Have you ever purchased anything that was "As Seen on TV?" I have, of course, I'm a sucker, and a lot of the time I go after it just because of it's ridiculousness. I own a Snuggie. I got a hose attachment wand thingy to wash my car. My husband teases me about it. Never once have I been "wow-ed" or even slightly happy with my purchase.
The other day, probably two months ago, my dad came over and asked me if I had seen the commercial for Eggies. Now as a family with Netflix, we rarely see commercials. So I look it up on the internet, and this is what I'm greeted with:
Did you die laughing while watching this? My favorite part is the look on the face of the woman peeling the eggs. "This is the worst task I have ever performed in my life!" Honey, somehow I doubt that. I think the part that sold me was the idea of flat hard boiled eggs. How fun! My girls love eating hard boiled eggs, and this could make it fun for them. Think about the possibilities! I can sprinkle cheese into my hard boiled egg. Crazy. $10? I'm in.
Now, not only do you get 6 Eggies for $10 (plus $7.99 shipping and handling) this company is going to GIVE you another 6 Eggies FOR FREE!!! (Actually, they are going to force you to accept another 6 Eggies and pay another $7.99 for them to come shipped to you in the same box. There is no way on the website to refuse the second set of Eggies.) So you're paying approx. $26 for a dozen Eggies. When you place your order on the website, you enter your credit card information, address etc., and expect to be taken to a confirmation page so you can soak in the guilt of spending almost $30 on crap. Not today! You are taken to no less than six "Are you sure???" pages, offering you another set of Eggies for an additional charge, if you decline, you're taken to another page. If you're really wanting a second set-- HOLD OUT! One of the pages actually offers a (third? fourth?) set of Eggies for half price! (Plus the S&H charge) No thank you, click. THEN-- a surprise! If you act now, you can upgrade your Eggies to DELUXE sets! This includes your 2 sets of 6 Eggies, 2 egg slicers, 2 yolk separators, 2 larger sized Eggies, and 2 huge sized Eggies. (For two eggs? Scrambled eggs? I forget.) Well they got me there. I could use an egg slicer. So I click "yes." No confirmation page there! They still bring you to another page to be sure you don't want to add anything else. Finally, you're confirmed and informed that you will have your Eggies in 6-12 weeks. Go take a nap, that was exhausting.
Tick tock, maybe 6 weeks or so later I receive my box of Eggies. I separate the second kit for my sister, because I really don't want all these pieces all to myself. Upon opening the plastic bag each Eggie is in, I see that each is made up of four pieces. A base, a top, a ring to seal the two together, and a lid. These pieces awkwardly fit together; the top and bottom snapping together, and the lid and ring screwing into place. Okay, ready to make eggs? No, not yet. You must wash your 24 pieces of Eggies. Wash wash wash. Now let's make eggs! Nope! These "non-stick" suckers must be coated with oil or shortening. No prob, let's just squirt each one with Pam, right? Wrong. You must spray a paper towel or napkin and then wipe the inside of the Eggie. A little messy, but I deal with it. Water's boiling, I'm ready to go. Assemble your Eggies, top on bottom, ring over top, screw on. Now you crack the egg and hope to God that it fits/lands inside the small hole on top. A few of mine went right in, but at least 3 out of my 6 had larger yolks that didn't want to fit through, so they plugged the hole and left me with egg whites all over my counter. Poke poke poke, now screw the lids on. Whew! At this point I'm a tad grumpy and do not take a picture of my messy counter.
Yay, take the Eggies out of the pan. Instructions say to let cool for a few minutes, but honestly I probably only waited a minute. Don't do that. Don't open them until they're cool to the touch! I opened them once I could tolerate the heat, and after I popped the top off I was greeted by hot water sitting on top of my hard boiled egg, now all over my hand. Ouch! Yeah, I was asking for that one, but I wasn't expecting water inside the Eggie! So my 5 eggs are popped out of their homes and cooling on a plate. Now I've got 24 pieces of awkward plastic to get EGG off of. I am NOT looking forward to this! I can't even imagine how to keep these things still in my dishwasher.
Summary: Not impressed. Save your money. Eggshells are disposable, easy to crack, and are biodegradable. Not to mention you're not buying anything extra! I've never really minded peeling hard boiled eggs; in fact, my kids LOVE to do it for me. Yeah, having a flat hard boiled egg is kinda funny. But somehow I think these Eggie people are laughing too, and not with me.
