They are absolutely divine! I am amazed how quickly they came in the mail. Both are Royal Worcester which is the most prestigous porcelain makers in England that make these. So, 7.00 each and 4.20 shipping for both. Not too bad cause to send for them new they are around 25.00 each. Here are the pictures:







I am not the best photographer when it comes to things that create glare so the pics don't do them justice at all. The colors are very bright and hand painted so they are lovely. I think the birds are actually prettier than the flowers. On the back of the bird one is a single brown wren and on the back of the flower one is a single small pink rose.

Thanks again Christine for the heads up. Can anybody guess what I am having for breakfast tomorrow???????

They are wonderful, I must have one of my own. Ebay here I come. Lola

They are beautiful! They don't break while being boiled? They are a terrific idea...I want one!

No, they don't break. I remember the ones my grandmother had. As long as they are good porcelain, no problem.

These are beauties, celadon! *wink* *Wink* *nod* *nod*
I have two matching ones! So hey... I'll have coddled eggs for brekkies
tomorrow morning too!
ps... egg coddler tips/ NEVER twist off the lid using the ring for leverage.
set them on a towel when they've just come out of the boiling water...
they are hardy to quick temp changes but not THAT quick!

Since I am...~ahem~, ebay challenged...the bh will do it later and see what we can find! I can't wait..the search sometimes is half the fun!

Thanks MF and Celadon! Wonderful aquisitions!

Thanks for the tips mickee! I will salute you in the morning when I am eating my scrumptious eggies!

Marianne, when you get yours, be sure to let us know. We can have a virtual coddled egg party!

I can feel the love

I am NOT completely ebay incapable! I not only put in a bid...but won!!!!! I have four coddlers coming...all different patterns and colorings! I think I will keep two for my own use...and put two of them into the trunk for fun friday prizes!

What fun!

Oh WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats Marianna!
(wrings her hands and laughs a goulish laugh <----------- I KNEW I could force a jump in the price of Stocks
in the Egg Coddler Industry! moo-wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh-HA_HA_HA_HA!!!!!!!)

I KNEW there was an evil plan afoot!!!!!

All of this coddled egg talk! You women are nuts!

They are very pretty! Enjoy your eggs!

I figure that since my children are now older, maybe they won't break them! <heres to hoping!> I am just happy that I can still find pleasure in the simple preparation of food...I used to love to cook...it has gotten somewhat boring lately, but have been spicing it up with some recipes here...and things like little dishes I read on another post. I cannot wait to add these to the mix!

It's wakey time in Appalachia... Snow a foot deep outside and
inside, a warm egg coddler is in my hand...steamy and lush!
celadon, my friend in crime I eat this egg to greet the day!
Hope you enjoy yours when the sun comes up on your
part of the strip!

awwwww mickee! I must have been enjoying my lovely, delicious coddled egg about the same time as you! What a treat to enjoy every tiny bite that came from the beautiful porcelain cup!

Marianne, you are a very generous lady to donate such a lovely gift to the Fun Friday treasure chest! Marla will be thrilled!

synchronicity!

Those are beautiful. I would be scared to used them.

But, do they really work? I can't stand the whites to be clear or the yellows to be hard... Tell me they work perfectly please....

Sure they do, Sandi... you can adjust how long you leave them in the boiling water.
So I'd say maybe 10 mins for the kind of warm wonderful, fully cooked egg you want!
Love mine!

And the yolks don't get hard?! I can't abide that... I MUST have this wonder tool! The plastic micro gadgets just don't work.

Well... of course they will (yolks will harden)if you leave it boiling long enough. But you can play with the
time and come up with what you'd like best.

Mine was 8 minutes in lightly bubbling water and the white was completely done, the yolk was soft and beautiful but done. Tomorrow I will pull it at 6 minutes for an almost runny yolk.

Celadon... are yous 1 or 2 eggers? or

THERE BEAUTIFUL! I'M AN EBAY *censored*! LOL...

NOW PLEASE DO TELL ME...YOU JUST SIT THEM IN BOILING WATER WITH THE EGG IN IT? FOR HOW LONG? IT WONT DAMAGE THE BEAUTIFUL DESIGN ON THEM?

YES, 50 QUESTIONS..CUZ INQUIRING MINDS WANNA KNOW!

I WATCHED PAULA DEAN DO IT THE OTHER DAY...SHE ADDED SALT TO THE WATER IN THE PAN AND SWIRLED THE WATER....THE WHITE PART OF THE EGG DIDNT GO ALL OVER...IT STAYED RIGHT TOGETHER WITH THE EGG!

YUM! I LOVE a runny yoke (but now the white part! lol..

ok..bye!

Was Paula coddling or poaching? And, what is the difference? LOL

[i]All this talk makes me want to coddle an egg...if I truly knew what coddling an egg is! Shoot, I'll just poach one 'cause that I know! LOL[/i]

The two pictured are one egg cups. The one I am waiting on is a 2 egger.




Julie, they truly won't be harmed by sitting in the water. They are very good quality porcelain. I did mine in gently bubbling water for 7 minutes this morning and the yolk was creamy but not loose so tomorrow I will try 6 minutes. The whites were completely done. When I make poached eggs, I put a teaspoon of white vinegar and a pinch of salt in the water to achieve what Paula did. I saw that episode too and I think she did use the vinegar. My grandma taught me that it makes the white hold its shape. Coddled eggs and poached eggs are pretty much the same. Just no water to deal with when you make coddled eggs and you eat them from a beautiful vessel.

