Back to Basics TEM500 Egg-and-Muffin 2-Slice Toaster and Egg Poacher - Accessories

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Workday mornings are a repetitive and harrowing transition from awakening, dressing, and travelling to work. Who has time to prepare a nutritious breakfast. So you end up picking it up at a deli, diner, or greasy take-out - sometimes waiting on line with all the others - and you're still running late. Back to Basics Egg and Muffin Toaster is an alternative.

Need toast? You've got it. Want a poached or hard boiled egg? It's yours. And if you want them together in your favorite breakfast sandwich, the Egg&Muffin Toaster also warms your pre-cooked meat. Bingo...ready to eat in about four minutes. It's sort of the drive-thru breakfast without the drive.

As a multi-function appliance, the Egg&Muffin Toaster expands the practical uses for this small electric by giving those with busy schedules more than just toast. The Egg&Muffin Toaster delivers in about four minutes a convenient and tasty morning meal that's both familiar and well liked. In addition to being a full-functioning toaster, the Egg&Muffin Toaster can simultaneously: 1) toast the bread, 2) cook an egg (poached or steam-scrambled), and 3) warm a pre-cooked slice of ham or sausage?or any combination of these three functions, in addition to boiling upto four eggs.

The Egg&Muffin Toaster features wide toasting slots, an auto shut-off for individual toasting and poaching options, an easy-to-clean control touchpad, and light to dark toaster settings. It also includes a removable crumb tray for easy clean-up and cord storage. The toaster's ?Egg/Toast? function directs cooking of both items simultaneously to complete at the same time.

Customer Reviews: Read 409 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Great so far November 28, 2008
I've had this toaster/egg poacher for about 2 weeks. I wanted to be able to make a fast breakfast for my 11 year old, who won't eat cereal, but likes poached eggs. We have used it every day, although she hasn't quite gotten to the point of doing by herself yet. I like it very much, both to poach eggs and make toast. It looks nice. The only drawback is that you have to place it so that you can see the side with the choice panel clearly - that is, it has to sit on your counter with the long side facing out. I've recommended the toaster to another friend and would definitely buy it again, so far. I am a bit wary because of the reviews about it breaking or falling apart - but I guess we'll see.

5 out of 5 stars

Recommended November 26, 2008
Great kitchen equipment. It's easy to use, quick, and easy to clean. My 16 year old loves to make breakfast sandwiches with it!

4 out of 5 stars

Really Clever Design November 22, 2008
OK - Every where you go, you can find a great review on this toaster, so seemed like low risk. Much to my surprise (after a few days) this thing seems to meet expectations. When they fail, people rush out to buy the same one again. Now I know why.

Here is exactly what you need to know:

Pro
* A sheet metal plate is in front of the filament wires - so the wires are protected and the heat is very even. You don't see them glowing red. It provides fairly even heat. So yep, this makes really excellent toast.

* The egg cooker/steamer is really easy to use and works really well. If you use veg oil spray on the egg pan, it just pops right out on to your sandwich. Pretty funny when you think about it - a toaster that cooks eggs, too. As a fellow inventor, it must have been interesting to convince a company to invest in this sort of gadget with a straight face.

* You can steam precooked sausage patties. We use Morning Star breakfast patties - they are veg but you'd never know it and they are really tasty.

* The combo egg/toast setting also works well, and like they say, they all the gets done at about the right time.

* The manual is small but the English is is very well written and instructions clear.

* Comes with little measuring cup with poker to puncture eggs so you can hard boil them.

* The cooking time is dictated by how much water you put in the egg cooker. 2 Tablespoons or so is about right. You can perfect it.

Con
* Slots may be too small for larger craft breads.

* When you push up on lever, it lifts toast out of toaster. But it doesn't push toast up far enough for smaller slices.

* The egg pan might not be perfectly level causing the yolk to shift to one side - but - you can level it by bending the handle of the pan up or down (just bend it small amount at a time) until it is perfectly level.

That's about it! 4 stars.

1 out of 5 stars

Great until the egg poacher broke after only 2 months! November 20, 2008
It worked great for the first month I used it, about 4 days a week. Everything worked fine, with the exception of some water that would drip down the side.

Then after about a month the egg side stopped working, I kind of forgot about it and tried it again this morning and no matter what (unplugging, resetting etc) it would not work. Very disappointing.

I'm going to try to get a replacement, or maybe a refund since it is so new.

Just a note, I've had an egg steamer/poacher separate unit for about 2 years and make 7 hard boiled eggs a week with it and it works without fail, I just wanted to have this unit because of the "muffin shaped" egg for sandwiches.

2 out of 5 stars

Almost Killed Me November 19, 2008
My boyfriend and I have had this product for at least 6 months now. It worked alright for the first few months, and then the egg cooker just stopped working one day. We've been using the toaster portion of the appliance with no problems.
Just the other morning, I awoke to a horrible screeching sound that was coming from the kitchen. My boyfriend investigated and found that the heating element within the egg cooker had started working and turned itself on again. It was smoking, and probably would have burnt my apartment down had I not heard the horrible noise it was making.
I like egg sandwiches, but I also like my apartment not burning to the ground.

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