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Lol!!! Why are infomercials always so convincing?! And when are we all going to realize they are scams and the products are crap? I'm sure we have all been guilty of this at least once. I know I have. Thanks for the entertainment though. Hope you can look back on it and laugh about it now too :)
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely hillarious thankyou for the wonderful summary
ReplyDeleteYou're not alone, Crystal. I also fell for the TV commercial. I agree almost $30 is too much for this product. They don't tell you about the FREE additional Eggies S&H which drives up cost. I received 48 pieces which do NOT fit together well. I washed everything initially, then began timing the setup. 30 minutes later I was ready to cook them. None of my extra large eggs fit in the allowed hole-no way possible to break an egg into the hole. I had to put each egg in a pouring cup & then try to pour it into the small hole on top! The 12 assembled Eggies need a special pan to allow for all of them to float. My largest pot/pan did not hold them all. Because they did not fit together well (don't understand why they were not designed a better fit)I had an enormous egg white fluff/foam grow on top of all the Eggies, this being the escaped egg white. After the allotted time, I did listen to the directions and allowed them to cool. Water was also inside each of mine. The eggs popped out fine & were kind of cute with their flat bottoms which allowed them to sit on a plate without rolling off. They tasted okay. Now the cleanup: each of the 48 pieces have to be meticulously scrubbed, by hand, with a scrub brush.That was a lot of work. The pot with the cooked AWOL eggwhite was almost impossible to scrub all the hard protein off. Also, for storing the Eggies in the Fridge, you need a large bowl since you don't want to open each until you eat it.
ReplyDeleteSo, they do look cute. Taste OK. But I am not sure they are worth the money ($28), time (30 min to prepare, 30 min to clean up), storage difficulty as 48 pieces are cumbersome.
I guess boiling them, peeling them, storing the old way wasn't so bad after all!
Ha, I'm glad you wrote this. While I've never been tempted by this particular thing I'm SUCH a sucker for infomercials. The stuff always seems like the best. thing. ever.
ReplyDeleteThankfully I've only ever bought one thing off one and it was a pilates video, you can't really go wrong with that. I'll save my money on this one too.
Thank you so much for your summary. I was just clicks away from buying this. I've been looking in my "as seen on tv" section at the store to buy this but of course it's been taking forever so I decided I was just going to go online and buy it. Now that I've read this I'm going to save my money and stick with the old way of doing things. Sorry you had to deal with such a mess but you seem to take it in a way that you help other people by not getting "sucked" into these infomercials. Thank you again :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Chrystal - your review was funny, as well as TOTALLY ACCURATE! When I saw the infomercial, I found this to be a great idea in theory (and it's in "theory" only). I prefer to use Naturally Nested eggs which of course, are fresh and difficult to peel so I was anxious to try Eggies. I waited for them to hit the As Seen On TV section of my local grocery and paid $8.99 with a store coupon.
ReplyDeleteI would like to label my review as "A Silly, Ridiculous Mess!!!".
I don't recall hearing about the need for oil or cooking spray on TV but was okay to run with it. After washing/drying the 24 little pieces, I brushed them inside with a pastry brush and olive oil. After attempting to crack the first egg into the small opening, and winding up with most of it on my counter top, I unscrewed the other 5 and cracked the egg into the bottom half and screwed them back together. Hassle anyone? I found that they didn't snap together well and once they hit the water, one of them leaked. 5 remaining survivors so far.
Once they were done, I allowed them to cool considerably and to the touch. The first one I opened exploded. One more dead soldier. The remaining 4 looked NOTHING like the little beauties on TV or the box! They were covered with craters and rubbery. Yuck.
While Eggies are labeled as "top rack" dishwasher safe, I knew they'd fly around during cycle so I decided to soak them and hand wash. I'll need to explain when I return them, that I made every effort to clean them but since I don't own a chisel, they will be encrusted with dried egg until the end of time.
I visited the Eggies website to post my review but they don't seem to offer that option. Gee - I wonder why???!!!
The good news is, I have a fool proof method of hard boiling or poaching eggs. In terms of shape, it's not ideal for deviled eggs but great for egg salad, just eating or Eggs Benedict.
You simply grease (or cooking spray) the inside of a 6 oz. Pyrex dish. I'm referring to the little clear ones which sell in sets of 4. Crack egg into dish. In a deep saucepan, bring 1" of water to a boil. Gently lower each dish into water (not touching if more than one), reduce to gently simmer and place lid on pan. 14 minutes for a perfect hard boiled egg. Less for poached. Once done, remove each dish with tongs or potholder and release egg by running rubber spatula around the edge. It will slide right out.
I pack a hard boiled egg into my Husband's lunch each day and he doesn't mind that it's shaped like a disk, as opposed to an egg. :-)
This is a nice little platform on which to post a domestic review or suggestion!
