HIC Harold Import Eggsact Egg Timer

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Product Features

• Perfect eggs, every time
• Soft , medium or hard
• Simply place timer in water with eggs
• Easy to read scale

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 4.3 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000I1UVX2
• Item model number: 017
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,631 in Kitchen & Dining (See Bestsellers in Kitchen & Dining)

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Product Description

Product Description

Hard boiling eggs are easy. Knowing when they are cooked to a desired hardness is not. Until now. With the eggs act egg timer you’ll know, every time, where your eggs are, in the cooking process. Simply add the eggs act egg timer in with your eggs and boil as you normally would. There is an easy to read scale within the egg shaped timer. During the course of boiling the timer changes colors, from red to purple, starting from the outside edge and moving to the center. When the color change reaches your desired spot on the scale the eggs are cooked accordingly. Soft, medium or hard. Perfect eggs—the way you like them—every time.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works every time, March 22, 2008

By	Mary Dooley (Iowa) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've had this egg timer for years and loved it. It took away the worry about getting the eggs hard-boiled correctly: not still-sticky soft nor overdone with the green ring (which doesn't hurt anything but looks suspect!) So now that my daughters are making their own deviled eggs to take to family dinners and potlucks, I went looking for this same timer online. The poor review by another owner prompted me to share my own experience. Keep the instruction card so you'll remember to start the eggs and timer together in warm water, not boil them but bring them just under a full boil, and then when the timer turns purple, cool them immediately in cold water. It's worked for me every time, and that's been many times!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Hard Boiled Eggs - Avoid the Green, September 19, 2007

By	G. K. Sauer (Colorado Springs, CO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I love this timer. I make hard boiled eggs and we always forget to time them. I just start them in cold water, bring them to a boil, turn off the burner and look at the timer once in a while. Once it's all dark - their ready to go - time for the cold water to stop the cooking. Without the timer, I leave them in hot water way too long and I get the green circle around the yolk - which doesn't hurt anything - but why wait longer than you have to. One thing is - if you get extra large eggs the timer will be done before your eggs. I suppose if you get small eggs - it won't be done soon enough. The timer seems to be the size of a large egg.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This product does not work, August 26, 2007

By	Surfer Beto - See all my reviews

I hoped this product would help me make perfect soft boiled eggs. Unfortunately it does not. My experience is that it takes about 12-14 minutes after start of boiling for the first ring to turn purple, indicating a soft boiled egg. By this time, the eggs are most definitely hard boiled. It should take something on the order of 4 minutes for a soft boiled egg. At 4 minutes, this timer is not even warmed up yet.

I'm sorry my family wasted their money buying me this as a gift. It's an attractive idea, but it simply didn't work for me.

Amazon should stop carrying this product until they get it right.