Features:

  • This egg timer will take the guess work out of boiling eggs! As the timer heats up, the red face changes color, indicating soft, medium, hard and stages in between, absorbing heat exactly as an egg does. The result is the perfect boiled egg!
  • Simply place timer with eggs in a single layer at the bottom of a pan. Cover with at least an inch or two of room temperature water.
  • Egg timer darkens as eggs cook.
  • Calculates cooking stages precisely by temperature, not loosely by time.
  • Adjusts to the number of eggs and level of water in the pan.
Nothing like the video's I had seen

This thing is the bomb.com Seriously, buy one. You won't regret it. Works the first time and every time after that. I was slightly concerned when I first got it out the package. The lines that tell you how hard or soft the egg will be cooked were really hard to see. Nothing like the video's I had seen. Never fear, toss it in the pot of water and vola! Easy to see the lines!

Really helps to get my eggs done right.

Mom cooked the last one to death. I like using these. Depending on the size of the egg, to have a runny yolk and firm white, I time it about half way between soft and medium on this timer. Put it into the pot with the egg and cold water so it gets hot while the egg also gets hot. When I turn the heat on, I set a timer for about 6 minutes, enough time for the water to come to a hard boil. Then I turn on the heat and set the timer for 2.5 minutes, and then start watching it.

Still happy with the one I bought 15+ yrs ago

I’ve used this product for many years (at least 15 years and I honestly think it’s been more years than that). I get perfect eggs every time. It’s so easy to use! I add it in to the cold water at the same time that I put my eggs to boil and red part starts turning a dark color from the outside in as the timing correlates to whether your eggs have cooked long enough to be soft, medium or hard. I wash this easily with a soapy sponge (never used in a dishwasher). Two friends were recently fascinated by this so I just got them these as little gifts. I was sure to get them this exact brand as it’s what I’ve always used. I have never had to replace it and it has consistently gotten a lot of use over the years.

Great Way to Cook Eggs As You Like Them

I used the Egg Rite Egg TImer yesterday to boil some eggs, and put it in the water with the eggs as instructed by the package. I stood there and watched as the water came to boil in the pan, and I could see some sort of clear liquid moving around inside the timer during the cooking process. After a few minutes I went back to look at the progress, and I could see that the red area was a bit smaller, which meant it was at the soft boiled or poached point, but I wanted hard boiled so I waited until it had reached the point pictured on the package that indicated hard boiled. When I peeled the eggs and cut them, the yolks were perfectly cooked with no greenish coating. I will be using this egg timer every time now! Thanks, Norpro, for a great product that takes the guesswork out of cooking eggs to the desired degree of doneness.

Egg Timer

EDIT: I have used it again - making sure to have a little color left - I agree with another reviewer, the yolks weren't *quite* there yet (the very center of the yolk was the "wet yellow look not the firm "dry" yellow look around it) best to let it go black. Also I read some people were getting a smell off the egg timer. We had NO such stench, perhaps it is hit or miss with each timer... ORIGINAL: OMG. :-) When I got this in the mail, I immediately went to the fridge and pulled out 6 eggs. Put the Egg Rite Egg Timer in, added my water and set it on the stove on Hi. Once it started boiling, set the temp to Med-Hi; as usual. Waited a while, checked the timer, it had a thumb print size red still left on it -- according to the illustration I was waiting for a small dot. Waited some more, got side tracked a little (only by 5 mins tops) came back and the Egg Timer was completely black. I thought OMG :-( I screwed up, I ruined it all. I removed the eggs from the pan, began to peel them under the faucet; as usual. NEVER before had I had such an easy time peeling eggs. The only nicks to my perfect whites came from my fingernail on one of them, when I wasn't paying attention. Then came the moment of Truth. Paring knife in hand I sliced one in half. It revealed a PICTURE PERFECT egg yolk and white! NO hint of green from the sulfur! I think I heard an angelic choir singing softly above me... ;-) I was so tickled at this simple feat that I rushed to show my girlfriend and mother in the other room. I made my deviled eggs as I normally do... but these were better than usual - the texture was smooth and so fresh tasting, I never knew this was how they could taste! Amazing! I hope to have many other successful hard-boiled eggs with this gadget and I desperately hope this was NOT some first-time fluke.

