Product Review of the Kitchen Gourmet Omelet Maker

I admit it - I'm omelet-challenged. My odds of making a reasonably shaped omelet are roughly one in nine. More often than not, I serve my wife and me a scrambled omelet.

Because of this, I began searching for an omelet maker that would guarantee the right shape at breakfast.

So, I began my two-step process:

First, do a Google search.

Second, check out the best items on Amazon. Due to the large volume of sales, almost everything for sale on Amazon has a large number of customer reviews. That's important, as you want to have a good size statistical population to minimize the phony reviews.

I settled on the Kitchen Gourmet brand's "Two Serving Omelet Maker". The price was only $9.95 and Walgreen's drug stores sell them. I bought one and decided to try it out for our Sunday morning breakfast.

There are two molds in the omelet maker that each hold two large eggs. We eat Eggbeaters, and the small Eggbeater containers hold the equivalent of two large eggs. Perfect!

You plug the machine in to let it pre-heat until the indicator light goes off. Now, this can be confusing: the indicator light will actually cycle on and off during the cooking phase.

The instructions tell you to spray the molds with cooking spray before adding the omelet contents. Then I filled the molds up to the one-egg indicator mark, added some toppings and then added the remaining egg to the two-egg indicator mark. It's important you don't go above that, as the eggs and ingredients will rise and overflow.

I checked on the progress every few minutes. The estimated cooking time for two large eggs is roughly 7-8 minutes. I left them in for about 11-12 minutes, as I could see some liquid egg still in one mold.

The non-stick surface works really well, as I was able to scoop them out with a Teflon spoon. Don't use a metal utensil as it will scratch the surface and ruin the non-stick feature.

The two omelets looked great. They looked like real omelets! I was pleased with the performance, as simple as it is. There were a couple of minor irritants, though.

I personally don't like a plug-in product without an on-off switch. The Kitchen Gourmet model doesn't have one.

Also, even though I filled both molds with the same exact amount of ingredients, one side rose higher than the other. This caused the lid to be above the lower side, which meant that it wasn't in contact and heating the top of the omelet. To correct this, I held the lid down for a minute or so until the omelet was done.

Finally, the amount of toppings you can realistically place between the two eggs is small, due to the mold size. If, like me, you are used to adding a load of low-calorie toppings, you may be disappointed.

On the flip side, we all should be down-sizing our food portions anyway. Neither my wife nor I was still hungry after the omelets and some healthy side portions.

This omelet maker is great for a single person or a couple, especially if on the go and you don't have a lot of time for cooking. We've used it on weekdays before going to work and it serves that purpose nicely.

On Sunday, however, we are back to the larger, scrambled omelets.