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Received my 12-egg Egg cooker today and tried it out after cleaning with soap and water. If the cord appears to be too short as some reviewers complained, turn the base over and you'll find the cord wrapped around a holder. Unwrap the cord and voila, you have now have a 2-foot cord. The manual instructions states to pierce the large end of the egg but doesn't state why. So I pierced 4 of the eggs at the large end and two of the eggs at the small end to see what happens. I loaded the machine per instructions and turned on the unit. Founded out the eggs that were pierced at the small end oozed a little egg white out of the hole and down the egg whereas the eggs pierced on the large end just showed a dimple of steamed egg white. When the buzzer (more like a fire alarm) sounded and the power light turned off I immersed the steamed eggs into ice water bowl for 3 minutes. The heating plate had a funny smell and it turned out the small-ended peirced eggs oozed just enough white into the water and was burning on the now dry plate. Not much of a smell and not an true issue but I'll be piercing all future eggs at the large end! The heating plate was easily cleaned with a wet paper towel. Tried an egg and it peeled really easy and the egg white didn't have the rubbery texture of a boiled egg. Great little device!