-Cooking Away In Oregon
This is about the as see on TV product called Eggies,
ReplyDeletePlastic eggs that allow you to make the "perfect
hardboiled egg"...
www.geteggiestv.com personifies (along with pornography)
the very worst of the internet. This site is totally
set up to get as much of your money as it can, leaving
you with no satisfaction of recourse if you change
your mind.
Ordering is in an opt out format so any mistakes that
you make,result in more product being added to your
order. Total order is only shown at the end and there
is no place to accept the order. If you make it to the
the last page your have placed the order. Don't try
to backup and change the order because once you get to
the last page again this new version is taken, so you
end up with both the first incorrect order and your new
corrected one! They offer to refund your money, but
only for the product not S&H. So for 3 orders that
cost me $77.94 they were willing to refund me $30.00
and i would have to pay to ship them back.
Safe TV Shop,LLC is the only
thing given. No email, address or Phone...
Okay, that's just funny!
ReplyDeleteI don't understand the appeal of informercials, but my sister? Would sit there and watch them like a TV sitcom!
Everytime I am tempted to buy an "as seen on TV", I purposely go to my computer and google the reviews on the item. Everytime, my enthusiasm is shot down! That's good, though, because I've saved a LOT of money by not buying things I really don't need! Thanks, Chrystal, for giving me all the reasons I needed to NOT buy the eggies!
ReplyDeleteOh, why didn't I see this before I bought the eggies at Walmart....yes, on a shelf in a store. I just spent my Sunday afternoon washing, oiling, putting together, cooking, popped out....not......and washing again, tons of bits of pieces of egg whites in all the groves.......what a horrible, time consuming mess. A man must have invented this, no woman would make that much work. DO NOT BUY, Also looked for a place to leave a comment......none. I know why??!!!
ReplyDeleteOh boy, I'm sorry you had to go through this eggsperience (ha!) but I thank you for sharing so the rest of us don't have to suffer. I saw the infomercial and of course it made everything look so easy and CUTE! In reality that ad is pretty disingenuous. It advertises the eggies as "non-stick", I'm sorry but to me that means they arrive at my door with non-stick coating, not that I have to oil each eggie myself! And then the idea of four(!) pieces for each one....I guess if they were really non-stick and didn't leak or explode and the yolk actually fit into the hole on top then, and only then, would four pieces be acceptable.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your review and all of the comments I went back and watched the infomercial again. I realized that the advertising genius is really in the intro "hard boiled means hard work! messy shells, broken whites, and you'll be peeling ALL NIGHT!" Of course that brings up memories of the occasional obnoxious hard boiled egg that just won't peel, but honestly, "all night"? And it's not messy if you do it over the sink or a bowl. Yes sometimes the whites look a little jacked up after peeling if the membrane sticks to the white instead of the shell, but that can usually be avoided with proper cooking.
I follow my mom's advice for cooking hardboiled eggs. Eggs should not be too fresh; we get eggs from our local farmers market and if they are too new the shells seem to stick tenaciously to the whites. I'd say a week or so in the frig and then they are in good shape to boil. Start with cold eggs and cold water. Bring to a boil. Immediately remove from heat and cover tightly. Let them sit for 15 to 20 minutes depending on the size of the eggs. Drain off the water and add cold water to the top; I put some ice cubes in to make the water really cold, it seems to help make them easier to peel. Refrigerate.
Wow, I didn't mean to go on so long and give a lecture on hardboiled eggs, but the more I thought about it the funnier it became. I am such a sucker for gimmicks like eggies. It's definitely the "cute" "fun" "easy" factors that get to me. God, or nature if you will, gave us the egg in perfect packaging for cooking hardboiled eggs, but of course we silly humans have to try to improve it!
I thank you Chrystal for reminding me that "as seen on tv" is not always all it is cracked up to be :-)
Hello, that is why If I am interested about a product..I "google" and see results...etc... then, I decide= I save money. I have been doing this for so many years, and I save a lots of money.
ReplyDeleteThank you ladies for the fun reading about "eggies". It will not be on my Xmas list.
My very persuasive and seductive "shop-aholic" girlfriend has been begging me to order her these every time she sees the infomercial. "Those Eggies are just so darned cute", she chimes, "and imagine all the time I'd save making you devilled eggs!"
ReplyDeleteAlthough they're made out to be quite the time and labor saver on TV, it would seem that they're actually nothing but a whole lot of unnecessary work and trouble to use, and clean up, and the eggs cooked in them look quite un-appetizing as well.
