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Oster 4716 Egg Cooker

Oster

~~List Price: $34.95~~
New from: $70.08

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Features:

Delivers perfect eggs every time

Flawlessly cooks up to 8 hard, medium, or soft eggs

Steam heat poaches up to 4 eggs at a time

Cook and clean easily with non-stick, non-stain surface

Automatic shuts off when the eggs are ready

Product Description
Oster products feature superior performance and uncompromising design, and cater to the consumer who not only enjoys the process of preparation through precision technology, but also takes pride in presenting the final results. The 4716 Oster Automatic Egg Cooker & Poacher can boil up to 8 hard, medium, or soft eggs and poach up to 4 eggs to perfection every time and is a great addition to any kitchen. To make sure your eggs are cooked exactly how you want them, this item features a signal light that goes off when the eggs are ready for serving, taking all the guess work out of the cooking process. Plus, the non-stick, non-stain surface makes for easy cooking as well as for easy cleaning when you are done.

Customer Reviews:
Sorry, not so good ....

We have had two of these units in the last three months, and each of them failed by not shutting off properly and melting/fusing the plastic dome to the base. Oster replaced the first one, and now we are moving on to a different brand (with a stainless steel cover) after the second failure. In between meltdowns, the unit worked great and it was a nice kitchen convenience.

Lid melts - not good
Used it for a year and today the lid melted on. Stink is horrible. Bad product reliability.

It did an acceptable job
After 35 or so years our Oster cooker succumbed to the to the melted lid syndrome. I suspect that the thermostat got stuck in the "on" position. It didn't receive a lot of use, perhaps twice a month.

We seldom used the poacher because of the elsewhere mentioned sticking problem. However, cooking in the shell worked very well.

As with everything else, judging by recent reviews they have cheapened it up despite it being about the most costly cooker on Amazon.

My principal issue with it was that the unit couldn't be submerged. This may also be true for all cookers; I haven't checked yet.

In any event, we need to buy a new one and am unsure about which model to replace it with. I hardly expect to get another 35 years out of the next purchase, not that I expect to live that long.

Great for awhile and then POOF!
I loved this cooker. It was great until the last time I used it and it was just as some others said. The plastic lid melted and I'm still trying to get the stench out of the house. Apparently, it didn't turn off when it was supposed to. Glad I was at home so the house didn't burn down or something! Am so disappointed because I really liked it!