I love eating eggs for breakfast, but the only time I get to do that is on the weekends. Most weekends I just opt for making scrambled eggs or sunny side up. I’d love to go for the healthier choice of poached eggs but I never do because they’re like impossible to make.

There are some weekends, like this weekend, where you feel like googy eggs. It’s so much fun dipping your toast into googy eggs, it’s kind of like chocolate fondue but with eggs and toast. Yum! The frustrating thing is that I can never get it just right. The egg always turns out a bit too raw or too well done with the yoke starting to go solid and hard. I’ve tried to many times and I every time I complain about it to someone I get different advice, “Oh you should boil it on high for 7 minutes”, “Put it in the microwave for 1.5 minutes”, “Pour boiling water and cover it for 10 minutes”. Well I’ve tried it all and it never turns out. The only way I get soft boiled eggs is if I go to my grandma’s place and ask her to cook me a soft boiled egg, which she gets right every time!

Thankfully I found this little beauty – the “Egg-perfect egg timer”. All you do is put it in the water as your boiling your eggs and it will change colour as the eggs cook. I’ve tested it out on all three levels – soft, medium and hard and each time it’s been egg-perfect. I enjoyed a lovely soft boiled egg this morning and a medium egg (pictured above) yesterday.

All I have to do now is find a gadget to help me make poached eggs.