An Eggslent Product!

And that's no yoke! (Sorry, I couldn't help myself.) Seriously, this is a great product. We have a few of them in different kitchens, and I find them the best tool for delivering properly hard cooked eggs. Although it's labeled as a "timer" it actually uses a layer of color changing crystals (the red layer in the plastic shell) to measure the temperature gradient as the material is heated by the water. This corresponds to the rate at which the egg cooks, so you actually see an analogue of the inside of the egg. This makes it possible to cook eggs with a great deal of precision. I highly recommend these.

The absolute greatest!

I use mine all the time, and keep buying more to use for gifts. Wish Amazon sold them in a case pack! The only drawback, and not a big one, is that you still need to set a timer so you remember to come back to the stove and look it. After you've used it for a while, you'll know how much time you need, depending on the number of eggs and the amount of water you start with. I usually cook four to six eggs at a time and have a pan that is used for little else. Best results when the eggs and water are left on the counter overnight so they are both at the same temperature to start with. Place in a pot just large enough to hold the eggs without crowding, and just cover with water. When you are ready to cook the eggs, cover the pot and put it on a medium heat, not "high." When the water begins to bubble, turn the heat down to medium or medium low and set your timer. Three minutes will make nice soft boiled eggs, and five minutes will make hard boiled eggs without a black border on the yolk. Adjust the time by comparing to the lines on the Norpro and keep notes on a 3x5 card if your memory is as goofy as mine. If you follow the same procedure each time, you'll have uniform and delightful results.

Perfect eggs every time.

Works perfectly every time I boil eggs. Start with cold tap water in a saucepan, place the egg time and eggs in before turning on the heat. Within 15 minutes, the water will start to boil (set a timer) and watch the line move to hard egg line for the perfect hard boiled eggs. Take off the flame and immediately dump the boiling water, adding cold water to the pan several times to cool the eggs down rapidly. With this timer, I never get the green line around the egg yolk. My mom used one of these for years; I inherited her egg timer about 30 years ago and it finally pooped out about a month ago as the clear coat fogged out and you couldn't read the lines. Pretty long review for something so simple but it shows how much I love using it.

Perfect eggs every single time

I've never been good at boiling eggs. Most people think its easy, but there are actually a ton of variables involved! Using different stoves that can heat up quicker/slower, using different pots with different amounts of water, boiling differing quantities of eggs at the same time; all of these make the process too tough for me. My hard boiled eggs boil too long, getting that gross green yolk. My soft boiled eggs ooze out as I'm cracking the shells. And I don't really even know what I want out of a medium-boiled egg. With this timer, there's no guessing. Of course, you have to pay attention and check in on your eggs. And of course, there's no audible alert like a standard timer. But I'm willing to forgo some of these luxuries, because I get PERFECT eggs exactly how I want them EVERY TIME.

Soft boiled egg perfection!!

Game. Changer. I have been raising chickens for the past 30 years, and this, hands down, is the best egg “timer” ever. Period. Put it in the pot with the eggs, cover them with cold water, add a little salt (and if you are using freshly laid butt nuggets either from your own girls or from the farmer’s market, make sure to add (a heaping 1/4 tsp per egg for those that prefer to measure things out) baking soda so that it makes it much easier to peel) bring it to a boil and cook to your desired type of egg temp! Once you have tested which level of cooked you prefer (this will use up a few eggs) and make sure once that level is reached to take it immediately off of the heat, carefully drain the boiling water, and shock it with cold running water until the eggs are slightly warm to the touch. Peel and enjoy!

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