Well it just so happens that devilled eggs are one of my favorite snacks, and I like them just the way they are, so I've always resisted any temptation to order them. But now, thanks to your informative (and quite entertaining) review, the begging has finally stopped!
mine arrived this morning. just tried to make 6.oops, 5. one refused to screw together. a second blew apart in the pot. a third leaked but the contents were edible. three performed as claimed, but all had to be helped out with a spoon. conclusion - great idea, poor execution. would gladly pay more for a set that worked as claimed. they can't be that hard to knock off. will keep a couple and give the rest to people I dislike for Xmas.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the entertaining review of the eggies. One does not think of all the things you talked about. We see the part we love, like not peeling eggs, or flat bottomed eggs.I almost fell for it but saw your review in the nick of time and decided to check it out before I ordered. Wow, that was a close one!!!! Thanks again.
ReplyDeletewell,i have read all the reviews and was surprised.My eggies work great.I dont understand Why everyone dislikes them them.
ReplyDeleteEggie is the worst product I have ever used. The cups are to small, the egg stuck to the product, clean up was so frustating I ended up throwing the eggie in the garbage. Eggs being the price that they are, people cannot afford for food to be runined. Flase advertisement. I am really angry , my 10.00 has been taken away through a lie. Take your commerical off. IT IS A LIE
ReplyDeleteThis was a great post! Still laughing. What a writer you are, Chrystal. I have been mildly tempted to get these for my dad, who makes hard boiled eggs often, but he would HATE the added fuss and clean up.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad I read this. I usualy check out first on reviews before I buy items but I was in Wally World (walmart) and I saw the eggies for $9.99 and bought a box. I haven't opened it yet and I thought "hum, check the reviews". My box is going back to the store! Thank you Crystal and one every else for their comments.
ReplyDeleteOK...goofed on that last sentence but you get my drift. Thanks to all!
ReplyDeleteToday we used our Eggies for the first and for the last time. They have been placed in our recyle bin. Now think about this. If you simply make hard boiled eggs the old fashioned way it certainly doesn't make you slave all day and all night to peel them as the commercial shows. We always buy jumbo eggs and guess what, a mess on our counter worse than they show on TV. The chart shows boiling time for extra large eggs 15-19 minutes. Are you kidding me. The time spent preparing the eggies, the mess which is must worse than the poor lady on TV working her rear end off to peel her eggs along with the total cooking time and waiting for the beautiful eggs (not) was well over an hour to make six hard boiled eggs. How is that for efficiency. Yes I know we have all experienced at one time or another the slight aggrevation of peeling hard boiled eggs but to spend hours and all day as the commercial shows, come on give me a break. They make it so dramatic. One must wonder how our ancestors survived without the eggies product. Fortunately I only lost out on $9.99 since I purchased this at a local Walgreen's. Save your money folks this is certainly not worth the time and effort.
ReplyDeleteI paid for my eggies and debited from my card in Dec 12 for $37.61 and then a refund of $10.50 on Dec. 29 and I only ordered 1 and get 1 free plus S&H. Now end of Jan. I still have not rec my eggie order. If I had read all your comments, I would not have bothered and yes I will peel my hard boiled eggs the old fashion way. What a lot of grief....iiyy@shaw.ca
ReplyDeleteThis has to be the worst product in the history of TV marketing!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI spent 45 minutes washing and oiling the little monsters. Tried to assemble one and it screwed on crookedly so that I was unable to take it apart. Rewashed them to get the oil off and tried to get all the parts back in the box to return them to Walmart. They would not fit so I threw them and the box loosely into a ziploc bag and took them back to Walmart telling them I would much rather peel the hardboiled eggs than mess with those utterly ridiculously stupid pieces of ill fitting plastic. Let the buyer beware!!!
Eggies! Really?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? How freaking hard is it to boil an egg and peel it for god sake? Are we all really THAT lazy that we need a product to help us do what we can do with our own hands for FREE??? I laugh so hard everytime I see this commercial on t.v. How does this poor woman make it through a day if she is so inept at something as simple as peeling an egg? Wow. Unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteI bought mine (2 sets) at my local thrift store(brand new) for $2.38. I haven't tried it yet though.
ReplyDeleteI'll be taking mine (2 sets) to my local thrift store (brand new) soon.....my husband is an infomercial addict. The time I spent handwashing all the little pieces the other night is ALL the time I'm willing to invest in eggies.....