OK ladies. All the egg coddler talk made me realize that they sounded like something I would like to try. So, on the way to taking SWMBO (She who must be obeyed) to see the movie Juno this evening, we swung into an antique store nearby. Lo and behold but what do I see, a pair of small egg coddlers and one large egg coddler, all in excellent shape and cheaper than the EBay prices when you factor in shipping. Now, I am the proud owner of three Royal Worcester egg coddlers which are currently being washed and await action tomorrow morning. Don't ask about patterns, all I can tell you is they have stuff on them. I really didn't pay much attention. Guy thing......

I'll keep you posted. You ladies are a wicked influence, absolutely wicked.

Does this mean our dear Mickee didnt get a cut of that sale?

<giggling>

Night!

LMAO! Doug, you are such a GUY! I love it.

Don't ask about patterns, all I can tell you is they have stuff on them. Oh Doug...this made me laugh! Perfect!

You gals are on your own with runny yolks. I boil my eggs to the point where the yolk turns grey on the edges. When I am at a restaurant, I ask that my omelette be cooked with one yolk, two whites and HARD. Nothing wiggly or jiggly on my plate, thank you. Now, all that being said, I'm wanting a coddler...just because they are so trendy here in the 'hood!

Kim, I think this thread is taking on a life of it's own. Perhaps, you could find one and then have breakfast with me and mickee and Doug too if he makes his as often as we will be making ours! The great thing is that you can cook them til they are shoe leather if you are so inclined. However you like your eggs, once you figure out how long it takes to get them to that point, the egg coddler will make them that way every single time you make them!

Do you crack the egg in the little pot? Do you add seasonings? Man...I really want an egg.

Way to go Doug! You will love these!
And I loved the movie, Juno!

Kim, you can butter the coddler... put a bit of salt & pepperin with the eggs that you break
into the coddler, yes... no shell in the coddler. You can sprinkle in herbs, cheese...
Very British. But so delish it's a wonder they are so little known around the US.

Now ya'll got me wanting an egg coddler...a pretty one!! FOR SURE!

We can have a NEIGHBORHOOD CODDLING SESSION! Yeah thats the ticket!

Ok...so off I go to ebay....well maybe in the morning!

HAPPY CODDLING YA ALL!

Julie

Okay...guess who ran out to Home Goods to see if she could find an egg coddler at 7pm??? Yes, me. No coddlers, but I did find my silicon ice cube trays (with covers) for my "saucy cubes" that I'm going to make this weekend. A bargin at $6.99, I thought. I also picked up a gorgeous heart shaped casserole dish. At one point, I had some wee little cast iron pots too, but I put them back.

I also stopped at the grocery store...bought eggs. I'll take mine hard boiled the good old American way! Cracked, cold and salted!

Here's a close-up pic of some instructions for use.
Click to enlarge the picture so you can read the text.
It suggests adding butter, herbs, flaked fish/ tuna? cheese and the like.

These remind of something that my Aunt had in her kitchen when I was a kid. She had a small pan with an insert that held three little round "pots" that she would put an egg into. She would fill the larger pan with water, add the insert with the eggs and cook the eggs. I always thought this was called "poaching". Now, I'm thinking it was more coodling since the eggs were cooked in the smaller pot and did not touch the water. I read somewhere something about milk. Is that with poaching or coodling. Learning something new here. Hugs.

As soon as I can, I'm guna get me some of them thar contraptions! Gol dang them eggs sound mighty tasty!

Sorry, don't know WHY I felt the need to type that. Guess it's the coffee kicking in...

OMG Sandi! I just choked on my coffee. Honest! Ew...I think some went up into my sinuses...ew...

OK, jumping in here on the coddled eggs a little late, but I've been reading and re-reading this info and Googling coddled eggs till my eyes are crossed.

Are coddled eggs the same as soft-boiled eggs? I read something that stated they were still raw, but the photos I found didn't look raw, they looked like the whites were cooked and the yolks were soft. I love poached eggs but haven't made them in a long time because I often get the water too hot and end up with something that looks more like egg drop soup - with the whites floating all around in the water.

I guess I'm still a little confused about this. Can anyone enlighten me? At least as relates to coddled eggs? I'm not sure that there is any hope of enlightening me as relates to anything else.

Not raw at all...You can cook them runny or tough as an old shoe depending on how long you boil them.

OK. That's sort of what I thought. Thanks for the super-quick reply and clarification.

I am going to pin this thread so that we can all find it. Are there any more of you that have purchased egg coddlers? If you have, how do you like them and what all do you put in them? Oh, and what size do you have?

Here is my latest ebay purchase of a giant egg coddler. I put the smallest one next to it so you could see just how large it is.



I MUST thank the Swami for letting me know that there was such a size. I don't think that hubby will be too happy that I have something else to obcess over though!

Do tell Emarie!!! Did I see two coddlers in the kitchen picture of yours????
I bleeve I did! Aren't we a bunch!

I found some on ebay I LOVE. I will be part of the coddlers soon enough!

aaawwwwww Marla. No nice that you won't feel left out anymore. Is your coddler purple?!

OOOH! I hadnt seen this thread...

My two egg coddlers arrived, and they are the smaller size. The only issue I had with them...<blushing here>, is that I put a little cooking spray in it, added the egg, pepper, and some shredded cheese...put it on and let it cook for 5 minutes in the boiling water...got ALL excited, took it out, let it sit for a minute, opened it up and scooped out a spoonful of icky almost raw egg <I like mine cooked pretty well>. I couldnt tell the egg was undercooked because I had put the shredded cheese on top. Next time, I will cook the egg first, THEN add the cheese!

Thanks for the great ideas....but Celadon...maybe we need some coddled egg recipes?

Hugs!

Everyone that has coddlers, post here what you do with them. Marianna, next time, put the cheese in first and the problem is solved.

Celadon...I was afraid the cheese would burn to the bottom of the coddler...

Guess I belong cleaning the kitchen...and not cooking in it!

LOL