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Burton Plastics Perfect Egg Thermometer | 
 enlarge | Brand: Burton Plastics
Buy New: $6.50
Rating:  9 reviews
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 3.8 x 1.6
MPN: Y3311
Model: 12ET1
UPC: 085628150863
EAN: 0085628150863
ASIN: B0000CFGB5
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Graduated scale indicates soft, medium, or hard boiled by changing color | | • | 1 1/2" W x 2 1/4" L x 1 1/4" H | | • | Made in USA |
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Product Description
When you're cooking an egg in its shell, it's hard to know what's really going on in there. Timers help, but are not foolproof. This patented device sits in the pan and takes into account the number of eggs, the amount of water, even the altitude, as it senses accumulation of heat. Don't suffer the disappointment of green yolks or runny yolks next time you go to make egg salad!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! March 1, 2008
Michael Godfrey (RIGHT BEHIND YOU)
So, forever I've wondered how my grandmother made perfect hard-boiled eggs...you know, where the yolks are actually sunny yellow instead of a greenish, snot-yellow...
Enter "Egg-Perfect." (Thank you...claps, clap, clap...)
That "green/yellow" yolk is overcooked egg. I had no idea. Anyway, so I worked with mine tonight.
The acrylic, orange "egg" reads, "Soft, medium, hard," with variations in between. I had no idea what was going on until the water started going! Note that I stated, "READS." Why? Because the Egg-Per'Fect cannot "say."
It is an inanimate object.
Snore...Okay, I began with COLD water, placing in my eggs and my acrylic "egg-per'fect." I then added WHITE VINEGAR, as my grandma always did, because this prevents the shells from cracking under so much heated pressure. It really works, so shut up and just do it.
Then, I watched.................with a flashlight. Yes, with a flashlight...so what? I wanted to watch...
Therefore, what did I see, you ask.
Miracles upon miracles, and not the "Fiddler On The Roof" type where they sing that tune, "Miracles...yadda..."
The bright, funky, 1970's orange label inside the acrylic egg began a transformation. Around the very perimeter (that means, the "outer-edge") of the funky Marsha Brady acrylic egg, began to darken. At first, I screamed, "BLACK, Marsha, BLACK," but found myself incorrect. It was turning a burgundy, and could be seen from outer space, without the aid of my lighted friend, "Mr. Flash-Light."
Again, shut up.
Note the "men-working-pylon-orange" image on Amazon.Com, provided by the maker. Yes, at first, you may think, "Nothing's happening," as I did. Fool, you be, as I.
Fool, no, not for long.
I was on my way to per'fect eggs done the "Egg Per'Fect" way.
No, I'm not endorsed by this company. I, finally, after forty years, made perfect, hard-boiled eggs.
Note my comma use...
Write like me.
Commas are necessary.
.....More than perfect eggs.
Michael
 Mine doesn't work at all. February 27, 2008
Deb G (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Maybe it is faulty. I have used it twice to boil eggs. Each time I followed the package directions and cooked 6 eggs with water to cover in a pan on an electric stovetop. There was little or no color change. On the plus side, there was no plastic smell.
Undercooks at altitude December 26, 2007
Ski Dad (Colorado Springs, CO)
Despite the package's claim that "The sensor accounts for the number of eggs, the amount of water, even the altitude at which the eggs are being cooked." this severely undercooks eggs at 6500 feet. Pulled one egg at the "medium" point to test - yuck! Left the rest until the "hard" mark - actually accidentally let them go all the way to solid black (well past the hard mark) and still got centers not fully cooked.
Ours might have been a dud, but my guess is that this item doesn't really account for altitude. Caveat emptor for those who live above 5000 feet....
 Works well but has fiberglass resin smell August 2, 2007
Jason Thurston (Lafayette, Co United States)
Works well but it has a fiberglass smell and I think the eggs have a hint of it too. So far I've only used it once I assume this smell will go away in time but I wonder if it is a health hazard.
I'm disappointed in the manufacture for 3 reasons.
1. That if a few uses will make the smell go away then why didn't they do this during manufacturing or at least mention on the packaging to boil it a couple of times without eggs to get rid of the smell.
2. No information on the packaging about whether the egg timer should be at the same starting temperature as the eggs. If my eggs are kept in the refrigerator should the egg timer be kept there too. I decided to put the egg timer in at room temperature and the eggs at refrigeration temperature and all worked out well enough.
3. I think they might have been able to choose a plastic that doesn't give off a smell/taste at all.
I like this this thing a lot April 6, 2007
A. C. Sorg (the Badger)
This is a very useful little gadget. It does what it is advertised to do and does it very well. Worth the small cost. I never noticed any kind of plastic smell with mine either, so that must not happen with all of them.
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