ReplyDeletei truely belive eggies is one the sorryiest as seen on tv thing i could ever bought. they would make a good yard decoration or a little bird feeder
ReplyDeletewell I am still laughing. Hubby bought a set- so I cleaned the 24 pieces- laid them all out on a towel- with the corresponding pieces lined up..... Hubby put 3 together- one wouldn't fit- tried all the pieces- now 2 don't fit to anything... carefully put the 3 together- one popped apart as he went to put in water- ok make that 3 that didn't fit together well.... wiped insides with papertowel cooking spray- put into warm water and stood and watched them.... as we were now at over a half hour of prep time- I went upstairs.... heard loud pop- and husband....DAMN.... went down to see one had exploded- egg over counter- stove and back of stove.... I am laughing uncontrollably.... hubby is convinced the other 2 are fine- so continues to cook.... one poured out half cooked egg and lots of water- other was hard??!! I settled for toast- he then cleaned the 24 pieces to put back into box and return to store- but first.... he is cleaning up the egg mess( oh yeah- and the pot too!!!).... over an hour of fun..... think I'll just go with the egg shells- I never had a problem with them
ReplyDeleteditto, as above, etc. Just finished using 8 Eggies I (thank god) bought for $1 at my local thrift store. Thought they might be a solution for making devilled eggs with farm fresh eggs...very hard, if not impossible to peel. Well...after I got them to the boiling stage (half an hour elapsed) and one of them blew up and none of them were hard boiled (gooey on top)...and I took the mess apart...had to poach them a bit afterwards...I committed the eco-crime of throwing all the plastic pieces into the garbage...will probably fish them out tomorrow and rinse/recycle them. Yes...some-one out there is laughing their guts out over this one...glad I didn't pay much for my eggies...DO NOT BUY> IF YOU BUY THEM AT A THRIFT STORE...PLEASE RECYCLE THEM.
ReplyDeleteWhile not reading all the comments, I read enough to know I am one of "those". My husband also teased me "you sure buy good stuff"--his fave comment!! The rat! Another thing about "Eggies" is even though they are flat on the bottom---well, the yolk also settles close to that bottom, so by the time I "pried" the white out of the "non-stick" thing, removed the yolks, the white was mangled and unfit to sit upright on my cute platter. I made some delicious filling and piped it onto the mangled egg white, and we ate it anyway. So-o-o-o, the next day for Super Bowl day, I boiled some eggs my way, by bringing the water to a boil (with eggs in), turned the heat off, let stand for 15 or so min.--ran cold water, shook the pan to crack eggs, peeled eggs under water, made the same yummy filling, piped, and served the eggs on my cute platter, with some other appetizers. We had lots of laughs about my purchase! Washing the Eggies is another fun project. They are stored in a bag, waiting for a "white elephant" sale, or for my next "gag gift" party. So glad they were purchased from a catalog with no shipping cost, and no "come on" of a second set free. From now on, I will whack the bottom off my boiled eggs with my new puchase of that Yoshiblade. Really the round bottom on deviled eggs never caused any problems!! I can also mash the yolks with my new "mini masher", purshased with no shipping cost. Where did hubby put that catalog?!
ReplyDeleteI had such high hopes for this product and I was terribly disappointed. I have 2 sets of 6 and it took me nearly an hour to assemble all 12 eggies. The top and bottom don’t always properly fit in one another and the ring that’s supposed to seal the top and bottom together is nearly impossible to screw on. Once I had them all filled, the lids were also difficult to screw on. Even after all that trouble, water still steeped inside. And although I did generously oil each part (which again takes some time), there was a lot of egg residue that didn’t come off in the dishwasher. This product was great in theory but the manufacturing is awful.
ReplyDeleteYou can buy Eggies at Walmart. Ours had them on an endcap near the checkout lines with the rest of the As-Seen-On-TV stuff. I don't mind peeling hardboiled eggs, but because we have our own hens our eggs are fresh. Grocery store eggs are old eggs, which peel just fine. Fresh eggs, OTOH, don't peel. They just stick to the shell and you'll shred the thing trying to peel it. I figured, why not?
ReplyDeleteThe idea is great, but as others have stated, the product quality is absymal. Between making a mess trying to get the eggs into the Eggie, and it leaking everywhere in the pot, I am not too impressed. However, this is about the only way I'm gonna get hard boiled eggs unless I just set aside a few dozen eggs to age about a month to where they'll be peelable.
Hi, i waited for them to hit the stores before i got mine. I went to put them together and everything was fine till i wwent to put the very last piece on, it will not screw in and now im left with 12 eggies with eggs in them and now i have to make fried eggs, this thing is garbage and will be taking it back to walmart. and i will not be washing them. hope they like the smell.
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