We’ve been using an egg cooker made by Sunbeam for a few years now. Actually we are on our second one but it does have some issues, namely that it leaves puddles of water on the counter sometimes. Also it’s hard to clean and the coating on it seems to be wearing away quickly. Recently I happened to see mention of an egg poacher made by Breville. I looked it up and it also does hard and soft cooked eggs, plus scrambled. Not to mention you can poach other things in it. It was on special on Amazon so I ordered it and it arrived promptly. It was a lot bigger than I expected and it does take a bit more work to use it but the eggs come out beautifully by comparison.

I’ve also used it to poach chicken a couple of times and that came out really well too once I worked out the temperature and time it needs. You can set all that information on the cooker and you just heat the water and monitor the temperature using the probe, then add eggs or whatever is being cooked and start the timer. I think this will make it onto our small list of really useful appliances like our air fryer.

Meanwhile it seems likely we will be replacing our microwave in the not too distant future. The light inside burnt out not long ago so it’s kind of weird to use without that. But there have been a couple of instances where it hasn’t heated as well as it used to. We’ve had it for about seventeen years so I suppose it’s had a good run. Our next microwave will likely be a convection combo or something like it. It just depends on what’s available when the time comes.

I’m also on the lookout for a replacement can opener. I got one a few years ago that we really liked because it opened the can without leaving sharp edges. Unfortunately it has stopped working so well and opening a can has become quite a chore lately. So I am trying to find another one that hopefully will last a bit longer. I’d like to see a can opener go as long as our microwave, in fact. :)