The West Bend egg cooker is one of the worst products I have ever purchased. It is made very poorly and very cheaply. The heating element is difficult to clean and often requires scraping the dried egg spill off of it. The main problem is plastic egg holder itself. This also requires hard scraping to be properly cleaned. It has broken and glued back together 4 different times. I am om my second tube of super glue. This has happened repeatedly over the 4 months. It also causes ripples to form on hard boiled eggs. I am returning this item. I would not recomend buying this unit.Herb Sherman