when eggs were dropped into the simmering water) and had nice soft eggs to top our ramen bowls. Nice gadget!

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!

If you are an egg poaching person, skip this item and keep poaching your regular way. I have poached for 70 years and tried every poaching gadget available before taking them to Goodwill. This gadget is the closest to poached eggs, but not good enough. I tested the cups rigorosly and found them to be cumbersome, too large, and fussy. However, since the egg is totally submersed in water at 205 degrees, it is a poached egg, no different than my traditional method. To use two cups I had to test various pans to fit the cups and then fill with water. I ened up with 2 1/2 inched of water regardless of pan size. For four cups this took a very large pot and from start to finish almost 19 minutes to bring to 205 degrees before dropping the eggs in the cup. I sprayed the top of the cup with cooking spray to stop the egg from sticking to the bottom of the pan and removed the cups at two to three minutes, followed by stiring the water a bit. At this point you are using the traditinal method of poaching. The cup does keep the egg in a smaller circle. I did try leaving the cup in for the entire cooking period and found no difference, once I sprayed the cup to stop sticking. Who ever created this prioduct definitly should receive an award. I also used the cups to fry eggs, doing double duty in keeping the egg the size of a Bays English Muffin. The cups take longer and have to be cleaned. So overall they increase the cooking difficulty with no better outcome.

Absolutely the best poaching device I have found, it is consistant every time as long as you get the water to just under a boilProduces restaurant quality poached eggs EVERY TIMEPurchased two more sets for our kitchenI don't write many reviews but compelled on this one, it's a game changer