GreenLife 3-in-1 Breakfast Maker Station, Healthy Ceramic Nonstick Dual Griddles for Eggs

I didn’t know I would like this as much I do!

There is no temperature control, it just goes to a really high temp for up to 5 min. So far, I’ve used it to cook bacon, scrambled eggs, overhard eggs, thin (defrosted) frozen waffles, and thick (defrosted) frozen waffles. Everything came out great. BUT, do not walk away when cooking on the skillet top, it will burn easily.

It’s small and great for meals for 1 to 2 people. I was able to fit 4 slices of the pre-cooked bacon broken in half, 2 pork sausage patties cut in pieces, and 2 eggs on either skillet side. Depending on size, or how you cut up, 1 to 2 toastable items will fit in the tray. I was able to fit 1 uncut thin frozen waffle, and 2 cut thick frozen waffles (small).

This is a great little machine to have in the kitchen! Easy for my kids to use as well.

There’s just one control timer knob. The whole unit is on, not just the toaster or griddle top. Would be great to have a separate control/on/off as well as the toast timer. Not good if you’re wanting just toast. Also, not good if you’re wanting eggs(med high heat shorter cooking time), toast(depending on level desired)& sausage(long high heat cooking time)…its all on the one toast timer. No recipes or general cooking instructions either, it’s a hit or miss each time. If I put the sausage on first, the toaster drawer gets really hot as does the little egg/pancake section. I just don’t know if this was worth the money. The idea is good but seems like they didn’t really think it through. Needs a second control for the griddle top that let’s you adjust the heat for both sections as eggs/pancakes don’t require heat as high or as long as is required for meats.

We eat a lot of hard boiled eggs and doing them in a pressure cooker worked fairly well – if we paid attention. So this seemed like it might be a step up (more automated, less subject to timing errors).

And it was. It did hard boiled eggs excellently; with minimal involvement. Since the manual indicated both a time, a water volume and the buzzer to indicate doneness, I did set an external timer for the specified time, and I did use the manual’s suggestion to leave it in 1 minute beyond the buzzer, using the timer with higher priority than the buzzer.

I presume that it would do medium and soft boiled as well, or at least could be made to do them the way you like them with some trial and error. I don’t eat either, so didn’t bother trying.

The “poached egg” option was disappointing. I like poached eggs, but I don’t like the amount of egg lost in the poaching process. The ones done using this were a bit disappointing. Most of the egg was overdone (which probably could have been compensated with by using less water), except there was a bit of uncooked liquid on top. I’d say that it ended up the equivalent of medium boiled, but out of the shell.

The omelet option was enticing, and it was a dismal failure. The top side was cooked to perfection and the bottom side was still mostly liquid. I’d say the omelet pan needs to have a conductive bottom to cook that side better.

I’d give it 5 stars as a hard egg cooker, but the omelet disappointment and 2 usability quirks moves it down to 4 stars overall.

Quirk 1: The measuring cup for the water is critical to the operation, but the graduations are next to unreadable. I have to hold the cup to a bright light and put my thumb where I want the water up to. Then put it up to the light to make sure I got the level right. At least they don’t appear that they can be rubbed off. Some kind of contrast on the graduations would greatly improve the usability.

Quirk 2: The buzzer is very quiet. If you are close, with good ears and little background noise, it’s fine. If you have hearing loss, are in another room or there is noise going on, not so much.

After cooking, it takes forever for the hard boiled eggs to cool off. It does not mention it in the instructions, but I transfer them to an ice bath after cooking.

UPDATE: Apparently, temperature and/or humidity affect the operation. Later trials had the hard boiled eggs have a soft center. Slightly increasing the water and setting the time for 2 minutes past the estimated time fixed this.

More surprising, the poached eggs came out pretty good with standard water and leaving the top on for 1 minute after turning it off per the buzzer.

Even more surprising, the omelet came out pretty good with slightly more water and leaving the top on 2 minutes after turning it off per the buzzer.

If the instructions were a bit more comprehensive and the measuring cup markings visible, I’d give this 5 stars now.