3 Best Egg Cookers

But fast and furious doesn’t always win the race—and before we devote any precious counter space to a gadget, we want to be sure it’s worth it. That’s why CR evaluated seven egg cookers from popular brands like Dash, Cuisinart, and Chefman to see how well they work.

Egg cookers basically function in the same way—fill the heating plate with the appropriate amount of water (as indicated on their measuring cups) to make soft-, medium-, hard-boiled, poached, and (sometimes) scrambled eggs, add eggs to a tray, cover them with a lid, push a button or plug in the cooker, and wait until an alert sounds to indicate the eggs have finished cooking.

But, as we discovered, they didn’t all deliver equally well-cooked eggs, nor were they all equally easy to use or clean. 

Here are our top three picks—plus how the egg cookers compared with making eggs in an air fryer and the good, old-fashioned way: on our stovetop.