I bought the egg cooker because I eat a lot of poached eggs and both my other egg poachers wore out - and were difficult to clean. The Krups Egg Express does a beautiful poaching job and the little cups are super easy to clean - even though they are kind of an oddball oblong shape. The bonus for me was the discovery that it also does an amazing job with soft- medium- or hard-cooked eggs. You can make them just the way you want them - and they come out of the shell very easily (I've never been able to perfect that quality in a saucepan). Anyway - I'm "eggstremely" impressed and a happy customer!