Norpro Stainless Steel 10 Inch Egg Poacher Skillet Set
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Norpro Stainless Steel 10 Inch Egg Poacher Skillet Set
Customer Review: One major flaw - 3.5 stars
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a great egg poacher at a great price, attractive design, cooks well, the major flaw is the small black plastic knobs on each poacher cup. While they are easy to pick up, they are too dang hot to hold for more than a second, making it quite inconvenient to try to spoon the egg out of the cups; you have to awkwardly use a pair of tongs, a pot mitt, or your napkin. The design of a slit in the handle of the cup allowing it to be held by a fork or knife (which many models employ) is a far better alternative... what would have been really innovative would have been to have these knobs detachable by an easy clip with a simple, quick, squeeze motion, so they are not heated in the bath during the cooking process (hey, if any company utilizes this idea, I want a % of royalties for this idea)... it seems the permanent platic knobs were designed by someone who never tested or used the product or they would have discovered this flaw. I give it 3.5 stars since a well cooked poached egg does little good if you cannot get it onto your plate without dropping it or burning your fingers (looking even sillier if you are serving guests breakfast--in which everyone present clearly sees the fatal flaw in the design and wonders why the heck the "professionals" who designed it could not understand the obvious).Customer Review: Sorry, but this poacher sucks for the following reasons:
Summary: 1 Stars
1. When I wash the lid, soapy water gets under the handle. I can see the sudsy water through the underside of the glass lid and can't get it out. When I heat the pan, everything expands and push the suds out where they drip around the lid's lip and into the pan.
2. On the first use, the inside surface got pitted. I don't know how boiling water can pit a stainless steel pan, but it did. Scrubbing didn't get rid of it.
3. A steam escape hole is between each of the four poaching cups, right by the handles. Because the holes are small, steam shoots out at high pressure. I can't lift the cups out while it's boiling without scalding myself. If I had designed it, I would have put a larger hole in the center, away from the handles.
4. The threaded ball handles on the poaching cups get loose and when I lift out a hot cup, unless I'm very careful, it rotates toward my hand and burns me.
It seems a $60 poaching pan (I bought it locally) should be better designed and made of better materials.