Korean Boiled Egg Rice Cooker

Pinterent September 29, 2023 Comment

The other day I got an email from one of my readers asking me to share how to make Korean sauna style eggs with a regular rice cooker.

If you have already been through my recipe archives you probably have spotted one of my popular recipes – How to make Korean sauna style eggs in 50 mins. However unfortunately for some (maybe most of you), this recipe only works with“a high tech”Korean rice cooker (or programmable pressure cooker).

AsIhave been meaning to tryKorean sauna style eggs with a regular rice cooker (& alsowith a slow cooker) for some time, I decided to undertake this experimental project immediatelyand this is what I found.

Korean Steamed Egg (gyeran Jjim)

(Warning: This is a long post with other failed experiments along the way. If you are only after slow cooker Korean sauna style eggs recipe, scroll down to near the endof this post.)

This is based on 2 sets of 8 hour experiments. You are more than welcome to try it in your own way and prove to me if I am wrong on this. If itworked for you, then please share your secret in the comment section so we can all learn from you!

1. Gently clean the eggs in cold tap water (scrub a little bit if there’s any dirt on the shells) and leave the eggs out at room temperature for 2 hours.(This is to prevent the egg shell cracking during cooking.)

Mayak Egg (korean Marinated Eggs)

3. After two hours, put the eggs into the rice cookerand pour the salt water (from step 2) onto the eggs. Cook the eggs (just flick the cook switch on the rice cooker) until it automatically switches off to the warm setting.Add more (1/2 cup) water then cook the eggs again (flick the cook switch on again).

1) After step 3, the rice cooker automatically switched off to the warm setting in less than 5 mins. It must some how detect that the egg don’t need any more cooking. I was originally going to keep “cooking” for a total of 6 hours but I decided not to continue as I didn’t want to keep flicking the cook switch on every 5 mins.

5) I didn’t want to open the lid to add more water in step 3, but after looking at the bottom of the rice cooker, I thought I should.

Mayak Eggs (korean Marinated Eggs)

3. After two hours, put the eggs into the rice cookerand pour the salt water (from step 2) onto the eggs. Cook the eggs (just flick the cook switch on the rice cooker) once then leave it on warm setting for the rest of the time. – Set a timer for 6 hrs as you startcooking the eggs. After20 to 30 mins into the cooking, the rice cooker will automatically switch off to the warm setting. Leave it for the remainder of 6 hrs. Add more(1/2 cup) water when the timer counts down to 5 hrs remaining (1 hr since the cooking started).

4. Cool down the eggs (at room temperature or by running cold tap water on them) before serving. Serve the eggs with some salt (only if you want it).

2) Even though I waited patiently for my eggs to brown up for 6 hrs, to my disappointment they didn’t turn brown. They were more of a very light beige colour and some darker brown spots here and there. Not much difference to my first attempt.

Korean Sauna Eggs Recipe In The Instant Pot Pressure Cooker

4) I didn’t want to open the lid to add more water in step 3, but after looking at the bottom of the rice cooker (as shown in attempt #1), I thought I should.

I read about some people successfully making these sauna eggs using a regular rice cooker a while ago. I’m really curious how they succeed in doing it.

For a second, I thought maybe my rice cooker is way too low end (cheap) so it didn’t work? It was AUD $15 rice cooker I had to buy as a back up when my precious high tech rice cooker was temporarily brokenbecause my sister dropped the inner pot! Perhaps it might work better with a mid price range regular rice cooker?

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Anyway, I’ll leave this up to you whether you pursue your own experiment or not. But for now, I will say that you can’t make these eggs with a regular rice cooker.

This is based on my 2 sets of 8 hour experiments. It worked well the first time but I wanted to make sure that the result was consistent – hence the second trial. I hope you enjoy my recipe and get to experience the Korean sauna style eggs at your home!

1. Gently clean the eggs in cold tap water (scrub a little bit if there’s any dirt on the shells) and leave the eggs out at room temperature for 2 hours.(This is to prevent egg shells cracking during cooking.)

How To Make Korean Sauna Style Eggs With A Slow Cooker

3. After two hours, put the eggs into the slow cooker and pour the salt water (from step 2) onto the eggs. Cook the eggs for 6 hours on a low heat setting. Do not open the lid.

4. Cool down the eggs (at room temperature or by running cold tap water on them) before serving. Serve the eggs with some salt (only if you want it). Enjoy!

Korean Marinated Eggs (mayak Gyeran)

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I'm Sue, the author/cook/photographer behind My Korean Kitchen. Here I talk all about my love and passion for Korean food and Korean fusion food.Okay, raise your hand if you own a rice cooker. Keep your hand up if you don't use that steamer tray that comes with the cooker and it's somewhere lost in your cupboard (don't worry...I'm not looking!). Keep your hand up if you didn't even know what that tray was for! 🙂

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No worries...you are one of MANY who fall into that group and I've got a recipe coming to the rescue! I'll show you one thing you can do with it and it's actually pretty cool!

Rice cookers aren't just for cooking rice. I'm about to show you how to cook eggs in a rice cooker! And you're going to use that mysterious plastic steamer tray that came with your rice cooker, so you'd better go look for it!

I had my doubts when I first heard about it, too, and the idea seemed crazy! Cook eggs in a rice cooker?? Seriously?

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However, as crazy as idea sounds, it works! I was of the old school -- put eggs in a pot with water and bring to a boil. Simmer for a certain number of minutes to reach the desired doneness. Sounds simple enough. However, boiling eggs in a pot did have its shortcomings.

Sometimes the shells cracks when they're bouncing around in the boiling water, and some of the egg leaks out. Well, then you've got a really messy pot and very unsightly eggs. You know what I'm talking about. It's like something out of a horror movie. And if you've got lumpy unsightly eggs, you can forget about perfect eggs for Easter decorating. Or deviled eggs. Or any dish where you need a nice looking hard-boiled egg.

But the rice cooker eliminates that problem. The steaming water cooks the eggs while they sit, undisturbed in the steaming tray. I guess you could consider it an egg sauna. 🙂 And because the cooking method is more gentle, it is also easier to achieve the desired doneness. No more unsightly grey color around the yolks from overcooking the eggs.

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All you do is put water in the rice pot. Put the eggs in the steamer tray and set it in the pot. Close the lid and press ON. Turn on your timer.

Here's the formula: 20 minutes for