My daughter cannot boil an egg without asking me for instructions, but, she does like them. She also likes them poached so when I saw this little kitchen gadget which would enable her to poach eggs in the microwave oven, I shelled (excuse the pun) out 99p happily.
It looked like a good idea and completely safe, but still I thought I would try it first. I followed the instructions to the letter, pricked the yolk and white several times, added 1 teaspoon of water then closed the lid and popped it into the microwave on medium heat for 30 seconds.
The explosion came at 10 seconds …… and when I opened the microwave door the gadget had done a somersault – split open and thrown egg everywhere. Not only that it had dented the inside of my microwave oven on route.
Just look at the crack in the lid…
Needless to say the useless item will be sent back to the shop with a letter explaining my disgust at the half hour cleaning of my now damaged microwave and still no breakfast.
Its a good thing my daughter didn’t try it first!
I am less than eggstatic about the whole thing!!!!
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I almost purchased one of these things a few weeks back, now I am glad I passed on it. Truly unbelievable. Maybe they should have called it an egg scrambler, or an egg popper. They should compensate you somehow!
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Oh no! That’s no yolk! I bet you weren’t eggstatic having to clear that mess up. And your poor microwave – how eggsasperating…
Okay, I’ll stop now x
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Cortes: They are very scary things – never again! There was no egg left to eat just loads to scrub of the microwave walls and plate.
EM: Hi chick, knew I could depend on you for eggstra fun in my comments section. My brain is scrambled today so I can’t think of a eggceptional comment to send back to you. x
Very few gadgets seem to work and they always take ages to clean – even if there isn’t a disaster ……. and I think that everyone seems to have covered the really bad yolks so forgive me for not joining in – tee hee
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Let’s see now…
Raw egg and a teaspoon of water in an enclosed container?
Yup! Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.
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Don’t – it sounds awful… but it looked much worse!!!!!
Good grief!! See? This is why we don’t have a microwave.
Scary things!!
Oh dear….thats terrible. I mustn’t tell my daughter or she’ll want the gadget just to cause the explosion
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Jay – after this eggsperience I really don’t blame you!
Val – Hello and welcome! Well I won’t be buying her dangerous cookery gadgets again thats for sure!
I’m still waiting for the reply to my letter of complaint……
I had one of them yokes years ago. worked for me. Didn’t use water though. Just pierce the yoke several times with cocktail stick and cover with paper towel, 30 secs, and have the soldiers ready.